8 Fictional Universes that Deserve their Own Movie

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8 Fictional Universes that Deserve their Own Movie

Eight fictional universes that we'd love to see a movie made from.

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Zontar

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I think it's worth pointing out that two of these universes do have a movie. Mass Effect has Paragon Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Paragon_Lost] and Halo has Forward Unto Dawn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_4:_Forward_Unto_Dawn].
 

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Zontar said:
I think it's worth pointing out that two of these universes do have a movie. Mass Effect has Paragon Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Paragon_Lost] and Halo has Forward Unto Dawn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_4:_Forward_Unto_Dawn].
Don't forget that Dragon Age had a movie called <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Seeker>Dawn of the Seeker and, according to that one Facebook comment, Warhammer 40,000 had <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarines:_A_Warhammer_40,000_Movie>Ultramarines...

OT: I would have said Kingdom Hearts, but if 2.8 is to be expected, that might just happen for the better...

Other than that... uh... F-Zero?
 

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Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
 

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canadamus_prime said:
Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.
 

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FPLOON said:
Zontar said:
I think it's worth pointing out that two of these universes do have a movie. Mass Effect has Paragon Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Paragon_Lost] and Halo has Forward Unto Dawn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_4:_Forward_Unto_Dawn].
Don't forget that Dragon Age had a movie called <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Seeker>Dawn of the Seeker and, according to that one Facebook comment, Warhammer 40,000 had <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarines:_A_Warhammer_40,000_Movie>Ultramarines...
There's also Damnatus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatus], a full-length German fan film set in the Warhammer 40K universe.
 

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I think Fallout would work much better as a TV show than a movie. I could see a much more lighthearted almost "Game of Thrones" version of Fallout, that follows multiple characters from the game's many factions and places (BoS, NCR, Slavers, various towns, etc.) and the conflicts surrounding the wasteland.
 

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Xpwn3ntial said:
canadamus_prime said:
Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.
But why do we WANT them to?
 

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Asclepion said:
FPLOON said:
Zontar said:
I think it's worth pointing out that two of these universes do have a movie. Mass Effect has Paragon Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Paragon_Lost] and Halo has Forward Unto Dawn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_4:_Forward_Unto_Dawn].
Don't forget that Dragon Age had a movie called <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Seeker>Dawn of the Seeker and, according to that one Facebook comment, Warhammer 40,000 had <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarines:_A_Warhammer_40,000_Movie>Ultramarines...
There's also Damnatus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatus], a full-length German fan film set in the Warhammer 40K universe.
Ugh, Ultramarines. Just your usual sort of space marine wank-material.

I think a big-budget 40k movie could work, but you would definitely need to find the right person to direct it. Someone who can treat the 40k setting like the silly thing it is. The last thing we need is more ultra-serious space marine war-porn, afterall.

Something more sprawling, adventurey and fun would make for a good movie I think. Something about a rogue trader, or maybe even Ciaphas Cain.
 

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rcs619 said:
Something about a rogue trader, or maybe even Ciaphas Cain.
Cain's stories only work because we can see the inner-workings of his mind. Which does not translate well at all to visual medium like television or cinema.
 

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canadamus_prime said:
Xpwn3ntial said:
canadamus_prime said:
Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.
But why do we WANT them to?
I heard somewhere that back in the 1890s, back when all these inventors were making, flying and getting themselves killed in rudimentary wood-and-canvas gliders, a balloonist of the time said something pretty much just like what you're saying now about the first batch of games-to-movie attempts.

And now we can get a planeload of people to the other side of the world in less than a day.

THAT is why we want to see more. That is always why we want to see more.

On topic, this was a pretty good list, though I'd personally take a Perfect Dark movie before a Halo one anyday. Also Interstate '76 and Crimson Skies on the PC need to be movies like... yesterday.

 

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I feel a Mass Effect movie would draw too obvious of a parallel to Star Trek, to the point where it would feel like a rip-off. Same with Dragon Age and its famous Fantasy source of inspiration.

This is a problem with many popular games; They feel very heavily inspired by popular films. And the appeal of those games is that it's like those movies but now you get to play it. But by turning that game into a film, it'll just come across as a third-rate copy.
 

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Squilookle said:
I heard somewhere that back in the 1890s, back when all these inventors were making, flying and getting themselves killed in rudimentary wood-and-canvas gliders, a balloonist of the time said something pretty much just like what you're saying now about the first batch of games-to-movie attempts.

And now we can get a planeload of people to the other side of the world in less than a day.

THAT is why we want to see more. That is always why we want to see more.
Don't know how well that comparison really stacks up.

The problem with games-to-movies will always be that you're subtracking a major part from the original source; the gameplay. Back in the 90's there might've been the curiosity of what our favourite game characters might look like in spiffy live-action, since games still looked kinda pixeled and cardboard-y. But now games look so good that they're visually atleast on par with whatever Hollywood can cook up. And this comes back to what a game-to-movie adaptation would add, which is absolutely nothing the game couldn't do better with the added benefit of interactivity.
 

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I'd like to see a TV-series rather than a movie set in the Mass Effect universe, something akin to Battlestar Galactica.

I've never played the games, but the lore is really interesting.
 

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I'm gonna go against the grain of gritty, grey action and suggest Elite Beat Agents. It'd be damn-near impossible to pull off well (like most comedies), but a story about a group of super-sentai secret-agent cheerleaders helping people through their ridiculous, cartoon problems using the power of song and dance (and even more ridiculous solutions), and eventually saving the world from aliens with the help of those same people (spoilers) would make an hilariously bizarre movie.
 

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Squilookle said:
canadamus_prime said:
Xpwn3ntial said:
canadamus_prime said:
Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.
But why do we WANT them to?
I heard somewhere that back in the 1890s, back when all these inventors were making, flying and getting themselves killed in rudimentary wood-and-canvas gliders, a balloonist of the time said something pretty much just like what you're saying now about the first batch of games-to-movie attempts.

And now we can get a planeload of people to the other side of the world in less than a day.

THAT is why we want to see more. That is always why we want to see more.

On topic, this was a pretty good list, though I'd personally take a Perfect Dark movie before a Halo one anyday. Also Interstate '76 and Crimson Skies on the PC need to be movies like... yesterday.

Making a video game movie is hardly on the same level as flying around the world in simplistic flying machines. Assuming they even succeed, a movie of these universes can't possibly be as engaging as the game, so I repeat why are we do we want this?
 

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My copy of "Ultramarine" begs to differ with your claim of 40K missing a movie. Oh, I get it you meant things that went to theaters. I'd rather not have an inevitably live action 40k film that doesn't get the lore, thank you. I'll just sit here calmly with my copy of ultramarines and watch the fan projects, because the fans actually care.
 

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Jeff!! You did it! You made a list I fully agree with!

...except a few minor points. There are Halo and Warhammer 40k movies. They aren't good, but they do technically exist.

and isn't there a terrible made-for-Japan Japanese terrible Dragon Age movie?

But other than that, A+ Jeff! I knew you could do it!