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[The Basilisk]

Vellron2005, on 09 May 2017 - 01:12 AM, said:

So if they ever make a proper Hollywood blockbuster Battletech movie, who would you like to see star in it?

Here's some names I would like to see:

Natasha Kerensky: Scarlet Johansson or Chalize Theron
Ulric Kerensky: Jason Momoa
Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht: Patrick Stewart
Phelan Ward: Jason Statham
Vandervahn Chistu: Jeremy Irons
Jaime Wolf: Sean Bean

Feel free to add some of your own picks and ideas..

Natascha (she's an old woman by then): Sigourney Weaver
Ulric Kerensky: Marc Harmon
Anastasius Focht: Sean Connery
Phelan Kell: Chris Hemsworth
Vlad Ward: Mickey Rourke
Ranna Kerensky: Cobie Smulders

[CK16]

Imo to start the whole series would have to set it pre Exodus....

1st - Pre Exodus that ends with It
2nd - Height of the 3rd Succession War
3rd - Clan Invasion

4th - Refusal War?
5th - OP Bulldog and Serpent (could be made 2 movies. *shrug*)
6th - Fed Com Civil War? (Though so much going on this could be it's own trilogy, Empire Strikes back parts and all)

Or they do the whole Star Wars thing and go right from the whole Clan invasion and do the prequels later if successful.

Honestly it's such a large universe they would have to pick like a single character to follow....probably would end up with Victor or Phelan Kell. Though a small back character would be nice, the main characters just have alot going on around them and fit that hero type character to last several movies worth of content.

[Karl Streiger]

Do you really want a movie about a story you know?
Heck it would be more interesting to follow Victor (if necessary) in the Republican Era
did you know he lost a son?
did you know that Kai lost a daughter - and with the death of Victors son the Liao side of his heritage break loose?

This is by far more interesting as this boring "good" - "evil" Clan Invasion and Wivil Car stuff

[Marek Nur]

Jingseng, on 09 May 2017 - 01:28 AM, said:

Sean Bean can't play Jaime Wolf.

Jaime wolf doesn't die.

Yeah but he could use the Horn of Gondor for his cockpit war horn!

[Ngamok]

Jingseng, on 09 May 2017 - 01:28 AM, said:

Sean Bean can't play Jaime Wolf.

Jaime wolf doesn't die.

Sean Bean didn't die in Jupiter Ascending.

[ChapeL]

Vellron2005, on 09 May 2017 - 01:12 AM, said:

Ulric Kerensky: Jason Momoa

I would just like to say, if Jason Momoa was in a BTech movie ( or series like GoT ) He would have to play this character, I mean just look at him... ( That's Leo Showers )

Edited by ChapeL, 09 May 2017 - 08:09 AM.

[SmokedJag]

Karl Streiger, on 09 May 2017 - 06:11 AM, said:

Do you really want a movie about a story you know?
Heck it would be more interesting to follow Victor (if necessary) in the Republican Era
did you know he lost a son?
did you know that Kai lost a daughter - and with the death of Victors son the Liao side of his heritage break loose?

This is by far more interesting as this boring "good" - "evil" Clan Invasion and Wivil Car stuff

Those names are meaningless without the context of the era they became characters in.

And the story longtime BT nerds know would need to be changed up anyway because it's full of plot artifacts as well as things that make you cringe either because they're screwy (toaster worshipers declaring jihad) or flat won't fly on screen for a modern, global audience.

[Anjian]

I tend to think that for mech pilots, you don't put big muscular people into tight cockpits. We put smaller, but brighter people into vessels with more confined, limited spaces. That why big burly muscular guys don't strike me as mech pilots.

[naterist]

iwouldnt mind an hbo series from multiple view points like GoT but focused on the responses to the clan invasion, and season 2 (if it gets there) just being pure tukkiyid.

[CK16]

Anjian, on 09 May 2017 - 08:28 AM, said:

I tend to think that for mech pilots, you don't put big muscular people into tight cockpits. We put smaller, but brighter people into vessels with more confined, limited spaces. That why big burly muscular guys don't strike me as mech pilots.

