If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.

He said HBO not the Syfy channel.

Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.

Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.

I think lots of people disagree with that statement, especially after they have watched the Clear Skies series.

He said HBO not the Syfy channel.

Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.

The stories of video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.

Fixed.

Yes, turning a story of a game into film as you would do to a book or a comic is a terrible idea. But creating an entirely new story

Instead, what if CCP was to collaborate with JMS? I think the EVE universe is most like the Babylon 5 universe: it's a place where bad stuff happens, and people actually have to trust people they don't like in order to get things done.

If CCP and HBO collaborated, we'd have one kick-arse movie that would only be accessible to HBO cable subscribers. So drop that idea. There's a reason that Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV series in the world: you don't light a torch only to hide it under a bushel.

Instead, what if CCP was to collaborate with JMS? I think the EVE universe is most like the Babylon 5 universe: it's a place where bad stuff happens, and people actually have to trust people they don't like in order to get things done.

No man, that is exactly what makes all these video game movies suck to begin with, they change all the things that made them great video games.

I think the real question is, who would play Jamyl Sarum?

(I nominate Angelina Jolie, she's good at playing megalomaniacal sociopaths)

No matter what the storyline is, the four main characters should be Nathan Fillion and David Tennant, with Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana rounding it out. I mean, how freakin' sweet would that be?!

EDIT:
My racial breakdown:
Amarr - Zoe Saldana
Caldari - Sigourney Weaver
Gallente - David Tennant
Minmatar - Nathan Fillion

A half hour Clear Skies type show on SyFy would be cool

No matter what the storyline is, the four main characters should be Nathan Fillion and David Tennant, with Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana rounding it out. I mean, how freakin' sweet would that be?!

EDIT:
My racial breakdown:
Amarr - Zoe Saldana
Caldari - Sigourney Weaver
Gallente - David Tennant
Minmatar - Nathan Fillion

Granted, this is all highly theoretical anyways, but I'd be supremely happy just to see a tv/film adaptation...Hell, even just a proper Hollywood-produced Clear Skies movie, even if it was all CGI (which could be a cool homage to it's machinima roots).

Needs some Christopher Eccleston in there as well, he seems to do slightly deranged very well, just look at the insanity he brought to the role of the 9th Doctor and Destro (GI Joe), looks like he just landed a role in the next Thor film to.

That's not a movie proper, its a machinima, significant difference IMO.

Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.

And for the record, I rather disliked Babylon 5 so nothing like that please. No offence but I found most of the actors there to be rather crap.

Syfy is launching Dominion as both a game and television series by Farscape's Rockne S Obannon. I wish them all the best and am sure it can be done.

edit both the series and MMO take place at the same time frame and events in the series will influence the MMO IIRC.

Because all the other game to TV show-movies worked out so well right?

Game story telling doesnt work with in the Movie or TV format you are taking a interactive medium and turning it into a spectator sport.

it hasnt worked, it doesnt work and it wont work.

If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.

Cast of Characters:

Kiefer Sutherland - Caldari
Donald Sutherland - Caldari
Charlie Sheen - John Rourke
Bruce Willis - Amarr
Mickey Rourke - Caldari
Sam Elliot - Gallente
Helen Mirren - Gallente
Don Cheadle - Amarr
Steve Buscemi - Caldari
Angelina Jolie - Minmatar
Leelee Sobieski - Amarr
Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson - Minmatar
Halle Berry - Minmatar
Uma Thurman - Amarr
Morgan Freeman - Minmatar
Samuel L. Jackson - Minmatar
Rhona Mitra - Gallente
Ben Afleck - Gallente
Milla Jovovich - Gallente (little edit there)
..also: Gary Oldman - Amarr
Lucy Liu - Caldari

Just a thought, and by no means fully decided on. Of course, they could always hire myself and a bunch of other players. I'd get my passport and take some time off work for that, provided the pay was decent and expenses were covered.

Wouldnt Charlie Sheen be Sansha?

Yeah there are what 6 resident evil movies now?

and hell; video games to movies is a better premise than board games to movies AKA Battleship
*barf*

The resident evil series would like to take a bite out of you, based on a video game, panned by the critics, made a metric shedload of cash at the cinema and on DVD.

then there was Doom which kind of proves Akirei's point, even Uwe Boll couldn't have made that worse.

They were bad movies. A guilty pleasure at best.

You say that like a guilty pleasure is a bad thing

/me has various guilty pleasures, Kylie Minogue is one of them

Why has no one listed any actors for the Jove?

