Elder Scrolls Movie?

[doomjockey]

Like I said, why not make a movie about the stories in the books? They can just release the movie, and not say it is even based off of the game. They dont have to do the same things the producers did with DOOM, Super Mario Brothers, Mortal Kombat, etc.

You just don't get it, do you? Nope, completely oblivious. The only difference between the mainquest (or other quest) and the books is that the quest is interactive. That's it. It's still a story, except you are the main character, or supporting character in the case of the mainquest... :glare: The books won't work, especially since most don't even give enough to base a movie off of. Let's go and look at The Locked Room, for example. A summary of the story:

A girl is at a lockpicking school, but gets reprimanded for picking them too slowly by getting locked in a room with a crate which contains a sleeping vampire. She manages to unlock it in time. She comes back later with a new invention: an 'unpickable' lock. She convinces her teacher to install it on the vampire room door and lock her teacher in there. He tries to pick the lock, but fails. He continues to fail, even after throughoutly examining the lock. Since he is unable to escape in time, the vampire kills him.

That would be, at most, 30 minutes, and that's with exaggeration.

 

That's quite unrealistic. Though I doubt any TES books will make the grade for a movie script (barring perhaps epics such as Tiber Septim, Barenziah, The Wolf Queen, etc.), anyone knows the quality of a story depends on the skill of the writer, even when it's a simple adaptation. Let's not forget short stories like "1408" and "The Mist" went on to become decent films. While we're at it, what about "Mulan" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas"? These were based on poems, not even a page long.

[Halororor]

Yeah. I don't want to start any fights, but it seems ninjalord is convinced of his opinion and his ego doesn't allow any person's view and opinion to differ from his own. People might listen to what you're saying if you don't try to insult them every time you see that somebody doesn't agree with you.

 

To complement doomjockey's post, Beowulf was based off areally old poem too. Although, I wasn't very impressed when I saw the movie.

[hoots7]

OK, just let me understand the logic in this.

Some of you guys are suggesting a movie be made from a story (book) in TES but in the same breath admit a movie more directly geared about TES would not sell.

That’s like saying I don’t like it as a whole but I’ll take this small part of it & make something good out of it.

 

In all honesty folks what are the odds of that happening?

The original question was this:

“Does anyone think that mabye, just maybe they will make a TES movie?”

 

Ninja, I agree fantasy is not science fiction but the reason I mentioned the SciFi channel is they have expanded their programming to include more than just Scifi now. They even air horror movies now which I think is stupid but they do it anyway.

 

I would love to see the towns of Morrowind, Summerset Isles, Hammerfall, Oblivion planes / gates and the IC in mini series, the odds are against it but I never thought I would ever see a Speed Racer movie either.

 

Speed Racer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811080/

I don’t mind if it’s a little campy but I already find myself wincing a little bit seeing some of the pics of Speed’s car, not the Mach5 but the other one (Mach6).

 

FYI, Hit man has made $15,687,528 profit

Budget: $24,000,000 (estimated)

Gross: $39,687,528 (USA)

[GenghisKhanIT]

I re-state my opinion, hopefully more clearly than before.

 

Of course I agree that TES players are really a minority of the world's population, but I keep thinking that a movie could just loosely pick up the setting, the background and a bit of the lore of the series, and together with a nice story, a solid plot and good effects, it could work.

 

I think that a possible TES movie should NOT be done for TES players, instead it should be directed to the widest possible audience, thus probably displeasing most of the players.

 

I feel that the problem of the movies made out of videogames is not that they are made out of videogames, but it is wider. It can be seen also in many movies made out of books or comics, and it has been well expressed by Vagrant: they simply try to pick up too many things from the source, so it is really directed to who well knows that source: such a movie will almost surely be a flop, and will surely suck both for the aficionados and for those not involved.

 

The key to success for such kind of movies is to just inspire from the atmosphere, the characters, and make the movie stand on its own. And it is doable.

 

Another point, cinema industry is demonstrating being out of ideas - uncountable sequels, plots evidently copied from other movies, remake of older movies - and so it is widely grabbing at any other available media, books being the historical source, videogames and comics being the newest veins.

 

Cinema has already picked the most "influencial" vertexes of each other media - the already mentioned DooM for videogames and (probably) Superman for comics - and has gradually moved towards the least known.

 

This is another reason that makes me think that we will see an increasing number of VG-based movies, even based on not very famous ones, and there is really no reason why TES should not be considered. That way, the small penetration of the TES VG series, could even be an asset to the movie instead of a liability.

