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 Void__Dragon wrote:
Ian KcKellan is the God Emperor of Mankind, duh.

McKellen. But yes he is! I am glad someone agrees!

 Crimson wrote:

 Anfauglir wrote:

Something like Firefly, then?

Grimdarker*. Also, considering that the 40K ships are ludicrously huge, the ship itself is one big setting. You can have a loads of recurring characters and locations.

* I think any 40K film should have feel that would be something between Sincity and Brazil.

Well, your comparative was "a grimdark Star Trek"... which I feel Firefly matches. However, I agree that a 40K setting should be grimdarker still. Film's like Starship Troopers and Event Horizon can practically be considered live action "visions" of a 40K-like world/universe. But then, it all depends on tone and genre. There's no saying a live action film/tv series can't have a more light-hearted, humorous "vision" for the setting. In which case things like Firefly, or even Red Dwarf, could work just fine.

If they did ever do a live action movie? it would probably be something pertaining to DOW since it is already a well known universe, possibly with similar characters...

If that were the case:

Blood Ravens
Gabriel Angelos- Russell Crowe
Apollo Diomedes- Mark Strong
Davian Thule- Karl Urban
SGT Tarkus- Bruce Willis
Avitus- Ron Pearlman
Thaddeaus- Leo Dicaprio
SGT Cyrus- Willem Dafoe
Martellus- (voice) Martin Sheen
Kyras- Anthony Hopkins
Jonah Orion- Idris Elba

Eldar
Farseer Taldeer- Cate Blanchett
Autarch Kayleth- Kate Beckinsale
Ronahn- Daniel Craig
Warlock(cant remember character name)- Judd Law
Farseer Idranel- Olga Kurelynko

IG
Lord General Castor-
Commissar Gebbett- Hugo Weaving
Inquisitor Adrastia- Tilda Swinton
SGM Merrik- Jason Statham

Chaos
Eliphas- Tom Hardy
Neroth- Eric Bana
Assorted CSMs-Bill Golberg, Dwayne Johnson, John Cena, and various WWE wrestlers lol

Orks: voices obviously
Warboss Bludflagg: Christian Bale

am I missing anything? lol

 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Dame Judi Dench as a Sororitas Canoness. Tell me you can't see it.

She is too old, Canonnes needs to be young and hot

Idiot. The Canoness is old and badass.

The plucky young Sister or Seraphim who saves the day is young and hot.

I think a live action movie with a star studded cast like that would leave a lot of people disapointed. I think I'd prefer a movie or series that had the kind of animation in both of the Dawn of War intros.

The cast from The Expendables. Schwarzenegger as Marbo ofcourse!

inb4 Clint Eastwood as Bastonne.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
inb4 Clint Eastwood as Bastonne.

What about Creed?

Clint would make an awesome Yarrick.

That's true. He has the Deadly Squint, after all.

Creed is a hard one. You need someone with imposing physicality while still being slightly older. Actually, it's hard to imagine Creed as being played by anyone but Winston Churchill. ^^;

Or maybe a Bulldog...

The movie would flop.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Creed is a hard one. You need someone with imposing physicality while still being slightly older. Actually, it's hard to imagine Creed as being played by anyone but Winston Churchill. ^^;

Or maybe a Bulldog...

Now starring Rex the bulldog as Lord General Ursarkar E. Creed!

I think it would be better done in CGI like the Ultramarines movie.

 Sword Of Caliban wrote:
I think it would be better done in CGI like the Ultramarines movie.

Ugh... no thanks.

Give me traditional 2D animation any day, month, year. All these 3D CGI shows that come out now look like puke in comparision. Look at the two Clone Wars shows, for example. Only 2D animation would be able to do 40K justice on a scale level, by comparison CGI to still far, far too limited.

 Anfauglir wrote:

 Sword Of Caliban wrote:
I think it would be better done in CGI like the Ultramarines movie.

Ugh... no thanks.

Give me traditional 2D animation any day, month, year. All these 3D CGI shows that come out now look like puke in comparision. Look at the two Clone Wars shows, for example. Only 2D animation would be able to do 40K justice on a scale level, by comparison CGI to still far, far too limited.

