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Point Break. Bodie is the Emperor.

Star wars.
Think about it, The Lasers are Lasguns.
The Men of Iron are Droids.
And Jedis? Psykers.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Star wars.
Think about it, The Lasers are Lasguns.
The Men of Iron are Droids.
And Jedis? Psykers.

Star Wars takes place in a different galaxy before even our current time.



I use to joke that before the DLC ending of Mass Effect 3, it was the prequel to 40K (with the Mass relays destroyed, humanity lost contact with its "empire" in the stars. Civil War would occur on earth in desperation to gather the supplies needed to save themselves and the aliens would eventually die from lack of food. Eventually the most talented Biotics would commit suicide in a crazy circle and give birth to the Emperor.

Terry Gilliam's Brazil is the clearest precursor to the Administratum of the Imperium that exists. And it is a fantastic film.

Am I really the first to mention Blade Runner?

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Am I really the first to mention Blade Runner?

What's this "Blade Runner" of which you speak...

You could probably make an argument for Heavy Metal being in the inspiration stew as well - future orks running around with noisy guns, evil entities from outer dimensions, rundown dystopic cities, etc.

AndrewChristlieb wrote:
Well the arguement can be made for any near future work of science fiction. Event horizion is always the go to for per history 40k, shame that its a terrible movie. I would say stargate franchise comes pretty close (necrony type guys, the ancients and Asgardians are somewhat reminiscent of the old ones the stargates themselves are a sort of webway).

Dune and Event Horizon both seem like good picks. Actually, Dune would be a great one although if you go by the Dune Encyclopedia timeline the people returning from the scattering would be right around the year 30k. Maybe the Honored Matres were running away from The God Emperor's Crusade?

In chronological order:

Dark City (?)
The Keep
Shikoku
The Ring
Witch Hunter Robin (tv series)
Event Horizon
Heavy Metal
Doom
Bladerunner
Akira (A film I'm surprised is not already mentioned with it's psykers and city destroying powers)
Dredd 3D (moreso than Judge Dredd)
Chronicles of Riddick

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Akira (A film I'm surprised is not already mentioned with it's psykers and city destroying powers)

From the first post;

PresidentOfAsia wrote:
It may sound weird but I think Akira would be a viable prequel to 40k as well because of the existence of psykers/psychics and how powerful/unstable they are if not trained properly.

Further down the page;

 disel24 wrote:
Akira (which you mentioned)

I might also put in the Final Fantasy The Spirits Within movie, chaos anyone?

The evil dead movies, more chaos

 Anfauglir wrote:

 BaronIveagh wrote:
Akira (A film I'm surprised is not already mentioned with it's psykers and city destroying powers)

From the first post;

PresidentOfAsia wrote:
It may sound weird but I think Akira would be a viable prequel to 40k as well because of the existence of psykers/psychics and how powerful/unstable they are if not trained properly.

Further down the page;

 disel24 wrote:
Akira (which you mentioned)

Eh, missed it in all the talk about looper and Mutant Chronicles.

Not really a prequel or anything, but when those alien thingies attacked at the end of the avengers movie it is exactly how I see Dark Eldar attacking a human planet. Even had Venoms.