Starcraft movie

[snakeskin009]

Hey does anyone know anything about the sc movie? i hear its comeing out in 2010 but im not sure.

[wa123]

I hope it never comes out, I'm sure people already had enough from Startrk, Stargate, startwar..etc... all crappy, no need to produce another similar movie in 2010

[kongurous]

It comes out... never.

[B.A.Baracus]

It comes out... never.

Thats too soon.

[mcflurry_1982]

when will hollywood learn. popular video games cannot be made into movies

[Ixion]

Sounds like a horrible profiteering venture. I hope I dont live to see it.

[HyperDemonic]

if they make one it well sux cuz holly mess up video game....



....just look how they fucked up Doom,Alone in the Dark,ect.

[snakeskin009]

well i think holly did do a good job with a few game movies. like resident evil wasnt that bad. final fantasy 7 was amazingly good. and a few other movies were good, but if i ever see silent hill again i will kill babys. cause that was the worst movie ever made.

[B.A.Baracus]

Why did you make 60 copies of this thread snakeontrain person?

[snakeskin009]

my computer was being messed last night when i did this one. so yeah thats why.

[PillsC2E]

If you must know, and I didn't really want to announce it yet, I am planning to make a starcraft-based movie. Yes, you heard me correctly and without any fault whatsoever, I AM PLANNING TO MAKE A STARCRAFT MOVIE. Anyways, I am making the script now and I will post more information about it later. I already posted a thread about it a while ago on the CWAL2 Forums (operationcwalii.smfforfree.com), but I just thought I'd put a post here. I plan to begin filming by (at the latest) next winter.

[PrestonBurke]

Thats too soon.

Yes Never is too soon.

Sounds like a horrible profiteering venture. I hope I dont live to see it.

Agreed. I hate the "Hollywood" knock-offs of games. I perfer the Ameatur artisits that have no budget and money to make movies. In other words i like the CG and flash movies of starcraft.

well i think holly did do a good job with a few game movies. like resident evil wasnt that bad. final fantasy 7 was amazingly good. and a few other movies were good, but if i ever see silent hill again i will kill babys. cause that was the worst movie ever made.

Resident Evil wasnt that great, even New York times said it was "average cliche zombie flick" (Okay i made that up, but a lot of reviews were like that). But it has its perks.

[own3d0406]

Agreed. I hate the "Hollywood" knock-offs of games. I perfer the Ameatur artisits that have no budget and money to make movies. In other words i like the CG and flash movies of starcraft.

In other words you like shitty movies.

[PrestonBurke]

Hey, not all of them are "Shitty". Some of them are pretty good, theres a short CG flick of a Starcraft movie, but i doubt i can find the link to it.

Just because it doesnt have the best graphics and sound quality, doesnt mean its bad. And its a lot better than letting Hollywood butcher it.

[own3d0406]

Hey, not all of them are "Shitty". Some of them are pretty good, theres a short CG flick of a Starcraft movie, but i doubt i can find the link to it.

Just because it doesnt have the best graphics and sound quality, doesnt mean its bad. And its a lot better than letting Hollywood butcher it.

Look at the low budget moveis, bad acting, bad script, bad direction there's nothing really good about them. I don't see what you mean by "butchering" but I think if Hollywood were to spend millions of dollars to make a SC movie, they would do a decent job with it.

[PrestonBurke]

Okay i'll try to explain my opnion a little better.

1. What i mean by "Butchering" is the whole concept of the game turning into a franchise. People that dont know what Starcraft is, will watch the movie, and probbaly think its another geeky star wars thing. Thats one way that the game can be butchered, the lack of understanding and appreciating for the game that it can be.

2. How can you really "fit" Starcraft within the limits of a 2 hour movie. (If it was a 3 hour movie, it would become a snoozer) There are just simply too many stories and details that screen writers will have to pay attention. And they will simply leave some out so that the movie will be shorten. (Not unless they got Ripley Scott to write the screenplay)

Perhaps the only thing cool about it is the action.

