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I have the opposite fear.

I envisage the entire 40K universe as a parody, and I am worried that the writers will take the film completely seriously.

That's why I would like Tim Burton to direct.

MagickalMemories wrote:All these people PRE-whining about how bad they're sure it'll suck need to call a Whaaambulance and get over it.

You can speculate that it'll suck but to claim you KNOW it will is to PRETEND you know more than you do.

Eric

Who's whining? Those that don't think it will work have the optino of not seeing said movie. Capitalism is perfection in this regard.

binky wrote:Yay for positivity!

I'm positive it will suck.

Kilkrazy wrote:I have the opposite fear.

I envisage the entire 40K universe as a parody, and I am worried that the writers will take the film completely seriously.

That's why I would like Tim Burton to direct.

I can see your point. So basically it is the old situation of being damned if you do and damned if you don´t .

Like Binky, I will watch it more out of curiosity than anything else. It might well only be a 1 star film, but I can give up 90 mins if only to watch the 40K universe come to life. At least with Abnett writing, it should be faithful.

It will not be the end of my life if it's rubbish. Does a bad film adaptation ruin your enjoyment of the source material? As much as I wept in frustration after seeing Attack of the Clones, I still enjoy every second of The Empire Strikes Back. Similarly, a bad 40K movie won't ruin 40K games for me.

As for certification, I think 12A is a given. You can get away with a lot of implied violence in a 12A (see the Joker's vanishing pencil trick in The Dark Knight for a perfect example) which will work pretty well for this kind of thing.

Brother SRM wrote:Did anyone see G.I. Joe: Resolute? It was an animated movie that came out alongside the recent movie. I think that Resolute is a decent benchmark for what you can get away with in an animated movie. There's blood, main characters die, and the plot isn't totally incomprehensible.

I understand the skepticism, but you guys are fething doomsayers.

Edit: At least C.S. Goto isn't writing it.

resolute was awesome, and we got to see moscow get nuked

but it would have intricate multilazers, with the subtle influence of multilazers

True, we're speculating. What makes you believe we're wrong to be skeptical? The number of bad translations of games to movies far exceeds the number of good translations, and the small amount of info we have (writer, director) doesn't add any filmmaking experience to build confidence.


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Flashman wrote:
It will not be the end of my life if it's rubbish. Does a bad film adaptation ruin your enjoyment of the source material? As much as I wept in frustration after seeing Attack of the Clones, I still enjoy every second of The Empire Strikes Back. Similarly, a bad 40K movie won't ruin 40K games for me.

QFT. A bad movie won't ruin the 40k experience for me. But I'll be much happier if it doesn't suck.

What, they JUST announced it, and you guys say its an animated pg straight-to-dvd peace of poo. THY HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING and I followed these guys for 6 MONTHS.
Trust me, this will be R. Everyone wants it to be R. Parents of the 40k children will let them see it. Why? ITS A 40K MOVIE! Good god.

In all honesty, I think it will be amazing. With enough violence to quench thy thirst. And we haven't even got a plot yet.

With Abnett at the helm, it will likely suck less.

Happygrunt wrote:What, they JUST announced it, and you guys say its an animated pg straight-to-dvd peace of poo. THY HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING and I followed these guys for 6 MONTHS.
Trust me, this will be R. Everyone wants it to be R. Parents of the 40k children will let them see it. Why? ITS A 40K MOVIE! Good god.

In all honesty, I think it will be amazing. With enough violence to quench thy thirst. And we haven't even got a plot yet.

Bet you a million internet pounds (acutal value 0.000000001p) that it will be a 12A.

Flashman wrote:Bet you a million internet pounds (acutal value 0.000000001p) that it will be a 12A.

I concur. There is little point in GW giving a license to do a 40K movie that has a limited target audience ( 16 or 18+ ). They want the largest possible target audience. Remember that the TT game is supposedly for ages 12+ despite the fact that the backstory is full of war, genocide, racism and other mature themes.

Flashman wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:What, they JUST announced it, and you guys say its an animated pg straight-to-dvd peace of poo. THY HAVEN'T SAID ANYTHING and I followed these guys for 6 MONTHS.
Trust me, this will be R. Everyone wants it to be R. Parents of the 40k children will let them see it. Why? ITS A 40K MOVIE! Good god.

In all honesty, I think it will be amazing. With enough violence to quench thy thirst. And we haven't even got a plot yet.

Bet you a million internet pounds (acutal value 0.000000001p) that it will be a 12A.

Good sir, you are on. So a PG13 rating then hmm?

If that's the corresponding USA certificate, then yes. What rating was The Dark Knight in the States?

