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Originally posted by CookieRevised
That's less than 2 years to make a movie....
(even less if you take in account the time needed to get things started and finished)

Either it will
a) be a shitty movie (even for a "game2movie" movie)...
b) or that date is taken reaaaaaally optimistic...
c) they got tons and tons of money to pull this off in time...

take your pick...

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3rd option. This is Microsoft we're talking about.

I don't know about you but I can't picture myself watch a movie about a game I've played and know the whole story to already. And btw its microsoft *caught* subliminial messengning *caught*

it will rock

That looks pretty cool.  But if it is a let down, I will shoot myself

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Originally posted by DJeX
I don't know about you but I can't picture myself watch a movie about a game I've played and know the whole story to already. And btw its microsoft *caught* subliminial messengning *caught*

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there is a lot of backstory to the game, if you have read the books you will know a little bit about it already.

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Originally posted by Johny
Anyway, i'm seeing, Universal + 20th Century Fox paid 5 Million Dollars...i could have bought the movie rights if i had won euro millions

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they wouldn't have sold it to you, Microsoft get a got of box office takings, and Universal has a lot more resources to make a film than you do, so even if they made more money in the short term by selling it to you, the opportunity cost of selling it to you would be that they would not make as much money than if they sold it to Universal.

Also, we might get to see Master Cheif's head!!!!

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Originally posted by TylerG
That looks pretty cool.  But if it is a let down, I will shoot myself

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It was nice knowing you

I think its hard to base a movie off a game because it can often remove any chance for the directors/screenwriters to introduce a lot of originality to the plot. I guess we shall see in a few years time...

Hmm this aught to be interesting.

they also made resident evil movie from the game, and mortal combat. those werent bad either.

whats the point with master chiefs head, we can see it on the cover already o.o

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Originally posted by Hobbes
Hmm this aught to be interesting.

they also made resident evil movie from the game, and mortal combat. those werent bad either.

whats the point with master chiefs head, we can see it on the cover already o.o

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yeah, in a helmet

why bother, it would be better to make a film out of something that would actually be good as a film, like metal gear solid

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Originally posted by Concord Dawn

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
That's less than 2 years to make a movie....
(even less if you take in account the time needed to get things started and finished)

Either it will
a) be a shitty movie (even for a "game2movie" movie)...
b) or that date is taken reaaaaaally optimistic...
c) they got tons and tons of money to pull this off in time...

take your pick...

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3rd option. This is Microsoft we're talking about.

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erm no... MS isn't going to make any movie, they sold the movie rights from a game. Universal and Twentieth Century Fox are going to make that movie...

Also making movies costs a lot of money, _and_ time. 1.5-2 years time is a very tight schedule. What often happens is, to cut production time,  putting a lot of second level CGI in such movies and/or using small sound studios with huge painted backdrops and models instead of using huge outdoors sound stages.

Technology has improved a lot though. So what is considered top-notch CGI 5 years ago is now 2nd, 3rd level CGI. But anyways, the figures given in the original news bulletin are very tight and raises some questions about the quality, and sounds more like milking the dead cow (as the hype is over) than anything else.

But of course, who says those figures are absolutely correct. Or who says plans aren't already much further than that news bulletin says (this often happens).

All we can do is wait and see and hope for the best...