3. Imagination could possibly ruined. All the flash animators out there that are working on there own SC project will have to compete with the concept that "Starcraft the Movie" is the new standard for a good SC flick.

Perhaps you will agree with what i am saying, perhaps you wont. But i dont want to turn this into a flame war or anything. So we should drop this before anything real starts.

Maybe the movie would be sucessful, maybe it wont.

[Sub-Focus]

I think a movie of Starcraft would work out, provided it was made by the right people.

[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

I want to see a hot figured actor play as Sarah Kerrigan. A hot chick with a gun shooting Zerglings… I don't know about you guys...

I'm really dieing to see another Starship Troopers movie for very long time in the past, but StarCraft is better then Starship Troopers and I want more StarCraft. It's not like its going to ruin our love for the game. If the movie becomes great, it'll attract more people to play the game. If it sucked, at least loyal StarCraft fans will still play.

I really don't see why there wouldn't be a StarCraft movie.

[own3d0406]

Okay i'll try to explain my opnion a little better.

1. What i mean by "Butchering" is the whole concept of the game turning into a franchise. People that dont know what Starcraft is, will watch the movie, and probbaly think its another geeky star wars thing. Thats one way that the game can be butchered, the lack of understanding and appreciating for the game that it can be.

2. How can you really "fit" Starcraft within the limits of a 2 hour movie. (If it was a 3 hour movie, it would become a snoozer) There are just simply too many stories and details that screen writers will have to pay attention. And they will simply leave some out so that the movie will be shorten. (Not unless they got Ripley Scott to write the screenplay)

Perhaps the only thing cool about it is the action.

3. Imagination could possibly ruined. All the flash animators out there that are working on there own SC project will have to compete with the concept that "Starcraft the Movie" is the new standard for a good SC flick.

Perhaps you will agree with what i am saying, perhaps you wont. But i dont want to turn this into a flame war or anything. So we should drop this before anything real starts.

Maybe the movie would be sucessful, maybe it wont.
1. If Hollywood is going to spend millions of dollars making and promoting a movie, I think they will do some prior research on the topic and that the movie will be based on the game. (SC is a geeky thing BTW -.-)

2.If people in Hollywood who probably had years of experience in the movie buisness can't fit SC in 2 hours, how will amateurs?

3.Competition is a good thing, this will give the flash animators an incentive for making their original project better.

[Alexisonfire]

whats wrong with star wars? i mean 4,5, and 6 ignore the others

[DragonPaladin]

The "amateurs" that make the SC movie understand what the people want. They're SC players and fans themselves, they understand what appeals to the majority of SC players. And seriously, you can't really fuck up a SC movie, unless you get everything wrong, and that's just cause they're being dumbasses. What would be nice is simply a movie about a battle or event, not the ENTIRE SC campaigns.

[hmea1]

I like Starcraft and I think it works well as a game, but I think that there is too much information, too many subtleties, and too much going on to fit into a single movie. Starcraft works well as a game because it is the right medium for this kind of story (the SC books work too because of this reason). To even remotely work as a movie the SC story would have to be a trilogy. If it were only 1 movie there would be only time for one side of the story (one campaign). I fear that a movie would condense the story of both Starcraft games into a 90 to 120 minute film script written by people who only know the basic plot structure. What film studio is supposedly backing the making of this SC movie? Warner Bros? Paramount? Universal? Who? Don’t get me wrong – after all “The Lord of the Rings” series successfully made the transition from book to movie, but he same thing (if history is any judge at all) has not been the case for movies based on videogames. Although there have been some successes (Tomb Raider, Resident Evil) there have also been several more failures (Super Mario Bros., Dungeons and Dragons, Mortal Kombat, Final Fantasy) as far as the box-office is concerned. Furthermore, a movie based on Starcraft would most certainly be too short for audiences (except for fans of course) to form any strong emotional attachments to the actors on screen. Check out this link to see one reviewers critiques of such movies:

http://www.cinematical.com/2005/10/26/cinematical-seven-videogame-movies/ (http://www.cinematical.com/2005/10/26/cinematical-seven-videogame-movies/)

