ITT: Source material that would be difficult or impossible

>>84298744
They're making a fucking trilogy based off of Tetris. Somebody could write decent portal movie.

>>84298851
You're assuming the Tetris trilogy is going to be watchable

>>84298851
>Larry fucking Kasanoff
Yeah those Tetris flicks will really be something

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>>84298744

>>84298744

>character wakes up in a seemingly normal apt
>a female robotic voice begins giving her instruction
>after passing through a few rooms which begin to change
>character realizes that the voice is out to kill her
>character has to escape a la "Cube"
>starring Jennifer Lawrence

A portal movie would work if you give the audience a sense of immersion. Or if they could feel empathy for the character any time they went through a portal. For example, the use of portals in high places that force the user to drop from a potentially fatal height would both use negative space well and allow the audience to feel suspense or tension. Similarly, while the game essentially gives you unlimited time to finish most rooms, a movie adaptation would need to find a way for the story to progress. Maybe there's someone stalking the protagonist. Maybe the portal gun has limited shots. Maybe there are several people using portal guns at the same time.

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>>84299657
They kind of made this movie already, and it wasn't that great...

>>84298744

How would it be difficult at all? It’s the game with a camera filming the character.

>>84298744
JJ Abrams is literally the only person I trust with making a proper vidya adaption. The Cloverfield movies and LOST took place in the Portal/HL universe anyway though

three stigmata of palmer eldritch

it's just fucking impossible

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I could see Portal being quite a doable film to make.

Would rather see a Half-Life movie before Portal though.

But to stay on topic, SimCity. I'd have NO idea how they'd do that.

>>84298744
Movies are just too short to do anything interesting

>>84299903

They made a movie out of fucking battleships board game and an emoji movie. They would find a way.
Whimsical characters who live in a diorama like city have a bunch of crazy shit happen to them. One of them begins to suspect that someone is causing these events.

They've made/making movies based on emoticons, the battleship boardgame and tetris. Sadly, there is nothing that they won't try and adapt to a movie.

>>84299954

James bond with aliens

>>84300039
Television shows (the ones with continuity far more than episodes which have no connection to each other) put too much filler in.

I will always prefer movies like The Godfather over shows like The Sopranos.

A nice, contained story will always be superior to me.

>>84300077
>Whimsical characters who live in a diorama like city have a bunch of crazy shit happen to them. One of them begins to suspect that someone is causing these events.

Isn't that exactly what The Lego Movie is about?

>>84299048
>starring Jennifer Lawrence
Olivia Munn would be perfect desu

>>84299776

Cube has a very polarized audience. You either love it or hate it. I loved it.

>>84298905
>Not a tetralogy
Has pottery died?

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hard mode: no Cars-esque type of movie

>>84301504
Mad Max meets Drive

>>84298744
Just make some of it, cool looking scenes where chell is solving puzzles that get increasingly harder, and some where GLaDOS is talking with her casually, yet constantly making threats to her life.

Also do a lot of exploration in the ridiculously huge facility.

>>84301504

Movie takes place in the future, soccer played with futuristic cars is popular. From there on it's just your standard sports movie where the characters have to learn to work with each other.

>>84298744
Just remake Moon but with a female protagonist and make the Kevin Spacey bot really sarcastic.

>>84301504
Speed Racer with big metal balls.

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It would be doable. But they'd have to invent the entire story and all the action takes place in space.

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>>84299776
>and it wasn't that great...

>>84298945
Already done.

>>84303395
Nah. As long as it's animated it could be a pretty cool film.

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COLOBOT

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there's just too many fucking characters and the mythology is too complex. if you strip those aspects out of it, there's nothing terribly unique left. MAYBE an HBO series could work, but it'd be a real challenge, and the required budget would be massive.

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Any Paradox game
Since the gameplay is just staring at a map for however many hours, the movie has to be exclusively shots of a map

>>84303498
yeah but it's a toddler. animated film crowds will flip out

>>84300432
not really. LEGO Movie is mostly standard dystopian shit with a whimsical skin and a two-jokes-a-minute script, and the meta crap all comes in in the last twenty minutes.

>>84299048
>>84300465
it would work best as a 3DCG animated flick with no dialogue besides GLaDOS, no need to cast anyone as Chell

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>>84298744
>Takes elements from various sci-fi conventions and settings.
>Where would you even start?

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inherent vice was easy mode.

i honestly can't imagine any director with the talent to bring it to life on the big screen.

>>84300039
Oh yes I much prefer 10 hours of trash filler reliant on cliffhangers because gotta get dem ratings.
The shit-tier production quality because low comparative budgets also just makes it so much better.

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Is anyone edgy enough?

>>84304758
WH40k would be easy as fuck to adapt. It would just be hard to do it right.

