I think it's for the best. Universal is still on to release Battleship, a film based on the board game owned by Hasbro, and I don't foresee that turning out well (from the trailer I saw, the movie matches the game down to the bombs being shaped like pegs). I would rather they not trod upon Magic in that way.
I have heard that one of the mortal kombat films was actually decent, but I am not a fan of the games so...
Yeah, Resident Evil 1 takes the cake
It's still a small slice of cake too...
Now, if Wilford Brimley were to play Ajani then I might have to see it. But, since it's no longer in the works I guess that's not even an option. I wonder which character Michael Cera would have played.... Actually I don't.
I think it's for the best. Universal is still on to release Battleship, a film based on the board game owned by Hasbro, and I don't foresee that turning out well (from the trailer I saw, the movie matches the game down to the bombs being shaped like pegs). I would rather they not trod upon Magic in that way.
How could you compare Battleships to Magic? Magic has dozens and dozens of novels of source material, whereas Battleships has... a name.
All of you who are pessemistic about a movie solely on comparing it to things like Mortal Kombat, Battleships, Monolopy, Resident Evil... I'm sorry but I must be brutally honest: it's just damn stupid. Taking into account the medium of the source material rather than things like storylines, potential directors, writers, actors, producers... It just has no logic behind it.
Now, if Wilford Brimley were to play Ajani then I might have to see it. But, since it's no longer in the works I guess that's not even an option. I wonder which character Michael Cera would have played.... Actually I don't.
Michael Cera would just be the dues ex machina that kills off Bolas.
Well, I don't think if anyone who wants to direct a MTG movie should take up one of the stories from the Novel, since most of the stories have some link to the previews one. Instead, one should take up the origin of mtg universe and tell the audience a new story about it. I mean, look at Inception. The story was quite complex, but the explanation about the works was done magnificantly. So take a piece of the game that characterise the game and tell the audience the story, and it does not to have closing ending (see Matrix I, and not the rest of the horrible trilogy(except for the animated version)) Leave the audience to their imagination.
Planewalker concept is indeed a great start...and it does not need to go into detail how everybody got their freaking walker-ability, maybe highlight just one that is in common with other planewalker.
Furthermore, Resident Evil is the best game-based movie. It's not super dooper cool, but rather entertaining (for each of the quatrology), watched quite a few times.
I think the 'Gather Your Allies' video had the right idea in this respect. Maybe focus on one walker and do his origin story - show the awakening of their spark. Then, introduce other walkers and the audience will be able to understand the concept behind them without needing origin stories for each of them. In fact, I bet just that video alone can be fleshed out into a feature-length film.
Please do not call that "thing" Resident Evil, it's a Milla Jovovich Original Action Film.
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Uhh, people knew a DAY after that was put online that it was just a fanmade video. It is not a movie.
At any rate, this is good news. Nothing good could have ever come out of a Magic movie.
Bad video game/game movies: (there are certainly more than this)
Double Dragon
Mario Bros
Street Fighter
Any Mortal Kombat sequel
Any Resident Evil sequel
Wing Commander
Max Payne
DOA
House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
Bloodrayne and sequels
Dungeon Siege
Postal
Dungeons and Dragons
There are 10 bad video game/game IP movies for every good one.
Magic has been around for almost 20 years and people have been 'wanting' a movie the entire time.
But it would be really bad.
So it is a good thing it will never happen.
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Uhh, people knew a DAY after that was put online that it was just a fanmade video. It is not a movie.
At any rate, this is good news. Nothing good could have ever come out of a Magic movie.
Bad video game/game movies: (there are certainly more than this)
Double Dragon
Mario Bros
Street Fighter
Any Mortal Kombat sequel
Any Resident Evil sequel
Wing Commander
Max Payne
DOA
House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
Bloodrayne and sequels
Dungeon Siege
Postal
Dungeons and Dragons
There are 10 bad video game/game IP movies for every good one.
Magic has been around for almost 20 years and people have been 'wanting' a movie the entire time.
But it would be really bad.
So it is a good thing it will never happen.
All of you who are pessemistic about a movie solely on comparing it to things like Mortal Kombat, Battleships, Monolopy, Resident Evil... I'm sorry but I must be brutally honest: it's just damn stupid. Taking into account the medium of the source material rather than things like storylines, potential directors, writers, actors, producers... It just has no logic behind it.
