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[Phirric]

I hate to say it, I'm not sure Hollywood wouldn't muck it up.

[Donovan Jenks]

vonStrachwitz, on 22 July 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

Someone send Joss Whedon the Warrior Trilogy.

Sadly after that his awesome work on the Avengers I would think he would be a little too pricey at this point. I have a feeling he is going to be busy making ALOT of Marvel movies for the forseeable future.

[grimzod]

Maverick01, on 22 July 2012 - 07:07 PM, said:

Simple question, would you want Hollywood to make a Mechwarrior movie that is true to the Battletech Universe?

Depends on director, producer, script and budget. If all three aren't decent then no. Location is largely irrelevant these days.

[superyurigagarin]

I second the Neill Blomkamp suggestion. Let him make a movie about an Elemental or IC Battlesuit team killing a lone atlas or some other big imposing mech, that's cut off behind enemy lines.

It would be like the 1988 movie The Beast.

[CheeseThief]

Movie? No.

A TV series similar to Stargate? Hell yes!

[Ramius Hazen]

superyurigagarin, on 22 July 2012 - 08:30 PM, said:

I second the Neill Blomkamp suggestion. Let him make a movie about an Elemental or IC Battlesuit team killing a lone atlas or some other big imposing mech, that's cut off behind enemy lines.

It would be like the 1988 movie The Beast.

I liked The Beast. Pretty good movie. Though how a bunch of mujahideen would've gotten a hold of some battle armor is bey... oh. I get ya. Good idea!

[Judge Kiwi]

Uwe Boll is the only one "Brave" enough to pick this one up.

... and everyone knows that he lives on the tears of gamers.

[Aidan Malchor]

I'm sure as long as they brought in the cast from Jersey Shore they could do a movie that would not only be faithful to the canon but do the entire IP justice.

Edited by Aidan Malchor, 22 July 2012 - 08:43 PM.

[Steel Raven]

It depends on who you have working on it, it would have to be people who truly respect the game and source material, other wise forget about it.
It wasn't too long ago I wouldn't want anyone touching comic book properties like Hell Boy or 300 until Guillermo del Toro and Zack Snyder adopted said projects as fellow fans. I doubt MechWarrior has that type of champion in Hollywood as of yet, I'll be happy to wait untill we do.

[Myssi]

I'm quite sure they would manage to mess it up in so many ways so..

[JP Josh]

cant we bug our game devs in the futer and pay em to make a cgi movie for us with some cheap voice acters from shows like the dude that played the evil guy from highlander aka mr crabs in sponge bob

/ drunk cant see keybord clearly

Edited by JP Josh, 22 July 2012 - 08:46 PM.

[Stalephreak]

Powerferret, on 22 July 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

One way to keep a Battletech movie true to the lore would be to have Peter Jackson do it. He did an admirable job of keeping LOTR true to the story.

I'm guessing you either (a) didn't read the books ( missed the third movie. PJ did a great job on the first two movies. Cutting Tom Bombadil was a good call. But the removal of the Shire battle in the third movie destroyed the closing. That battle is the only reason the hobbits were even accepted back. (not to mention, why Sam gets married). Hobbits were not held in high regard if they went adventuring. I never watched the movies agian after seeing the third movie. He royally screwed the pooch. Everybody knew by then that they'd be long movies, and even J(o)K(e) Rowling had the good sense to split the closing if it were cumbersomely long. Clipping out minor plot points, OK. Removal of MAJOR plot climaxes, f-ing unforgivable.

[Steel Raven]

...or fan movies like they have been doing for every other game out there.

[Gabopentin]

A film making industry that too a film called the ITALIAN Job and moved it from Italy to LA and still called it the Italian Job. Making a true to canon BT movie? They would move it to France, have Mechs made by Audi, and the warriors would all be asylum seekers in transit to the UK

[Stalephreak]

How many successful BT and MW dark age novels are there? Sure, Hollywood could adapt this well. Let's just hope it's not done by the guy that did Gamer.

Whedon or JMS would do admirable jobs.

Edited by Stalephreak, 22 July 2012 - 09:05 PM.

[Datum]

After what they did to Transformers...
No.

[Xmador]

No, cuz they'd have to put a love story in it, and that just gets in the way of the violence and destruction. Besides, we already have the amazing Shock Jox movie

[Stalephreak]

Xmador, on 22 July 2012 - 08:58 PM, said:

No, cuz they'd have to put a love story in it, and that just gets in the way of the violence and destruction. Besides, we already have the amazing Shock Jox movie

There's even romance in the books though to some extent. The Ghost novel comes to mind. It can work, it just can't be the main plot point. There's even Tasha Kay (Anastasia Kerensky) and her bondsman medic whom she toys with... Hate to break it to you romance haters, but the bt universe is FULL OF IT. It's a universe built around mankind's inability to agree, much like real life. (Hey, we even know who Victor Steiner-davion married...Don't tell me romance isn't in bt)

Edited by Stalephreak, 22 July 2012 - 09:13 PM.

[Tincan Nightmare]

An adaption of Decision at Thunder Rift might work, relatively small number of characters and limited locales, plus the story wouldn't need huge explanations of the social and political history of the Inner Sphere. Got to agree with the majority here though that the hollywood stupidity of trying to create a 'blockbuster' would probably strangle any BT movie at birth, or create an abomination. A tv series might be possible, as it would allow the time to establish the who's and what's of the universe, though a tv shows more limited budget might create some ugly cgi mechs. It would be awesome if done well, the problem being the 'done well' part.

Hell one plus to a movie or tv show, if it has any financial support maybe they could get the license to the unseen back to use.

[Skadi]

before anyone votes yes... please remember the last robot movie and who directed it? yeah... i dont think i want baysplosions in my mechwarrior either.