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Do you think there will ever be a warhammer 40k movie? and I mean a live action feature film unlike that animated ultramarine crap. regardless of what would probably make the most money(a space marine movie probably would in my opinion.) What team would you like to see get a movie? Who would direct it? Who would act in it? What would it be about?

I personally would like to see an IG vs Tyranids movie directed by Quentin Tarantino with Sean Penn and Sir Ian Mackellan or (for anime) a Tau movie directed by hayao miyazaki

i think it would be better as a TV series than a movie, they'd have way way too much lore to cover to make any sense to people that didnt already know it all.

That or make a spinoff that really has nothing to do with the 40k lore but resembles it enough to call it Warhammer 40k

Its possable.

There is the fanmade movie The Lord Inquisitor due out later this year, its been given GW's blessing and the quality is amazing.

An HBO series similar to Game of thrones. Only Following the Exploits of Ciphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium!!!!!

I believe this is the trailer, if the rest is as good as the trailer, it will be awesome

EDIT: Nevermind, covered.

That was really cool, and for fan made, excellent.

I'll be a prick and say the voice acting wasn't up to par with the animation, but still decent enough.

Wasn't their an ultra low budget live action movie made in the 90s that basically just SMs and CSMs fighting in some dingy cardboard temple?

The voice acting has been changed. Thats the old original trailer.

Not many actors I could recommend to be in 40k.

This is a premise I could see working:

Rogue Traders. Starts off with a Feral Human living off the land on a Death World, fighting off Orks and other Xenos. He helps save a group of strangers from an Ork ambush, while they appear feral Orks they are actually Kommandos that like hiding their weapons in sticks and rocks. They take him on do to losing one of their men to the Ork ambush. Adventures range from carrying out missions for the Imperium and performing favors for the local system's political powers. The overall plot is trying to reclaim the Rogue Trader's property and standing his father lost.

Characters:

Space Marine. Chapter Unknown, though believed Lamenters. Black Shield of Deathwatch. When pressed he says he was given special assignment by the Inquisition. What reason would the Inquisition have for granting a Rogue Trader access to a single Black Shield? Why would he chose to forget his chapter?

[list]Arch-Militant. Originally just a mercenary like any other bloke on his planet. Worked as a bodyguard for another Rogue Trader, but defected to his current one for reasons yet to be explained.

[list]Astropath. Most people call her just Astropath, but the Rogue Trader actually calls her by her first name. Most feel she will die soon so do not grow attached.

Ect...

It could work, but I can't help to feel that we've seen it all before with some series of Star Trek, Babylon Five, Farscape, Firefly and Lexx.

Then again. Awesome sauce. BBC needs to do a mini-series at some point.

A series would be pretty good with a really good budget, but I think another CG movie will probably be in the future. Hoping that maybe GW will hire the talent of the guy who made the Lord Inquisitor. He and his friends deserve it after something like 4-5 years of hard work.

Someone needs to pitch this idea (Hello GW are you listening?!?!?) to, as someone mentioned, HBO or even Netflix as they're trying to do "original" programming too.....

Yeah, actually. A really high budget TV series with good acting and writing would be great. I could see there being a show with a similar apocalypse feel to the walking dead thats about guard surviving after a planet is overrun by 'nids or it could follow Tau and eldar too and go more in the style of game of thrones and HBO would do a great job but I doubt they would ever make it.

A Space Hulk or similar survivalist film would be cool and probably significantly less expensive than a CGI intensive epic war. There are lot a of things they could do with it. The universe is incredibly vast. You could tell basically any story in a 40k setting.

Thats fan made? Probably the best fan made video ive seen, even if it is a trailor.
While some stories by fans can be good, usually the animation is whats lacking because it can take a team up to a year to produce movie-qualities for a single scene, let alone a movie.

Anyone remember this gem?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gZBplpT3Iy4

Most renditions of 40k in the media have been too sanitised for the mainstream audience, and hence crapshite.

It doesn't help that most representations are high-adventure rather than gothic nightmare- the Ultramarines movie, for example, was patently ridiculous example of this trend..

Any 40k Movie is essentially a war movie, and war movies are extremely difficult to do right without top notch actors/scriptwriters/producers.

So far I feel the best representation, media wise, in universe was the THQ game Space Marine, which had all the polish of a AAA title cutscene, voice acting, and animation wise, which was somewhat let down by the fail plot. There were standout characters like the female IG commander, and the protagonist himself wasn't too bad.

