TES movie?

PittClass94

I have never seen a more beautiful cinematic trailer of three fates.
I thought: "Incredible! looks like a movie!" 26 minutes of eso trailers are more exciting than many movies released in recent times. I think it would be an amazing movie.
What do you think?
Think about it.

Haxnschwammer

Hmm.. Yes, the trailers been really good. But a Movie with TESOs current state?

First 10 minutes will be great!
10-30 minutes will be awesome.
30-50 will be a copy of 10-30
50-70 will be a copy of 10-30
There will be a break of 10 minutes because the movie stopped. The person left of you will get a full refund and a first class seat. The person right of you will be told that there is no problem at all. You will be told that it's your fault. You should go home, come back, buy a new ticket for the show and be gratefull.
70-75 will you miss because of some rowdies
75-85 will be bollywood physics with 20 smurfs dancing in the background
85-95 will be stop-motion
Then the movie will suddenly end with a frozen screen for 5 minutes
In the credit screen you will see advertisments to buy additional scenes you missed before
When leaving the hall you will be charged extra and the rowdies get free tickets for the next show
On the outside the director will cry and raise the ticket prices while wiping his tears with 100$ notes
For some reasons you will like it

Haxnschwammer

Oh, and to post a more serious answer, the trailers were good in creating a hype. They gave the players what they expected. Cool moves, great graphics, references to lore... but I don't think that will work in a movie. There won't be enough to see it, and without paying customers, nobody will fund it. Fans would definetly like it. Final Fantasy movies worked that way, but Fanbase in Japan was a lot bigger than ESO's. Especialy with ZO$ milking the franchise like they do.

PittClass94

Good point.
However it is not an exhortation to make the film, it's a kind of poll. Obviously TES and ZOS not have the funds for a film, he did WoW this year .. about whether the sequences are not very well, the world tes is really large and if you think about it in all games the various dialogues, quests, campaign etc .. have already made more than a movie, and also exciting, because they know very well characterize the characters and make them well-rounded. so I'm confident. and then, 26 minutes of trailers without a word and make it so beautiful is a few.
However they are viewpoints

SantieClaws

Khajiit has already made three of these. Possibly this one is planning another one for Fishmas time ....

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Forestd16b14_ESO

As much as I would like that lets take a look a past game movies .......... Yea not pretty.

BenLocoDete

Haxnschwammer wrote: »

Hmm.. Yes, the trailers been really good. But a Movie with TESOs current state?

First 10 minutes will be great!
10-30 minutes will be awesome.
30-50 will be a copy of 10-30
50-70 will be a copy of 10-30
There will be a break of 10 minutes because the movie stopped. The person left of you will get a full refund and a first class seat. The person right of you will be told that there is no problem at all. You will be told that it's your fault. You should go home, come back, buy a new ticket for the show and be gratefull.
70-75 will you miss because of some rowdies
75-85 will be bollywood physics with 20 smurfs dancing in the background
85-95 will be stop-motion
Then the movie will suddenly end with a frozen screen for 5 minutes
In the credit screen you will see advertisments to buy additional scenes you missed before
When leaving the hall you will be charged extra and the rowdies get free tickets for the next show
On the outside the director will cry and raise the ticket prices while wiping his tears with 100$ notes
For some reasons you will like it

Don't forget the additional scenes with the actors taking a bath/eat/drink/sleep and sexier actresses you can download for the movie roles on Nexus.

Also, no spiders.

BlackSparrow

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

As much as I would like that lets take a look a past game movies .......... Yea not pretty.

Agreed.

It might be all right if they picked a particular event from lore (Battle of Red Mountain, Akaviri Invasion, Alessia's Rebellion) and used a movie to flesh out the events and characters involved. But anything following the games would be, at best, a Mary-Sue-fest that loses both the tone and most of the events from the games. I have very little confidence that even good writing and direction could get that right.

