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

[Delgar]

On the plus side look at some of the good stuff that's come out of the comic genre:

Spiderman
X-Men, X-2

I think if you have a good story, good characters combine that with a good director and good actors and you can make a good movie.

Problem is most movies seem to be relying solely on the special effects. While in days gone by special effects did a blockbuster make. I think now a days, if you use the special effects technology to enhance a good story then you can cut it.

Of course, that's unlikely to happen!

Delgar

 

[Shadowdancer]

There's an old Traveller adventure called "Twilight's Peak" I always thought would make a good movie. It's one of the best adventures I've ever read, for any game system, any genre. Since it's sci-fi, and a mystery, it would stand a better chance of being made into a movie, and not sucking.

 

[AuroraGyps]

What about Paul Kidd's versions of module with The Justicar and Escalla. The first book, White Plume Mountain, would be cool. It's got humor and action and some cool bad guys.

 

[Hopping Vampire]

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...

Johnny Mneumonic (sp?) was based on shadowrun.

 

[Bloodstone Mage]

What about EN World: The Movie?

And, coming to an amusement park near you, EN World: The Movie: The Ride!

In my personal opinion, you can make a movie out of anything. It all depends on the people behind it. I'm pretty sure if Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a movie about washing dishes, he could make it gold. On the other side of the coin, if you put Carrot Top to make the Lord of the Rings movies...

Cheers!

 

[AuroraGyps]

Johnny Mneumonic (sp?) was based on shadowrun.

No, it was based on a William Gibson short story in the anthology Burning Chrome.

 

[PowerWordDumb]

Johnny Mneumonic (sp?) was based on shadowrun.

It SO was NOT! It's based on the William Gibson short story of the same name.

edit: oops, someone beat me to it.

 

[Krug]

Johnny Mneumonic (sp?) was based on shadowrun.

Uh? where were the elves? the dwarves?

 

[Angcuru]

Uh? where were the elves? the dwarves?

the trolls... the other stuff...

 

[s/LaSH]

The problem with a module is this: No heroes.

Modules are a story, sure, but you're expected to bring your own heroes to resolve it. This just plain doesn't work for movies, so someone in Hollywood would have to come up with heroes on their own.

Which could get ugly. Fast.

On the other hand, if you don't replace a party with one guy who looks suspiciously like a Jedi by the end, and a girl who is tempestuous and hot (like any B-movie heroine), you might actually end up with something reasonable. Perhaps a swift battering about the head of the scriptwriter with four separate editions of the PHB would drive it home?

I don't have many modules, so I couldn't comment on any... but I do know that anything made for the Basic Immortals D&D game wouldn't be suitable. I've got Immortal Storm... there's precisely one bit in there that would be even comprehensible, and it's not the bit where the heroes move through a symphony, or wrestle on the edge of the sixth dimension, or participate in the creation of a star, or avoid a moon with a rather unpredictable orbit (let's just say going into the caves of that planet is a rather bad idea). The bit that is comprehensible does involve machineguns, however, and from the perspective of a normal North American could be quite interesting... "Who are these people who showed up on the subway late one night? Why do they laugh mockingly when threatened with SWAT teams? And what is this perfume they're after?" Plus a really neat finale involving a nightcrawler in New York.

In fact, now that I think about it, that chapter of Immortal Storm would make quite a neat movie...