Is this going to be done in CGI because I’d think it would be hard to do the make-up for the Protoss and the Zerg. On another note I’m worried that the Protoss would be portrayed as arrogant in the film version when in truth only some of the Protoss are arrogant. The beauty of the Starcraft story is that it gives the perspectives of every side of the game’s wars. Thus a person can understand the forces driving the Zerg to anihalliate all life, or the inner struggle between the Protoss’ civil war between the new and the old ways of their society, and at the same time feel empathy towards the strife of our own race – the Terrans. I feel that a movie version of the game would not be able to encompass these perspectives and would only gloss over them and replace them with cheap theatrics. Yes, I believe that a SC movie made by an amateur fan would be more satisfying than a high-priced, fast-tracked one because I am convinced that any such movie would have little involvement from Blizzard in its production. Put simply I don’t think the production of a SC movie would put forth the time, effort, and consideration needed to make it good. Let us not revamp the Starcraft story and tread down the dark path of Super Mario Bros: The Movie and so many others without first remembering what it was that drew us to the game in the first place and be aware of the possible failures that await us if we choose to ignore this. If we can do that then not only we can better honor the game, but we might be able to prevent it from entering the Hall of Shame that threatens all super-popular games – Starcraft included.

[DarkMirror]

D&D isnt a video game, its a RPG.
Plus, the movie wouldnt have to focus on the games, it could take place in a differnt setting during the games, as in a nother perspectivem, or it could be like a SC2, a plot that picks up where the last one stopped.

[screwball69]

well i think holly did do a good job with a few game movies. like resident evil wasnt that bad. final fantasy 7 was amazingly good. and a few other movies were good, but if i ever see silent hill again i will kill babys. cause that was the worst movie ever made.

holywood never made advent children it originated in japan and resident evil was not good

[ShadeZ]

If there is starcraft movie I will not watch it.

[hmea1]

I didn't mean to say that Resident Evil was good. I meant to say that it made considerably more money than the other ones I mentioned. Anyway, only Starcraft fans would understand what's happening if the movie picked up where Brood War left off (unless you added a very lengthy prologue before hand). Nevertheless, the movie would in part be made for Starcraft fans so the idea has some merit to it.

D&D isn't a video game? I always thought an RPG was a type of video game. Correct me if I"m wrong but The Legend of Zelda series is an RPG. Does that mean that it is not a videogame as well? According to Dictionary.com a video game is "an electronic or computerized game played by manipulating images on a video display or television screen" whereas an RPG is a "role-playing game." Given the two definitions I can't see how D&D does not qualify as a video game. I've seen a handheld liquid crystal display version of D&D from the early '80's so that's why I think that it exists at least in some form as a video game (even though LCD's are primitive they still count!).

[DarkMirror]

No, D&D is a "paper and pencil" RPG. they made cheapass video games with some of the same concepts though.
True D&D though is NOT electronmic.

[blupp74]

Starcraft should never ever become a movie.
Why?
Because:

#1: The story in itself is in no way über fantastic. It's a story, that works in the game. Works well, even. Many games have terrible stories. Moving to the movie-medium, you find that many movies have great stories. So a movie with a great story is really not that amazing.

#2: As many have said, the story would not be covered in 1 movie. It would have to be more than one. Which studio is going to put up the money for even a first part? Anyone not playing StarCraft would just see it as a sci-fi movie. Then when they hear it's based on a game they've never heard of, 80% of them will go "Oh, no, not again...." and stay as far away from movie theatres as possible when it comes out.

#3: If they make an original story, then...well...then it's not the starcraft story at all, it's just set in the starcraft universe. And only StarCraft enthusiasts will appreciate that the way it "should" be appreciated.

