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probably using the book to balance his desk!!

Dear The Gorgull: I want to have your baby. But it would necessitate some unorthodox surgery and a baboon's uterus, so I won't. But it's almost Valentine's day and it's the thought that counts, right?

Moose: I actually came up with that yesterday morning in about 15 minutes. Which leads me to believe there's some horrible problem with the concept that none of us have seen yet.

Vandez: Being on a casting agent's desk probably means nothing, since the casting company would only be dealing with a screenplay while something was in pre-production. But it's always possible. The figure I always hear is that movie studios generally buy about ten times as many scripts as they're going to produce because a) they're never sure which projects will come together and b) they don't want their competition getting its' grubby little hands on something that they passed over and making $100,000,000 profit off it.

In fairness, my friend works for the casting agency, but saw it on the desk of a producer.

Even so, I agree. It's hardly concrete evidence that a GW film/tv project is underway.

Event Horizon actually makes for a pretty good 40k flick. Space hulk, tinged by the Warp, shows up in charted space after ebing missing for years; Explorator team/Rogue Trader goes in to salvage; everyone goes crazy, then dies.

The last fifteen minutes don't quite fit, but the last fifteen minutes were horrible anyway.

That's a good point - Event Horizon is one of the few films out there that I think really captures (at least earlier on in the film) what the taint of 40K Chaos would look like in our universe.

Dear Horse:

These problems can be overcome by the wonders of science and the fact that I own a whole colony of baboon/scientists. So, boy or girl?

I agree whole heartedly on Even Horizon. That movie scared the bejeebus out of me in highschool, precisely because (I didn't realize this at the time) because it showed the same thing that is scary about Chaos in 40k: not evil so much as just pure insanity. It them crammed it into a small space where no one can help you. Whee!

In fact come to think of it, the movie could well have been based heavily on 40k, just placed time wise when humans were just reaching out to the stars. I wonder if the writers owned Space Marines...

Vandez wrote:I don't know if this of interest to anyone, but I was chatting to a friend of mine this afternoon. He works for a casting agency in London, and apparently he saw a copy of 'The Founding' (i.e, the first three Gaunt's Ghosts books) on the desk of a British film producer the other day.

It may not mean a thing, but I found it quite exciting!

Oh My God-Emperor, this is the greatest thing i have ever heard (sorta). I think that the Gaunts Ghosts series are Fantastic and would make great movies, or tv series. but not a cartoon

Okay, so these 20-something year old guys, they live in their parents houses in Bayonne (or maybe Livingstone. Livingstone might be funnier), they have dead-end jobs, they're intimidated by the wimminz, but they love playing 40k. They hear there's a tournament, in Cherry Hill. They've always wanted to play in a tournament. Problem? One's got to be home that night for a family reunion, the other has to work in the morning. Hijinks ensue. Can they make it to the tournament, play and make it home in time to keep their commitments? Will they learn what it means to love their hobbies but become adults? Will one score with the only hot chick in Cherry Hill? Will they win it all?

Directed by Kevin Smith.

My Vision of a good 40K movie would start in a dark room the Inqusition questioning the guard after an attck upon the Cadian gate. Him explaining his story and then being eliminated. and finnaly morgan freeman does a monologue on how the Inqusition could not allow heresy to begin and how it must be expunged. But mabye not Freeman mabye a member of the inquisition

Yeah, Morgan Freeman would have to be in it somewhere!

Do it the same way the 'Keystone Cops' movies were done in the 20's, centered on the lives of 40k Management......

Aristotle wrote:My Vision of a good 40K movie would start in a dark room the Inqusition questioning the guard after an attck upon the Cadian gate. Him explaining his story and then being eliminated. and finnaly morgan freeman does a monologue on how the Inqusition could not allow heresy to begin and how it must be expunged. But mabye not Freeman mabye a member of the inquisition

You're right, the inquisition has to be in there! And commissars, everybody loves commissars!

Greets
Schepp himself

An Inquisitor/Commissar! With six boobs!

3rd battle for Armeggedon...Lets you tell plenty of
backstory; ( hints about Chaos) involves Gaurd vs Orks with Space Marines coming to save the day in the end. It involves strong characters like Commissar Yarrik, a human villain(Von Straub), and Gazkull Mag Uruk Thraka.

A cinematic introduction to such a big ball of wax as the 40K universe is going to have to approach it tangentially. There's simply no way to cover all the races, or even the whole of the Imperium. But much of the flavor could be imparted visually.

The things that have changed and stayed the same about the human condition in the year 40K would be the most interesting things to communicate to the viewer via the plot, rather than just a sequence of explosions. An intrigue-based pot that has a lot of exploration would be better than a war pic (ironically, given the system the background comes from).

The Inquisition and their many opposing forces, however, are still a big thing to explain, and would require tons of exposition. The Eisenhorn novels are great, but require a lot of previous 40K knowledge to appreciate fully (try giving them to someone who doesn't play 40K, and see what I mean).

Closer to our own reality but still very interesting would be an Arbites-based storyline. For these reasons, Shira Calpurnia novels seem the best basis for a screen adaptation of a Black Library novel IMO. Legacy (the second one) has Rogue Traders, the shattered status of the Emperor, and plenty of skull-cracking. Heck, one could probably mash the first one (Crossfire) into the plot pretty easily, to throw the Ecclesiarchy into the whole deal. Just run the festival-sabotage-plot thing underneath the struggle over the charter, and you've got a very solid 2 hour feature with hive cities, psykers, warring Adeptus groups, servitors getting blown up, and cops in riot armor kicking ass. Sounds like a good time to me.

I assume that a novel adaptation would be better (or at least more likely) than an original screenplay. Unless Dan Abnett wrote that screenplay, maybe.

However, if all practical considerations of public appeal, feasibility, and scope of script were suspended, I'm right with you all in saying Eisenhorn would rock.

syr8766 wrote:Okay, so these 20-something year old guys, they live in their parents houses in Bayonne (or maybe Livingstone. Livingstone might be funnier), they have dead-end jobs, they're intimidated by the wimminz, but they love playing 40k. They hear there's a tournament, in Cherry Hill. They've always wanted to play in a tournament. Problem? One's got to be home that night for a family reunion, the other has to work in the morning. Hijinks ensue. Can they make it to the tournament, play and make it home in time to keep their commitments? Will they learn what it means to love their hobbies but become adults? Will one score with the only hot chick in Cherry Hill? Will they win it all?

Directed by Kevin Smith.

This sounds awesome. If it has a series of training montages when they find out they need another person and teach him to play the game, it will be even awesome-r.