>>84298744
On the other hand I'd love to see a TF2 movie/tv adaptation.

>>84304863
the only hard part of adapting this would be getting a studio to fund it

Cormac McCarthy's novels are practically screenplays, just hire a talented cinematographer and shoot it word for word with minimal camera movement

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>>84304758

They already made a movie about WH40K warp travel.

>>84304632
World record breaking map starer suddenly meets a new challenger. But can he juggle the competition and win samanthas heart?

>>84304863
dead man by jim jarmusch is the closest i've seen but that was a little more hallucinogenic in tone. regardless one day they will almost certainly try and make it a movie.

>>84304900
Be better giving it the GoT treatment but just with out hack writers

>>84304953
>map staring autismo
>interacting with women at all

>>84304960
>WH40k
>GoT
>without hack writers

The whole setting is one intentional knock-off hackjob or atleast it used to be.

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This shit proves that anything can be turned into a movie

>>84304481
>10 books of self contained stories

wew lad

>>84304863
James fucking Franco thinks he can do it. What a dumbass. Shit would be utter trash. The extent of the evil of the protagonists makes it very tough off the bat.

>>84305010
>The whole setting is one intentional knock-off hackjob

Yeah, I'm honestly surprised Blizzard never sued them for how blatant of a ripoff it was from Starcraft.

>>84305046
they're not self-contained, but yeah. it's essentially three arcs that eventually all get welded together in the last 2 books, with literally hundreds of viewpoint characters.

>>84305051
have you actually watched any of the films Franco has directed? As I Lay Dying and Child of God were both good.

>>84304900
>WH40k would be easy as fuck to adapt.
Nope.jpg

Requires in-universe knowledge for most of the time.

Laymen would be asking shit like why is the Emperor worshipped? Is he ded or not dead? Why are some of the Space Marines spikey and evil? And so on.

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Hard to adapt an rpg with such freedom for choice. Add to that disney would ruin it.

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>>84298744

>a man on a quest
>to buy a gf

>>84305146
There's a canon ending to it, so yeah it's possible.

>>84305146
>>84305213
that said, KOTOR 2 would still be a hard game to adapt because there's relatively little conflict for the majority of the game.

>>84304863
I'll do it.

>>84305133
This is why Wahrammer 40k Novels all start with this.

"It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."

Basically summarizes the setting.

>>84305061
Google Warhammer40k
Google Starcraft
Feel stupid and stop posting

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honestly I just really hope they never try

>>84305379
it would not be that difficult to just adapt all of the main plot quests into a film.

>>84305133
It has a shitlaod of characters and stories, it already sells toys. It's easy to adapt but it would be hard to make it digestable to normies and fans alike.

>>84305317
Sounds like a job for Ron Perlman

>>84305275
I think the amount of plot and dialogue compensates for that. It wouldn't be easy but it's still possible.

>>84305213
possible but very difficult to pull off well. I would love to see a series with the original idea of having vima sunrider as opposed to bastila shan - replaced vima due to a legal issue with the sunrider name.

>>84305275
Being a force wound, the development of Meetra learning so much about the force quickly could be great if done right. There wouldn't be as much fighting, but the inner conflict of meetra surging in power as she overcomes more enemies would make up for that. That and all of her crew seaching for their place in the galaxy. It would be complex as fuck, but done right the story would be amazing

Also fuck that abortion of an mmo that made meetra seem like weak shit. The whole point of a force wound is that its the exception to the anakin rule in terms of power level.

>>84298744
Are you kidding? There's a ton of backstory in the second game to mine for a potential adaptation.

Here's my pitch. It opens no later than Cave Johnson purchasing the salt mines and ends no earlier than Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. The tone is a Moral Orel-esque mixture of absurdist humor and genuine suffering. As cringe-worthy as the Portal 2 fan-made stage musical was, the guy who played Cave Johnson in it would be a great fit for the role in the movie, and Caroline should be Mara Wilson, assuming she can be persuaded to do another movie. Also, it's a musical with a score by Jonathan Coulton.

>>84299048
>>84304738
Then you just have the same experience as the original game, but without any interactivity. It's pointless.

>>84305423
I really hope they never try though

>>84305446
>Being a force wound, the development of Meetra learning so much about the force quickly could be great if done right. There wouldn't be as much fighting, but the inner conflict of meetra surging in power as she overcomes more enemies would make up for that.
This. The story would be amazing.

>>84305379
Would they reveal Caius' sugar problem?

>>84305442
>>84305446
there's no way to compress all of that into a 2.5 hour film, though. KOTOR 2 is conflict-light, but plot-heavy, and thus a nightmare for adaptation. i think it could possibly be done as an 8 - 12 episode miniseries, but even that is pushing it, because the writing is just so detail oriented that cutting anything weakens the entire narrative greatly. luckily, due to autistic novelizations, there's a canon path for literally everything in the game, so anyone working on it wouldn't have to start from scratch, but it'd still be a near-insurmountable task.

