ANd if not the world, than at least me and all the fans. But i'd prefer it to be a movie that can appeal to a "mainstream" audience, at least in the way Avengers, Batman, Lord of the Rings or Star Wars appealed to a mainstream audience. (e.g. geeks gone mainstream)
For this, I believe the movie will need some impressive Battletech fight scenes - but also characters with meaningful development and interaction, some type of intrigue or investigation. Maybe a heroic journey.
I love stealing ideas, I mean getting inspired by other stories. But I haven't actually read any Battletech novels, I only played Battletech computer games.
So my idea is that it will be a heroic journy, based losely on the plot of the Crescent Hawk's Inception.
The basic plot is - there's a Star League cache on a Steiner world, agents from Steiner and Kurita are trying to find it - Kurita decides to launch a surprise attack the planet in a hope that this can negate Steiner's headstart.
Our hero is in the middle of it, as his father is a key agent working for Steiner.
- Escpape from Training Grounds (unlike in Inception, I'd probably have someone be with the hero at this point, the mechanic for example)
- Reaching the Starport and meeting a friend of his father - meeting violently disrupted.
- They save a group of Steiner agents under attack by Kurita mechs. The agents worked on forming a resistance against the Kurita, while still hoping to find traces of the cache. Female leader of these agents immediately catches the interest of our hero.
- They attack a Kurita outpust that has captured a few agents, in a hope of using their com system to set off a message to Steiner. They free a few agents and find the location of the final puzzle piece to the cache, but the comm system is sabotaged by one of them - he is caught in the act and killed.
- As they reach the scientist, the romantic interest reveals her true nature - as the are ambushed by Kurita agents and Mechs, she reveals she was a double agent and flees with the information (unwilling or unable to kill the hero)
- The hero - with some losses - manages to escape and follow her to the cache - a fight ensues, and she is forced to flee as further Steiner troops arrive - what they didn't know was that the sabotage attempt of the com system failed - the hero's friend, the mechanic, has managed to repair it, but the hero told him not to share, not convinced that there was really only one traitor.
- - Heroic Journey - from Cadet to a true Mechwarrior with strategic grandmaster ambition
- - Mech Combats: Training Grounds, Kurita Outpost, Ambush at the Scientist
- - Physical Combat: Starport Meeting, Kurita Outpost (enemy agent), Star League Cache
- - Love Interest: The female Double Agent - being a double agent should hopefully make it not too Holywood cliché
- - Intrigue - Double Agents, plan within a plan
So, what would your movie idea look like?