Yep, I just can't dig 3D cartoons...2D (like the new batman) is fine by me.....

CGI is being done so much so I would prefer a live action movie. If the CGI is poorly done it looks just bad. A mix of both like in the Lord of the Rings would be optimal.

If it were up to me, I'd make it an omnibus of short segments like Heavy Metal. Following an UM regiment for an hour and a half was a drag, but imagine if the focus then shifted to the CSM they were fighting, and then on from there. Everything from punchy action comedy with Orks to brooding horror with Necrons and inspiring heroism with the Guard.

It would make a great intro into the game and its universe if nothing else. That universe is way too massive to cram into a single story

 WarlordRob117 wrote:
If they did ever do a live action movie? it would probably be something pertaining to DOW since it is already a well known universe, possibly with similar characters...

If that were the case:

Blood Ravens
Gabriel Angelos- Russell Crowe
Apollo Diomedes- Mark Strong
Davian Thule- Karl Urban
SGT Tarkus- Bruce Willis
Avitus- Ron Pearlman
Thaddeaus- Leo Dicaprio
SGT Cyrus- Willem Dafoe
Martellus- (voice) Martin Sheen
Kyras- Anthony Hopkins
Jonah Orion- Idris Elba

Eldar
Farseer Taldeer- Cate Blanchett
Autarch Kayleth- Kate Beckinsale
Ronahn- Daniel Craig
Warlock(cant remember character name)- Judd Law
Farseer Idranel- Olga Kurelynko

IG
Lord General Castor-
Commissar Gebbett- Hugo Weaving
Inquisitor Adrastia- Tilda Swinton
SGM Merrik- Jason Statham

Chaos
Eliphas- Tom Hardy
Neroth- Eric Bana
Assorted CSMs-Bill Golberg, Dwayne Johnson, John Cena, and various WWE wrestlers lol

Orks: voices obviously
Warboss Bludflagg: Christian Bale

am I missing anything? lol

This post offends me!!! Why in the bloody hell would you want Martin Sheen in .... anything.

Kudos for perpetuating the stereotype that all Eldar Farseers are hot chicks. Hope the GW marketing team is taking notes.

En Excelsis wrote:

This post offends me!!! Why in the bloody hell would you want Martin Sheen in .... anything.

To get eaten by nids!

Samuel L. Jackson as Vulkan.

"I am sick and tired of these mutha fething 'nids on this mutha fething thunderhawk! Sit down, I'm about to open some windows!"

Liam Neeson as the Emprah.

Nick Cage as Indrick Boreale






That last one was a joke. Nick Cage can be a Servo Skull.

My buddies and I were just talking about this the other day. I think it would be AWESOME to see a good live action movie of the Warhammer 40k universe. Just like ALL of the other blockbuster movies for the past 10 years it'll be an excellent combination of live action and CG (think Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, ALL of the super hero movies that have been coming out lately, etc). The biggest thing I would like to see though is a bit more than the traditional "Ultramarines Vs. Chaos". Now we all know that the standard Marines Vs. Chaos is the primary driver behind the franchise so you really can't leave it out, but you could do is add to it. I was thinking a cool way to do it would be to do a dual-arcing storyline: Chaos is invading system X because they're all evil and whatnot so it starts out with IG and the local contingents fighting the Chaos and getting their butts kicked till some Space Marines arrive (insert whatever SM chapter); meanwhile in a nearby sector, a different SM chapter (my personal favorite would be Space Wolves ) is fighting one of the xenos races (Tyranids or Orks). This one is a smaller skirmish battle but the wolves are all pissed off so they follow the orks and engage them in other areas of the sector until we come to find out that the Orks are actually being led/manipulated by a Chaos lord. Basically, two fronts of the same war. Ultimately, the two SM chapters have to work together to defeat the Chaos/xenos invasion. This gives you the ability to stray a bit from the traditional Marines Vs Chaos routine, and you also get to show off multiple races/factions: IG, two SM chapters, Chaos, and a xenos race. But it is ultimately something that people can easily relate to: good vs evil.