Pomaikai

If Zenimax is involved, I'd boycott it on principle at this point.

khele23eb17_ESO

Afrer seeing Warcraft Id have to say no. Game based movies are still not on par with comic book movies.

Ashtaris

There is a TV show that you would almost swear was produced by Bethesda, The Shannara Chronicles. Definitely a TES/Fallout twist to the show, that's for sure As far as a movie goes, it could work if the screenplay was done well. Unfortunately, many times they are not.

Saoirse_Siobhan

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit has already made three of these. Possibly this one is planning another one for Fishmas time ....

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

OMG this is so awesome! Nicely done!

anitajoneb17_ESO

TheWhiteDarkness wrote: »

OMG this is so awesome! Nicely done!

Agree. This is a true piece of art.

DRXHarbinger

Pomaikai wrote: »

If Zenimax is involved, I'd boycott it on principle at this point.

I'd wager 100k gold the reel would lag out. You'd probably have to lay extra to watch the ending too. Movie dlc ftw.

Grao

Blizzard, a company with a lot more money than ZOS, took about 10 years to finally have a movie made about their video game.

Zenimax simply does not have the money to do this, hell, they don't have the money needed to hire better coders to fix their game.

Jennifur_Vultee

Movie announcer voice:

"In a world dominated by elves mankind is enslaved but one woman will rise to lead her people to freedom in a rebellion and crush an empire. Blessed by the Gods a slave will rise to Empress of Cyrodiil and bring justice to all. Join us on an epic adventure though the land Cyrodiil...The Elder Scrolls: Rise of Alessia, coming December 2018."

THEDKEXPERIENCE

If an Elder Scrolls movie ever comes out it'll be a movie about the rise of Talos. I have no info to back this up but it's a pretty perfect story for a movie.

Totalitarian

Female Dunmer narrator:

"Somewhere, far away, they lived. They had brought their curses before".

*enter bright, peaceful scenes of Morrowind*

"We all liked to be optimistic. Hope that war would never come back."

*More peaceful scenes*

"But those horrors returned"

*enter a ton of action packed scenes involving the Akaviri invasion of Tamriel during 2nd Era*

*enter glimpse at romantic subplot*

*more action packed scenes*

*enter shot of Vivec raising water up at Vivec's Antlers*

"As monsters tread our lands, only the gods can save us"

The Elder Scrolls: Invasion (title WIP, not enough impact ;_;).


Thanks to whoever brought up the Akaviri invasion. Now makes me want to write novel on it. Thankfully, not much information on it, and as if my time wasn't already taken up by ESO and writting ESO fan fiction. I'm backlogged on all of my writting projects already. Someone else has to write the script.

Forestd16b14_ESO

BlackSparrow wrote: »

Forestd16b14_ESO wrote: »

As much as I would like that lets take a look a past game movies .......... Yea not pretty.

Agreed.

It might be all right if they picked a particular event from lore (Battle of Red Mountain, Akaviri Invasion, Alessia's Rebellion) and used a movie to flesh out the events and characters involved. But anything following the games would be, at best, a Mary-Sue-fest that loses both the tone and most of the events from the games. I have very little confidence that even good writing and direction could get that right.

That is true players only know about TES events by actually looking and reading around for the lore apposed to the games where you are the events that happen.

Maybe a TES movie about Talso of Atmoras rise to divinity or the Alessia rebellion against the heartland elves or even the Tribunals rise to power all good ideas.

But multi million dollars worth of a movie ? Maybe not best we can hope to see is a very good CGI movie which I wouldn't mind cause CGI video game movies tend to do alot better than the live action stuff look at the Resident Evil CGI movies compared to the live action ones.

UltimaJoe777

You do know if they made a movie about TESO the plot would be the Alliance War and the Vestige's quest to reclaim his soul right? It'd be like Lord of the Rings trilogy where the Companions are like the Fellowship of the Ring and then Ayrenn, Jorunn, and Emeric would be like Saruman, Theoden, and Denethor, to a degree.