>Also fuck that abortion of an mmo that made meetra seem like weak shit.
yeah, i agree. overall i think SWTOR is a quality game, fun to play as a co-op RPG with your buddies, but the writers handled Revan and Meetra terribly, to the extent that i wish they'd just left them out.

>>84305602
You are absolutely correct that a movie is impossible. I see it as a miniseries, maybe 10 hour length episodes.

In fact I could see 5 seasons of a high quality old republic series with the following:

>s1: Mandalorian wars
>s2: Jedi Civil War
>s3: Kotor 1
>s4: Kotor 2
>s5: "Kotor 3"

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>>84305350
>Feel stupid and stop posting

Ironic.

>>84305602
Make multiple movies, fill some space with drawn out fights. SW3 had a 45 minute fight.

>>84305694
all right lad
time to post the rest

>>84305689
>s5: "Kotor 3"
Why? The ending to kotor 2 was already kino. What would even be in that season?

>>84305110
James Franco's previous shitty book adaptations are the reason we all know he can't do it. They're terrible.

>>84305708
that sounds terrible, anon. it could theoretically be done, but it misses the entire point of KOTOR 2's story. in fact, a proper adaptation of KOTOR 2 should have as little action as possible, or at least go out of its way to portray it non-heroically.

>>84304481
hand drawn animation in the style of heavy metal. Only include the major events of each book. Include the heavy metal.

>>84305880
..okay, so just make another Heavy Metal movie without the Malazan name on it if that's what you want.

>>84298744
a Portal movie should be about the rivalry between Aperture Science and Black Mesa in their heydays.

>>84299903
Steve Carrel is small town mayor who has always secretly had dreams of being the mayor of New York. Christopher Walken invents this ray that can literally make buildings out of raw materials in minutes. Steve meets Walken on a chance encounter and before Walken dies he bestows his greatest work onto Steve.

OK so now Steve can create the city of his dreams but there is a catch, the love of his life played by Brie Larson works at a small business and hates big city folks because they want to make everything corporate.

Carrell can't help himself he must build things with his SimCityRay but he also keeps her isolated. Eventually his lust for power encroaches on her and he needs to decide whether or not to destroy his CityRay forever or to tell her about it.

Its heartwarming you could even do an Edward Scissorhands type ice sculpture scene where he makes a building that looks like her, or makes entire sports stadiums called Brie Larson Park to convince her that SimCityRay is a good thing.

There could be an environmentalist angle because he destroys all the forests to make all this city shit.

>>84305744
Remember that revan disapears into the unknown regions to seek out the threat he discovered before the Jedi Civil War.

Obviously there was third game in development before it got cancelled for the MMO. There was a bigger story that culminated the True Sith and Revan's motives for keeping the republic at war.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-31-fear-is-the-path-to-the-dark-side

I dont know how good of a story it would have been, but the KotoR story doesn't end with 2. It wasn't supposed be Naga Sadow's Sith empire that resurged either, that was done for the MMO. The True Sith were supposed to be some more acient and alien - maybe the Dark Side exiles that lost the Force Wars - equiped with ancient knowledge that made Darth Nihilus and Sion so power - and Meetra. Unfortunately we'll never know what could have been.

That's why I have a 'KotoR III"

>>84305232
build wall

>>84306112
>Unfortunately we'll never know what could have been.
fuck

Why was it scrapped?

>>84305926
Yeah pretty much

>>84299776
>and it wasn't that great
Cube is Kafka Kino

>>84306183
Because EA bought out Bioware and its IP. They wanted to milk that bad boy so they made the abortion that is swtor with lots of things to buy...

Star wars ended the moment Disney owned the movies/TV and EA owned the games...

>>84298744
Almost any manga and/or anime/Japanese light novel series whatsoever.
There, I win.

>>84298851
Always wished this would have been expanded upon:

https://youtu.be/4drucg1A6Xk

>>84305486
>without any interactivity
and this is why most games make terrible movie adaptions.

>>84298744
They could do a great Portal movie, but they would fuck it all up by making Chell speak.

>>84305317
So the setting is basically that peace is impossible and thay humanity is perpetually at war because some undead emperor commands it? Sounds kinda dull for a movie but is a good setting for a videogame

>>84307654
>So the setting is basically that peace is impossible and thay humanity is perpetually at war because some undead emperor commands it?

Normie understanding of text never ceases to amaze me.

>>84299776
>and it wasn't that great...
kill yourself

>>84298744
How would this be hard? The story's literally already written

>>84309474
That's the problem with making videogames into movies, they're already a visually depicted narrative even though most (or at least it should be most) of the content is done through interaction segments.