Clans considered their warriors to be both what you said. (Regardless off the jokes by Spheroids )

Only a few mechs were considered cramped cockpits anyway (Assassin )

Also arnt Fighter Pilots quite in shape because they have to be able to fight G's. Something someone even scrawny couldn't do well.

Edited by CK16, 09 May 2017 - 09:14 AM.

[Johnny Z]

Vellron2005, on 09 May 2017 - 01:12 AM, said:

So if they ever make a proper Hollywood blockbuster Battletech movie, who would you like to see star in it?

Here's some names I would like to see:

Natasha Kerensky: Scarlet Johansson or Chalize Theron
Ulric Kerensky: Jason Momoa
Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht: Patrick Stewart
Phelan Ward: Jason Statham
Vandervahn Chistu: Jeremy Irons
Jaime Wolf: Sean Bean

Feel free to add some of your own picks and ideas..

I like Chalize more out of those two. Scarlet is to plump. Just being real, these characters are in peak condition not sitting stuffing their face all day. ( I shouldn't talk I just finished 3 pizza pops)

The rest, Patrick Stewart was in Dune and was excellent and Jeremy Irons can be great but who knows these days.

I always think of Tom Cruze or how ever that is spelled, as a great pilot character because of Top Gun movie. Cant be someone large because they cant be top level pilots, fact. Maybe they can add an infantry character that get carried to battle in vehicles or something.

Edited by Johnny Z, 09 May 2017 - 09:26 AM.

[Felicitatem Parco]

Battletech would not be a good movie.

It would, however, make a great series on Starz or HBO (since they like combat/military dramas like Spartacus and such).

Episode one would be a 2-hour special and a historical recap of the IS up to the point right before the Clans decide to invade, and it's revealed at the end of the episode that the Pilot episode is actually a Clan debriefing of the information they obtained from the captured Comstar explorer vessle Outbound Light.

The show would not be called BattleTech. The series would be called simply "Kerensky"

[Johnny Z]

Prosperity Park, on 09 May 2017 - 09:26 AM, said:

Battletech would not be a good movie.

It would, however, make a great series on Starz or HBO (since they like combat/military dramas like Spartacus and such).

Episode one would be a 2-hour special and a historical recap of the IS up to the point right before the Clans decide to invade, and it's revealed at the end of the episode that the Pilot episode is actually a Clan debriefing of the information they obtained from the captured Comstar explorer vessle Outbound Light.

The show would not be called BattleTech. The series would be called simply "Kerensky"

It would be great if it was done almost exactly like the FF XV movie. It would even be more believable, but the FF XV movie wasn't far off rom how a Battletech movie could go, characters and all. Theme and everything very similar.

Want to know how to do a BT movie, watch the FF XV, for theme characters and all sorts of things. I have not even seen the movie but seen enough of it to know some of the elements work the same as a BT movie would be done. Its very feudal and those sorts of things.

Sean Bean is in this movie. A BT movie wouldn't be half as fantastic as this FF movie even.

Edited by Johnny Z, 09 May 2017 - 09:52 AM.

[Reno Blade]

I think Battletech needs to start with either the Grey Death Trillogy or Warrior Trillogy before any bigger thing would work with all the history and factions included.

While GDL can be separate into 3 separate movies, the trillogy has perfect start and end for one book/movie.

Warrior trillogy and also Clan Invasion are both one huge story, but at least warrior is introducing the whole IS politics, and factions to the reader/viewer.

Clan Invasion is too much for a start.

I would love to have a 12 part cinema series ! (GDL trillogy, Warrior trillogy, Clan trillogy, Operation Bulldog maybe)

Edit: Heck I would even love to have a baby of FF and BT ! Gimme all these cinematics plus role playing in/out big stompy robots and all the character interactions !

Edited by Reno Blade, 09 May 2017 - 10:02 AM.

