Elder Scrolls Film

TheValar85 · July 2017

Hello everyone

i know you are all eager to see this game as a movie adaptation on the wide screen

So in that case i know i cant make that happen thats for sure, but how about if we thorw our ideas about a film?

What would you expect from it, what would you like to see? wich parth of the lore?
the first era, the second the third, the fourth, and so on

Goahed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SqC_m3yUDU

max_only · July 2017

Original Clash of the Titans (1981) was better.

TheValar85 · July 2017

max_only wrote: »

Original Clash of the Titans (1981) was better.

True, but i cant finde that one

Tyrobag · July 2017

The only way something like that would even work would be if they set in in a game that had a non-customizable character, such as Redguard. Even then, it would be almost impossible to do without pissing off people who actually care about the series' lore.

DRXHarbinger · July 2017

Oblivion would have made a pretty good film tbh. ESO game couldn't be made into a film. Three alliances one would have to win, forum would melt if their one wasn't the winner or it would just end and nothing happened and turns into the resident evil franchise with God knows how many pointless films made.

Asardes · July 2017

For additional realism it will be rendered at 5 FPS, and it will play backwards for a few seconds at random times. Every 2-3 minutes there will be a screen with the White Gold Tower in the background.

oaflet · July 2017

I'd be first in line for a movie telling the events leading up to, and culminating with, the disappearance of the Dwemer. I am fascinated with them as a race, and some of the Dewmer ruins explored in Skyrim are outstanding. Those ruins, and Morrowind, would make for fantastic fantasy sets and settings. From a story standpoint, I think there's plenty of opportunity for plot and conflict as the Dwemer edge closer to their disappearance.

The_Smilemeister · July 2017

You do know that the video and film industries don't go well together right? A film based on a game is usually terrible and a game based on a film is usually terrible. There are of course rare exceptions to this but they are too few in number and the likelihood of ESO being an exception is unlikely given the current statistics.

And anyway, like what @DRXHarbinger said, an ESO movie would be very difficult to do without ending on a cliffhanger, a sequel bait, or without one of the alliance's winning the war and throwing the community into a massive fit.

A game like Oblivion could have potentially been made into a movie since the main story is very cinematic like in nature and wouldn't be too difficult to translate into a movie. However, that would also need a pre-made character (which shouldn't be too difficult given the premise and setting of the story).

All in all, given what we know about the relationship between the gaming and film industries, an Elder Scrolls inspired film seems unlikely, assuming it is or has ever been considered.

Acrolas · July 2017

Radinyn · July 2017

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Oblivion would have made a pretty good film tbh. ESO game couldn't be made into a film. Three alliances one would have to win, forum would melt if their one wasn't the winner or it would just end and nothing happened and turns into the resident evil franchise with God knows how many pointless films made.

Talos won.

PS
He is not and will not be a god.

TheValar85 · July 2017

Well it is cealr the ESO will be hard as a working film conept. But i am talking about the previeous Elder Scroll sireses. With a good script writer,(who obviusly knows the chronicle and the lore behind the Elder Scrolls) and with good castings of actros it could be a winn.

Radinyn · July 2017

Forming the All-Flags Coalition and ending the Thras would be epic.

Publius_Scipio · July 2017

I would like to write the script and direct if possible.

TheValar85 · July 2017

Publius_Scipio wrote: »

I would like to write the script and direct if possible.

well if you have those skills and edducations and degree to how to direct a film, including all the requered knwoledge and experiances behind of you, and at least you have some references, it will be good too to see it was directed by some one who is also played the game, knows the lore from A to Z. And have the qualifaction as a film dricetor and script writer too :P

olivesforge · July 2017

Plenty of movies have been made with the audience going in knowing how everything turns out. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

I, for one, would very much enjoy a movie about an AD ski-school outside of Solitude where the people who eventually win anyways get together and laugh at all the drunken nords.

TheValar85 · July 2017

olivesforge wrote: »

Plenty of movies have been made with the audience going in knowing how everything turns out. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

I, for one, would very much enjoy a movie about an AD ski-school outside of Solitude where the people who eventually win anyways get together and laugh at all the drunken nords.

haha I like that one

andreasranasen · July 2017

Please don't, Warcraft was a total failure and did extremely poorly at the box office.

I would not mind to see a cinematic short movie once a year though, that uses the same CGI treatment as the previous cinematic trailers created by BLUR Studios for ESO.

Jusey1 · July 2017

If they make an Elder Scrolls movie, it should about Tiber Septim and the raise of the Septim Empire. This is mostly because of how important this Empire is to the lore, and is something that has been explained very well in good depth in-lore of the games so there is a lot of data to use.

It would be very hard to truly screw this up, unless you're using the wrong kind of lore.

TheValar85 · July 2017

andreasranasen wrote: »

Please don't, Warcraft was a total failure and did extremely poorly at the box office.

I would not mind to see a cinematic short movie once a year though, that uses the same CGI treatment as the previous cinematic trailers created by BLUR Studios for ESO.

This is not blizzard my friend im sure Bethesda and Zenimax would never allow to realease a buthcered film like what warcraft was. Thata film cutting is still pains me even if i think about it :S not to mention the poor character desing for the main characters.... poor actors...

Publius_Scipio · July 2017

andreasranasen wrote: »

Please don't, Warcraft was a total failure and did extremely poorly at the box office.

