CantFaketheFunk:

Ranooth:

CantFaketheFunk:
Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

Find me any over space marines that are more interesting and i'll give you a cookie.

This is either gunna be good or so bad thats its good.

StarCraft's.

WH40k Space Marines bore me to tears. They're so over-the-top with their eighteen livers and twelve hearts and yet the entire universe just presents itself RAWR SERIOUS GRIM DARK FOR THA EMBPREROAR. Everyone fights everywhere forever, and it's impossible to take them seriously. But it's more their ridiculous superhuman nature that makes it impossible to root for them as the underdogs, their blind fanatacism PURGE THE HERETIC FOR GLORY, and their utter stoicism. They're blatantly over-the-top in their attempts to be COOL and AWESOME and BADASS that it just becomes dull.

Meanwhile, the StarCraft space marines are rednecks and prisoners strapped into power armor. They're the underdogs; they're a lot easier to relate to, and they joke around. I can't ever imagine a 40k marine using a nuclear bomb cooler to store some beer (it'd probably be considered some form of heresy), can you? The SC marines are much more like 40k's Imperial Guard - who I like much more than 40k's Space Marines for the same reason. They're ordinary guys in way over their heads.

I think that's the point. Warhammer Fantasy/40K are almost definitely meant to be comedies. Very straight faced ultra-violent comedies, but still comedies. It's pretty subtle, but there's three almost undeniable bits of evidence for it :1)Codex:Space Marines has a quote from 1984 (War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength etc.) 2)The core WHFantasy races are based on British subcultures 3)A story from WhiteDwarf about a mage demolishing a castle with...gah can't remember, that annoying Lore of Heavens meteor spell, only to be chastised with "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off"

You're also not meant to root for the Space Marines. The 40K universe is explicitly designed so that there are no good guys. So much so that when people started siding with the Tau, GW added in subtle slavery implications and focused on the "Blow you to crap" part of "Join us, or we'll blow you to crap" At least they ask.

This is of course nonsense, everyone knows the true good guys are the Eldar Harlequins.

This is not the first time they've tried to get a 40K movie off the ground. A quick google shows the last news I can find on the attempt to bring Blood Quest to the screen was 2006, but I remember reading about it and watching a few test vids back when I still had a 56k modem, which suggests work began back in 2001/2 or there abouts.

A link to the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpEY630UaMg

While I'm pretty sure it'll be assed up, I hope it isn't, WAR lore and action is fucking epic.

So they're trying again eh?

Waaaaaay back GW started work on a CGI Space Maine movie based around the Blood Angels. It was going to be called "Bloodquest" which is the same as the comic they were basing it on. They released a handfull of still shots before it got 'put on hold', and the production company disbanded before it was resumed.

I didn't even realise they'd gotten as far as a trailer, I don't remember them mentioning it in White Dwarf (GW's magazine) even though it looks like this is where the shots they released came from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpEY630UaMg

"OMG WE ARE SOO AWETHOME!!! WE ARE TEH ULTRAMARINES!!!" God I hate the imperium.

OT: Needs more Necrons.

Hmm. Unless they do some genius here, we're going to get overhyped muscle-bound madmen. Basically think of every bad war movie you can, and then add LAZARS.

The Space Marines are an untouchable force, the classic "legion", trying to characterise a unit of them, hell, even trying to flesh out a commander would be a bad move unless his character has a certain self-hating evil about their person (think the Captain from Pan's Labyrinth). They could very easily make this movie espescially bad if the commander suddenly has a touch of conscience and thinks "GENOCIDE IS BADZ" in a desperate bid to make his character likeable and human.
What this movie needs is a point to show the cruelty, depravity and madness of the universe it is trying to represent. Bonus points if it is told from an alien perspective to make humanity seem like the evil invading force. What would be a good move is if it was told from the perspective of the Imperial Guard on having to work with the Space Marines, since the majority of them are abused, are cannon-fodder and have bleak futures.

Volodanti:

Reuq:
I used to collect a long time ago, 5-6 years, OK not that long then. But what real story potential is there? Also, that picture is ridiculous, look at his hand/head ratio!

oh and yeah, why's it the smurfs? why couldn't they do a DOW and invent a chapter?

My vote goes for the Desu Marines.

Sonicron:
Ehhhh... I said it once and I'll say it again: Will people please stop pissing and moaning about a movie any of us have yet to see? Be grateful GW finally decided to allow a movie to be made at all.
And yes, Ultrasmurfs are a basic/generic chapter, but considering that a movie about 40k is most likely intended to increase its publicity and/or fanbase, and hence to introduce people to 40k who've possibly never heard of it, it's probably a very GOOD thing to start things off with such a chapter.

The only people who are going to see it are the fanboys.
Even then, why just have Space Marines vs. Orks? Why not have the good ol Imperial Guard fighting the enemies of mankind, with the vanilla marines in the background. That way, people can be more gradually introduced to the concept of 40K with some relatable characters, and leave all the ubersoldier space monk weirdness on the periphery to add flavour without alienating newcomers who don't know every aspect of the backstory.

Yet another jumps falls into the movie pit.

Heck, it may turn out well, but experience has it that it won't.

I just want a longer, cooler reskin of 300 with gunz, that too much to ask?

Fur teh Empra!

People seem to be forgetting that The Ultramarines and Space Marines in general are GW's biggest cash cow ever and so it would be logical for them to make a film about it.

On the other hand, I would love to see a war against maybe the Tyranids from the pespective of the Imperial Gaurd, you could use so many things from other war movies, it would work like a charm

This will likely be a straight to DVD release.

if it was an epic 90 minute long version of the Dawn of War intro CGI... i would go watch it.. because, cmon... thats exactly what every one that likes WH40k wants to watch. gratuitious violence for absolutely no reason.

Cpt_Oblivious:

CantFaketheFunk:
Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

Let's make an Inquisitor movie!

That may just bw the best idea in the history of today. Maybe an Eisenhorn movie, that would be awesome

Space Marines are not the most interesting force, nor are the orks.
Iperial Guard, the Tau and the Tyranids have much more character.

This is an "everything or nothing"- film. As said, it's going to be awesome or suck balls. Most likely the latter.

CantFaketheFunk:
Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

You have an easier time relating to rednecks and prisoners?

What sort of obscure past did The Funk rise from?

I'd be excited if it weren't guaranteed to be rubbish... at least it's CGI.

CantFaketheFunk:

hansari:

CantFaketheFunk:
Bah, 40k space marines are so boring.

You have an easier time relating to rednecks and prisoners?

What sort of obscure past did The Funk rise from?

...would I have an easier time relating to normal humans (albeit rednecks and prisoners) than I would genetically engineered supermen who live hundreds of years and are slavishly devoted to their emperor to the point where "fanaticism" is far too soft a word to describe it?

Yes. Yes I would.

To be fair, they're not as fanatic as the Sisters of Battle, who take it further than the Space Marines.