If they can make a movie out of video games...

[Krug]

.. they can make a movie outta classic modules or settings. Those modules definitely have more plot than Tomb Raider or *cringe* Street Fighter.

So which modules/adventures/settings/RPGs (D&D/non D&D) do you think would make good movies? I know Haven is licensed to someone, and now Rifts to Bruckenheimer...

 

[Tsyr]

Someone supposedly has an option on, and has already produced a screenplace for, Dragons of Autum Twilight.

Personaly, I would like to see some of the Shadowrun modules and books movie-ized...

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Why not make a move USING a video game?

Halo fans need to see this. Click on the Blood Gulch Chronicals.

 

[WayneLigon]

One think that I think would make a great movie? The original 'Against the Giants' series. Three movies, one big story, lots of huge giants, cave bears, arctic wasteland, lava pits. drow, etc You could make a nice film out of just the first one by adding more backstory and perhaps simplifying the threat a bit. (A massive forest fire wipes out the huge forest to the north where the giants used to hunt, so now they've come south, looking to raid and eat whatever they can find. Or whomever.)

A Slavers idea would actually make for a better backdrop for a TV series, with a group brought together and kept together by a desire to either get vengeance against the Slave Lords for taking someone they loved, or looking for that someone. Or one of them could be an escaped slave, who desires to bring these people to justice. Lots of conflict, overarching story, intrigue (is the local Baron actually in the pay of the Slave Lords?), a great reason for the characters to adventure together, and a way to shuffle out characters and replace them as needed.

 

[The Forsaken One]

Starcraft and Starcraft Brood war by Blizzard entertainment.

Best strategy game EVER in my very humble opinion. Even so good it got me to play it professionally for 2 years. (Yes I made plenty of money with playing online computer games )

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The Warcraft storyline by Blizzard entertainment as well would also be awsome.

 

[Thresher]

.. they can make a movie outta classic modules or settings. Those modules definitely have more plot than Tomb Raider or *cringe* Street Fighter.

Dont forget the horror that was "Wingcommander"
oh, how I loved those games, hired the movie and eeeeeeew!!!

So which modules/adventures/settings/RPGs (D&D/non D&D) do you think would make good movies? I know Haven is licensed to someone, and now Rifts to Bruckenheimer...

The whole GDQ1-7
Unfortunatly, I wouldnt trust most of the producers out there to NOT bork it in some way that would make GG cry... and probably the rest of us as well.

 

[Ferret]

And there was.... I can't say it.

Whgat about the classic "Return to the temple of elemental evil"?

 

[Praeco]

The trouble is unless it is Lord of the Rings, most fantasy movies turn out very very bad, so I would be reluctant to see any module turned to a movie for fear that I would be thinking 'I could roleplay this better!'

That said, there was a Ravenloft module called Hour of the Knife that one might be able to pull off - it was more horror than straight fantasy, and was plot driven - the investigators of a series of grisly murders are being slowly replaced one by one by dopplegangers.

As a module it involved a fair bit of railroading as sequences where the PCs got replaced by evil clones needed to be contrived, but as a movie this isn't a problem.

Plus horror movies are for some reason slightly more popular as a genre than fantasy, and so it would possible have a snowball's chance of getting a workable budget.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Look just how "well" they're making movies out of video games... The first Tomb Raider was bad and stupid, the secone one was just plain insultingly bad and idiotic. Super Mario Brothers was abysmal. Street Fighter was pathetic. Double Dragon was laughable. Mortal Kombat sucked but had good visuals. Final Fantasy was sort of bad and sort of awesome at the same time (cool CGI), but aggravating the whole way through.

It's not much of a track record upon which to base asking the hollywood hacks to mutilate our favorite games. Look what they did with the D&D movie for god's sake... I own it on DVD mostly to point out how bad a movie can be when some uninformed visitor slags a good but under-appreciated or misunderstood film.

So, despite the wonderful stuff Peter Jackson is doing with LOTR (totally unexpected by the way, I figured it was unfilmable), I'd have to say it's not worth asking any filmmakers to look at any modules.

 

[Angcuru]

I can really see a fully computer-animated(Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within-style) trilogy going on for a Bhaalspawn Saga movie...but maybe that's because I'm a junkie for that storyline. Could you imagine the theatrical trailer for those movies? Half the theater would be cheering, the other half searching for a change of pants.

*imagines what the theatrical trailer would be like if his version of the story was made into a movie*