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 Swastakowey wrote:

I think I saw a movie that felt similar to 40k called mutant Chronicles. Movie kinda sucked but the setting and grimness was very 40k. It was then that it hit me, grim movies like that usually tank in ratings (as in suck) so putting up with using someones elses idea for a movie that will likely be forgotten is a bad idea.

As a long-time fan of the Mutant Chronicles universe, the movie - while playing at the heartstrings of fans - was terrible.

D&D made a few attempts... each of them terrible.

The real bottom-line has been and always will be $. Despite how 'successful' GW is, if they investing the kind of $ that would be required to make a decent attempt at a full-length live-action film, it would be a fairly enormous risk for them, with -zero- assurance that it would even break-even. For each 'Game of Thrones' or 'Lord of the Rings' that you have being huge successes based off of fantasy/sci-fi IPs, you have tons of 'Dungeon Siege', 'Mutant Chronicles', 'Lone Ranger', 'Dungeons and Dragons' etc, flops that prove just how wrong things can go.

All it would take, then, is for a production house to see the IP and think it was worth a look - but looking at 40K 'seriously', folks outside the hobby likely raised a brow and think, 'Uhh.... okaaaay...'

But who knows? It took Comic Books a long time to get where they are in cinema right now... who knows what might come for GW down the road?

Mort wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:

I think I saw a movie that felt similar to 40k called mutant Chronicles. Movie kinda sucked but the setting and grimness was very 40k. It was then that it hit me, grim movies like that usually tank in ratings (as in suck) so putting up with using someones elses idea for a movie that will likely be forgotten is a bad idea.

As a long-time fan of the Mutant Chronicles universe, the movie - while playing at the heartstrings of fans - was terrible.

D&D made a few attempts... each of them terrible.

The real bottom-line has been and always will be $. Despite how 'successful' GW is, if they investing the kind of $ that would be required to make a decent attempt at a full-length live-action film, it would be a fairly enormous risk for them, with -zero- assurance that it would even break-even. For each 'Game of Thrones' or 'Lord of the Rings' that you have being huge successes based off of fantasy/sci-fi IPs, you have tons of 'Dungeon Siege', 'Mutant Chronicles', 'Lone Ranger', 'Dungeons and Dragons' etc, flops that prove just how wrong things can go.

All it would take, then, is for a production house to see the IP and think it was worth a look - but looking at 40K 'seriously', folks outside the hobby likely raised a brow and think, 'Uhh.... okaaaay...'

But who knows? It took Comic Books a long time to get where they are in cinema right now... who knows what might come for GW down the road?

True, table top wargaming could be the next "geek" thing to explode haha. But yes Thats a good point about the genre. So many of them flop. Settings like this are designed to capture imaginations and wow people with ideas and themes. But if the budget or effort isn't enough we will either laugh at it, hate it or like the idea but dislike the final result. Personally I find this the case with a lot of Sci Fi or Fantasy.

I didnt realise that movie was a comic. Might check it out. The ideas and themes are very much my thing (ww1, monks etc etc).

Live action films are hugely expensive these days if you want them to look good and are doing just about anything that's going to need a lot of special effects.

That's why.