When it comes to actors, I just want to see Dennis Storhoi as a Space Wolf. That dude's a bad ass. I don't really think it'd be that great to bring in a buttload of big name actors other than simply to use their names to get butts in the seats. Some though, as have been already mentioned would be great: Ian McKellan is awesome so is Christopher Lee, and the Rock is a freaking beast, he'd make a great Devastator.
Oh, and to whoever said to use Arnold as Marbo......... last time I checked; Sylvester Stallone is the one and only Rambo.

-Skrog

Tommy Wiseau as Indrick Boreale.

What I think a Warhammer 40,000 movie would need to do is to convey the two aspects of the Warhammer 40,000 universe: the background, and the action. By background, I mean all the ins and outs of the universe conveyed through codices, and the action as in a decent representation of what we're supposed to be imagining when our models are on the tabletop and the dice are being thrown. This is what I think let Ultramarines down - we're just watching a bunch of soldiers in big blue armour shoot stuff and say funny words, there's no life to it. If I were writing a script for a 40k movie (and perhaps you should thank the Emperor that I'm not), it'd be about an Inquisitor whose investigations take the audience from the streets of Terra to the battlefields, and letting us know the significance of it all. And the Inquisitor needn't be the main character either, maybe some Joe Public who the audience can sort of relate to gets swept up into it, much like the role of the companion in Doctor Who.

For me, the suggestion that it be a live action series of Rogue Trader is the winning idea, and what makes the whole idea viable.

You would probably be looking at a series a bit like Battlestar Galactica, as I think that is quite grimdark itself at points. I think you need a big fleet rather than a small single craft like you have in Firefly, as I think you need a blend of internal politics (mutants and heretics) external threats (Orks and Eldar) and external diplomacy (other Imperial agencies). There is a fluff precedent of marine detachments being assigned to Rogue Traders, so you can have marines involved, but not central to every storyline. You can have an attached Cadian regiment. You can have ecclesiarchy, a navigator, the Rogue Trader and his immediate cronies. You can have Inquisitors passing though, new commissars assigned to the guard regiments, encounter the chapter master of the marine contingent, and so on...

Then, you can investigate the emergence of the Necrons, with the Eldar sticking their beaks in. A super-violent but cunning emergent Waaargh, Tau undermining Imperial authority in the area, and of course, Chaos worship within and Chaos violence without. You could get a good few series out of it...

Any 40k movie that would satisfy the fans would probably be inaccessible to a general audience. The general movie going public is far too lazy to be bothered with any nuance in this genre (sadly).

Making a movie focused on space marines would be terrible, it is hard to come up with a character that is more boring than a space marine.

JWhex wrote:
Any 40k movie that would satisfy the fans would probably be inaccessible to a general audience. The general movie going public is far too lazy to be bothered with any nuance in this genre (sadly).

Making a movie focused on space marines would be terrible, it is hard to come up with a character that is more boring than a space marine.

Indeed, which is why I think a normal person sucked up into an Inquisitorial retinue (i.e. Alizabeth Bequin from Eisenhorn if you can look past the whole blank thing) would be a good character for an audience unfamiliar with 40k. Heck, with the varying levels of technology and cultures from world to world in 40k, they needn't even live in a society too sci-fi to begin with.

Bludbaff wrote:
Tommy Wiseau as Indrick Boreale.

HERETIC!

Brian Blessed as the Emperor.

On a more serious note, I think Ol' Arny would make an excelent veteran.

In case of focussing it on the guard... just grab the Saving private ryan or Band of brothers casts?

Oh, and that woman from Twilight as a tech priests, she's the perfect fit, no emotion, and monotome as feth.

Meh, if they were going to make a live-action 40K movie, they'd be better doing something in the style of Eisenhorn/Shira Culpurnia, and doing it largely with unknown actors. The setting itself is the "star" of 40K, the characters are just a vehicle by which we can experience it, making some huge bombastic action shlockfest crammed full of well-known actors would result in a gigantic flop.

I love the idea of a TV series following a Rogue Trader dynasty, although to do it justice it would need to be done in a similar format to Game of Thrones; long episodes with really high production values. Better they spend huge sums of money on that than getting "big names" that often just play the same character over and over again with a different name.

 Soladrin wrote:
Brian Blessed as the Emperor.

Brian Blessed should be Abaddon the Despoiler.