Sat Nov 12, 2016 4:25 am
Dark Spark wrote:How about The Elder Scrolls-- done with The Muppets.
MetaCthulhu wrote:Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro G. Iñárritu would be my top picks. Del Toro was originally supposed to helm The Hobbit, and after watching Pan's Labyrinth I think he could take a TES movie in a really cool direction.
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AngryNord wrote:Didn't Tolkien's son even try to get the films stopped because he thought they departed too much from his father's works?
The SheoDovah wrote:I think, (may have mentioned it before) an approach similiar to HBO's A Game Of Thrones would work for TES. More then enough lore to be based on and the Empire's politics tend to not get shown that well in the games.
Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:00 pm
Crawldragon wrote:AngryNord wrote:Didn't Tolkien's son even try to get the films stopped because he thought they departed too much from his father's works?
Peter Jackson improved upon the original books tremendously. First of all he was able to use the medium of film to tell the story in an extremely condensed manner (the big reason I didn't read LoTR as a child being the extremely long exposition sequences) and he removed a lot of stuff that wasn't necessary for telling the story, like Tom [&@%!] Bombadill. Given that Tolkein started writing to tell stories to his kids, I can understand why his son would be butthurt about it, but the Tolkein Estate knew what they were getting into when they signed a license for making the film.
The Elder Scrolls faces a similar problem: There's too much lore. On the surface this isn't such a big deal, but if you pay attention you'll notice that in each and every game the developers have to go out of their way to exposit information on the game's pantheon and religions, the Empire, the various interested Guilds, etcetera, even if it means having an NPC standing around whose only job is to explain what the big deal is about the Bard's College.The SheoDovah wrote:I think, (may have mentioned it before) an approach similiar to HBO's A Game Of Thrones would work for TES. More then enough lore to be based on and the Empire's politics tend to not get shown that well in the games.
Precisely this. Everyone seems to be expecting a story taken straight from the computer games, but a film will more than likely be based on the lore that you see in the background, in books scattered throughout the games, etcetera. The problem is that the director will need to be a huge fan of the series and be able to convince producers that he can make it work with a mainstream audience. Peter Jackson pulled that off once; no reason to think he couldn't do it again.
Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:23 pm
Crawldragon wrote:Peter Jackson improved upon the original books tremendously.
Crawldragon wrote:First of all he was able to use the medium of film to tell the story in an extremely condensed manner
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Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:17 am
AKB wrote:I'm also fine if you disagree with me on this.
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The SheoDovah wrote:Didn't Tolkien intend to rewrite The Hobbit after completing LOTR with the reason being that he wanted to tie it into LOTR?
The SheoDovah wrote:...the occassional undead wright trying to take over Nirn.