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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3967913" data-attributes="member: 39593"><p>With you all the way. Let's face 40K is about the Space Marines, everything else was built up around them as the central core of the setting concept. And as a concept they have a great deal of traction, so the first movie should be about the SM. And the best opening to put a foot in the cinema door is by using a setup at least partially familiar to most people with an enemy that fits into an established movie niche. Thus the Nids are perfect, yes they're Zerg knockoffs but also Alien and a montage of every other gigeresque xenological horror. They push all the right buttons in the human reptilian brain as an enemy. If you could get a 40K movie made with a first string budget it would be a stop the Nid horde movie. From there you could branch out in the setting.</p><p></p><p>Now I'll speak heresy and the torches and pitchforks will be gathered. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire wouldn't make a very good movie trilogy. Nor would most of the other really big ones, The Wheel of Time just wouldn't work and Goodkind's in a similar boat. The Runelords might actually be workable as it can be more easily reduced than the others works but even that would have trouble. </p><p></p><p>What I would really like to see is the Honorverse done as arcs of related mini-series, one for each book. Ain't going to happen but it would be damned impressive if done right. Of course forcing Hollywood to treat the combat scenes as in the book would probably take hanging the first few writers to set an example. You might be able to pitch it as related to the various 90s movies involving submarines but it would be insanely difficult. And if they didn't treat the space combat properly the only market for it would shun anything they did like a hemophiliac in a Vampire convention.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 3967913, member: 39593"] With you all the way. Let's face 40K is about the Space Marines, everything else was built up around them as the central core of the setting concept. And as a concept they have a great deal of traction, so the first movie should be about the SM. And the best opening to put a foot in the cinema door is by using a setup at least partially familiar to most people with an enemy that fits into an established movie niche. Thus the Nids are perfect, yes they're Zerg knockoffs but also Alien and a montage of every other gigeresque xenological horror. They push all the right buttons in the human reptilian brain as an enemy. If you could get a 40K movie made with a first string budget it would be a stop the Nid horde movie. From there you could branch out in the setting. Now I'll speak heresy and the torches and pitchforks will be gathered. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire wouldn't make a very good movie trilogy. Nor would most of the other really big ones, The Wheel of Time just wouldn't work and Goodkind's in a similar boat. The Runelords might actually be workable as it can be more easily reduced than the others works but even that would have trouble. What I would really like to see is the Honorverse done as arcs of related mini-series, one for each book. Ain't going to happen but it would be damned impressive if done right. Of course forcing Hollywood to treat the combat scenes as in the book would probably take hanging the first few writers to set an example. You might be able to pitch it as related to the various 90s movies involving submarines but it would be insanely difficult. And if they didn't treat the space combat properly the only market for it would shun anything they did like a hemophiliac in a Vampire convention. [/QUOTE]
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