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This is what I saw on one of the 40k Facebook groups:

"The rumour is GW are doing their next cgi film to be based on the Space Wolves, it will be made under codex pictures again, Now to be fair that should be interesting one can't slate the wolves like the smurfs."

Is this true or is this guy Trolling us all?

Huh..well..I'd rather watch a Space Wolves movie then Twilight, I mean a Blood Angels movie.

If he can provide a source then sure it might be true...
Otherwise it is something he may have made up... just like a certain Hrud rumour not long ago...

It may be made up, but I hope it's true, as I really enjoyed Ultramarines, but I'd reckon the Wolves'll be more character full and therefore more interesting.

Holy_doctrine wrote:Huh..well..I'd rather watch a Space Wolves movie then Twilight, I mean a Blood Angels movie.

Team Jacob is strong in you!

I would like a space wolves movie! There would be no shortage of action scenes!

No thanks. Twilight fans already have their movie wish fulfilled.

Utterly one-dimensional. How about a chapter that has a flaw? Like the Blood Angels, or Flesh Tearers, a Chapter that a wider audience would enjoy, if they want loyalist Space Marines. Night Lords for traitors. Or, how about a movie that follows a book? Soul Hunter anyone? Or an Imperial Guard movie, with properly handled humans mixed in with Space Marines in hopeless battle against the Orkz?

Hmm, I would love to see a Dark Meechanicus movie. Like that'll ever happen.

One can only dream of an Imperial Guard movie.


Whats the bets the planet they fight on is just flat ground with so much mist you cant see more than 10 feet?

No please, Space Wolves are one of the worst fluff factions this game has at this point.

Give us something akin to All Quiet on the Western Front 40k style, with Guardsmen being thrown against the forces of chaos and fighting their battlefield enemies, the corruption of the Warp, and their own uncaring superiors and monolithic bureacracy as entire worlds die.

Or, something with some actual depth, a Chaos Space Marine film in the vein of ADB's Soul Hunter/Blood Reaver books.



The loyalist marines are probably the least interesting faction to make a movie out of, and the Space Wolves would just come off as far too corny.

It would be awesome

I would hope not. I think the idea of beer chugging space vikings is going to detract from the idea that this is a grim, dark, endless war they're supposed to be fighting in. Bring the SW in when you want comic relief--being socked in the face by a dark angels marine for example.

I would also hope they go with a real company and a writer who isn't so incredibly overstated and one with a little background in actual film.

As a side note, the free fan-made Inquisitor movie is looking exceptionally good.

-sigh-

Space Wolves have great fluff, it's just obvious that those who say they don't or that they're one-dimensional are just taking what they heard from 2nd hand accounts. Read Prospero Burns, or even the Space Wolves Codex and please direct me to the page about Wolfy McWolf the Wolf.

But yeah, I'd rather see a 40k movie about someone other than Marines. If it has to be Space Marines then Wolves have my vote, but I'd much rather see a Guard movie.

Oh god I hope this isn't true.

Frankly I'd sooner see Guardsmen...

Oh boy. I'd rather see another Ultramarine movie than Wolves. :/

I get the whole moneymaking deal with popularity, but I'd wish they would show off other factions than Marines for once. Any other faction.

Andilus Greatsword wrote:Read Prospero Burns, or even the Space Wolves Codex

No thanks, I've had enough SW Marysueism in my own SoB Codex.

Seriously, three pages... Then again, the Battle of the Fang at least allows me to claim firsthand knowledge of how bad it can get.

Would rather see Ultraboys than those damn dogs.

Holy_doctrine wrote:Huh..well..I'd rather watch a Space Wolves movie then Twilight, I mean a Blood Angels movie.

Spot the difference!


Who is cooler?
You choose.

Seriously, you can make a better movie about BA.
They are more elegant and have more 'emotions'

id rather watch a chess game between 2 ogryn than a film about puppies, how about an abnett adaptation, Everyone enjoys a bit of gaunts ghosts

I want Orks, wwwaaaaaaagggh!!!!!

Also, Space Wolves would be awesome if they made them more like Space Vikings instead of cyber punks

Given the quality of the Ultramarines movie, I'd rather they just show a loop of the original DoW intro movie thrty times and burn that to a DVD. Short rendering distance, very limited number of characters on screen, and a plot that relied on the main characters having a room temperature IQ.

On a slightly less cynical note, they might do better if they made a collection of shorts, Anamatrix style, instead of doing one 60+ minute movie. Say two or three ten to fifteen minute stories for each of the Battles for Armageddon.
Por ejemplo:
I
1. First contact between daemon/WE and PDF units. Angron reveal at the end.
2. Battle a hive city, skulls for the skull throne, space marine drop at end to hold the line.
3. GK and crew against Angron.
II
1. Titans going out piecemeal against the horde.
2. Straubb's virus bombs, last second SM drop to save the day.
3. Yarrick holding the line, Orks being driven off planet.
III
1. Return of Yarrick. Orbital battle, Roks dropping. Hades flattened.
2. Submersible assaults, Straubb returns.
3. Eh, some more battles, maybe show Salamanders guarding refugees? Or was that the second war.

OK, so the plan gets vague for the second two wars, but the general point is that you tell shorter stories around the common setting of the wars on Armageddon. Gives you some sense of connection to the history (recentish) of the Imperium, lets you cover a number of major characters across multiple factions, and as a bonus, you get to reuse a lot of the backgrounds.