Wait, you don't need an actors for people hiding in the shadows.

As long as Uwe Boll doesn't have a thing to do with it, I'm sure it would at least recoup the expenses.
~Akai

it'd be a resounding success, like all the other successful movies about video games, such as

it'd be a resounding success, like all the other successful movies about video games, such as

Laura Croft and Resident Evil (the first ones) did pretty well and those are off the top of my head.

What exactly defines 'successful' is entirely dependent on each persons own personal view. Some just look at how much it grossed. Others look at how closely the film stays true to the actual video game. The biggest mistake most producers make when deciding to make a film based on a video game is trying to appease the video game fan first instead of other core elements like a great script and good director. Some thing that the film being based off a successful video game is enough to carry the film and that is simply not the case at all.

Belive it or not, the first Resident Evil movie was actually pretty good. Maybe you didn't like it, but most people seemed to.

Aside from that the only other movie that actually comes to mind is House of the Dead, whatever it was called, and yeah it was awful. Had nothing to do with being a movie based on a game though, it was just a bad movie.

Bad movies aren't usually bad because of what they're based on, they're bad because they weren't done well. Most Stephen King novels have been turned into pretty bad movies, even when he wrote the screenplays himself. It's not because books don't make for good movies, it's because the movie wasn't made well.

Once upon a time comic books were notorious for being made into bad movies. Look at some of the biggest movies to come out lately. Iron man, Avengers, the first and second spider man, the last three batman movies. If the movie industry looked at what was done in the past and said, "well, movies based on comic books are bad" we would have never got some really great movies made.

Thankfully the world isn't full of people that make ridiculous statements like the one quoted.

the the god awful mario movie from the 80's

I think the real question is, who would play Jamyl Sarum?

(I nominate Angelina Jolie, she's good at playing megalomaniacal sociopaths)

And come to think of it, Dennis Hopper would probably make a good President Souro Foiritan.

I dunno but you can be sure atleast the Gallentean women would be showing their breasts each episode, the Amarrians would be played by people with really british/shakespearian accents, and the Civire would never stop cussing.

EvE is to racist to make it to TV and if it did it would be a dumbed down version.

I think lots of people disagree with that statement, especially after they have watched the Clear Skies series.

If it ended up anything like the newer BSG I would be over joyed. TV needs more/better sci fi.

EVE's not really racist. Not in a way that people can find offensive, at least.

The Amarr are slavers, sure. And enslave people who aren't of their culture. /However/ they're not doing it on the lines of the colour of your skin.

It'd be like calling the British racist, if they decided to invade France and enslave /everyone/ there.Culturist, perhaps?

Either way I'd be on-board. I think after BSG ended it's run SciFy channel got out of the SciFi game (they're the wresteling and reality show channel now). I'd obviously watch an Eve-based show though...

The resident evil series would like to take a bite out of you, based on a video game, panned by the critics, made a metric shedload of cash at the cinema and on DVD.

then there was Doom which kind of proves Akirei's point, even Uwe Boll couldn't have made that worse.

I would pay 30 bucks a month, just so I could see Steve Buscemi say pubbies every once in a while.

Yeah there are what 6 resident evil movies now?

and hell; video games to movies is a better premise than board games to movies AKA Battleship
*barf*

Personally, I think this would be good, since it would get EVE's name out to a group of people that dont normally get to hear about it, but it might suck the proverbial, since the history/narrative of EVE would have to be explained in a far more dumbed down way - not becuase of the people watching the show, but because of the time that would be available; after all, your going to have 10 hours to show 10 years worth of history...

Are you kidding? Dennis Hopper was great in that movie, in fact thank you for mentioning it, I haven't seen it in years so I think I'm gonna go grab it now.

And come to think of it, Dennis Hopper would probably make a good President Souro Foiritan.

Hulu is fine if you live in the US, unfortunately most of the world doesn't and can't access hulu due to geographic restrictions. Any collaboration like that would get the crap pirated out of it by those who aren't "lucky" enough to live in the US

The crew of a supercarrier, trying to get home, after being sucked through a wormhole into W-space.

A DED team, hunting a notorious Capsuleer, who's been abusing tech like the Dust mercs have, formenting revolt and regime change.

Rebel Slaves, fighting the might of the Amarr Empire. A Moderate tries to get the Theology council to soften their hardline view.

And come to think of it, Dennis Hopper would probably make a good President Souro Foiritan

He might be a little preoccupied being dead to play a role in anything these days.

