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General Discussion => General Non-RP EVE Discussion => Topic started by: Gottii on 03 Sep 2015, 22:55
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http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/baltasarkormakureverestworkingtitlescottfree1201583590-1201583590/
So like, what's peoples views of this? Or was I just trolled?
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We've known about it for awhile, they announced it at a fanfest two years ago I think.
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it, and hoping it isn't a letdown.
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I do not hold my breath.
Especially since they will probably play on very low budget for a scify title.
Well, maybe we will get a new firefly, who knows...
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By definition i assume it won't be that good, until they will prove me wrong.
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I hope its good.
I don't have much hope though, but I really want them to prove me wrong.
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Scott Free are involved, so it looks like this may well happen at some point. I'm rather interested to how it turns out. I do hope they don't make capsuleers the main characters though.
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I do hope they don't make capsuleers the main characters though.
Agreed. IMO that'd be the fastest way to failure. Capsuleers really aren't the most engaging of protagonists. Antagonists, on the other hand...
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It could be ten times more dramatic to have baseliners having at some point to face the dreadful passage of a capsuleer in space. That would picture what we often lack ingame: baseliners being at the total mercy of demi gods.
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They are just going to show us the BoB vs Goons drama. Calling it.
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My guess, it will be about capsuleers, i.e. the players. Almost no one beyond the people on this forum cares about the baseliners and the world they inhabit. Any financial backers will want to know that there is a potential audience of tens of thousands of players hoping to see their toon put on the small screen.
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I think you might be right, but I also think that would be a terrible mistake.
You don't run a tv show with only the population of eve online (and probably not the whole population either, not everyone is going to watch it or know about it). And that population is even shrinking and shrinking now...
You would ideally want millions in terms of audience. And I think your average scify fan or just anyone will probably care a lot more about baseliners that have lore and stories to back them rather then capsuleers...
Not to say that I don't want to see capsuleers. They are a fundamental part of New Eden.
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[..]players hoping to see their toon put on the small screen.
Confessing that every time the subject of an EVE series is mentioned, I hope my char can be seen sub-warp racing in one of the episodes.
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Eve is of a sort of sci fi scale that will be pretty awful on a television budget, and they aren't going to get a proper production budget on a property like this.
Honestly imo best thing for them that will actually make money is animated/cgi series using the same sort of voice acting and cgi from the story trailers. They already have the assets and animators, or can pay for a good studio to do that work.
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I will be physically shocked if this actually gets made.
Then again, I said that about the WoW movie, so who knows.
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As long as they don't fire Duncan Jones and start over from scratch AGAIN I suppose that the WoW movie might happen someday...
At least it's refreshing to see that they care about what they do with their license on the big screen...
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As long as they don't fire Duncan Jones and start over from scratch AGAIN I suppose that the WoW movie might happen someday...
At least it's refreshing to see that they care about what they do with their license on the big screen...
I don't personally care for 90% of anything Blizzard does (I feel like they ruined MMO's for everyone), but for their movie they are going to spend more than $100 million and have WETA, etc. So any problems (if there are any, not saying there will be) will be with story and direction, not throwing money at CGI and sets.
An Eve television show would be crippled from the outset, right? Green-screen backgrounds and television studio sets will not do the Amarr Cathedral or the Crystal Boulevard justice on those budgets, right?
You can get around that a bit by having the show focus on one particular ship 'crew' or maybe just a few capsuleer/station areas but you are unlikely to get the sorts of adventures you often have in the game?
The alternative would be to make it heavily focused on the characters and interactions with not as much pew pew, but unless you are bringing in heavy-caliber writers it seems a difficult prospect.
There are tons of awesome stories to tell about the baseliners though that's for sure.
Maybe it's 'game of thrones' style following a few groups of people from different factions revolving around a central plot, or we follow a baseliner crew member who somehow gets tested for capsuleer compatibility and that is our window in?
Do it animaaateeeeed would be raaaaad
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Just make Foley the main character and you won't have to worry if the show will be bad or good, because it would become amazing
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I will watch because I am a sucker with hopes that anyone I know gets even the slightest mention in it!
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Just make Foley the main character and you won't have to worry if the show will be bad or good, because it would become amazing
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After the Pilot Episode 2- Bladestorm tells the tale of the Nova Knife Blender's creation by Foley Jones, and how it first rose to popularity after he tossed it at a Sansha's Nation raiding party and got a kill mail for Kuvakei himself.