Ultramarines: The Movie

[irishdelinquent]

I think the Ultramarines, handled properly, could have a successful movie. If they based it off of the battle for Macragge, I would personally love it (as would all those Ultra-smurf haters, because they get their asses handed to them). However, if it turns into "Watch Marneus Calgar walk into the Warp and *****-smack Khorne around", it would suck....I would only watch it four times in a row.

 

[Bretty]

From what I know it was only the Ultramarines that Horus feared.

You DO realise that it was the blood angels that fought the final battle above terra?
it was only them and their primarch that teleported onto Horus's battle barge with the emperor and fought the chaos marines there.
Thats why the blood angel primarch died, because he took on horus in single combat but was killed just as the emperor entered the room and killed horus in hand-to-hand.

while this was going on the ultramarines were on the surface routing the last of the chaos survivors along with the inperial fists, space wolves and white scars (may have missed a few there)

True but this is only because of the toll the Thousand Sons took on the Ultramarines after the initial betrayal. I havent gotten up to date on the heresy so far but from everything I have read so far the Blood Angels were out of it until that point.

Sanguinus was considered Horus' closest brother so that is why it is important that it was him that boarded the battle barge.

I still think my point stands about the Ultramarines.

 

[orangebandguy]

70 minutes of constant violence. Sounds great.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

OH for the love of gods and goddess. KILL THE BLUE BUGGERS LIKE THE TYRANIDS TRIED TOO. i hate the ultramarines and their glorious ways and blah blah blah. If i remeber they failed in the heresy because they were too far away from it...maybe if they had stayed a bit closer they could have stopped it but no in the long run it helped. The emporer s dead....

sorry i rant. i get sick and tired of the ultramarines being the one thing alot of people see in 40k. Their are other chapters and forces in the imperium.

Marneus Calagar can get stepped on by my Warlord Titan "Procella"

A cookie to who get's my titans name right.

 

[Worsle]

If it's good I'll love it, and if it's bad then I'll still love it.

Oh, good, more Marine Fail. The single least characterful chapter, in the single least characterful army. Why not make a movie about a Tyranid Hormagaunt? Or a Necron Warrior? Seriously, Space Marines in general are faceless, Ultramarines doubly so.

You're seriously saying that Space Marines are more faceless than Necrons?

Ultramarines are.
Why is it that every time the Marines are showcased in something, it's always the Ultramarines. They're the most characterless, vanilla chapters which means that the script was probably very generic originally and they decided to brand it 40k when they bought the script.

I too would've preferred almost any other race.
They should make a comedy movie about the Orks.

Because the ultramarines are the every man chapter. A bit by the book but they represent the average space marine a lot better than any of the other founding chapters. Sure other chapters might be more interesting in ways but none of them represent marines as a whole quite as well as the ultramarines do.

As to the movie its self, could be cool or it could suck quite badly. To early to know but I will be interested to see what it comes out looking like and while probly watch it at some point regardless of quality (unless the cgi is just terrible).

I know what you mean.
I have a bad feeling its going to be as dull and cheesy as the Dragons of Autumn Twilight movie.

Oh it has a lot of chances to suck as a movie but that would be true no matter what. It does also have a good chance of being awesome (maybe not good but at least awesome). Really ultramarines still have some interesting characters and if they pick a good idea we could end up with an interesting movie. Not getting any hopes up but lets wait and see how it looks, not knowing any thing about the direction they are taking it in does not help, just hope it is not a jumbled mess.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

I beg for a good movie that won't destroy GW's fan base by turning people off of warhammer...PLEASE! i give the movie goddess(yes it's a she) many scarificial directors and actors.

 

[KSarty]

Any guesses as to what time period the film will take place in? I'm guessing it will most likely be post-heresy, but there is a chance it could be during the heresy I suppose. Also, show of hands for who wants to see an Orbital Bombardment Exterminatus in high-def glory.

 

[Baron Khaine]

I'm hoping for Tyrannic War.

Thats probably the best part of Ultramarines Lore.

Who doesn't want to see the First Company in a valiant last stand against masses of Nids? Or Epic space battles versus Hive Ships? Or the fall and eventual consumption of Paladium?

