Poll: WH40k Films?
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The 40k universe is too different to our own that it could be done like a standard action movie. The Imperium and its people have a mindset too alien to humanity today - or at least movie-watching humanity. It'd need a treatment like Deadwood or Rome (the HBO series) - finding the humanity in a hugely different culture, but not shirking from what's different. Only then could a good 40k movie be made.
Hell no.
40K is not something you could make a good film out of whislt remaining faithful to the source material. However hard you tried the film would come off as a fascistic teen power fantasy, it's just the nature of the 40K universe.
The alternative would be ultra generic action movie with the relevant names copy pasted into the script, either way it's not something I would pay to watch (although I paid to watch Terminator Salvation at the weekend, what a bloody idiot I was).
40K is not something you could make a good film out of whislt remaining faithful to the source material. However hard you tried the film would come off as a fascistic teen power fantasy, it's just the nature of the 40K universe.
The alternative would be ultra generic action movie with the relevant names copy pasted into the script, either way it's not something I would pay to watch (although I paid to watch Terminator Salvation at the weekend, what a bloody idiot I was).
Aye, a decent series like Rome or Battlestar Galactica could work quite well for WH40k, just choosing a good protagonist like an Inquisitor would really help to showcase to sheer variety and scale of the 40k universe.Saskwach said:
I don't think it would be the only possible way to adapt WH40k, Sci-fi films have been throwing audiences in to the deep end of their lore for ages.
Personally, I dislike BSG, but I agree with what you're saying. An Inquisitor is one of the better entry points for total setting noobs, since the bigger conundrums of the Imperium - why are we so fanatical? Is there a better way? What's so bad about Chaos anyway? - are addressed quite directly by Inquisitors - and with more ideological room to maneuver, since Inquisitors can get away with not being batshit bonkers. In other words, though nothing is impossible, a light Puritan (hell even a heavy one if you did it right) or a Radical Inquisitor can be made immediately sympathetic in a way much of the rest of 40k's cast of scoundrels can't. Still, there's a lot of on-the-ground commoners and soldiers who could do the trick too, but then you'd have the problem of making the movie about the wider 40k.Candrian said:
i don't really know anything about warhammer besides what i learnt from playing the game, so im going to say make it about chaos cos they are the coolest, most badass race.
To be honest, no.
I think it'd be much more suited to a series, if it had to be made, but otherwise I think, really, it should stick to the tabletop, games and books.
I suppose you could do a convincing film about a Imperial Guardsman, or a horror flick based around the Inquisition, but, really, I don't think anyone could pull it off.
I think it'd be much more suited to a series, if it had to be made, but otherwise I think, really, it should stick to the tabletop, games and books.
I suppose you could do a convincing film about a Imperial Guardsman, or a horror flick based around the Inquisition, but, really, I don't think anyone could pull it off.
This. I can't help but get the feeling that Eisenhorn was written to be like a Hollywood-style trilogy anyway, so making a film series of it would be AWESOME.Son of Makuta said:
Also, there is a short live-action film that was sanctioned by Games Workshop a while back. By a while, I'm talking at least a decade ago. In fact, you can see it for yourself! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFrdBubVT78]
WH40K wouldn't work. Too expensive and the general public would probably just laugh it off. Reviewers would laugh at it since it is a film based on a D&D sort of game (remember how great those films were?).
The geek and fan of WH40k would love a film however.
The geek and fan of WH40k would love a film however.
What are you talking about? A movie for WH40k's already been made, it's called Event Horizon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_(film)] 
Comic book movies takes your arguement and smashes it into little bits. I don't read comics. I love the Marvel/DC movies. I have never played Warhammer 40k, but I would love to see a movie about it.Asehujiko said:
Cool, just not a dawn of war movie. They don't need to overdo it and make sure every race makes it in unless they can make a good script that isn't contrived but I don't think that's possible.
But a movie based on the Horus Heresy might be cool or maybe a remake of an old war movie but using Space Marines and Orks.
But a movie based on the Horus Heresy might be cool or maybe a remake of an old war movie but using Space Marines and Orks.
No idea when those were made but was likely in the period before GW really got its game on! It's cross media efforts hampered by low budgets and awful games like 'Rites of War'.Chipperz said:
As a taster of what could be it's great, imagine the sort of budget you get in a film like Star Trek and similar applied to something with real story and limitless possibility for expansion. Definitely need a blockbuster but, like BSG & Deadwood could also be made into a gritty balls to the wall tv series.
I don't think it would alienate too many non fans just because everyone likes a good shooty horror epic, plus there are a lot of fans who were involved in their youth that are the target audience, plus any one of the millions who play the PC games like DoW I & II would have the film as a 'must see'.
Plus, How much do I want a suit of Power Armour!?!