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It could only work if the movie was rated R. I dont want to see a PG rated Warhammer movie. Some of the books from the black library(Gunheads) would make fantastic movies.

Brightdarkness wrote:Not to mention all the violence it would properly get a** rape in the states with their letter system for rating movies.

I say leave my 40k alone, they would screw it up beyond recognition.

Well see thats the thing your forgetting, its FANTASY violence. Fantasy violence is much better then real people getting shot and blown up with mind powers. I bet they could get a pg-13 easily and it would still be a bad ass movie

If they do, I would prefer that if focus on something like the Eisenhorn series.

Actually, 300 is a good answer to a lot of the idea's criticisms.

Rated R? Check.

Extremely violent? Check.

Based off of obscure source material? Check.

Potentially offensive political/religious undertones? Check.

Protagonists are largely unsympathetic super soldiers? Check.

Protagonists fight to defend an oppressive dystopia? Double Check.

Hugely successful despite all of this? You betcha.

Plus, was the comic more or less popular than 40k? I'm willing to bet less.

It potentially make for an epic(albeit expensive) movie. Likely, they would divide it into three movies, covering different parts of the Horus Heresy.

The first would start off with Horus's promotion to Warmaster and end with the Drop-site Massacre and slightly beyond that(for coverage's sake).

The second would probably be a series of mini-movies covering the major Legion's reaction to the betrayal and the chaos(pun intended) that ensued, leading up to Horus's eventual push into Segmentum Solar.

The third and I final movie, I suppose, would cover the final push into the Sol System, the Battle of(for?) Terra, and its aftermath.

I'm probably going to get a lot of flak from this, but I wouldn't mind Snyder-style action sequences. It almost seems wrong to portray 40k battles in anything but that.

It sort of "degrades" the movie(in my mind), but it would probably have to be all-CGI. There would already be a ridiculous of amount of sfx, and I doubt things like primarchs in battle could be made to "look right" using live-action scenes. There's also the issue of the sheer scale of SMs, but there's ways around that I suppose(including, but not limited to, going with the lowest "meta-fluff" depiction of them, with an armored height of around 6'10" or something).

I never liked the idea of the Horus Heresy as a movie. I think for one, it's too long and involved to have to try and explain in detail, for another it's going to be too hard to characterize the Primarchs, and third it's just not the same setting as the actual game. There's no Inquisition (or if there is they're not the kind of players they are in M41), there's no tides of Guardsmen backed by commissars, there's no distant soul-eating corpse god (until the end). I think a lot of the most distinctive parts of the setting would be missing, and I don't know if that's a good thing for the setting's first entrance on the big screen.

Good points, although I think there were some disicpline-administering NCOs(right use of the term?) in the Imperial Army.

Lol, space marine toys in happy meals!!?? Pigs can fly!!?? Yes why not have a model of a Carnifex eating a SM.

I can't see why it is i bad idea, i mean there are plenty of 40K/WHFB video games, why not a film. I can hardly see GW objecting either as a popular film would bring more people into the hobby.

Yeah, a 300-style Fantasy movie could rock... what about a Gotrek and Felix movie-series? Or Darkblade?

Or a movie version of the Commissar Ciphias Kain novels? Now, that's a way for GW to get money from me again

I think Commissar Kain would be the best choice for a 40k flick. All the other stuff is way to serious.

Also, movies DO NOT have to be suitable for kids to be successfull/worth corporate investment. In the western world there are a lot more adults than kids, and it's the adults who spend money. And men will always like guns and swords in movies. How hard can it be? why is everything for kids nowadays? Kids suck. They cry and poop.

in case you haven't noticed, they already are.
i've been saying they should for 3 years.

Just as long as it ISN'T a big Hollywood studio. Those donkey-caves would have to put in an effin' love scene like they do EVERY. SINGLE. MOVIE.

Seriously. Enemy at the Gates. What an incredibly awesome movie. I got history-nerd wood when I saw the Stukas strafing the boats, the artillery shells streaking across the Volga, and the first time I heard the "canvas-ripping" sound of the MG34s opening up.

But somehow, in the midst of all the chaos and being on the brink of his motherland capitulating, Vasily Zeitzev, a humble farmboy fast becoming one of the most accomplished snipers of the whole war, finds time to get a handjob from another sniper.