I would not mind to see a cinematic short movie once a year though, that uses the same CGI treatment as the previous cinematic trailers created by BLUR Studios for ESO.

That's because the Warcraft movie was goofy. The ESO movie must be done in a way that shows it takes itself seriously. In the same vain as Peter Jackson's LoTR movies.

No one wants to see a CG Fengrush on screen.

TheValar85 · July 2017

Jusey1 wrote: »

If they make an Elder Scrolls movie, it should about Tiber Septim and the raise of the Septim Empire. This is mostly because of how important this Empire is to the lore, and is something that has been explained very well in good depth in-lore of the games so there is a lot of data to use.

It would be very hard to truly screw this up, unless you're using the wrong kind of lore.

Well i have to agree on that. thats a good start with Tiber Septim. that would be the best to open the sequel.

Jusey1 · July 2017

TheValar85 wrote: »

Well i have to agree on that. thats a good start with Tiber Septim. that would be the best to open the sequel.

Again, they gotta use the right lore... There is actually two timelines right now in the Elder Scrolls universe. The Original Timeline and the Current Timeline.

Elder Scrolls Online, Arena, Daggerfall, and everything from the beginning to the ending of Daggerfall is the original timeline. The current timeline is everything from the end of Daggerfall to the current events of Skyrim.

It's a pretty big piece of lore to really note because both timelines have one major difference: Talos, the god, exists in one of them and doesn't in the other, which does have major effects on how the world is shaped or going to shape. If we want a proper Tiber Septim movie, it has to be based on the original timeline because that is what actually happened... Tiber Septim never became Talos in death. That was something written in the current timeline's lore due to the Warp in the West event, which happened at the end of Daggerfall.

KochDerDamonen · July 2017

Tyrobag wrote: »

The only way something like that would even work would be if they set in in a game that had a non-customizable character, such as Redguard. Even then, it would be almost impossible to do without pissing off people who actually care about the series' lore.

@Tyrobag I think setting it within an existant game would be a failure from the start.

If they make a film, it should be about a well established historical event that does not warrant its own game (or maybe not a war for once? Make a movie about some peaceful event, people getting on with some weird magic stuff in life in-universe?). Like back in the day with Pelinal and Morihaus or something. Of course they have to be careful to pick something that isn't too mysterious, or that would take too much lore knowledge to get into, or...

Basically what I'm saying is, movie-games and game-movies mostly fail right out the gate.

Jusey1 · July 2017

Publius_Scipio wrote: »

That's because the Warcraft movie was goofy.

No, the problem with the Warcraft movie that it took itself too seriously and was trying too hard to capture the wrong audience. World of Warcraft is a very goofy and cartoony game, that allows you to get connected to the characters and how they live so that when something serious does happen... You take it seriously and emotions will happen from you, be it tears or something else.

The Warcraft movie was too serious and never allowed the proper character progression and connection. It didn't have enough good goofy times and it was done in live action instead of the cartoony animation style from the game, which is so much better.

JD2013 · July 2017

I would love to make a film about the battle of Red Mountain leading to the disappearance of the Dwemer. Of course, offering no more explanation to the mystery than in game.

TheValar85 · July 2017

I dont want to see machinamas. I would realy love to see a real action one from the Elder Scrolls. And i dont think it will be a failure if they decied to make one, if the stroy is in good hand, including script write, story telling, character progressions, and other details too, it could be actualy the first game based Movie wich could rule the film industry as the top adaptation of making films based on a video game. It is not imposibel, it just have to be putted in teh right hand.

QuebraRegra · July 2017

max_only wrote: »

Original Clash of the Titans (1981) was better.

upgraded to AWESOME for correctness!

BrianDavion · July 2017

Jusey1 wrote: »

Publius_Scipio wrote: »

That's because the Warcraft movie was goofy.

No, the problem with the Warcraft movie that it took itself too seriously and was trying too hard to capture the wrong audience. World of Warcraft is a very goofy and cartoony game, that allows you to get connected to the characters and how they live so that when something serious does happen... You take it seriously and emotions will happen from you, be it tears or something else.

The Warcraft movie was too serious and never allowed the proper character progression and connection. It didn't have enough good goofy times and it was done in live action instead of the cartoony animation style from the game, which is so much better.

I disagree, to be honest WOW over does the silly goofy, back in the old days of the RTS to find the silly goofy things you needed to look for it (keep clicking a unit it'll eventually say "stop touching me" etc) being more silly wouldn't have helped the movie. honestly, the warcraft movie didn't do so well, because it was a comprimise. Warcraft is a lot of things to a lot of people, and the movie was a comprimise, between the various interpretations of warcraft, combined with keeping it simple eneugh to understand.

proably didn't help at the time it came out the shine was proably off Warlords,

A Elder Scrolls movie could work, but I don't think it'd be worth it. to work best it'd have to simply be a tale told in the world of Tamerial. it'd be a comprimise between lore and "breaking lore" that would sastify nobody, and the general public would simply see it as a generic fantasy movie

Orjix · July 2017

no no no, just no. a movie could be the worst possible idea for the ES franchise.

TheValar85 · July 2017

Orjix wrote: »

no no no, just no. a movie could be the worst possible idea for the ES franchise.

i would like to know your opion why?