TheValkyn

Blizzard did it. I expect Bethsoft to follow their lead. I mean - they have followed pretty much every step of the way praying to have the same success as Blizzard. Sadly, they fail.

DaniAngione

Hmmm...

If we ever get to see an Elder Scrolls movie, I'm fairly sure it will focus on some unexplored point in time or a smaller/new narrative. I don't think we'd ever get a movie about any of the main games' plots nor TESO - not only because these would fit a TV series format far better than movies (because of their scale if they want to be faithful to source material) but also because they know that meddling with stories that are already too well "burned" in the collective imaginarium of fans is a dangerous business.

So, yeah, I do believe it would be a new, original story.

And, to be honest, I don't see it as far stretched as some might think. First of all, Zenimax is a huge group - THE Zenimax, the group that owns both Bethesda and ZOS, and they also work with media and such - which would make it not so much of a long jump. They certainly have the means and the money if they wanted to.

AND also because I think a TES movie/tv series is far more doable than the Warcraft movie was. Although still arguably High Fantasy, the TES universe is far more realistic (in terms of aesthetics) than the Warcraft universe, with most creatures pretty much humanoid and magic as a far deeper and organic thing rather than big flashes and glitter. All in all, what I mean is that bringing the TES universe to movie and tv screens would be a lot more about good writing and producing rather than millions of dollars in CGI and computer effects. Hell, you can even come up with a good TES story with almost no CGI if you do it right.

So, to finish it off, I think that the only barrier between an idea and reality is the potential profit. Unfortunately, if not even WoW could impress masses other than their already estabilished fans (let's be honest, the movie is bad. It was only enjoyable for people that played the games and even so just because of nostalgia (As someone that works/studied media/communication/arts/filmmaking and stuff like that AND played Warcraft I felt really divided between an awful and awesome movie at the same time) I doubt TES would have a fanbase big enough to provide a substantial profit and all that.

On the other hand, we've been witnessing a growing "fantasy/medieval trend" on the last few years since the LOTR movies generation grew up and started to look for mature content of the same type. Game of Thrones (TV Series) boosted it up and now we're seeing a lot of new medieval and/or fantasy series coming up, new movies, etc... not only the technology and resources currently available make it FAR more doable than it was 10 years ago, it IS a current trend. That said, there's a lot of potential for a series aimed at non-fans that would also cather to fans and, perhaps, estabilish a new ground for TES in the cultural imaginarium of our society. My best best would be an alternatively distributed TV series with a new/original story in the TES universe, something probably best fitted through Netflix or Starz. This would open way for new seasons with better resources, so anticipation could be built for greater things (like Oblivion) from start but left for future seasons, and would also pave the way for future developments like movies, more franchising with toys and such, not to mention the likely increase in sells of TESO itself and other games from the series. Combined with a card game for celphones to aim at more casual gamers that really enjoy the series, this could be a blast for Zenimax.

Timing is of the essence, though. And like one of my favorite lines from the Prophet used to say:
With the passing of time, any indecision becomes decision.

EDIT:
Writing this got me so inspired, I'm totally going to start working on a screenplay - even if just for fun - (I'll wait your e-mail Zeni, thanks )

TheValkyn

@DaniAngione Hate to burst your bubble but Pete Hines himself stated they don't take outside opinions for new projects. It's an idiotic principle but it is what it is.

Lysette

khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »

Afrer seeing Warcraft Id have to say no. Game based movies are still not on par with comic book movies.

Yeah, I was not impressed with Warcraft as well.

UltimaJoe777

TheValkyn wrote: »

Blizzard did it. I expect Bethsoft to follow their lead. I mean - they have followed pretty much every step of the way praying to have the same success as Blizzard. Sadly, they fail.

And nobody cares. If we did we'd be playing WoW or Overwatch and never bother with ESO again.

