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Sir Henry
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 Posted: 24-Jul-2007 09:13 Post subject: Battletech Movie... Maybe |
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With the release of Transformers, do you think that a Battletech movie is far behind????
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| Posted: 24-Jul-2007 09:39 Post subject: Re: Battletech Movie... Maybe |
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Just as far behind as it always has been. BattleTech doesn't have the following that Transformers does. I don't think we'll ever see a true BT movie unless a director comes along who loves to play. I'm afraid it would come out looking like RoboJox.
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Sleeping Dragon
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| Posted: 24-Jul-2007 09:47 Post subject: |
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Sad, but probably true.
At least someone should alert him that combat like this is cofined to Solaris VII or a few other planets. On the other hand they could combine this witha good CBT story. A few intrigues á-la classic Solaris pilot conflicts and for epic batles to the end comes the Jihad. Suits standard scheme for a movie focused on special effects and in solaris (and blakist) mix of technologies they could hide whatever they are not aware of in real CBT universe (and for which would some fans, me included, would try to introduce them to an UAC/20).
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| Posted: 24-Jul-2007 11:34 Post subject: |
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More like RoboJox meets Capitan Future meets bad 70s/80s SciFi...
And given that the target audience would be kids, we can expect more fluffiness and less "action".
Hell, folks are still complaining about the Jedi getting killed in Ep3, mainly the part where Anakin cuts down the younglings...so I doubt if it ever got made it would have the true gritty, dirty war movie with a scifi twist of mechs and such, it would be as Mordel said more akin to Robotech in the end.
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| Posted: 24-Jul-2007 13:59 Post subject: |
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I laughed a long time when I saw Darth Vader standing up from the table and seeking Padme, man that was funny... and lame.
Do you think that the SW would be accessible for 15 and below if the enemy massacred in droves weren't droids?
CBT movie should begin with Firestarter cleaning the street from infantry... 
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| Posted: 24-Jul-2007 14:52 Post subject: |
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| Sleeping Dragon wrote: |
Do you think that the SW would be accessible for 15 and below if the enemy massacred in droves weren't droids?
CBT movie should begin with Firestarter cleaning the street from infantry... |
Awe yes, but you see even the books of the SW universe and comic, not all of the enemy soldiers where droids...
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Yes, but even then the lightsabers made clean cuts, no blood ever 
Not that I mind that, but CBT isn't SW...
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| Posted: 25-Jul-2007 05:15 Post subject: |
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I remember someone posting this a few years back so i dug it up....
www.mechwarriormovie.com/
youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Amp6qSLOc
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| Sleeping Dragon wrote: | Yes, but even then the lightsabers made clean cuts, no blood ever
Not that I mind that, but CBT isn't SW... |
No valid point, but I refer you back to EPIV Cantinia setting, Obi-wan cuts of the arm of the Walrus guy...lots of blood...
And if you look at the fighting, clones die by the dozens, I recall seeing one or two flying around after their ships were taken out. The bloodless lightsaber stuff is no worse then the bloodless beheadings of Highlander and other similar shows.
Meanwhile in BT missiles, bullets, and lasers are flying around and things go boom and no everyone has the Force or body armor etc...showing that maybe harder since the audience wants SciFi not a rehash of a WW2 movie with robots...that is the part that will need to be gotten over.
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| Posted: 01-Aug-2007 04:31 Post subject: Move from the short Film |
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as far as i know, the film in that short youtube thing is still in the works.
if we could only get Jerry Bruckheimer, Tim Burton, Chris Nolan, or Kurt Wimmer... we'd be all set.
Nolan, and Bruckheimer would keep it rather tech-ish... but Burton and Wimmer do excelent dark stuff. Wimmer did Ultraviolet, and Equilibrium.
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| Posted: 01-Aug-2007 08:57 Post subject: Re: Move from the short Film |
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| Steel-Scorpion wrote: | as far as i know, the film in that short youtube thing is still in the works.
if we could only get Jerry Bruckheimer, Tim Burton, Chris Nolan, or Kurt Wimmer... we'd be all set.
Nolan, and Bruckheimer would keep it rather tech-ish... but Burton and Wimmer do excelent dark stuff. Wimmer did Ultraviolet, and Equilibrium. |
Given WHO owns the rights to the storyline and their target audience, dark won't happen.
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| Posted: 16-Aug-2007 09:43 Post subject: |
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They'll use Carebears for mechwarriors.... 
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| Posted: 18-Aug-2007 00:35 Post subject: |
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Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
It would most likely suck entirely from our perspective if it even made it to the screen.
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| Posted: 20-Aug-2007 10:14 Post subject: |
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I'm sure the acting would suck, but the visuals would be awesome...
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| Posted: 24-Aug-2007 11:26 Post subject: Re: Battletech Movie... Maybe |
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| Sir Henry wrote: | | With the release of Transformers, do you think that a Battletech movie is far behind???? |
Movie no. Sci Fi channel series would work.
The combat scenes could be done CGI and not supper high end easily. A lot from the distance. Then from inside the cockpit with some higher resolution.
You could have core Merc unit and easily do a few power persons in far flung places. So gives lots of personalities to hate and love. Over time much easier to be grey and mutli story lines in a series than an action packed movie.
AWAD- Transformers did rock.
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