I f*****g hate Hollywood.



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OMG I laughed so fething hard at that, and it's true, they really can put a love scene in any movie. I can see an =I= movie ending like this... The Inquisitor surrounded by the dead cultists, his retinue dead to the last, and then the female lead role run up to him and kisses her. Epic music plays as thunderhawks swoop in to clear the area. Then the music turns ominous and the =I= pushes the lead female to the ground and reads her Judgement to her while she eyes the bolt pistol he's pointing at her head, then darkness and a gunshot. ROLL CREDITS.

That would give me a good laugh.

Always speculated but will probably never happen.

The film studios would need the sweetener of licensing the IP so they could go and make merchandise. Think Kids slippers, chess sets, 'books of the film' christmas specials fully articulated action figs etc. This sort of tat generates them revenue.

GW will not grant a license for their IP to be used in this way they would want to control everything so there is no incentive for a movie studio to take this up.

After seeing Mutant Chronicles, I gotta say NO.

I think District 9 proved that it doesn't take a big studio to make a kickass movie.

It would be great... If they did it right. And if they did that it probably wouldn't even make it into theaters because of all the violence (and if dark eldar get involved... ) Also, I don't think it would stick to the fluff very well because much of it could end up being controversial or completely over the general populous' heads.

But I'd go see it anyways. Just to see how badly they had f*cked up my beloved 41st millenium.

It would be good but only if they either:

- Made a really engaging film that focuses on a specific race/conflict sort of like many of the current novels. Problem with that is what to choose for one film... lots of unhappy gamers when they choose your least favourite armies or just give in and make it about the Smurfs (oh....)

OR

- Made something trully epic that actually moved the game on a stage, involving: the Starchild Prophecy, the Cabal, Cypher, the Void Dragon, Abaddon, Hive Fleet Leviathan, the Return of the surviving Primarchs...

well transformers two was a big budget movie and we all know how well that movie turned out. so it doesnt matter how much of a budget the movie will be (a few mil tho...) as long as the storyline is good to me. oh and that we dont get cheap 90`s gfx

depends on who its about. Yarrick would be an awesome main character.

Gunheads should be done!

I voted "Other, but only because the "No" answers didn't fit.

A big budget 40K movie would flop, GUARANTEED, when it came to profit. Would it look cool? sure, would there be a few thousand people who would see it a few times? Yeah. But for a big-budget movie to be successful, you need tens of thousands of people seeing it multiple times.

No matter how great the movie might be, even if the acting, effects, and script were all PERFECT, it would still be a Hollywood failure because it wouldn't probably even make up half the production cost.

I'm just worried that it wouldn't change over to a screen well. It would either be too ridiculous or they would destroy what makes each army unique to make the movie have a larger viewership.

40K is such a great setting for sci-fi and one which is unique and eerie. A movie, with the right actors and good animation, would be one of the best sci-fi movies since star wars - maybe better. And it would have a limitless budget coz of the astronomical profits GW is making from its drastically overpriced minitures. Compared with the cost to make them, not because their bad products.

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I read "The Thousand Sons" and thought that that book would make an amazing movie. Think of all the awesome 5 minute trailers video games companies can make. Imagine something like seeing the Trial of Magnus the Red in full awesomey CG splendor. Just the way some of the 40k novels are written totally lends themselves to film making. If I had the cash, I would certainly produce one. Hopefully it would turn out as cool as I imagined it as I was reading!

Awesome pole question.

No.

The answer to this question ties into why I enjoyed Damnatus as much as I did.

They didn't have an enormous hard-on for Space Marines, they stayed true to a lot of the source material, and even though the writing, special effects, and acting all made it very evident it was a fan-made movie, the fact that it was "by fans, for fans" made it better than any big-budget 40k flick could ever be.

In my opinion.

So no, I'm not too keen on the idea of a big-budget 40k film.

Ultramarines has me nervous enough, I don't need MORE potential to screw up a 40k flick.

I voted yes, but rather than get one of the big action directors to make it, they should give it to M Night Shamamamalan! And at the end, the twist could be that the whole movie was just the fevered dreams of a snotty nosed little kid...

What a twist!

yes, even if this hobby is sort of avant garde, its storyline and fluff could definately make a wonderful plot for a big budget movie. I only ask that we keep Michael Bay as far away from the set as possible!!!