With today's "cinematic experiences" it's almost futile to make a video game movie unless you're making something based off an earlier gen back when games barely had any story to begin with.

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Reminder Jew Jew Abrams is supposedly working on a Portal and Half Life adaptation

>>84299861

I don't trust JJ but at least Valve are going to be fairly involved with the movie.

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>>84298744
The dialogue between Chell and Freeman would be mindblowing.

>>84299861
>>84309994
>>84310051
You've seen episode 7 and the Star Treks right? Jar Jar Abrams is a hack.

>>84298744
DUDE THE CAKE IS A LIE LMAO
DUDE SPACE LMAO
the quips write themselves

>>84305317
Never get tired of reading this. Abnett gives it a human edge in Gaunts Ghosts, with the resort planets and subsequent mobster antics, as well as excellent utilisation of common tropes like Where Eagles Dare and Saving Private Ryan. Really fun stuff.

>>84310129

Just episode 7 and I didn't really enjoy it. As I said I don't trust JJ but Valve must see something in whatever he's presented since they were set on making the movie themselves for a fair while.

>>84310129
Why would I call him Jew Jew Abrams if I liked the idea?
The thought that we live in a world where we could actually see an Half Life flick before HL3 even comes out makes me sick

>>84310184
Disney saw EA as a great partner for video game licensing. Then swtor happened. People make mistakes, and this is another one. Not to try and rain on your parade, but I wouldn't even have mediocre hopes for that...

>>84299861
>>84310051
Can JJ do anything original or does he exist solely to destroy franchises?

>>84310316

Yeah but Disney only cares about money. Despite all the shit EA pulls they still rake in a good amount of cash.

>>84310386
Yea they make money, but they handicap themselves by restraining creativity for strict business practice. They rely on their established IPs and buying out smaller developers. It works.

>>84298744
Quite a few things happen in the game that would break suspension of disbelief for a movie, which would not be good. typically massive falls and monster G accelerations. other than that it would be an easy adaption hell the backround story is better than many B grade shitfests. actually getting someone to fund a Cube'like single woman escapes from bizarre future puzzle movie will be the real challenge

>>84298851
>tetris trilogy
>not a tetralogy
one job

>tfw no HL3, KotOR3, expansions of NWN3
Fucking why

>>84310496
nvm, someone beat me to it

>>84310502
I know that feel bro.

>>84310502
>tfw no AoE4 with AoE3's mechanics

>>84310502
>tfw no Battlefront III, but EA reboots the series with all of their bullshit.

>>84298744

Hardcore henry-style might work

>>84304948
This, perfect movie to explain warp jump without shields, how humanity encountered the effects of this technology the first time, the gravity drive room design was 10/10 w40k gothic design, just a quick nod at the end to the fact that it's set in the w40k universe would have made it a w40k movie, and a good one, not a full adaptation of the whole universe (which is too big and would get things wrong) just a nod, like split set in the unbreakable universe, that's how you should make "movie universes", have a full story about something in particular and just be subtle about the fact that it's set in the same universe

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:^)

>>84311335
>YOU WATCHED THEM DIE SO FEEL BAD NOW
ther u go

>>84311335
the board would reach terminal levels of cancer the day that is released

>>84311386
>killing

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>>84298744

perfectest chell?

>>84299903
Basically just a Matrix knockoff.

>>84301504
Just add soccer balls to the fast n furious movies and you got it

>>84299903

I would have agreed with you but then they made a Lego movie

>>84305146
>a game that is based on a movie couldnt be made into a movie

>>84298744
It will be done like the Sands of Time/Prince of Persia movie

They will only use the portal gun once at the start to solve an easily preventable mundane issue
Then never use it again til the climax where the portalgun gets destroyed.

>>84298744
>Source material
I see what you did there.

>>84298744

Pretty easy to adapt as a porno, tho. Imagine a mirror that shows your backside and you can fuck yourself. Imagine putting a portal on the inside of a womans panties and fucking her while she's at work. Imagine a portal on each palm and making your dick come out of one of them so you can suck it. Imagine putting a portal above a shower and pissing on a woman while she showers. Imagine going to sleep with your ass as your pillow.

>>84306029
Give this man $100000000 and a team

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>>84311618
Agreed. Or Sofia Boutella. The mummyfu appears to be the current ethnic go-to girl in Hollywood.

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Idk what do you guys think. You get like 9 different perspectives in the first 50 pages.

>>84299776
At least the first cube was great. Cube zero was alright even if a bit goofy. Cube 2 went full retard.

>>84299954

I fail to see how this would be difficult when we have shit like Bond films and the Underworld series around.

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Malick gave up on it

>>84313878
only cause new orleans doesnt exist anymore

>>84299776

really loved this movie when i was younger.

>>84299776

>bait.exe

>>84312069
Came here to post this.