Why Not MechWarrior Movie ?
#1
Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:29 AM
#2
Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:30 AM
#3
Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:33 AM
As I see series like Game of Thrones, an HBO (very close) adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, I think it would be amazing to see a similarly done adaptation of Stackpole's Warrior and Blood of Kerensky trilogies.
#4
Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:34 AM
#5
Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:35 AM
#6
Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:37 AM
This was when the story floating around involved some FRR young cadets, fighting back against GBD, or something.... possibly Dark Age era.
#7
Posted 09 November 2011 - 06:55 AM
Another good example (from a main stream popularity perspective) is the new remake of Battlestar Galactical. While it had some great battle scenes they were truly far and few between. Mostly it's the interpersonal, slight of hand, conspiracy writing style that made those series gain a lot of traction.
#8
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:01 AM
#9
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:04 AM
#10
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:07 AM
I ask myself this question for years....why in hell there are no MW movies or series ? The Battletech universe is so extreme big, they could make tons of films with interesting stuff like the star wars movies.
Transformers are "ok", but they can't beat some good ol' mechs from battletech. A movie would be great...
The other question is: Who you prefer as a director for such a battlech movie ?
maxx
Edited by maxx2504, 09 November 2011 - 07:07 AM.
#11
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:08 AM
That's my 2 cents anyway.
#12
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:17 AM
And to make it even better, lets have Uwe Boll be the director!!1
Yeah, no thanks.
#13
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:44 AM
Case in point of a not really successful conversion is Dune. The original movie did a decent job but there was so much left out that a lot of it lacked impact or sense. Like how emperor was important (or lack there of) W t F spice really was etc. Now the later TV mini series did much better at explaining the houses and want not but was sooo dragged out because of trying to cram everything in, it was BORING.
Game of Thrones is a good example of the transition. Season 1 is actually a combination of books 1 and 2 with some elements thrown out to focus on characters that people want to watch. Season 2 I hope follows the trend. Case in point the youngest Stark daughter doesn't get a major story until much later, i think it's like book 4 or something, which would really detract from how compelling her story really is.
#14
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:46 AM
Avatar had clear glass for people to see inside. Battlemechs have clear (if polarized) cockpits too, but the scale is so different that there is still a disconnect between scenes where the pilot is visible and where the mech as a whole is shown. They'll have to split the scenes quite a bit, unless the movie was 10% battles, 10% cliche hand-to-hand, and 80% people yakking off.
That said, it would be perfect if they followed the Mechcommander opening movie style, which I consider hands-down the best out of all the opening movies ever made. No pacing issues like MW3, and no plot retardation (and animation campyness) like MW2.
#15
Posted 09 November 2011 - 07:50 AM
#16
Posted 09 November 2011 - 08:13 AM
xhaleon, on 09 November 2011 - 07:46 AM, said:
I got a solution for that: use east-european actors instead.
You know, like they did with Dracula (Bela Lugosi).
As for the viewers being too stupid to understand that:
Well, mankind *is* stupid.
On the other hand, we've got tons of anime where giant robots are piloted by people.
With varying degrees of "realism" between them.
Armoured Trooper VOTOMS, for example, is on one end of the spectrum, Gurren Lagann on the other end.
Then there's power rangers, ofcourse, although I don't really think that'd be a good example.
Another problem would be the plot.
BT has plenty of battles, but which one to use as basis for a film?
Wobbie Jihad? Probably not.
Clan Invasion? Takes too long.
Operation Bulldog? More likely.
Etc.etc.etc.
#17
Posted 09 November 2011 - 09:27 AM
I think there is a lot of scope out there for making a truely great film set in the world of Battle Tech, and I think it would revive the genre and maybe get interest back into it. However as others have said there is a large chance that a film could be a massive flop, which is why part of me is glad that there isn't a movie. I just worry that if a film was made it might not do the genre the justice it deserves.
#18
Posted 09 November 2011 - 10:14 AM
Ohh how about John Woo...I would love to see a PHawk in a really really large trechcoat using its jump jets to push itself on its back along the ground...large lasering dozens of white painted mechs (Wobbies maybe?) in the head..
Or better yet Clint Eastwood...story of a young noble hero in the chaos march defending his family estate from teh depredations of the WoB..but in classic Eastwood bummer ending...at the movie close we see the hero now a full body cyborg plugged into his WoB OmniMech leading Hunter/Killer missions on New Avalon
hmm who else
#19
Posted 09 November 2011 - 10:43 AM
Max Liao, on 09 November 2011 - 06:30 AM, said:
Wow, I remember that movie.
However, it could be a good movie if they did it right. Throw in 3 massive battle scenes and a good story, I would pay to see it, 3d might even be cool. Having an Atlas stomp on a cockpit in 3d would make me chuckle.
#20
Posted 09 November 2011 - 10:48 AM
Edited by WhiteRabbit, 09 November 2011 - 10:49 AM.
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