How do we get Michael Bay to make a Warhammer 40k Movie ?

[fates_puppet13]

michael bay is just a terrible director
i do not want my childhood and casual hobby to be ruined

on the up side a 40k film is great IP
filled with magic muguffins, expendable support characters and symbolism

 

[John the Gamer]

It would probably be about imperial guardsmen all the time with 3 or 4 space marines as fillers for the background.

If you really want a space marine movie, check out the Ultramarines movie. It's decent, and way better than whaterver Michael Bay craps out.

http://www.ultramarinesthemovie.com/

 

[Hero in a half shell]

@gCrusher: You just KNOW he'd make the humans plot too long and tepid, like TF1, before we get to the action. 20-odd minutes with Jerks becomes, in a Michael Bay movie, just awful.

And the main protagonist would be a fresh faced 18 year old, and every adult would be a stupid caracature. He can portray action sequences, but doesn't know a thing about human emotions. It's like if HK-47 Directed a movie, except with worse dialogue.

Maybe Duke Nukem would be more up Bay's street. It's his sort of humour.

 

[boondoggler23]

I'd rather have a director like Peter Jackson make a movie like that, and I also feel like it would have to be a lot like the LOTR trilogy. In my opinion that way people get a real feel for the world and the atmosphere. and also so they can incorporate every race because i would be very upset if they dident have necrons and other less appreciated factions in the movie.

 

[kebab4you]

No! He shall not destroy my beloved Warhammer, let him fuck up something else... like halo.

 

[LorienvArden]

Gah, we already have a Michael Bay equivalent in Game's Workshop, he's called Matt Ward. Seriously, a good 40K movie would need to be about subtlety and characterisation to be vaguely interesting. There's so much interesting stuff to explore in the 40K universe, it really doesn't need to be another one of the dozens of big flashy CGI-heavy-everything-explodes films.

I agree that there is a whole damn lot that COULD be done with the lore of 40k - I got several darn good ideas that could easily be turned into a BSG- length Series about life in the Imperium, betrayal, hardship, censorship and much more without even touching a Bolter or a powerarmor for that matter.
It just would be to subtle to sell.
As pointed out: Table top Strategy is a niche. Not a whole lot of people would understand it without a 200 page guide.

"Beefy Guards duking it out Brother in Arms style against horrible bad boys isn't subtle in the least. Flashy Explosions and a Gears of War Pathos SELLS. If you like to see more of it, it has to SELL first.
You can shove in the art later. GW let the producers of the freaking Bionicles DVD produce a CG Atrocity for Warhammer 40k. Do you honestly think Bay COULD do worse ??
It's ABOUT the Marines.
It's ABOUT the Bromance.
It's ABOUT the flashy Explosions and the CGI Madness.

From what I gleamed through Bob's rant about Transformers 3, the Equippment for producing the movie in 3D cured Bay from his excessive shaky-cam. Even if that would not be the case, I'ld rather have a blockbuster Movie about 40k that gets People interested in 40k then having to make an artfull movie about it that nobody would understand or care for myself.

edit: Btw, Uwe Boll is actually quite a good director - he just makes bad movies on purpose. Look up Grahams Interview with him in the LRR archives, it surprised me to see that he actually is quite a cool guy that just uses his reputation.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Gah, we already have a Michael Bay equivalent in Game's Workshop, he's called Matt Ward. Seriously, a good 40K movie would need to be about subtlety and characterisation to be vaguely interesting. There's so much interesting stuff to explore in the 40K universe, it really doesn't need to be another one of the dozens of big flashy CGI-heavy-everything-explodes films.

That's a bit harsh (on Matt, I mean), and at least he doesn't mean to be taken seriously. Michael Bay honestly thinks he's a good director... yeah.

OT: Ah-hahahaha... you're kidding right? I'd let Michael Bay direct a trailer... that's about it. But even then, I wouldn't trust him not to fuck that up, either. Perhaps a teaser at most.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Geeks hate Micheal Bay you mind as well get Uwe Boll to direct for how much everyone hates him.

 

[LorienvArden]

Michael Bay honestly thinks he's a good director... yeah.

If you asked the investors, they'ld propably agree with his oppinion of himself.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I do not know how but he would majorly fuck it up somehow. My guess would be he doesn't stick to canon. No scratch that. He take all of the cannon Warhammer story and the rule book of Warhammer throws it out the window. It then lands on a fusion nuclear warhead bigger than Tsar Bomba and is shot into the Sun. That is what is going to happen exaggeration aside.

Anyway as long as he respects canon everything would be alright with me.

 

[Cerberus_2.0]

Obvious question; why would we want such a horrible thing?! Micheal bay is probably a niche director who has never worked on a porject fulfilling said niche, if we assume he's good at anything. The only way we'd know is to have him do have some military based movie.

Given his lack of ability of handling tranformers, i doubt we'd want him to handle an equally old, vibrant and expansive lisence. From my knowledge only relic has ever worked wonders with the franchise in their games (in terms of establishing and immersing into the universe) and thats mainly due to the fact that many of them play the table top and know it inside out.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

By using the words "space marine" and "explosion"

This. 100X this

 

[deathninja]

Without Brian Blessed voicing Calgar, a 40K movie is pointless.

 

[Dominus Nox]

As much as I hate to admit it, Michael Bay must be doing something right. Because after at least 12 craptacular movies, people still think he's a director.

At any rate a 40K movie would fail because their would be no way to please even their own core fanbase.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Michael Bay honestly thinks he's a good director... yeah.

If you asked the investors, they'ld propably agree with his oppinion of himself.

That's probably true, and probably why I'd rather he remained a producer as opposed to director (sometimes I really wonder what goes through Jerry Bruckheimer's mind...)

 

[Lunar Templar]

No! He shall not destroy my beloved Warhammer, let him fuck up something else... like halo.

i fully second this

or better yet, fire his ass, and get some one how doesn't suck to make GOOD transformers movies

 

[PunkRex]

No... NO, PLEASE, BY THE EMPERAH, NO!!! Could you imagine the fanboys? You havnt seen a nerd-rage until you have seen a 40K fan bang on about cannon.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

a Caphias Cain one would be good...

Especially if done by Paul Verhoeven.

 

[Simalacrum]

Dear GOD know. 40k, much like Transformers, has a LOOOOT of background story and mythology and whatnot behind it - pretty much every race has a vast amount of detail put into it. If Michael Bay made a 40k movie then the hardcore geeks (which, under the OP's mentioning seems to be something that is necessary) would be winging about the details being all too wrong far too much to really enjoy the movie.

edit: Also, it would result in a 40k version of this:

Just imagine it. And think of the horror.

 

[Radelaide]

We don't. His movies are pretty terrible.

BAY-SPLOSIONS!