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DeffDred wrote:The only way they could make a reasonable live action 40k movie would have to be without Xenos or Marines.

CSI: Inquisition

CGI movie would just be another Ultramaries snooze-fest.

Anime would be the only way to go.

Violence, blood and guts, proper proportions for the characters (except eyes lol).

Yup anime could be a good solution , miyasaki quality though!

Western Animation can work perfectly fine too. Just need to find the right people.

i depise the trend of making all this new animated stuff like the jap stuff, here is why

Batman the animated series was epic, had great stories amd was very well animated and showed off the western style quite well, i do not want a anime style movie with massive overacting, stupid super hair and a 10 year old here saving the world with his sister of battle mate with the massive boobies....



thats that rant over lol


Anyway i said paranormal activity simply because it shows that you dont NEED to show the monster and was a fairly low budget film and worked quite well, it would easily translate into 40k, a building that has a deamonic entity around or in it and a inquisitor has to go investigate, it would be pretty easy to do, you could have ecclesiarchy in it and arbites all it takes is a bit of imagination.

Band of brother was more expensive than i realised lol, but who here wouldnt want to see Band of guardsman lol

The main reason i dont want a 40k movie as much as it would be cool for us... it WILL be crap, this is the nature of big budget movies these days.
now if they got ridley scott, del'toro or peter jackson to do it... i would change my mind... maybe

Brother SRM wrote:

phoenixrisin wrote:i haven't heard of anything, but ultramarines was god awful.

they need to hire the animators that did the intros to Dawn of war 2 and dawn of war 2 ret. to do a feature length movie in 3D and i think lots of people would be glad to pay $14 to see it. my $.02.

People seem to think that talent comes cheap. The amount of money and time it would cost to hire Blur or Plastic Wax (makers of the Dawn of War and Dawn of War II intros) is absolutely obscene. You would need hundreds of millions of dollars to make that happen, and GW doesn't really like spending money as we all know.

Exactly.

I can't find the source but I remember an interview with Blur about the DOW intro. Originally it was going to feature a looted Leman Russ in the Ork side that would be blown up by the Predator but they didn't have the budget for it, because it already cost GW... $2 million. To make a feature length movie at that quality would cost less today, but it would still be extremely expensive.

Formosa wrote:i depise the trend of making all this new animated stuff like the jap stuff, here is why

Batman the animated series was epic, had great stories amd was very well animated and showed off the western style quite well, i do not want a anime style movie with massive overacting, stupid super hair and a 10 year old here saving the world with his sister of battle mate with the massive boobies....



thats that rant over lol


Anyway i said paranormal activity simply because it shows that you dont NEED to show the monster and was a fairly low budget film and worked quite well, it would easily translate into 40k, a building that has a deamonic entity around or in it and a inquisitor has to go investigate, it would be pretty easy to do, you could have ecclesiarchy in it and arbites all it takes is a bit of imagination.

Band of brother was more expensive than i realised lol, but who here wouldnt want to see Band of guardsman lol

The main reason i dont want a 40k movie as much as it would be cool for us... it WILL be crap, this is the nature of big budget movies these days.
now if they got ridley scott, del'toro or peter jackson to do it... i would change my mind... maybe

The Avengers, the Dark Knight, Iron Man, Dark of the Moon, Inception.

All examples of big budget movies that were very good.

Kain wrote:

Formosa wrote:i depise the trend of making all this new animated stuff like the jap stuff, here is why

Batman the animated series was epic, had great stories amd was very well animated and showed off the western style quite well, i do not want a anime style movie with massive overacting, stupid super hair and a 10 year old here saving the world with his sister of battle mate with the massive boobies....



thats that rant over lol


Anyway i said paranormal activity simply because it shows that you dont NEED to show the monster and was a fairly low budget film and worked quite well, it would easily translate into 40k, a building that has a deamonic entity around or in it and a inquisitor has to go investigate, it would be pretty easy to do, you could have ecclesiarchy in it and arbites all it takes is a bit of imagination.

Band of brother was more expensive than i realised lol, but who here wouldnt want to see Band of guardsman lol

The main reason i dont want a 40k movie as much as it would be cool for us... it WILL be crap, this is the nature of big budget movies these days.
now if they got ridley scott, del'toro or peter jackson to do it... i would change my mind... maybe

The Avengers, the Dark Knight, Iron Man, Dark of the Moon, Inception.

All examples of big budget movies that were very good.

Dark of the moon sucked ass... personal opinion lol

the other you are right were pretty good

Avengers : Marvel studios, in house making sure it was done right
Dark knight: Nolans love child, made sure it was done right
Iron man: Marvel studios, made sure it was done right
Inception: Nolan again, Made sure it was done right
Ultramarines: Martyn pick, codex pictures, total mess, no one there to make sure it was done right

Untitled 40k movie: Nolan, Del'toro, jackson, anyone else will turn it into a joke, it needs someone to make sure its done properly, allessio calvatore, Jervis, ADB even, if done properly it would be our generations Star Wars... better even, but if not, all we will get is the Uwe treatment.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383222/

a steaming pile of turd lol

Actually, Dan Abnett was on hand. And it seems you don't realise what the amount of money needed to make a movie much better than Ultamarine would be.

calgar 2.5 wrote:Actually, Dan Abnett was on hand. And it seems you don't realise what the amount of money needed to make a movie much better than Ultamarine would be.

of course i do, and i know you do realise how a simple low budget live action film could do well, you dont need all the pyrotechnics to get the feel of the 40k universe over, a small personal film based around an inquisitor and his warband could still do the trick quite well. note though im talking about "relativly" low budget, we call all agree terminator is better than all the sequals

Made for a relatively small $6.4 million, The Terminator remains James Cameron's most lean and disciplined pieces of storytelling to date.