I agree with Fairfeldia (well, partly anyway). Although I haven't been able to watch Ultramarines (and no one seems to be able to tell me where to find it) but I would love to. I would also love to watch a movie about the Space Wolves. Pretty much any loyalist human faction except Dark Angels would make a good protagonist for a movie. I think the Traitor humans have less fertile ground there, although the Night Lords, Word Bearers, or Alpha Legion all have enough substance to provide a good film plot.

Honestly though, I would love to see a movie about an Inquisitor.

Here's the problem. (It's the same problem that Hitchhiker's Guide had.) If you make a 40k movie, you are not going to be able to make it intricately enough to satisfy the fans of the genre without making it so complex as to be completely inaccessable to mainstream audiences. If you do 'dumb it down' so that Joe Schmoe can go and see it with his girlfriend, you will alienate a significant number of the hardcore fans.

While I would love to see movie by 40k fans, for 40k fans, the fact is that we don't have enough buying power to bankroll a huge blockbuster film.

As such, I just lower my standards and am contented with whatever I get. After so many disappointments with comic book films, this has become my standard operating procedure, and I am a happier movie-goer because of it.

They should just make a Horus Hersey animated series...that would probably be the best story, and have lots of great civil war action, betrayal, murder, and change the whole universe at the end.

daveNYC wrote:On a slightly less cynical note, they might do better if they made a collection of shorts, Anamatrix style, instead of doing one 60+ minute movie.

Now this is an idea I like!

Lynata wrote:

daveNYC wrote:On a slightly less cynical note, they might do better if they made a collection of shorts, Anamatrix style, instead of doing one 60+ minute movie.

Now this is an idea I like!

Me to, especially if they are going to with good animation.

Star Wars the Clone Wars five minute shorts. I've said it before, I'll say it again, this would be the ideal medium to bring people into 40k. Just a few minutes of epic battles, in would be glorious.

If they did do shorts a la animatrix style, I'd like to see each short shot/animated in a different style. To show the different ends and outs of the universe.

Andilus Greatsword wrote:-sigh-

Space Wolves have great fluff, it's just obvious that those who say they don't or that they're one-dimensional are just taking what they heard from 2nd hand accounts. Read Prospero Burns,

Which unfortunately was not really much of a read. 400 something paged of "thread-cut", "murder make", "red snow", etc. and ridiculous stuff about how a legion of space vikings has supposedly the most ridiculous fortress in the universe but that only idiots call it "the fang" despite it being it's only name in any fluff before that. This is also the book where the Space Wolves, vanguards of the Emperor's new order of science and reason, are by far the most superstitious faction of the era, believing that they can't just kill enemies to defeat them, they have to mutilate and dismember them to truly ensure victory so their spirits or whatever know they are beaten, and hack runes of warding into everything with axes every chance they get. It was a struggle to get through that book. Abnett does great IG stuff, but between that and Brotherhood of the Snake (lol 10 tac marines butchering thousands of Dark Eldar, sending 1 marine to deal with a DE raiding party, etc), his marine books have not been stellar material.

Had ADB wrote it, it may have been better, his CSM books have been truly excellent so far, but alas, Prospero Burns was just...difficult to read through.

or even the Space Wolves Codex and please direct me to the page about Wolfy McWolf the Wolf.

Sadly, this was the book with the ridiculous stuff like firing artillery by *smell* and then breaking discipline to rush forward (exposing themselves to enemy fire) just to watch the explosions? How they let random guys just take dropships and crash them for kicks. Or Canis wolfborn, known as the wolfking wolfguard of the space wolves who rides a giant wolf wielding wolfclaws with his wolf tooth necklace and wolf tail talisman riding to war alongside dozens of Fenrisian Wolves, etc ad nauseum.

Andilus Greatsword wrote:-sigh-

Space Wolves have great fluff, it's just obvious that those who say they don't or that they're one-dimensional are just taking what they heard from 2nd hand accounts. Read Prospero Burns, or even the Space Wolves Codex and please direct me to the page about Wolfy McWolf the Wolf.

But yeah, I'd rather see a 40k movie about someone other than Marines. If it has to be Space Marines then Wolves have my vote, but I'd much rather see a Guard movie.

I'm to allowed to make my own mind up now? I've read Prospero Burns, I've read their codex, I've read Battle of the Fang, I've read A Thousand Sons. Their fluff is terrible this edition, but I must have come to that through second hand accounts, right? If you've missed the over use of the Wolf theme in their codex then I'm afraid there's something wrong.


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Crom wrote:If they did do shorts a la animatrix style, I'd like to see each short shot/animated in a different style. To show the different ends and outs of the universe.

Halo Legends would be a good thing to compare to.

Edit : Vakathi basically put in what I would have said if I could be bothered replying like that.

Well, at least if they did Wolves there'd be a reason why all the Chaos Marines have paper thin armour - Wolves not only have plot armour, but plot fire power. For no other Marine is as touch as a Wolf Marine...that doesn't trust going through the warp on teleporter...only on giant starships...uhhh?

Maybe they've got an Orc gene mixed in with there Gene-Seed? They believe they're super awesome and there weird rituals make sense, and somehow they do?