Mojmir

Just a load in screen

Lysette

But the trend to do movies from longer running franchises is there - now Assassin's Creed will follow. I will eventually watch it, time setting is the spanish inquisition.

anitajoneb17_ESO

Who has ever succeeded at adapting a medieval/fantastic universe into a movie or a TV serie ?

Let's see...

- Lord of the rings
- Harry Potter
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Game of Thrones
- Excalibur (and most good movies based on the arthurian legend)

All come from extremely famous and rich series of books, with world-wide reputation.

What video-game ever succeeded on the big screen or on TV ?

I think... none. Even The Witcher failed (and it was backed up by high-quality literature too). WoW failed.

TES might be a golden franchise within the gaming sub-world, but it is unknown anywhere else. Noone knows about Elder Scrolls outside the gaming industry. There's no literature behind the Elder Scrolls lore.
Besides, even if the lore is very rich, it's spread over thousands of lorebooks with different points of view and tidbits of mysterious infos and clues. It is a great storytelling technique for a videogame, but I'm not sure it would make enough material for a good story for a movie or a serie.

I hope they'll refrain from trying it, it's doomed to fail imho.

TheValkyn

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

TheValkyn wrote: »

Blizzard did it. I expect Bethsoft to follow their lead. I mean - they have followed pretty much every step of the way praying to have the same success as Blizzard. Sadly, they fail.

And nobody cares. If we did we'd be playing WoW or Overwatch and never bother with ESO again.

Care or not the trend is forming.

Blizzard has a highly successful MMO. Bethsoft publishes an MMO.
Blizzard has a highly successful CCG. Bethsoft publishes a CC. (Not even a creative divergence either)

UltimaJoe777

TheValkyn wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

TheValkyn wrote: »

Blizzard did it. I expect Bethsoft to follow their lead. I mean - they have followed pretty much every step of the way praying to have the same success as Blizzard. Sadly, they fail.

And nobody cares. If we did we'd be playing WoW or Overwatch and never bother with ESO again.

Blizzard has a highly successful MMO. Bethsoft publishes an MMO.
Blizzard has a highly successful CCG. Bethsoft publishes a CC. (Not even a creative divergence either)

We play ESO (and in some people's cases cling to or return to ESO) for what it is, was, and can be, and not for how successful it may or may not be. Honestly, that alone makes it a success in its own way. Of course ESO has its ups and downs but what game doesn't? ESO may be just a Massively Multiplayer Online Elder Scrolls Game or MMOESG for short as opposed to an MMORPG but personally (and I've looked) I cannot find any other MMO I'd rather play.

Whether ESO has 7 million or 7 hundred I care not. I've played games until they were flat deserted and still kept playing because I enjoyed it until that game's last breath or I realized its private servers gave me viruses lol

Lysette

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

Who has ever succeeded at adapting a medieval/fantastic universe into a movie or a TV serie ?

Let's see...

- Lord of the rings
- Harry Potter
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Game of Thrones

All 4 come from extremely famous and rich series of books, with world-wide reputation.

What video-game ever succeeded on the big screen or on TV ?

I think... none. Even The Witcher failed (and it was backed up by high-quality literature too). WoW failed.

TES might be a golden franchise within the gaming sub-world, but it is unknown anywhere else. Noone knows about Elder Scrolls outside the gaming industry. There's no literature behind the Elder Scrolls lore.
Besides, even if the lore is very rich, it's spread over thousands of lorebooks with different points of view and tidbits of mysterious infos and clues. It is a great storytelling technique for a videogame, but I'm not sure it would make enough material for a good story for a movie or a serie.

I hope they'll refrain from trying it, it's doomed to fail imho.

That is why I am pretty interested in how Assassin's Creed will do as a movie - I mean a game is interactive, you do stuff in it and it is your story basically - but in a movie, you are passive and the story must be a lot more interesting than playing the game yourself - and this is very hard to do. I think that is why it is so hard to make this successful.