A constant, violent pursuit that ploughs on relentlessly for 108 minutes, Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is the luckless resistance fighter instructed to protect Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) from an unstoppable cyborg (a perfectly cast Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent from the future to eliminate her.

Time may have eroded The Terminator's once searingly violent edge (the police station massacre no longer appears as epically messy as it once did), and its special effects are markedly less special some 26 years on, but Cameron's sophomore feature is still a breathtakingly exciting piece of action sci-fi.

(not my words is taken from den of geeks)

Moon was made for 5 million too, and was a good flick

this was made for... wait for it... 500 grand!!!

Another Earth

There seems to be a recent trend in thoughtful science-fiction made for very little money. I most definitely applaud that trend, and Another Earth is one of the best. On the night a duplicate of Earth appears in the Solar System, student Rhoda drunkenly crashes her car, putting musician John in a coma and killing his wife and child.

Years later, a guilt-ridden Rhoda begins a relationship with John, who’s unaware of who she is and the role she played in his misery.

The concept of the mirror Earth is not integral to the story, but acts as a filter for ideas and thoughts. What would you do if you could meet yourself? How does one action affect your life? Can you change the past and make yourself a better person? These are the philosophical questions posed by Another Earth, and it does so in a subtle manner which doesn’t preach at the audience. It’s a great example of independent filmmaking with grand aspirations

Paranormal activity 15k

Bronson 230k

Blair witch 50k

Dead mans shoes (i wish i could swear on here, its that bloody good) 1 million


Im not limiting my examples to sci-fi as i dont believe a 40k movie would need all the space marines/nids etc to introduce the setting, just show us a "teaser" if you will of the universe and people will be hooked, then with the massive amount of money i will produce, you can then make your "Spesh mureens" movie properly... bias aside... space marine the movie would be badass

wish there was a good movie.

Hlaine Larkin mk2 wrote:The Lord Inquisitor looks epic, its a fan movie thats coming out in 2013

I really hope that the final product will be as cool as the trailor!

Tadashi wrote:Must watch. The Grey Knight cutting a bloodletter in half towards the end was so badass. And seeing realistic Leman Russ tanks on the move is amazing. And let's not forget the Space Marine on top of the Land Raider.

I'm pretty sure those Baneblades aren't Leman Russ tanks.

Ilove40k wrote:

Tadashi wrote:Must watch. The Grey Knight cutting a bloodletter in half towards the end was so badass. And seeing realistic Leman Russ tanks on the move is amazing. And let's not forget the Space Marine on top of the Land Raider.

I think it's baneblades dude !

I thought so too, until I realized that there were multiple Baneblades at once. That's not possible. Even the old Imperial Army had only one Baneblade per regiment. And is that Lord Inquisitor Coteaz or just another Lord Inquisitor?

Razgryz wrote:Watch Event Horizon, it really fits as an unofficial distant prequel to the WH40K setting. Gives the most clear and graphically visceral portrayal of what the Warp would be like.

Already did. Gave me nightmares. Although, IMO the Orks would find the Event Horizon to be boring. They'd find more 'entertainment' - if you count brawling with eldritch abominations entertaining - on a Space Hulk. You can't possess Orks. Even if you did, the daemon would find it unpleasant. An Orks really is simple-minded, but they're probably the strongest-willed species in the galaxy. The daemon would find its host a nuisance at best and a nightmare at worst (since the Ork would ignore everything it says).

Tadashi wrote:

Ilove40k wrote:

Tadashi wrote:Must watch. The Grey Knight cutting a bloodletter in half towards the end was so badass. And seeing realistic Leman Russ tanks on the move is amazing. And let's not forget the Space Marine on top of the Land Raider.

I think it's baneblades dude !

I thought so too, until I realized that there were multiple Baneblades at once. That's not possible. Even the old Imperial Army had only one Baneblade per regiment. And is that Lord Inquisitor Coteaz or just another Lord Inquisitor?

Razgryz wrote:Watch Event Horizon, it really fits as an unofficial distant prequel to the WH40K setting. Gives the most clear and graphically visceral portrayal of what the Warp would be like.

Already did. Gave me nightmares. Although, IMO the Orks would find the Event Horizon to be boring. They'd find more 'entertainment' - if you count brawling with eldritch abominations entertaining - on a Space Hulk. You can't possess Orks. Even if you did, the daemon would find it unpleasant. An Orks really is simple-minded, but they're probably the strongest-willed species in the galaxy. The daemon would find its host a nuisance at best and a nightmare at worst (since the Ork would ignore everything it says).

taken from Imperial Armour volume 1

LOL


Want a good 40K movie?


Prometheus.

... Prometheus?

Brother Thomas wrote:... Prometheus?

Well 'Nids were ripped from Aliens, just look at the Genestealers and that "Something's wrong with the sarge!" rule. Hey, you never know...

Combine 300, Starship Troopers, and Event Horizon. There is your movie.

It could be done and done right. Just need to shop it. Unfortunately GW refuses to come out of their models, books, and hobby supply niche. Not even merch (ie shirts, hats, etc). Its a shame, so much potential here.

battle for maccragge would be my choice, horus heresy would require too many films atm.
but BfM would keep it short and sweet, introducing the nids, guard and (if you include the battle around circe) the all powerful navy