Key information: production of a Metroid-based movie has begun, and the producers have been responsible for American Pie and Final Destination. They're just bringing in writers and directors now, so don't expect this movie for a number of years.
Nintendarse says:
Please, please make Carrie-Anne Moss Samus. We know she can play kick-ass (Matrix). We know she can play complex (Memento). She IS Samus. While you're at it, omnipotent being, please make Christopher Nolan (Memento) the director. If this movie is going to be any good, Samus must be psychologically intricate. And he's the guy to do it. I mean, because there are no real characters other than Samus, she must interact with figments of her imagination, such as her deceased parents. The themes should be solitude, spirituality, and the power of the dead on the living, much like Metroid Prime. Christopher Nolan and Carrie-Anne Moss are the people to really turn what could be a crappy movie into something special.
Here's a synopsis of the Metroid movie so far:
<i>The story is set in a once peaceful galaxy, which has its prosperity shattered by a startling discovery: On a routine mapping expedition of a planet, a survey crew discovers a new airborne life form -- the Metroid. Able to engulf other living beings, feed on their energy, and multiply in great numbers, they prove a terrifying menace. Female bounty hunter Samus Aran is commissioned by the Galactic Federation to eliminate the pests, but she soon discovers that pirates with a stolen Metroid specimen are plotting to breed an build an unstoppable army.</i>
I've got a good feeling about this movie. I'm betting it will be up to par with the Resident Evil movie. Just as long as Samus isn't played by Angelina Jolie, we'll all be fine. :p
On another note, I wonder how true this movie will stay to the Metroid game. For starters, will Samus be alone for most of the movie? Many people hated the movie Cast Away because there were no conversations for half an hour.
Oh dear....
Sorry to be the pessimist, but not a single American made game based movie has ever been good, and I'm afraid I have to include RE the movie in that list.
Will I see it? Sadly, yes...
Let's just hope the US doesn't decide to make a Zelda movie, well unless it's made by the Lord of the Rings guy.
My picks for director: Ridley Scott, Steven Speilburg, George Lucas [??].
If they want to do it right they need to get writers and a director that have shown they can make movies, not some no name off-the-street people who have no idea what they are doing. And please, please don't let the people who work on it turn it into another House of the Dead [Has anyone read about the House of the Dead movie? Gah!!].
DJ, if Peter Jackson Zelda, then it would be a New Zealander movie.
*Thinks of Super Mario Bros. Movie*
*shudders*
*Thinks of Resident Evil Movie*
*shudders*
*Thinks of Metroid movie*
*shudder will occur when I see this movie*
This is honestly a sin. I think I'd be more offended, though, if Metroid Prime were selling better, thereby further warranting of this being an excuse to milk the franchise.
Argh.
If I could control the universe, here's who I would put on the movie:
Director: Darren Aronofsky. He can do dark, disturbing, moody, and intelligent. He's planning on making the next Batman movie so he must know how to do action. I think he'd be perfect for a Metroid movie.
Samus: Kristanna Loken. You know who she is, right? She used to be in that live-action Mortal Kombat show and now she's going to play the new Terminator in T3. I choose her mainly for her looks, as she resembles Samus from the end of Prime (the good ending).
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Um, but Metroid Prime IS a major seller, and "the people" are all talking about it.
I've heard no one... of course, all GameCube material around here is spoke of in a hushed whisper. I'm not in the loop enough to know what the cult members think...
Eh, I'm pretty sure cult members don't think *rim shot*.
Anyway, what is with you and OB1? Are you like always hanging around pseudo nerds? I mean seriously, why on earth would popular people even be AWARE of petty little nerd biases? At least around here, a system is a system to the populars, so to them an XBox is just a different kind of PS2, which is pretty much just another version of a GCN.
That's not how it is over here. Everyone, from the "hardcore" gamer to the casual one, has a very strong opinion on video games. I know lots of kids that don't know too much about video games and constantly talk about how kiddy the Gamecube is and how "Halo rules".
Didn't we have this conversation before?
all i can say is that steven speilburg would be the worst director for this movie...ever. he hasn't made a decent movie since jaws (exaggeration)...which ruled.
judging by George lucas' latest attempts at making movies, i'd also rule him out.
