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Wouldn't it be great if there were a movie based on part of the MOO3 backstory? After all, doesn't the backstory have everything you could want for a great scifi movie? It has epic wars, mystery, ancient races. I think the MOO3 story could lend itself really well for a great scifi movie. What do you all think?
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'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
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no. the story's not the weak part. it's that it's a video game...
and video games almost never translate well.B♭3Comment
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But you don't need the video game to make the movie.Originally posted by Q Cubed
no. the story's not the weak part. it's that it's a video game...
and video games almost never translate well.
Just pretend there is no game, and just focus on the backstory. Don't you think that a great movie could be made based on The Elders' Civil War, the Antaran War, the Pax Humanica, or the Harvester Experiments?'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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No. It is trite and cliched.
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P.S. Just like 99% of the movies, yes, I know that.Comment
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It sure might be better than all the caply moives SupicWood(HollyWood) is turning out lately.By the year 2100 AD over half of the world population will be follower of Islam.Comment
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Sorry if the game doesn't gross enough money to seropisly pay the bills you can forget about a movie.Comment
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It seemed to me to be a bit too much like Babylon 5.
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The book that the moive Blade Runner was loosely based on didnot sell that well at all. The moive scriptwritter did than better job of written it than the sceince fiction writer did in 1949.Originally posted by DarthVeda
Sorry if the game doesn't gross enough money to seropisly pay the bills you can forget about a movie.
The moive was many thousand of time better than the book it was base on.By the year 2100 AD over half of the world population will be follower of Islam.Comment
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I think that it would actually be a neat idea if there was a series of movies that took place in the MoO3 background fiction, most of which should probably take place in the more exciting times, like the evacuation from Center One at GC zero, or the Battle of ConJenn that ended that second Orion-Antaran war.Known in most other places as Anon Zytose.
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Even though the idea appeals to me I don't think a movie would work. The amount of written fiction after release is practically zero.
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The movie would probably have to stick with the history where the humans played a big part. I don't think movie goers would be interesting in a movie that only featured CGI aliens. The humans would have to have a central role in the movie.Originally posted by TimeTraveler
I think that it would actually be a neat idea if there was a series of movies that took place in the MoO3 background fiction, most of which should probably take place in the more exciting times, like the evacuation from Center One at GC zero, or the Battle of ConJenn that ended that second Orion-Antaran war.
I would probably start the movie with a voice-over narration briefly explaining the evacuation from center one, Elder's War. That way, the viewer would be introduced to the neccessary info about the universe that the story is taking place in.'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"Comment
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Actually, I think, that there could be a series about MOO3 and the origin of species in the Galaxy, and perhaps, humans. Are humans descendents of the original Elder Race the Orions, were humans created as an genetic experiment, etc?
The Great Wars, and so on of the alien species, and all that has happened with the history of alien species in the Galaxy, and the ups and downs of civilizations of alien species in the Galaxy.
Actually series could go on and on forever. Kind of like Babylon Five or so, and all that has happened including the dispersion of the Antarans into the other dimension by Captain Locknar and the Black Hole Generator, and the return of the Antarans or the changing of the Antarans into the New Orions, with epic space battles, and the total involvement of species in the Galactic Cycles of History.
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I concur. Races coming and going and coming back and yadda yadda.Originally posted by Vince278
It seemed to me to be a bit too much like Babylon 5.
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