The best bits of 40k for me are the extreme gothic atmosphere and byzantine Imperial politics, also the brutal realities of war, and that's what I'd like a series to focus upon, rather than being some cartoon adventure fantasy.

Huge fan of the space marine game, I think They should also make one that focuses more on multiplayer and survival mode and adds other races like kroot, dark eldar and IG.

They need to make a Space Ork version

I would watch a sitcom based on an administratum clerk and his sassy back talking servitor skull named 'Skip Skipperson'

It would star Chris Elliot as the clerk and his daughter Abby as the skull.

EDIT: Chris' daughter would voice the skull not be the skull lol.

I'd like to see movies of the first three Horus Heresy books. With quality actors it could be pretty good.
The only problem with a 40k movie is there would have to be so much assumed knowledge, that it might not make much sense to a wider audience.

Second/Third War for Armageddon, nuff said

James Cameron's Avatar, 40k Edition...it ends with the Imperium triumphant over Pandora. Space Marines chop down the 'Tree of Souls', the Imperial Guard crush the aliens' ragtag, peasant militia of an army, and finally mop up (read: search and destroy operations against the remaining aliens) with assistance from the Adeptus Mechanicus, who begin drilling holes and sinking mines to get that whatchamacallit mineral.

 Admiral Valerian wrote:
James Cameron's Avatar, 40k Edition...it ends with the Imperium triumphant over Pandora. Space Marines chop down the 'Tree of Souls', the Imperial Guard crush the aliens' ragtag, peasant militia of an army, and finally mop op (read: search and destroy operations against the remaining aliens) with assistance from the Adeptus Mechanicus, who begin drilling holes and sinking mines to get that whatchamacallit mineral.

I think that would be a pretty funny movie to watch

We already have the prequel to 40k, its.called star trek... Millions of data clones nearly wipe out humanity, the betazoids become tunnels to the warp killing billions... Haha so cool if.it happened

As much as I would like to see HH done, I believe Gaunts Ghosts would be the easiest to introduce the world to 40K. If Gaunt takes off, then go for HH.

I think they should find a way to fit Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson into this proposed film.

Liam Neeson as a Space Marine Captain and Freeman as an IG Colonel.

Thoughts?!

I wonder if I'm the only one who watched that trailer and didn't see much about it that looked any better than Ultramarines, lol.

Hopefully the voice acting is tons better than those voiceovers.

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:
Anyone remember this gem?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gZBplpT3Iy4

" And they're not open...

...

...

To negotiation. "

I always loved that line for its huge amounts of fail. Trying to make them sound fierce but instead making it sound like negotiation is the norm. But once someone becomes not open to negotiation, OH! then things get real.
Diplomacyhammer 40 000: In the grim darkness of the far future there is only negotiation

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
I wonder if I'm the only one who watched that trailer and didn't see much about it that looked any better than Ultramarines, lol.

Hopefully the voice acting is tons better than those voiceovers.

I thought the same thing. Pretty rough, and I'm anticipating that it won't improve much.

The main issue movies and books about 40k has is they keep making it about Space Marines. Audiences do not connect to demihumans in powered suits that are constantly speaking in a robotic, quasi-religious manner. Focus on guardsmen against Necrons or Chaos, using the SM for cameos. It almost writes itself; group of unlikely guardsman heroes manage to destroy the big bad enemy just in time to stop the Space Marines from destroying the planet as a last resort against the overwhelming odds.

I would love to see a movie about the IG, and when the SM show up, they seem like the awesome, nigh-indestructible demi-gods of war they are supposed to be.

Darrett wrote:

 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
I wonder if I'm the only one who watched that trailer and didn't see much about it that looked any better than Ultramarines, lol.

Hopefully the voice acting is tons better than those voiceovers.

I thought the same thing. Pretty rough, and I'm anticipating that it won't improve much.

The main issue movies and books about 40k has is they keep making it about Space Marines. Audiences do not connect to demihumans in powered suits that are constantly speaking in a robotic, quasi-religious manner. Focus on guardsmen against Necrons or Chaos, using the SM for cameos. It almost writes itself; group of unlikely guardsman heroes manage to destroy the big bad enemy just in time to stop the Space Marines from destroying the planet as a last resort against the overwhelming odds.

This ^

Guardsmen are definitely the most relatable team and they could work other teams in around them, tyranids basically make for a starship troopers movie, chaos marines would be more interesting than normal marines and make perfect villains, dark eldar could be villains and I could totally imagine Johnny Depp as a amusing and cold hearted Archon, tau could even be successful, I think with a high enough budget anyone would think their vehicles and battle-suits are cool.