we don't you get somone like the director District 9 who was able to make the aliens look visually real and fit in with the rest of the film
How do we get Michael Bay to make a Warhammer 40k Movie ?
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Oh gods NO, Michael Bay couldn't direct a turd out of his own arse hole with a bottle of purgatives.
I would never want to see something I love ruined by that idiot.
James Cameron though, now there's an idea. His direction of aliens and avatar would serve him well for such a movie as long as he had a good script that kept to the source material and a decent writing team.
could you Imagine him doing a Guant,s Ghosts trilogy, that would be pretty epic if done right
I would never want to see something I love ruined by that idiot.
James Cameron though, now there's an idea. His direction of aliens and avatar would serve him well for such a movie as long as he had a good script that kept to the source material and a decent writing team.
could you Imagine him doing a Guant,s Ghosts trilogy, that would be pretty epic if done right
Personally,I think the scale and length of the Warhammer universe's canon would be too long for him to handle. We need a director more experianced with dealing with scenes that cover vast areas, characters with long back stories and complicated, yet intriging plot lines. Someone like ... Peter Jackson. I'm sure MovieBob would agree.
erm.. i was gonna say that watching a bad movie is alright because at least you can make fun of it with your friends and/or do things-that-are-frowned-upon-in-public-to-the-google-search-of-the-lead-female-role (man thats a long word). but er.. transformers 2 is a complete travesty.
so.. no to michael bay? at least no if we want to get video games taken more seriously:
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/54903/Best-Game-To-Movie-Adaptions
its okay if he wants to make it The Rock or Bad Boys style. but er.. thats would be very unlikely now.
so.. no to michael bay? at least no if we want to get video games taken more seriously:
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/54903/Best-Game-To-Movie-Adaptions
its okay if he wants to make it The Rock or Bad Boys style. but er.. thats would be very unlikely now.
yes, get the director and the team from that movie. and make it dark. we all know everything dark gets awesome score with the audience.David Ross said:
I think that's very very sad.DeadlyYellow said:
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You do know that Micheal Bay doesn't write the script eh?Makon said:
You must be mental to think that a movie done by the creators of "Bionicles-The DVD" done with visuals I would have been ashamed off in my old rendering days (around 2001) and a budget that only payed several REALLY good voice actors would be "pretty good".keinechance said:
I saw the teasers - they where horrible.
I saw the trailer - it was bad.
I heard about the story from ppl who made the mistake and bought it - it is BAD. Not Transformers bad, not Transformers 2 bad - the Room BAD.
"Warhammer 40k would make a bad action movie."
If you can make a successfull trillogy about Robots that turn into cars without even focusing on the darn robots - how in merry hell would a action movie in an epic sausagefest of Testosterone to a concert of Explosions NOT be successfull.
If you go through the last page of comments, you will notice the following themes:
1) People bashing MB because they dislike Transformers
2) People bashing MB because they dislike MB
3) People bashing the idea of a 40k Movie because they would want it to be deep,rich and catering to the core fanbase.
The unpleasent news: Transformers is a successfull franchise. Michael Bay is successfull with his style.
As stated, the core fanbase is minute. The Fans of the source material are impossible to appease. Why worry about a fraction of the target demographic that couldn't be arsed to like a movie about THEIR Hobby even if you tried ? You can't. Even Peter Jackson waded through a shitstorm because he dared to adept LOTR so it could be brought to the screen.
A big blockbuster is a risky investment - and unless the lucky lottary winners among us pool together and shell out several millions to make it happen, no investor would sponsor a movie that caters to a minute fanbase and is absolutly incomprehensible to the rest.
Scott Pilgrim was superbly done - and it made a resounding faceplant at the boxoffice.
If you would like some Quality 40K movies, you need to have at least one SAFE Movie done that assures investors that the License is a viable investment and that there is indeed an audience willing to spend their money on it.
Of course, if Peter Jackson picked it up and said "Hmm, lets see how we could make this a piece of art." I would sell my soul (again) to make it happen - but Mr. Jackson is only one person and takes a freaking eternity to finish his pet projects allready.
Thus - Michael Bay. Big Name, reliable success. Military fetish fits the theme of the Imperial Guard.
No no, a thousand times no!
He's already ruined one treasured childhood icon for me, he can't ruin another.
Additionally in regards to the Transformers movies, I still regard the animated one from the 80's as far superior to Micheal Bay's explosion-a-thons. It at least understood that a transformers movie should be about transformers. The relate-able human character was just a secondary character who's desire to find his dad neatly dovetailed with the overall plot rather than providing the whole plot. Not to mention it had Touch by Stan Bush as the theme song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg
He's already ruined one treasured childhood icon for me, he can't ruin another.
Additionally in regards to the Transformers movies, I still regard the animated one from the 80's as far superior to Micheal Bay's explosion-a-thons. It at least understood that a transformers movie should be about transformers. The relate-able human character was just a secondary character who's desire to find his dad neatly dovetailed with the overall plot rather than providing the whole plot. Not to mention it had Touch by Stan Bush as the theme song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg
Here is my opinion for the general idea...
(I am sorry if you felt offended by this message, but there was no other way to deliver this kind of information... If a moderator or the author of this thread felt offended i am sorry.... well in honesty this apology was to the Moderators or other people that read this... to the author of the thread... please... get cured...)
Dear God, please no.... i thought only hollywood was stupid.... either it's spreading or people are genuinly developing brain cancers...
Okay here i go... for the last time..
VIDEOGAME BASED MOVIES ARE HORRIBLE 99.8% OF THE TIMES!!!!
MOVIE BASED VIDEOGAMES ARE EVEN WORST 99.9% OF THE TIME!!!
So dear God, don't let this brainless idea EVER happen... please don't kill WarHammer!!!!
