The success rate of.video game to movie adoptions is rather low. There havnt been all that many that have worked. Let's see how fallout does before we start wishing for an elder scrolls one.... we may regret it.

Please no

Would be much better as a series than a movie.

I will be honest. If you take away Argonians & Khajiits what you will get is a generic fantasy movie. Even last D&D movie felt generic because one of the most interesting d&d playable races was moved to "background stuff". And that is exactly the problem. In order for those things to have proper screen time it would require either super high budget (practical effects) or exceptionally good CGI - which is not available to do cheaply at the moment.

So... I guess Elder Scrolls movie would not be amazing... because it would not feel like an Elder Scrolls movie due to world building issues.

There’s been discussions of an elder scrolls movie before. It may be cool to see graphically, but a big part of TES is your character. So… what would the plot be? A retelling of one of the games without the RP aspect? Or the story of one of the in-game book series? A biography on an influential character?
I think watching the story of a game wouldn’t be the correct solution. Maybe a historical event instead, like a movie based on Pelinal (although maybe not him… lots of blood and gore…).

I'd love to visit Tamriel on screen, but these kinds of things seem to be difficult to do well. I think a show would be a better format than a movie. Of course, I'd watch anything TES related just to check it out. I'm not sure how they'd pull off convincing Khajiit and Argonians without going full CGI, which I assume would be expensive.

Elder Scrolls lore is huge, so there's no shortage of material. I'm wondering if there's a way to cleverly nod to the unreliable narrator and the uncertain outcome of events due to player decisions. I think figuring out a protagonist would be tricky too since one of the main appeals to an RPG is customizing your own character. I guess they could do what the DND movie did and have a variety of characters working together--maybe a mage, a warrior, and a thief. Although TES is known for the solo hero (outside of ESO), not an adventuring party. If they made a series instead of a movie, then maybe they could have each episode/season be shown from a different character's viewpoint or something. Maybe there could be a chronicler or storyteller telling the narrative of something that happened in the past and changing it in the present based on their audience's interactions. I don't know. I just don't think it would feel very ES with a normal, straightforward timeline and point of view.

An animated series would work a lot better than a movie.

But going by how ESO does trailers I'm sure I would be disappointed no matter what, because they can't even make mer look like mer in their own trailers.

"Warcraft: The Beginning" movie was financially profitable (brought 440 mil versus 160 mil invested in), but it's general acceptance by critics is very low. As for me (with 4 years of WoW experience during Burning Crusade and Lich King times) the film was good.
The catch is - it is a niche product. For the fans who know The game lore. For random viewer many things lay beyond theirs comprehension, and, thus, not captivating.
ESO Lore is significantly bigger. And there are zero chances to explain it in short 90 minutes.
So, from lore point of view, i doubt, it can be done. Disregard lore and we get just another action film in a fantasy world. Not Lord of the Rings, not even Warcraft. So, i am rather skeptical about any MMO-based movie perspectives. imho, apparently.

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Nice work, @Delphinia and thanks for sharing! Queen Ayrenn's incredible depiction in game is probably almost impossible to match but you did a fabulous job improving the game's wimpy depiction of Emeric and buffoonish depiction of Jorunn.

Medieval fantasy (without hobbits, thank you) is my genre so I'd be up for an ESO movie.

Thank you so much @AcadianPaladin, very kind of you. I envision characters like that if there was ever a film. I agree with your description

reazea wrote: »

Would the movie be PvE or PvP based?

(sorry, couldn't help it)

@reazea , lol actually that's a good question. There are players who soley play pve, those who pvp, and those who do a little of both. There seems to be such a wealth of content.

I guess I just like to see characters I like come to life. I did not think I would enjoy the LoTR movies, but my husband convinced me to see them. I have to admit that I loved them. I was not familiar with Elder Scrolls, nor did I play mmo's much prior. However, when this came out in 2014, I was immediately hooked. I mostly pvp (if you can call it that lol), but I've grown to like and dislike certain characters over the years. I am not a huge fan of the cartoonish appearances, I'd rather see real life versions. I just find it reaches a person on a different level when a character is portrayed on film.

thanks everyone for your insightful and thoughtful comments!

I think this could be cool but it would need to tell an eleven-mer story and include Khajiit and Argonians, otherwise it would be too generic I think. Or Redguard could also work. Something to show that Tamriel is fantasy but also different to other fantasy genres.

Azphira wrote: »

Zos would probably hire Uwe Boll.

Dear sweet Jesus, no.

Also, no, if they did a series it'd be done by netflix and they'd taint it something awful.

Just leave it to the games.

I like the Witcher series and it's on my rewatch list. The focus there is on the story not the game-play and honestly Elder Scrolls has amazing amounts of potential storylines (perhaps too many?). The lore is too vast to compress in a single film but a film could be the pilot episode or the vehicle to launch a series. I think there is a very large audience for similar fantasy and that ES games would benefit from additional exposure.

I would prefer a live action series to an animated one. As ES lacks a single defining character so perhaps the initial focus could be on persona like Alessia and Pelinal Whitestrake. I love the lore and reading articles like https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Alessia still stir me and encourage me to delve into further reading.

I would not like a game-based series to focus on actual gameplay but would very much appreciate an approach where the story is the primary driver.

I don't think they could get even one game's main story quest line in a movie without cutting too much stuff out.