Would Exile make a SWEET movie?

[drumstix1000]

i'm new to this forum, so i don't know if this has been suggested before. anyway, i think an exile movie would be pretty sweet.

[Kelandon]

Many, many times. I am of the opinion that it could make a decent action fantasy movie (kinda like LotR) if done well, but you'd have to take out most of the in-between towns wandering and a lot of the combat, too, focusing mostly on the interactions between people (meeting Erika, meeting Patrick, etc).

 

That said, it'll never happen.

[ben4808]

We've talked about this before, and to be made a movie, it would either have to be a normal-sized (1-2hr) movie that leaves out a lot of important things or a huge epic that takes three days to watch. That and someone would need to come up with a chunk of money for it. And Jeff would need to get a notion, which is a pretty insurmountable barrier right there.

 

But it could make a good movie.

[Spring]

While it would be good, it would have to take a lot of stuff out, as Kel and ben said. Its too open ended, and so are most SW* games.

 

*SW means SpiderWeb.

[Alorael at Large]

You'd have to take a lot out and put a lot in. Puzzles, exploration, loot gathering, and other staples of the RPG tradition make for bad movies. Random combat gets old quickly. The movie you would get out of them would have only a passing resemblance to the Exile games, although they could be set perfectly well in the Exile world.

 

—Alorael, who firmly believes that most good books require a lot of tweaking to become movies and most games require at least ten times that much tweaking to become movies. Whether they work as books varies from game to game.

[Toenail Returns]

I'd say it'd be a pretty good movie. But who'd play who?

[Dark Mage]

indeed it would make a good movie, but if we want that exile-avernum become a movie, then jeff would have to sell the rights to a movie company or to sell his company to microsoft or something like that.

maybe the best thing is the battle of erika against grah-hoth, and the first expedition, thralni and such

[Dark Mage]

heh, annother apprentice, i though i was the only one

[We Didn't Shard of Fire]

The movie would have to firmly stick to the storyline and main quest. Sidequests would make it take about, oh, a week or three to watch. A TV series would be OK, one of those where you have to watch every episode because there is a continuing plot. If it was a movie, there would have to be three movies, four if they think Avernum 4 should be added since they are the same plot. It might be "sweet" if they did a TON of editing.

[Tonweya]

The design of all these Exile Stories is to be "open ended", or "serial" in nature, linking to each other.

To us, it sounds like a good idea, but I've no doubt that the Movie World is overloaded with suggestions and dying a slow death because of the Computer World.

Only occasionally does a "good" Movie come along, most are glorified TV shows.

All in all, (see above comments), it just ain't gonna happen.

me

[ben4808]

Quote:

Originally written by chicho:
heh, annother apprentice, i though i was the only one

The vast majority of member are in fact apprentices. You just don't see them very often, or else they wouldn't be, if you get my drift.

[Chief Spider watching The Simpsons]

If any movie was made like that, it would probably be about Avernum. That said, Exile IS more of a classic.

 

By the way, can you believe someone wants to make a "Halo" movie? I just HATE that game! And what would that movie even be about? No one except a few people who think drinking Mountain Dew makes them cool would even see it.

[Princess Ruth]

Chief Spider - since Exile and Avernum are pretty well the same in terms of storyline/missions etc, any movie would also be exactly the same! Unless you were suggesting they used the game graphics to make the film.

[Ash Lael]

I think the name "Exile" works better, which is the only difference that could possibly translate to screen.

 

People are saying that the movie would be really long, but I disagree. You'd struggle to find stuff worth putting on screen, I think. I'd rewrite the story entirely, keeping only the setting.

[Kelandon]

But Avernum is more classical, which makes it obviously better.

[Princess Ruth]

I personally think games make ****e movies and vice versa, but that's just me.

[Drakefyre]

How could it possibly be bad with Calista Flockhart reprising her Rentar-Ihrno role?

[BainIhrno]

I don't think so. You'd have to take too much of the detail out. There really isn't much story in the Exile games, either, which is important for movies. It's mostly loads of fighting. Story is more important for movies than it is for games.

 

(I'm not trying to say that I don't like the Exile games, I'm just saying they won't make good movies.)

 

Some BoE scenarios might make good movies, though.

[ben4808]

You can always make a cool logo graphic for Exile to put on your movie cover. Make the 'i' a sword or something, you know.

[PantherShadow]

I like the name "Exile" a lot better. It just sounds cooler. I can imagine bits of A1 in the movie though - the party comes out of the castle and head west. They rise over a hill (I know, no hills in that area... Call it poetic license.) and see Fort Remote. In ruins. All of those brave soldiers, some of them the party's good friends. They then swear an oath to hunt down the monster that committed this atrocity. Fade to black.

[Nephilim_Master]

Sure! And I'd love to play as a Nephilim or a Slith.

 

~N-M

[ixfd64]

It would, but even three hours wouldn't be enough. It would probably be better as an epic.

 

But the Exile series would definately make a good series of novels.

[Arch-Mage Solberg]

I think that it would make a great movie. It has plot, fighting, and lots of stuff to use (or not use). If it were made into a movie, I'd love to play myself since I'd be perfect for the job.

 

For those of you who don't know, I'm always Solberg when I'm on the forums.

[Cheeseball Rules]

Baldy, you are a freak. 'For those of you who don't know, I'm always Solberg when I'm on the forums' what kind of stupid crap is that. Of course people don't know, 'cause you suck. You did alot of stuff years ago, but since it wasn't really amazing or well known, noone cared. Sorry.

[Alorael at Large]

I give you credit for creative double posting, but it's double posting nonetheless. Please refrain from conversing with yourself. Or if you have to, I guess you should use PMs.

 

—Alorael, who doesn't know what he'd think of anyone who would actually go to the effort to message himself. It would show dedication, if nothing else.

[Dark Mage]

i think that the exile series are great for a book, with some editing obviously or a tv serial and maybe then there would be a movie and jeff would be rich and will start making eveytime better games and their fans will be rewarded with free copies of his games X)(yeah right and my grandmother is a virgen)

[Arch-Mage Solberg]

Alorael- I am running Solberg, my cousin runs Cheeseball Rules. Sorry for the confusion. I'm not trying to be sneaky. What you're saying would make me a little crazy.