Scandinavian French descendants versus the Sino-Russian accord

Set on a future Earth, Defiance introduces players and Syfy viewers to a world ravaged by decades of conflict, where humans and aliens live together in a world the likes of which no one has seen. The game combines the frenetic action of a top-tier console shooter with the persistence, scale, and customization of an MMO, while its TV counterpart exudes the scope, story, and drama of a classic sci-fi epic. The game's story will take place in the San Francisco bay area, while the TV series will be set just outside of St. Louis, MO. Because they exist in a single universe, the show and the game will influence and evolve each other over time, with actions in both mediums driving the overall story of Defiance.

True but many books have been made into movies and done well. Comics and graphic novels are essentially books.

the first resident evil move took quite alot of liberty's with the story line.


Then you look at something like the doom movie... the the god awful mario movie from the 80's

Also

1.Prince Of Persia movie that no one remembers
2. the BloodRayne movie that people dont talk about
3.Double Dragon the movie...yeah
4.Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

ECT...ECT

If you want to make a movie biased on a video game you really need to toss out almost all of the story and try to make a new one thats so removed that i doesn't resemble the video game at all.

Perhaps eve could be different but i doubt it.

And who is supposed to pony up the funds for this?

Why has no one listed any actors for the Jove?

Wait, you don't need an actors for people hiding in the shadows.

Im wondering why people are naming actors at all. I thought this was a spaceship game.

And who is supposed to pony up the funds for this?

I think lots of people disagree with that statement, especially after they have watched the Clear Skies series.

Oh my god, this would be the best thing ever. Generation Kill is my favourite TV show.. this would be incredible.

...to make a TV Show? C/D

I liked Battleship. Saw it the theater, bought the Bluray. I put up my $$$

Cast of Characters:

Kiefer Sutherland - Caldari
Donald Sutherland - Caldari
Charlie Sheen - John Rourke
Bruce Willis - Amarr
Mickey Rourke - Caldari
Sam Elliot - Gallente
Helen Mirren - Gallente
Don Cheadle - Amarr
Steve Buscemi - Caldari
Angelina Jolie - Minmatar
Leelee Sobieski - Amarr
Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson - Minmatar
Halle Berry - Minmatar
Uma Thurman - Amarr
Morgan Freeman - Minmatar
Samuel L. Jackson - Minmatar
Rhona Mitra - Gallente
Ben Afleck - Gallente
Milla Jovovich - Gallente (little edit there)
..also: Gary Oldman - Amarr
Lucy Liu - Caldari

Just a thought, and by no means fully decided on. Of course, they could always hire myself and a bunch of other players. I'd get my passport and take some time off work for that, provided the pay was decent and expenses were covered.

Video games make terrible movies / shows. Their entire selling point is interactivity.

Gratuitous nudity and excessive blood spatters can only get you so far, proper writing and storytellingexplosions will take you all the way

What would an EVE movie series be like? Gundam Wing but with DUST and EVE lore. Though i don't see how it would be so great if people could never die. crap they killing me....see you back at home braw.

The Jove would live in the North, beyond the wall.

More BSG would be good though, Syfy y u kill all the good stuff?

HBO would demand we have an active TV Cable subscription for us to play EVE, even though the product is available online. *cough* HBO GO *ahem*.


As for the show itself, I think the best would be a comedy about a pirate gate camp in some null sec system border system. Waiting for ships to gank. Most episodes would have the pirates sitting there...with no targets, bored out of their minds. To pass the time, they start trading stories with each other. These stories would form most of the individual episodes. The tale of the dumb miner...a story about scamming someone out of millions, the ultimate corp heist... the 100 rifter capital ship kill...

Occasionally, the action would cut away from the flashbacks to show some actual action happening at the gate. To tie the whole thing together, several of the people who come through the gate happen to have had a role in previous flashbacks... thus coloring the pirates reaction to them.

Step 1:

Use the existing tools and make an ongoing series of YouTube videos, with high production values and a witty and action filled script. Get some big name voice actors if at all possible. Nathan Fillion is known for doing stuff like this, and it might also interest Karl Urban (who is known for taking roles in the SciFi fantasy genre simply because he personally prefers them)... he should be done with Judge Dread now.

Step 2: Make them engaging enough that they develop a cult following. Promote them, get them in the face of the public, link them everywhere... with luck win a few awards.

Step 3: THEN talk to someone about taking it to the next level, or simply enjoy the increased attention generated from YouTube.

Its a sad fact as previously mentioned sci-fi tv has had a bum deal recently. The only way EVE would work would be to have vampires in it