#4: StarCraft would in many ways remind people of Starship Troopers. The fact that there is a 3rd race will probably not have a great impact on people.

#5: Even if making StarCraft actually got a budget, it would not be huge (for reasons stated above). They would afford half-bad CGI, and rely on that CGI for 80% of the movie. The remaining 20% would consist of half-bad actors that act half-badly. Mostly overacting, I assume ("wow, this is my ticket to Hollywood! I'm going full out on this one!").

IF StarCraft ever was made, and actually became a good movie, it would have nothing to do with the fact that it was originally StarCraft the game.
It would have all and everything to do with skilled producers, directors, actors and whatnot. And then it could just be any good movie out there.

I'd say there's a 2% chance that a StarCraft movie turned out good, though.

[hmea1]

Yes it would remind people of Starship Troopers I think. I think the concept for the first Starcraft was influenced by that movie (and a few other games like Jet Force Gemini). Except in any Starcraft movie they would hopefully use tanks. One question about Starship Troopers: why didn't those guys use any tanks?! A few tank battalions would at least be able to run away from all those "bugs" if they were losing the battle or were being overrun. They could even fire while running away. Only those big bugs with the napalm breath could really do a tank in. But no, they only send in the Mobile Infantry (albeit with some snazzy weapons) and their fleet of ships and are losing for much of the movie. Also I must ask this question: is it morally wrong to literally make a planet explode if that planet is only inhabitited by an unnummerable mass of insects bent on seeing your species completely decimated? They could have sent over a cluster of nuclear missles (picture 5 or 6 packed close together like a bouquet of flowers) and then have triggered them at the same time. Boom! There goes the planet with all the evil-ugly bugs and no one to feel sorry for. Sorry for this tangent, but thinking about all of that millitary technology that wasn't utilized in that movie makes me think about how hard the wars in Starcraft must have been for the three races who were truly giving it all they had and were capable of giving and how they were truly maximizing their potential for war.

[DarkMirror]

yeah, but they wanted a live brain bug...

[blupp74]

yeah, but they wanted a live brain bug...

They wanted a live brain bug to learn how the insects think, so they could defeat them. The same goal would be accomplished with the nukes.

Would be a kinda short and boring movie though...

[DarkMirror]

No, nuking kills ne planet. thwe bugs had many.

[exterminator]

--only Starcraft fans would understand what's happening if the movie picked up where Brood War left off (unless you added a very lengthy prologue before hand). --

Not necessarily. Something has happened before StarCraft itself takes place, and I think you understood what was happening when you played the campaings first time even when you didn't probably anything about events before first Terran campaing. Because the story is made so that you don't need to know what has happened before Episode I.

The story starts in a simple way and when the story goes on, more and more complicated things from the world of StarCraft are revealed to player. In the beginning player doesn't know much about StarCraft universe, but when the game is finished, player knows quite a lot.

The movie could be similar.

[blupp74]

No, nuking kills ne planet. thwe bugs had many.

Ehm...more nukes?

[DarkMirror]

Yes, but then the humans lose valuble colonies that were infested.

[blupp74]

Yes, but then the humans lose valuble colonies that were infested.

I don't recall humans colonizing any of the bug homeworlds, aside from the one they found the brain bug on. And it wasn't much of a colony either...more of a military outpost.

Anyway, I think we missed the topic by a few miles here.
Similarities with Starship Troopers is one thing, but now we're discussing THAT movie...instead of a potential StarCraft movie.

[DarkMirror]

No, the bugs infested HUMAN homeworlds.
So the humans lose valuble resorces and land to nuking planets into oblivion.

[Serban]

Am I the only person on the forums who actually hopes that a SC movie appears and would watch it ONCE even if I'm told it's exceptionally bad...?

[blupp74]

Am I the only person on the forums who actually hopes that a SC movie appears and would watch it ONCE even if I'm told it's exceptionally bad...?

I would probably TRY to watch it. But if it sucked (like Starship Troopers 2) I would turn it off immediatly.