Seriously, although I'd love to see an Aliens (which itself would probably only be a 15 these days) style 40K movie, we'll get the toned down version. It won't necessarily ruin the tone IMO. As I said earlier, you can get away with a lot in a 12A these days.

I bet it's a R rated movie but it's lowered to PG when you get a one year subscription for White Dwarf. And further to a G when you take two years.

It's not that money doesn't talk regarding ratings...

Greets
Schepp himself

BrookM wrote:

Horst wrote:this actually has the potential to rock then. Dan's style is very... comic book like. there's alot of descriptive action, and while reading it, I always think it would be better depicted visually.

His comics suck though.

Most blatantly false thing I've seen on the interwebz in a loooong time. Guardians of the Galaxy is fantastic.

I have a feeling I'm going to be very disappointed with this movie's lack of multilasers.

I read this while is was working... well, when I was at work LOL and I understood the meaning of nerdgasm in that moment.

I hate smurffs, but my workshipping for Abnett is still stronger. I'm a fanboy, I can't deny it xD

FETH YEAH!

Archonate wrote:I have a feeling I'm going to be very disappointed with this movie's lack of multilasers.

Don´t worry. With Abnett at the helm at least we´re getting proper Astartes in Power armour armed with holy bolters and chainswords instead of some "counts as" garbage.

BrookM wrote:His comics suck though.

Actually his comics are excellent. He took Nova and made him into one of the best characters in the Marvel universe. In addition to this his run on the series was brilliant and is one of the best books Marvel publishes today.

I dunno, if the movie is done by someone who is a decent writer, knows how to keep people interested in a plot, and is an actually fan/player of 40k, has a decent amount of budget, and isn't afraid to let it get bloody, I think it has potential.

I agree with Brother SRM, you guys are acting like little kids who look at the movie covers and say, "NOPE IT SUCKS."

I think it has a lot of potential because Abnett is usually very good with pacing which is hugely important in screenwriting.

With the fans GW has, it won't be an economic failure.

Expect:

Massive ads: akin to 2012
Budget in the 30+millions
Cool voice actors (Robert Downey Junior Squad Commander..."Feth the Orks!")
CGI on the level of 2012 realism (not the SCIENCE, god no) and based on real life actor movement ( in other words, no floating characters akin to something as cheap as WOW)
Decent fluff. Heck, they remade the tricky origins of something as fluffy and nerdgasmic as Star Trek!
Doom (movie with Karl Urban) style action! Bullettime bolter round dodging!
PG13+ rating
THE ULTIMATE SMURF EXPERIENCE: POV chainsword hacking, with innards flying.
A remake of the THIS!IS!SPARTA! speech, in 40k terms

Turbo10k wrote:With the fans GW has, it won't be an economic failure.

Expect:

Massive ads: akin to 2012
Budget in the 30+millions
Cool voice actors (Robert Downey Junior Squad Commander..."Feth the Orks!")
CGI on the level of 2012 realism (not the SCIENCE, god no) and based on real life actor movement ( in other words, no floating characters akin to something as cheap as WOW)
Decent fluff. Heck, they remade the tricky origins of something as fluffy and nerdgasmic as Star Trek!
Doom (movie with Karl Urban) style action! Bullettime bolter round dodging!
PG13+ rating
THE ULTIMATE SMURF EXPERIENCE: POV chainsword hacking, with innards flying.
A remake of the THIS!IS!SPARTA! speech, in 40k terms

Expect none of this.

Look at the company's history and it's direct to DVD CGI cartoons. Why anyone thinks that this will be anything different is kidding themselves. Don't expect to be seeing this in theatres, ever.

Also, on a personal note, I disagree with KK regarding opinion on Tim Burton directing. The last thing he's done I liked was Nightmare Before Christmas(everything past is just a Johnny Depp/Helena Bonham Carter exploitation snooze fest).

The reason Dan's presence makes me feel better-it shows that they do care about certain aspects of it. They could have just turned it over for third party development (like the blood bowl game) but they didn't.

And QFT Platuan4th

I hope this will be better than Transformers lol

I don't think it will have as many explosions as Transformers 2 did. I don't think any movie 'til Transformers 3 will...

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Was it said at someplace that this movie was gonna be straight-to-dvd? With that in mind, I guess this could easily be R-rated (or equivalent) when it comes to violence and using some darker concepts from 40k universe.

That said, I don't really have high hopes for this move.

I think that Eisenhorn would have made for a better movie.

The first book is contained enough to make a movie, and if it does well, then it can expand with the other books being the sequels.

As long a Cherubael covers up his penis... I don't want another Mr Manhattan debacle...

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