Dragon Age Comes Over All Malevolent in Fan Film Teaser Trailer

[Logan Westbrook]

Dragon Age Comes Over All Malevolent in Fan Film Teaser Trailer

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Woods, sword fights and lots and lots of blood: Yep, it's a Dragon Age fan film alright.

It seems that Felicia Day isn't the only person making a Dragon Age web series [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107766-Felicia-Day-to-Star-in-Dragon-Age-Web-Series-UPDATED]. Film maker Leo Kei Angelos has also decided to try his hand at live action dark fantasy. But where Day has the backing of the developers, and some money behind her, Angelos' work - called Dragon Age: Malevolence - is utterly unauthorized and make on a budget of around zero dollars.

Angelos describes the work as an original piece that fits in with the themes of the Dragon Age games. He said that it had been difficult to make the film on a tiny budget, but the team had worked hard and been smart with its resources, and had managed to pull it off. He added that he wasn't trying to compete with Day's series - which is called Dragon Age: Redemption - rather, he was a dedicated fan of games who wanted to show his appreciation.

As for the trailer itself, it's too brief to really get a sense of what's going on beyond "blond girl with facial tattoo getting chased in snowy woods." The costumes look remarkably good, and the snippets of combat look quite exciting, but there's no indication of who anyone is, or why the chasing is happening in the first place. Angelos says that he is finishing off the movie at the moment, and it should be ready in the next few months.

Source: Destructoid [http://www.destructoid.com/dragon-age-gets-the-live-action-fan-movie-treatment-197451.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Destructoid+%28Destructoid%29]


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[josemlopes]

The blood. So much blood.

PS: I know that the game was like that.

 

[Zhukov]

Heh.

I guess it just wouldn't be Dragon Age without blood spattered faces.

 

[gellert1984]

As for the trailer itself, it's too brief to really get a sense of what's going on beyond "blond girl with facial tattoo kicking ass in snowy woods."

fixed that for you

This looks interesting, probably worth a watch, how soon is 'coming soon' though?

 

[DazBurger]

Argh.. For some reason, Im just never able to take fan films seriously!

 

[Nejira]

Heh, judging from the trailers along this actually looks better than the "official" movie/webseries.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Looks very well made. Much better than most fanfilms i know. (and i know and like a lot, you just cant watch them like you watch a regular tv or cinema production. Maybe it helps if you ever played theatre and tried to create something "real" looking)
One of the best ones ive seen still got the common problem of looking way to clean.
Well it was a Dark Eye fanfilm (the rpg behind the http://drakensang.com/ games) and thats by far not as grim and bloody as Dragonage, but still you cant act a medieval scene with beaming clean clothing ( but hey they managed to get a christopher lee cameo, that outweights it a little ^^)
So the Athmopshere set here just works way better(if still not perfect), its more believable. Most Fanfilms look like what they are. LARPers with a lot of good intensions, but not willing to waste their expensive costumes.

 

[LadyRhian]

Wow. I like this a lot. A whole lot. Reminds me of that redone Star Trek: Original Series Franchise.

 

[Dragonborne88]

As the other poster said, still looks better to me then the Felicia Day one. That one reeked of terrible as soon as I saw it announced.

Best Fantasy series goes out to Journey Quest though. It's more a comedy then dark fantasy, but I still love it so.

A link if you wanna check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVORGr2fDk8

 

[unacomn]

People drawing swords, kicking each other in the crotch, shouting and lots of blood.

You know, I'm not really seeing the appeal of these Dragon Age expanded universe things, be they fan made or official. Especially since the lore is about as stable as a house of cards in a washing monsoon. But hey, I guess the best marketing conquers all.

Don't mind me, I'm just bitter because no one's made a live action fan/official Anachronox movie.

 

[Jaebird]

The blood. So much blood.

PS: I know that the game was like that.

As gratuitous as it is, it's become a staple for the series. Personally, I find it annoying. Makes the experience feel cheap.

 

[BabyRaptor]

The blood. So much blood.

PS: I know that the game was like that.

As gratuitous as it is, it's become a staple for the series. Personally, I find it annoying. Makes the experience feel cheap.

Me too. I turned it off ASAP. It caused this huge disconnect for me...I just sat there thinking "How can these people I'm talking to take me seriously when I look like this?"

 

[Lacsapix]

The blood. So much blood.

PS: I know that the game was like that.

As gratuitous as it is, it's become a staple for the series. Personally, I find it annoying. Makes the experience feel cheap.

Me too. I turned it off ASAP. It caused this huge disconnect for me...I just sat there thinking "How can these people I'm talking to take me seriously when I look like this?"

I remember quote's as "It is a shame a man like you hasn't married yet!" when your body is covered in blood.

Still the trailer got me an the good end, although it seems like LARP with blood effects.

 

[Jaebird]

The blood. So much blood.

PS: I know that the game was like that.

As gratuitous as it is, it's become a staple for the series. Personally, I find it annoying. Makes the experience feel cheap.

Me too. I turned it off ASAP. It caused this huge disconnect for me...I just sat there thinking "How can these people I'm talking to take me seriously when I look like this?"

I keep forgetting there's that option >_>

 

[teknoarcanist]

In before "Game of Thrones."

 

[Shellsh0cker]

Wow, that looks really impressive. I'll probably check this out, despite not being a fan of the actual games.

 

[LiquidGrape]

I have yet to see a fan-made film which was any good at all. On any scale.
The element of fandom tends to cloud the filmmaker's judgement, and instead of focusing on actual content, it winds up a self-masturbatory display in reverential awe of the source.
Watchmen, Silent Hill and Kill Bill are perfect examples of this phenomenon.
I respect the ambition of the people involved, but I see nothing which would suggest this is anything remarkable.

 

[Realitycrash]

The blood. So much blood.

PS: I know that the game was like that.

As gratuitous as it is, it's become a staple for the series. Personally, I find it annoying. Makes the experience feel cheap.

Noooo, it makers the experience seem rather realistic. Of course you would have blood splattered on your armor and parts of your body after fighting twenty guys! (Especially in DA2 where your opponents have a tendency to literary explode into a fog of smoke and guts), what makes the experience feel cheap is that it is there one cut-scene, and the very next (half a minute later), everything is gone.