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**Anung Un Rama**

hmm...40k Movies...how about

Genestealers on a plane
Edward Powerklawhands
the Gretchins
Interview with a Blood Angel
American Werewolf on Fenris
da kunning plan form outer space
Ragnar and the Marine Factory

**Clayman**

yo kid kyoto....why the ninja chick?

remember your own words:In the grim darkness of the future,women wear latex catsuits (blablabla)

**Schepp himself**

I would rather like to see a movie which doesn't stay in this action-movie genre, but in the war-movie genre.
I'm thinking Platoon, Full metal Jacket, Stalingrad and maybe Jarhead here.

The Hero schould be a more or less ordinary Guard Captain who is fighting with his platoon on one of the myriads of planets against one of the myriads enemies of the imperium. (Let's say, Tyranids)

I mean the question I would ask is: What would a Soldier in 40k feel. He is one of a million guys in the Army, the enemies of the Imperium all seem overpowering as hell (Orks,Necrons,Chaos,Tyranids just to name a few) and the authorities don't give a flying about you. But what else you can do? Not fight? Yeah, sure, and you get killed in no time.

The soldiers shouldn't act like heroes and die smiling for the emperor, but also they should keep a minimum of faith, that their lifes will save some other humans, especially their family.

That kind of stuff. Wouldn't be a bestseller though...

Greets
Schepp himself

**stonefox**

Wouldn't be a bestseller though...

Yep. We're trying to get LOTR here, not the aforementioned "Beyond the Stars."

Plus, in 40k everyone's a hero. The common guardsman in the rulebook has his rifle slung sloosely, looking smug. The firewarrior tries to look badass beyong his long rifle. And space marines wave their weapons, wear loincloths, and forget their helmets. I can see it now: a skirmish battle between Tau and Guardsmen where each of the ordinary troops are all doing heroic acts at the same time. There's a group reinacting Iwo Jima, another group on top of a rock firing down and looking mean, yet another group acting like they are sniper coolguys, and the commanders doing heroic anime poses and standing tall in the face of fire.

Aside from the civil war type of sketches, all I see are common soldiers looking smug and feigning cool heroism.

**Schepp himself**

Well...I'm thinking about WW1 or WW2 theme, very dark futuristic (Alien dark hallways(tm)!),the deep growls of Artillery shooting in a great distance, Guardsmen nervosly awaiting the enemy attack behind their lasguns which they know aren't enough to stop the attackers,
Sargeants and Offiziers wade their way through the tightly packed defensive lines of the imperial sector, dimm lightened commando posts, where the generals move thousand over thousand troops imto battle, huge monolithic Battletanks standing there like ancient monuments of an long gone era...

This kind of stuff!

Greets
Schepp himself

**the_trooper**

Can I cheat and just use the first Horus Heresy novel?

Or

Fifteen Hours

**Kid_Kyoto**

Posted By the_trooper on 09/26/2006 1:26 PM

Can I cheat and just use the first Horus Heresy novel?

Or

Fifteen Hours

Nope. No love interest and not a complete enough story. Remember you don't have any sequels unless the first one is a hit.

A lot of TV shows ahve tried to set up cliffhangers to 'guarantee' another season, many have failed.

**DragonPup**

I can't see a 2, 3 max, hour movie doing 40k justice. It would work better as an anime series. Probably would be cheaper, too.

**Abadabadoobaddon**

Ok, so this guy Ed is a real power gamer. He takes his min-max Ultramarines to the 40k World Grand Tournament and wins best general. Just as he's about to accept his prize a portal opens up and sucks him inside. He awakens to find himself before the Golden Throne surrounded by the High Lords of Terra. It turns out 40k is real! The game was actually designed by people in the future and sent back in time to find the Chosen One who will deliver the Imperium from the terror of the Ruinous Powers.

So Ed becomes the new Warmaster and is put in control of all the armies of the Imperium just as Abaddon's final Black Crusade begins bludgeoning its way towards Terra. He orders a reorganization of the imperial guard and space marines according to his new Codex Astartes. Codex tactical squads are reduced from 10 men to 6 and all are equipped with lascannon and plasma gun. Terminator squads exchange all their heavy flamers and cyclone launchers for assault cannons. All veteran sergeants get power fists. Etc, etc, etc...

Long story short: Warmaster Ed saves the day and totally makes it with a hot Eldar chick. THE END.

**nyarlathotep667**

Posted By Abadabadoobaddon on 09/26/2006 6:16 PM
Ok, so this guy Ed is a real power gamer. He takes his min-max Ultramarines to the 40k World Grand Tournament and wins best general. Just as he's about to accept his prize a portal opens up and sucks him inside. He awakens to find himself before the Golden Throne surrounded by the High Lords of Terra. It turns out 40k is real! The game was actually designed by people in the future and sent back in time to find the Chosen One who will deliver the Imperium from the terror of the Ruinous Powers.

So Ed becomes the new Warmaster and is put in control of all the armies of the Imperium just as Abaddon's final Black Crusade begins bludgeoning its way towards Terra. He orders a reorganization of the imperial guard and space marines according to his new Codex Astartes. Codex tactical squads are reduced from 10 men to 6 and all are equipped with lascannon and plasma gun. Terminator squads exchange all their heavy flamers and cyclone launchers for assault cannons. All veteran sergeants get power fists. Etc, etc, etc...

Long story short: Warmaster Ed saves the day and totally makes it with a hot Eldar chick. THE END.

Awesome! And glad to see ya back Abby, we been missin ya!

**Hellfury**

Warmaster Ed

Heh. That sounds like a 50's comedy involving talking animals and peanut butter.

**xnet445**

More like a remake of The Last Starfighter. Who's going to play Mauleed?

**ph34r**

A movie? I think that a series like the star wars clone wars animated thing would be awsome.