I'll wait until they actually are at least mid-shooting or preferably after they go to post-production before getting any hopes up... remember the Halo movie (the one that ended up not being made) ?

I'll wait until they actually are at least mid-shooting or preferably after they go to post-production before getting any hopes up... remember the Halo movie (the one that ended up not being made) ?

CCP needs to get us an EVE movie.

This movie will not be a condescending suckfest at all.

Despite what we think of the game, it just is not that well enough known to be of interest to the profit machine that is Hollywood. Game must be at the popularity level of a WoW or DOOM to attract enough financing.

If it does get enough financing for independent production though, one runs the risk of it being in the hands of Uwe Boll

edit: It's still hard to believe he directed one episode of Twin Peaks.

To some, the very obscurity may work in its favor - Fewer pre-concieved notions, more lattitude in storyline development.

Certainly, there are stories enough to work from - the GHSC gank of Mirial & Ubiqua Seraph, for instance. That's a ready-made storyline that needs only minor fleshing-out to become a rather compelling movie.

Of course, this all presupposes intelligence and logic in Hollywood.
(Yeah, I know - Hollywood has it's own internal logic - Which everyone else calls 'insanity.')

That's the problem with this kind of statement in print, in that this could be interpreted as serious, sarcastic, or stupid.

Try again with a slightly higher linguistic IQ level.

Consider the medium and the community behavior, and the answer becomes abundantly clear. However, as you appear to be forum-challenged, let me make it explicit:

I predict that Hollywood will treat any WoW movie with contempt for its audience and complete disregard to the game from which it draws its 'inspiration,' resulting in a condescending suckfest of a movie.

Evidence: "Battleship: the Movie."
(additional evidence upon request)

Actually an independent EVE movie about the Real Life behind the scenes hijinks and all that behind the meta-game, like the planning for the BoB bust-up and some of the infamous heists and crimes, would be a more compelling picture than yet another video game film. Except for the great gung-ho spirit of the DOOM movie, they have all really been bad (Lara Croft, Final Fantasy, yadda yadda).

It could even outdo "The Social Network" as a portrait of where the Internet is taking us.

Thank you. And I'm hardly forum challenged. There is just tons of stupid particularly in the EVE-O Forum in general.

well ...my 2 cents ...if its half as good as the southpark take on WoW ...then it will be worth a giggle ...get those lads to write the script ... then ill deffo go to the flicks to watch it

Despite what we think of the game, it just is not that well enough known to be of interest to the profit machine that is Hollywood. Game must be at the popularity level of a WoW or DOOM to attract enough financing.

If it does get enough financing for independent production though, one runs the risk of it being in the hands of Uwe Boll

edit: It's still hard to believe he directed one episode of Twin Peaks.

Seems a little late to me. Even the people i know who still play WoW are only doing so to keep in touch with friends, or simply out of habit. There is no real excitement anymore.

Really, my biggest issue with WoW is that there is no content; it has a complete lack of any real backstory or lore. It's basically just card-stacking with color pictures.

I would really like to see this movie get made, but only so that Mr. Plinkett can review it.

His shredding of Phantom Menace is just indescribably hilarious.

I have never watched the Assassins Creed movie, though I have considered it briefly...

Bottom line? Don't sell it as a video game. Video game movies have been done, and the successful one was a Final Fantasy movie, which was awesome. Why? Probably because they didn't try to limit it to game content and story.

I'll bet they end that movie with a cliffhanger to set up a sequel. You know how WoW is-- programmed to keep you endlessly addicted.

I'll bet the cliffhanger is resolved in a game expansion.

What would be cool is if they ended the WoW story with the movie. Some kind of epic conclusion before putting it to rest, but you know they'll never stop milking that cow until absolutely everyone stops playing.