Also, if you don't want to see a Magic movie, no one would force you to watch it if it's ever made.
If Tom Cruise becomes Venser, we would be watching a mighty dwarf on the screen...better change the title into Dwarf, the movie
I think he could do it, he just needs sideburns and platform shoes. Most of the footage is there in other films he has done. I mean, some clever editing and the scene where he dies in the last samurai becomes Venser teleporting his heart into Karn (Karn is Chow yun fat, born for the role if you ask me)
actually that web-made MK video got the director picked up by Warner Bros. to direct the official web series. It just finished it's first season.
All I can say about an MTG movie is, that it would probably be bae enough to embarrass me out of playing. There is no chance that a magic movie would be any good. The books are laughably bad. Like almost Twilight bad. The plots are flimsy, convuluted.
Film makers are running out of ideas. First Battleships and now Magic and Monopoly!!! What will the film industry think of next.
I asked this after seeing the "Battleship" before "Cowboys and Aliens." Chutes and ladders? Candyland? Then to my surprise my buddy says Candyland has been on the board for some time. Hehe. Get it? "On the board?"
No really, I can't think of another that I would ever consider watching again.
Silent Hill? Not a terribly great movie, but incredibly faithful to the source material and had nothing particularly bad about it save for maybe the acting of the little girl in it (but kid actors are usually hit or miss anyway).
I think the 'Gather Your Allies' video had the right idea in this respect. Maybe focus on one walker and do his origin story - show the awakening of their spark. Then, introduce other walkers and the audience will be able to understand the concept behind them without needing origin stories for each of them. In fact, I bet just that video alone can be fleshed out into a feature-length film.
Agreed. Anyone thinking it'd be based on one of the sweeping, epic block stories is kidding themselves. A smaller, more relatable story would be both cheaper (thus less risky) and far more accessible to broader audiences. And then they could even create a new set of characters unrelated to the current ongoing arcs happening in-house while still keeping it within the universe. That's even if a studio wants the property anymore, which I kind of doubt. With Universal letting it fall into development hell and then dropping it altogether, it doesn't give me hope. Although, I don't have much hope that a decent film would be made anyway, so it's probably for the best. Of course, what a smaller house like Dimension could do would likely end up being worlds better than the fan-fueled ideas I'm seeing on here, so there's that.
The fact that it was dropped is probably a reason for hope though. Now it can be picked up by a studio that will actually go ahead and make it.
Possibly. Depends on the reasons for it being dropped, though. If Universal didn't view it as a worthwhile investment (or not worth the trouble as I think having to work with the creative restrictions far tighter than Hasbro's other properties may have kept this bird on the ground in the spec script phase), other studios will probably follow suit. A smaller house (like Dimension, as I said), may snap it up but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Anyone who knows what they do to a story when it goes from book to movie would not want them to follow a beloved story line. I could seriously see something like this end up Slivers vs superheros (planeswalkers) which would be terrible in my opinion. We all know they are going to do the easiest thing they can make a movie out of. Then they will twist it into some Hollywood formula and totally destroy the story for hardcore followers.
Knowing that they dropped the movie is good for everyone that ever was invested the game in any way.
Possibly. Depends on the reasons for it being dropped, though. If Universal didn't view it as a worthwhile investment (or not worth the trouble as I think having to work with the creative restrictions far tighter than Hasbro's other properties may have kept this bird on the ground in the spec script phase), other studios will probably follow suit. A smaller house (like Dimension, as I said), may snap it up but I'm not going to hold my breath.
You would be surprised, lots of successful movies were originally dropped before being picked up by other studios. Star Wars is one example.
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You're totally right. Since Mario Bros. was a bad movie, it's pretty clear that a Magic movie could be no better. Logic.
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It's still a small slice of cake too...
Now, if Wilford Brimley were to play Ajani then I might have to see it. But, since it's no longer in the works I guess that's not even an option. I wonder which character Michael Cera would have played.... Actually I don't.
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How could you compare Battleships to Magic? Magic has dozens and dozens of novels of source material, whereas Battleships has... a name.