[Metus regem]

Karl Streiger, on 09 May 2017 - 05:40 AM, said:

Hm i think "a battle" scene Infantry vs a Mech could easy can cause the most disturbing scenes.
consider the simple Stinger - two machine guns - but those are not just tiny 50cal - their caliber might be much bigger and the rate of fire absolute devasting - considering that you want to shoot at infantry maybe you choose to use Duplex or Triplex ammunition.
Everything not in cover will be cut in pieces.

The Laser while not powerful enough to "vaporize" a soldier like the beams from "War of The Worlds" it will cause bodys to explode - so "secondary body fragments" might injure nearby troops


Although its necessary that those scenes fit in the story. Suche a massacre would be ok for the story to be told from the view of the PBI
but when the "hero" is a Mechwarrior - you might have a better effect when he just moves to a battlefield after the Stinger has passed. Sometimes the remains are even more disturbing

heh, that reminds me of a mission I flew in Iraq, my gunship was part of a duo providing air cover to an operation in some hills.. Anyways we get a radio call, that a hostile force in closing on friendlies, so we move to engage, my gunner opens up with the M230 mounted on the chin, for the mission profile we were loaded with M789 HEDP rounds (High Explosive Dual Purpose), anyways, those rounds didn't even have to hit someone to kill them... Funny thing was, there was this one guy than he fired on, the rounds hit all around him, and he got up and ran! So my gunner shot again and again he hit all around him, the dude got up again and started to run down a valley... So my gunner shot a third time, hit some rocks around the guy, those rocks blew up, now the dude was crawling away... on the fourth burst dumped at this one guy, my gunner finally tagged him with a round.... Oh my Gunner never lived that one down, it took him four tries to hit one guy....

[Johnny Z]

Reno Blade, on 09 May 2017 - 09:54 AM, said:

I think Battletech needs to start with either the Grey Death Trillogy or Warrior Trillogy before any bigger thing would work with all the history and factions included.

While GDL can be separate into 3 separate movies, the trillogy has perfect start and end for one book/movie.

Warrior trillogy and also Clan Invasion are both one huge story, but at least warrior is introducing the whole IS politics, and factions to the reader/viewer.

Clan Invasion is too much for a start.

I would love to have a 12 part cinema series ! (GDL trillogy, Warrior trillogy, Clan trillogy, Operation Bulldog maybe)

Edit: Heck I would even love to have a baby of FF and BT ! Gimme all these cinematics plus role playing in/out big stompy robots and all the character interactions !

That's what the Final Fantasy XV movie is, an intro/prequel to the game. The games first scenes are at the end of the movie from my understanding, then the game takes off from there.

[TheArisen]

I think there's too much information to cover in a movie and multiple movies would be a hard sell to a studio. I mean reviving old franchises is kind of a thing right now and if done near the release of Transformers (cuz robots) it could work.

To cover the story properly it should be a mini series like Band of Brothers. A TV series would be the next best IMO. Several movies just don't seem realistically possible at this point but that's the reason to do a mini series because each episode is an hour long, give or take.

The ideal storyline would setup the Clans in some way, Exodus, Wolf's dragoons, etc. The Amaris civil war ending with the Exodus could be good or the Dragoons because they work for most of the factions, easy introduction for those factions. But whatever the storyline it should introduce the major factions and set the stage for the Clan invasion

[Karl Streiger]

As all said the scale is gigantic and options are countless.
So try to keep it at a minimum 90-100min film.

When we keep it with novels i would ignore all trilogys.
This leave us with a clear field
Now remove storys that tell a big story over multiple years (Heir to the Dragon)

Now think about the story how would it look like remember pictures work different ( Ser Barristan in book vs in Film)
What are the remains?

I would consider:
sword and Blind
Double blind
Biding force
And perfect for anime style close quarter

[Templar Dane]

Would be better as a non-animated series. Ala BSG.

[Ryllen Kriel]

Ngamok, on 09 May 2017 - 06:47 AM, said:

Sean Bean didn't die in Jupiter Ascending.

His character didn't need to die, the plot to that movie killed interest in all the characters for me all by itself.