Movie Challenge - $300 Million USD = A new Epic franchise.
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Klaus said:
While I agree that would be great, one of the things that keeps 007 going is that it changes with the times. It occurs in the real world (or semi-real world anyway), and the people and places are easily identifiable to the general public.
The downside to a Conan franchise going on more than say 3 movies is that the concept tends to wear on an audience. The Conan world is static; you don't have new fashion trends, new technologies, new places for people to visit.
Hollywood believes that easily identifiable = wider audience = more money.
If you want a long-running franchise, I think you need to start with something closer to the modern day.
The Forsaken One
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Make one or two movies about the Starcraft (PC game) universe storyline. If it's suitably brutal and shows how humans get swamped, owned, eaten, assimilated and mutated and then blow themselves up in toxic goo... Im sold. ^^
Seriously if I could have one perfectly made SF movie it would be that universe its story with a tinge of horror.
No contest
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I'd like to see a WH40K series though, that would be so awsome again if plenty brutal.
Seriously if I could have one perfectly made SF movie it would be that universe its story with a tinge of horror.
No contest
.I'd like to see a WH40K series though, that would be so awsome again if plenty brutal.
HeavenShallBurn
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That's pretty much the entire problem, Hollywood whitewashes things, and even if you could manage to pitch WH at them they would immediately set about whitewashing it. And wouldn't understand when you tried to explain that the things they were getting rid of were it's primary draw factor.The Forsaken One said:
But if done well if could be so asskicking just watching it made you taste boot polish and leather. I for one desire to see just one sci-fi movie or series that isn't either all cutesy and touchy-feeley as Star Wreck or a drama-fest ala new BSG. That's all I really ask, one big sci-fi about a future as grim, hateful, violent, and flawed as the present if not moreso. Then again I'd also like to see a movie where humans weren't portrayed as the weak and ineffectual yet lucky underdog.
Darkwolf71
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Oh. My. God.elrobey said:
Abso-freaking-lutly! That would be incredible.
Grymar said:
Riftwar would be cool.....but is it well-known enough?
I'd love to see Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams, but I doubt it would happen. Or Otherland...
Neither of those two series might be well-known enough either though.
I think Raymond Feist's "Faerie Tale" could make a great movie...horror/fantasy about the Faerie Folk...
What about Terry Brooks' Shannara series? Weren't they good sellers?
GRR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire...but I guess HBO has that one locked up for now.
There are likely tonnes of good movies that could be done about historical periods too. I'd love to see a well-done military epic about Napoleon....but they'd have to make him an American in the movie, and that, obviously, wouldn't work
Alternatively, movies about Hannibal (wasn't Vin Diesel going to star in one?), or what about something about Charlemagne? A movie about Ivanhoe?What about Sigfried?
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