Honestly, they turn that into a film, it would be so awesome.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Oh, good, more Marine Fail. The single least characterful chapter, in the single least characterful army. Why not make a movie about a Tyranid Hormagaunt? Or a Necron Warrior? Seriously, Space Marines in general are faceless, Ultramarines doubly so.

....Maybe on the tabletop but not in the literature/Inquistor game.
Marines are supermen bas****s that'll kill you because you don't believe what they do. With fire. And bullets. Mercilessly. And with the history of the tyranids and the Ultra's, could mean a nice Hive Fleet could make the scene.

Yeah, you're wrong. Read some marine fluff. The read Inquisition fluff, or Guard fluff. The latter is far, far superior, because they can be related to. Space Marines are 'teh perfectest soldiers evar', a distinctly unsubtle ploy by GW to market their product, but one which backfires when you try and make a decent story about the. It's near-impossible to do. Most of the better attempts just wind up with them as people, just with mad skills, strength and the like. The rest are just unreadable.


The problem is, everyone in 40K is a superhuman badass, an alien monstrousity, or just badass. The latter is actually better, because you don't get the sheer boring-ness of the Space Marines. Sure, you might want Action Man in Space, who's nothing more than a dumb, meatheaded lox who casually slaughters his way through enemies. But some of us want actual heros - and marines are not heros. Marines are lobotomised to the point they can't feel fear, can't fight an actual war* due to their low numbers, and, in general, are so overdone that it becomes laughable, given how unimportant they are in the fluff.

*Seriously. Marines can't fight ground wars. Any actions they take have to be taken in concert with allies. Usually the Imperial Guard.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Ultramarines aren't bad, but other than the Tyranid wars, I don't know how this could work

I'd prefer the Space wolves or Imperial Guard over Ultramarines any day.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Direct to DVD? Oh dear.

 

[Gavmando]

The Ultramarines are freaking crazy!

From what I have read they are the chosen of the Emperor. I am a little short on my UM lore but to say any of the chapters are vanilla is just, well, stupid.

Not one Chapter was unaffected by the Heresy and each chapter has made choices which have led to massive rifts etc. From what I know it was only the Ultramarines that Horus feared. In fact didnt he have to frame Prospero, primarch of the Thousand Sons, to get the Ultramarines from interfering in his plans?

Ah. No. Horus sent the Word Bearers after the Ultramarines, simply because he needed someone to occupy them whilst he got things going. (Plus they didnt need much prompting.) It wasnt really a fear thing, it was more to do with good tactics.
Prospero was the planet that the Thousand Sons lived on, and their Primarch was Magnus the Red. And it was the Space Wolves who were unleashed against them, not the Ultramarines.

But just think... If this goes well, imagine a movie based off the Space Wolf training world Fenris. Or an Imperial Guard movie that would just dwarf Starship Troopers in scale.

Kind of right. Fenris is their home world, where they do training and recruit new inductees.

Just remember, the more successful these things are, the more we will see. Even if you arent happy with the choice of Chapter you should be happy that FINALY GW has allowed someone to make a movie. Of course I hadnt realized they had made two already (one not published) so I will go seek it out.

Dude, I agree. Let's just hope it's not crap. But if they want a chapter they can Hollywoodafy, they could go for the Salamanders. They seem to be one of the few who actually care about normal humans.
...Even if their solution to every problem is to set it on fire...

But the best one they could do? The Alpha Legion. But it will never happen.
Or a Deathwatch movie would be pretty cool. That way you can get a diverse range of personalities together and still have a group of super-human killing machines.

 

[Mathak]

Hmm..how about a Horus Heresy Ultramarine movie? Roboute Guilliman being wacked over the head with the stick from his own arse by the Alpha Legion..delicious.

 

[CrafterMan]

If this movie has Grey Knights in it...

I'm in.

-Joe

 

[MysticnFm]

I thought this was going to be some thread commenting on the generic nature of Sci-fi FPS's or something.

But then again I don't know anything about Warhammer, so I am assuming the word Ultramarine has been around for a while, and is not just a really terrible attempt at naming a movie.

 

[rooguy]

The plot will probably leave something to be desired, but to FINALLY see Space Marines on the big screen! It will be worth the $10 I spend too see it.