Okay here i go... for the last time..
VIDEOGAME BASED MOVIES ARE HORRIBLE 99.8% OF THE TIMES!!!!
MOVIE BASED VIDEOGAMES ARE EVEN WORST 99.9% OF THE TIME!!!
So dear God, don't let this brainless idea EVER happen... please don't kill WarHammer!!!!
(I am sorry if you felt offended by this message, but there was no other way to deliver this kind of information... If a moderator or the author of this thread felt offended i am sorry.... well in honesty this apology was to the Moderators or other people that read this... to the author of the thread... please... get cured...)
Yes, that. He would turn it into some kind of stupid drama centered around a teenager protagonist rather than a huge galaxy spanning war.gCrusher said:
Nah.
Michael Bay has a good sense for action scenes, but it's entirely the wrong kind of action for 40k. Bay favours the slightly silly but awesome kind of flashy action, which fits for movies like Bad Boys 2 where the action scene itself is also a kind of comic relief.
Warhammer on the other hand is grim. Grim, grim, grim. You'd need an equally grim producer for that. Tim Burton, with his massive boner for all things gothic, would make a good Imperial setting, but I doubt he'd have the right tone. Not sure who'd make a good 40k movie really.
That said... Michael Bay making an ork movie... now that would be epic!
WAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!! *shaky cam*random explosion*
EDIT: Ooh just read someones comment. Yeah, Christopher Nolan would nail the 40k movie!
Michael Bay has a good sense for action scenes, but it's entirely the wrong kind of action for 40k. Bay favours the slightly silly but awesome kind of flashy action, which fits for movies like Bad Boys 2 where the action scene itself is also a kind of comic relief.
Warhammer on the other hand is grim. Grim, grim, grim. You'd need an equally grim producer for that. Tim Burton, with his massive boner for all things gothic, would make a good Imperial setting, but I doubt he'd have the right tone. Not sure who'd make a good 40k movie really.
That said... Michael Bay making an ork movie... now that would be epic!
WAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!! *shaky cam*random explosion*
EDIT: Ooh just read someones comment. Yeah, Christopher Nolan would nail the 40k movie!
You would have to let him redesign all the armor and tanks to have giant testicles hanging underneath them so we can watch them bang together.
Then let him set it on Earth and make all the WH40k characters the supporting cast to some whining jackholes.
Then make the plot revolve around a floating McGuffin that will solve the problems of the good guys and make the bad guys win if they get it.
Then let it have nothing to do with WH40k and instead set it around some conspiracy about assassinations of people like MLK and JFK and use that to insert WH40k lore out of nowhere.
Gratz, you now have a franchise that is dead to all other media outlets, good job.
Then let him set it on Earth and make all the WH40k characters the supporting cast to some whining jackholes.
Then make the plot revolve around a floating McGuffin that will solve the problems of the good guys and make the bad guys win if they get it.
Then let it have nothing to do with WH40k and instead set it around some conspiracy about assassinations of people like MLK and JFK and use that to insert WH40k lore out of nowhere.
Gratz, you now have a franchise that is dead to all other media outlets, good job.
How do you get him to do it? Propose it to him. Simple as that. I can't argue that he wouldn't love a movie about war in space, so he would probably eat it up like nobody's business.
Should he do it? That also really depends on how well it might sell. I'm not the biggest fan of Warhammer, so I don't think I would like to see one. Almost all of Bay's movies sell out the box offices in the first month. If the subject can't generate enough money to begin with, he might not think it's worth making and continue screwing up my childhood Transformer memories.
How would do with the movie? Well, but not good. This sort of thing never really demands sweeping drama or very well developed characters, focusing mostly on tropes and stereotypes that are not only tired and predictable but two dimensional and bland. In other words, he would give the movie interesting action scenes, of that I'm sure, but would otherwise leave everything else flat, such as story and character development.
What I'm saying is that he would change very little, and the movie might be pleasing to fans of the series, but it would be just another action movie to everyone else.
Should he do it? That also really depends on how well it might sell. I'm not the biggest fan of Warhammer, so I don't think I would like to see one. Almost all of Bay's movies sell out the box offices in the first month. If the subject can't generate enough money to begin with, he might not think it's worth making and continue screwing up my childhood Transformer memories.
How would do with the movie? Well, but not good. This sort of thing never really demands sweeping drama or very well developed characters, focusing mostly on tropes and stereotypes that are not only tired and predictable but two dimensional and bland. In other words, he would give the movie interesting action scenes, of that I'm sure, but would otherwise leave everything else flat, such as story and character development.
What I'm saying is that he would change very little, and the movie might be pleasing to fans of the series, but it would be just another action movie to everyone else.
y would you want that? Michael Bay hasn't made a movie like yet.
Personally though I agree. I think Michael Bay shouldn't be allowed near another video camera as long as he lives.
Yeah your avatar is just a commissar. Not that much of a fanboy......Kenko said:
Personally though I agree. I think Michael Bay shouldn't be allowed near another video camera as long as he lives.
Event Horizon is sometimes called a Warhammer 40,000 film because of it's concept of hell and such. People say that it's a portrayal of the Warp.
I haven't seen it but I guess I can trust my fellow battle-fanbrothers.
And on the topic of the recent Ultramarines film, it's a good book. And by that, it feels and flows like the typical Warhammer 40,000 story you'd read in a book. It's average but definitely not bad.
[sub]Does anyone know of the really old live-action films?[/sub]
I haven't seen it but I guess I can trust my fellow battle-fanbrothers.
And on the topic of the recent Ultramarines film, it's a good book. And by that, it feels and flows like the typical Warhammer 40,000 story you'd read in a book. It's average but definitely not bad.
[sub]Does anyone know of the really old live-action films?[/sub]