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[Tywren]

Alec Braca, on 19 June 2015 - 09:11 AM, said:

Ok so we need
1. A director that would be pretty good.
-Del Toro
-Joss Whedon
-JJ Abrams
-Ridley Scott
2. $$$
-I do not think a decently done movie nowadays would cost too much. Not asking for a blockbuster here.
-Personally, I would like a descent amount of CGI but only where is it actually NEEDED. We don't need ppl in front of a green screen the whole time.
3. A good story .That's tough on "where to start in the BT/MW universe. We have:
-The Jade Pheonix Series
-Early days of the Star League
-Clan invasion...men (I think there needs to be a firm base established before you start adding MORE factions)
-4th Succession War
-Maybe ANYWHERE else out in the periphery where lots of things can happen. Take Decision at Thunder Rift for example, that would do well being made into a series/movie.

If it's done as a series a la Game of Thrones, you can do the clan invasion as a whole which would be best, but it it's done in movie format, i still say Jade Pheonix, just because you can pitch it as a Young Adult, action film which are hot, and easier to get into production right now (Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner). I mean Aidan does start his warior training at age 12 after all.

[Wildstreak]

HighTest, on 19 June 2015 - 05:29 AM, said:

THAT SAID, the guy actually does have some talent in directing war films. If you could get the guy some proper writers, and you geared BT/MW as more of a futuristic WAR film, I think he could actually make it work pretty well.

Bay covers up lack of quality with special effects, lots of explosions, 'look at this hot looking person' shots and mandatory tanning.

[BattleGnome]

Do a movie trilogy or mini-series based around Phelan Ward. Problem solved.

[Lord Perversor]

Akhri Mala, on 18 June 2015 - 10:01 AM, said:

I'm kind of suprised that no one mentioned Guillermo del Toro.

I don't mind Michael Bay movies, but Transformers was a lot of noise to me.

Pacific Rim on the other hand, was giant robots piloted by humans.

The machines had character, and so did their pilots.

The biggest issue with Del Toro is just that he loves the monsters soo much, he don;t feel comfortable without them (compare Hellboy 1 vs Hellboy 2 as example)

Not saying he is not a good director as i been able to enjoy all his movies (including the spanish ones )
also he comes with a good assortment of actors like Ron Perlman and others like Santiago Segura cameos.

[GeistHrafn]

Moved to appropriate forum. Carry on!

[jss78]

My basic feeling is that if there's ever a big-budget BT film, it won't actually be much closer to BT than something like Pacific Rim (a film I really liked for what it was, mind you).

In the big picture BT is a small sci-fi franchise, and no producer in his right mind would throw something like $100m for a film that's faithful to BT lore and heritage. With faithful I mean e.g. focusing on the machines themselves, instead of some asinine love triangle, to the extent that people like us would recognize the end result as BT.

Those of us who care about e.g. era- or faction-correct hardware don't have enough purchasing power to get someone like James Cameron off his a** for more than a week. I'd take the money dropped by players on MWO as a first-order approximation of how much interest there'd be for a lore-correct BT film. Alas it's not too much.

I do however see potential for a small-budget film (like <$10m), essentially something that straddles to line between a fan production and a full pro film. Recent films like Iron Sky have shown that a budget like that is starting to be enough for compelling visual effects.

(Boy would I love to see del Toro though -- he strikes me as a huge sci-fi/fantasy fanboy. He's been trying to make At the Mountains of Madness into a film for years, and his appreciation of stompy robots is evident in Pacific Rim.)

[TheArisen]

How about Christopher Nolan? His movies are very details oriented and he does have a geeky/nerdy side.

[Vellron2005]

Well, to be honest, I could totally see a series in the BT universe.. But only if it is given the same attention as Game of Thrones and was done in the same brutaly hones way... give us boobees, give us exploading mechs, give us executions by mechfoot, and give us all the horror of a mechwarrior style war.

The people who I think have the stamina, devotion and detication to do a BT movie/series/trilogy:

Peter Jackson
The makers od Game of Thrones
The makers of Harry Potter
The SI-FI channel and the makers of Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis (But not Stargate Universe, that show sucked)

Any of these would put BT in good hands..

Edited by Vellron2005, 29 June 2015 - 12:45 AM.

[Mechteric]

Michael Bay would ruin the goodness that is Battletech. Nay I say, NAYYYYYY!