All of you who are pessemistic about a movie solely on comparing it to things like Mortal Kombat, Battleships, Monolopy, Resident Evil... I'm sorry but I must be brutally honest: it's just damn stupid. Taking into account the medium of the source material rather than things like storylines, potential directors, writers, actors, producers... It just has no logic behind it.
...I don't know what to say. My mind is actually blown. They should have a disclaimer at the start of that.
I actually don't know what to say...
what you call movie...
i like resident evil 1, final fantasy vii: ac and most of lara croft movies.
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Michael Cera would just be the dues ex machina that kills off Bolas.
I think the 'Gather Your Allies' video had the right idea in this respect. Maybe focus on one walker and do his origin story - show the awakening of their spark. Then, introduce other walkers and the audience will be able to understand the concept behind them without needing origin stories for each of them. In fact, I bet just that video alone can be fleshed out into a feature-length film.
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Uhh, people knew a DAY after that was put online that it was just a fanmade video. It is not a movie.
At any rate, this is good news. Nothing good could have ever come out of a Magic movie.
Bad video game/game movies: (there are certainly more than this)
Double Dragon
Mario Bros
Street Fighter
Any Mortal Kombat sequel
Any Resident Evil sequel
Wing Commander
Max Payne
DOA
House of the Dead
Alone in the Dark
Bloodrayne and sequels
Dungeon Siege
Postal
Dungeons and Dragons
There are 10 bad video game/game IP movies for every good one.
Magic has been around for almost 20 years and people have been 'wanting' a movie the entire time.
But it would be really bad.
So it is a good thing it will never happen.
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Also, if you don't want to see a Magic movie, no one would force you to watch it if it's ever made.
I think he could do it, he just needs sideburns and platform shoes. Most of the footage is there in other films he has done. I mean, some clever editing and the scene where he dies in the last samurai becomes Venser teleporting his heart into Karn (Karn is Chow yun fat, born for the role if you ask me)
If it is bad, it does damage to the IP, and may have Hasbro look negatively at M:TG, so it does affect people who don't go see it.
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All I can say about an MTG movie is, that it would probably be bae enough to embarrass me out of playing. There is no chance that a magic movie would be any good. The books are laughably bad. Like almost Twilight bad. The plots are flimsy, convuluted.
There's just no way this should happen.
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I asked this after seeing the "Battleship" before "Cowboys and Aliens." Chutes and ladders? Candyland? Then to my surprise my buddy says Candyland has been on the board for some time. Hehe. Get it? "On the board?"
I'll be quiet now.
Silent Hill? Not a terribly great movie, but incredibly faithful to the source material and had nothing particularly bad about it save for maybe the acting of the little girl in it (but kid actors are usually hit or miss anyway).
Pssst, that wasn't a trailer for a movie, it was proof of concept video to fish for investors. It did, however, turn into a web series.
Agreed. Anyone thinking it'd be based on one of the sweeping, epic block stories is kidding themselves. A smaller, more relatable story would be both cheaper (thus less risky) and far more accessible to broader audiences. And then they could even create a new set of characters unrelated to the current ongoing arcs happening in-house while still keeping it within the universe. That's even if a studio wants the property anymore, which I kind of doubt. With Universal letting it fall into development hell and then dropping it altogether, it doesn't give me hope. Although, I don't have much hope that a decent film would be made anyway, so it's probably for the best. Of course, what a smaller house like Dimension could do would likely end up being worlds better than the fan-fueled ideas I'm seeing on here, so there's that.
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Possibly. Depends on the reasons for it being dropped, though. If Universal didn't view it as a worthwhile investment (or not worth the trouble as I think having to work with the creative restrictions far tighter than Hasbro's other properties may have kept this bird on the ground in the spec script phase), other studios will probably follow suit. A smaller house (like Dimension, as I said), may snap it up but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Fracture: Israfiel (WBR), Wujal (URG), Valedon (GUB), Amduat (BGW), Paladris (RWU)
Collision (Set Two of the Fracture Block)
Quest for the Forsaken (Set Two of the Excellion Block)
Katingal: Plane of Chains
Knowing that they dropped the movie is good for everyone that ever was invested the game in any way.
You would be surprised, lots of successful movies were originally dropped before being picked up by other studios. Star Wars is one example.