 

 

PS: I admit my ignorance on the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, but I really don't feel that they were well known in Italy before the movie.

[ChewieBacca]

I think a movie is very possiable just base it off old lore that the main player in the game had nothing to do with. Such as Tiber Septim, etc. RPGs have made decent movies, Final Fantasy Advent Children is a great movie, and did rather well. Though it'd take a director like Peter Jackson to get it done, its possiable

[ninja_lord666]

Of course I agree that TES players are really a minority of the world's population, but I keep thinking that a movie could just loosely pick up the setting, the background and a bit of the lore of the series, and together with a nice story, a solid plot and good effects, it could work.

A movie loosely based on the game? Super Mario Bros. I'll sumaraise:

Mario Mario and his brother Luigi Mario (Yes, Mario is their last name in the movie) are working as plumbers in Brooklyn. They run into Daisy Toadstool (wrongly named Daisy) and Luigi falls in love with her (wrong brother). Daisy is an archaeologist for a local college and ends up finding a magic portal under the streets of Brooklyn (I'm not even going to touch that one). She gets kidnapped by Iggy and Spike (wrongly portrayed as humans). Mario and Luigi follow and find a dirty slime-filled city that can only be described as a downtrodden slum (again wrong; the Mushroom kingdom was quite clean). All the citizens are humans evolved from dinosaurs (so very wrong). It turns out that Iggy and Spike were cousins (wrong) of King Koopa (who is also human). Koopa wants a stone Daisy has...well had. She gave it to Luigi, so Koopa failed to retrieve it. He wants the stone so he can complete a giant meteor that will merge Earth with the Mushroom Kingdom (that's so wrong that it doesn't even make sense outside of Mario Bros.). Then, there's a lot of nothing, a big fight, the worlds merge, then unmerge, then it's all over.

That's absolutely terrible. Even as a standalone movie, it sucks. Is that what you want to happen to TES?

[ChewieBacca]

Of course I agree that TES players are really a minority of the world's population, but I keep thinking that a movie could just loosely pick up the setting, the background and a bit of the lore of the series, and together with a nice story, a solid plot and good effects, it could work.

A movie loosely based on the game? Super Mario Bros. I'll sumaraise:

Mario Mario and his brother Luigi Mario (Yes, Mario is their last name in the movie) are working as plumbers in Brooklyn. They run into Daisy Toadstool (wrongly named Daisy) and Luigi falls in love with her (wrong brother). Daisy is an archaeologist for a local college and ends up finding a magic portal under the streets of Brooklyn (I'm not even going to touch that one). She gets kidnapped by Iggy and Spike (wrongly portrayed as humans). Mario and Luigi follow and find a dirty slime-filled city that can only be described as a downtrodden slum (again wrong; the Mushroom kingdom was quite clean). All the citizens are humans evolved from dinosaurs (so very wrong). It turns out that Iggy and Spike were cousins (wrong) of King Koopa (who is also human). Koopa wants a stone Daisy has...well had. She gave it to Luigi, so Koopa failed to retrieve it. He wants the stone so he can complete a giant meteor that will merge Earth with the Mushroom Kingdom (that's so wrong that it doesn't even make sense outside of Mario Bros.). Then, there's a lot of nothing, a big fight, the worlds merge, then unmerge, then it's all over.

That's absolutely terrible. Even as a standalone movie, it sucks. Is that what you want to happen to TES?

 

LOL Your using one example, the movie was directed by a one time director, decent if not below par actors and a writer who didnt do his research. If someone like Jackson, Lucas or Spielberg picked up the TES story and made it into a movie you'd be eating your words.

[ninja_lord666]

LOL Your using one example, the movie was directed by a one time director, decent if not below par actors and a writer who didnt do his research. If someone like Jackson, Lucas or Spielberg picked up the TES story and made it into a movie you'd be eating your words.

Oh yes, because those three would definitely make a movie about a game no one knows about, especially due to the fact that all three would be paid less for making this movie than they've ever made on any other movie. Face it: IF there is a TES movie, it would have a crappy director, crappy actors, and even a crappy writer unless Bethesda writes it for them.

[Marcus Wolfe]

But what if Bethesda DID write it for them?

 

DUN DUN DUH!

 

You know what? The best probability for a TES based game is a part of TES lore that the player has never seen before. That includes everything that the player knew happened (such as The Wolf Queen, etc)

[Lisnpuppy]

 

NO MOVIE!!!

 

HOLLYWOOD RUINS EVERYTHING GOOD!!!