Easy money for Shrapnel and Malfador.

Atrocities · #1 August 31st, 2001, 03:09 PM

Ya, a t-shirt would be ok, but a mouse pad would be better.

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dogscoff · #2 August 31st, 2001, 03:14 PM

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I figure the only way a SE4 based TV series could work is if it was done like a star trek.
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Screw Star Trek (sorry Trekkies). SEIV is far more suited to a Bab5 clone, which was far better than Trek anyway. (*Dogscoff dons asbestos anti-flame suit) Bab5 was all about politics, and Trek is all about people. Which do you think would be better for SEIV? SEIV would be a brilliant TV series, unfortunately most viewers (even sciffies) would be too damn stupid to appreciate it.

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mac5732 · #3 August 31st, 2001, 04:39 PM

A TV series would be great, with the comp tech of today the special effects could be awesome let alone the space battles over planets and worm holes. Who would you pick to be the main stars to play the different characters, (they could change each week). I also vote to the T-shirt and mouse pad.... Aaron and Richard could even be the in house Tech advisers to the studio...

just some ideas Mac

Antonin · #4 August 31st, 2001, 04:47 PM

SEIV T-shirt? SEIV coffee mug? I'd buy them as long as they didn't look goofy enough to appeal to my 10 yr old niece....

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LazarusLong42 · #5 August 31st, 2001, 04:57 PM

A TV series/movie based on a video game, huh? Um. Oh dear. As a science fiction writer, I dare say it won't work to good effect. Video game plots are pretty thin to begin with, but SE4 doesn't even have a plot to start from. What are you going to base the series/movie on? A series of space battles? That'd be worse than Star Trek. Political intrigue? And you'd relate that to the game how?

As a rule, the initial medium in which entertainment appears is the best medium, and rarely does anything else do justice. Hitchhiker's Guide is one of two exception I can think of, in which the books were as good as and later extended the plot of the radio series. (The second exception is the movie "Contact". In both cases production of the latter form was done by the same person as the original form.) But:

Star Trek books, as a rule, suck. Star Wars books, too. Don't get me started on bad science fiction "written" by Star Trek actors who believe that because Shatner can have books ghost-written for him by hacks, they can as well;

How many video game movies have actually done well? (Pokemon doesn't count; it was, I suspect, a two-hour long FMV sequence).

Have you ever read a novelization of a movie? (Or, worse, take Great Expectations. The movie was a bad enough adaptation of the original book; then they novelized the movie. You read that right. They didn't republish Dickens's book. Someone wrote a new book based on the movie. Ugh.)

OK, sorry... enough venting. Nothing against Malfador, but I would really suggest it's not the way to go.

LL

capnq · #6 August 31st, 2001, 05:10 PM

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Have you ever read a novelization of a movie? (Or, worse, take Great Expectations. The movie was a bad enough adaptation of the original book; then they novelized the movie. You read that right. They didn't republish Dickens's book. Someone wrote a new book based on the movie. Ugh.)

That happens quite a lot. Ian Fleming's original James Bond books are harder to find than the novelizations of the films, and Fleming's books often have little in common with the films besides Bond and the titles.

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mac5732 · #7 August 31st, 2001, 05:24 PM

Most tv/movie plots are weak to begin with, there are the exceptions don't get me wrong. But why couldn't you say pick 1 or 2 of the races and base it on their traits, the plot of SE4 is to conquor the universe, I'm sure a good plot could be generated with good writers/advisors, Book movies always deviate from the original book, the good one would be where the deviation is minor or made to set up the movie or series. Good example of movie not like the book is Battlefield Earth, movie definitly not like the book or story line.

just some ideas Mac