Daron Aronofsky would make a good director i think...as would possibly, the guy who did LoTR. i mean, the second LoTR is dark...well, if you remove gimli. plus, legolas is such a badass and i think he could transfer that badassness to samus in very cool ways...or something.
The only person I would trust with the Metroid franchise in a movie is good old James Cameron (Director) working with Jerry Bruckhiemer (Producer) and the guy who directed Twister.... what's his name... well he'd do the camera shots and cinematography. The script and screenplay would be written by the guys who gave us Romeo and Juliet in the theaters. Then i'd have it scored by Hans Zimmer (assistant writer) and James Horner (musical director, conductor). Then have ILM's prettiness pepper the film but not over do it. We dont want a popcorn movie, we want to recreate the experience of Metroid in a film.
The hardest part would be convincing the audience that Samus is a real person, flesh and blood. She's a bounty hunter of course but not some Terminator-esque Robocop type. She has a heart, she gets scared, and she has a soul. The best way to do that would be to have the opening scenes having to do with her child hood and upbringing, closing on the Space Pirate attacks and opening with her again as a teenager pulling heists and sniping off targets... make her a bad guy. That way, her character is never established as a 'good' or 'bad' character, she simply is.
As with the Space Pirates... well. All you can do with them is show that the Space Pirates we saw in Metroid Games were Drones, aggressors. And the Pirates who command these legions are much more intellectual and completely void of emotion or even Braun. They would be something of a vague expression and not exactly a character. After all, these people did create the Mother Brain.
As for her suit, let's just assume that her suit is made up of modules. It could be something she's always had. She could recall it as "Something my father gave me.” It could be a visor and some model of armor for her body but not the full Samus Aran design. She gains that during the adventures in Zebes, finding gifts from the long-dead Chozo. Her arm mounted cannon can be something like this: During one of the invasions, she killed a Pirate and burned his body. She kept all of his armor and gear (now we see where she got her initial armor and how she became such a good bounty hunter working for various syndicates) and created the arm cannon using that technology. But at this point, when Samus fights, she fights as if a well trained marine were fighting, no stunt flipping or wire-fighting. As she becomes more upgraded, the fighting becomes much more dramatic and intense. Wall-jumping, quadruple summersaults, firing semi-atomic blasts, running at nearly the speed of light to smash through atoms and break through solid rock. Make her a modern day Superman over the course of the film.
The story would have to be a collection of the games to create one fluid story. The MOST important part of that story is what happens before leading up to the point where the Space Federation OWNS her and sends her to Zebes. I'm thinking more along the lines of a simple love story where Samus gains the trust of a male figure in her teenage years (while on an earth colony), one who had found this orb which he believes contains technology of the Chozo but was never able to open it or use it. He talks about Zebes as if it's heaven (and at one point in time it was), and tells Samus of one day living there. As they grow closer his vision changes, he wants to have a family with her, marry her and spend his life with her and for her. Samus eats it up and goes lovey dovey.
For now, Zebes will be thought of as a place of unimaginable beauty by the people of the Earth Colony (we wont get in to what happened to Earth in the film, maybe vaguely) and a discovery will be made by the Space Federation. Zebes is believed to be the main center of attention for Space Pirates. Sense war has been declared on them, this was the first time we knew where to fight them and hit them hard. Samus and her lover join the Federation in hopes of fighting the Space Pirates.
During a raid on the Earth colony (during training maybe), he's killed by the Pirates. Samus goes nuts and steals one of the Federation ships and heads for Zebes without the Federation's permission. They send some men after her (now we have the whole "Man Vs Woman" thing going on). Later in the story, they can appear as an aggressor force that will need Samus's help to survive. You cant do this movie with one character... she could possibly fall in love with one of these soldiers, then of course learn of the Federation's deeply rooted corruption. He gets orders to kill her blah blah love goes down the toilet and her humanity dies. Her exboyfriend can now hunt Samus during the second half of the movie with those lovely cross-fires/conversations ala John Woo.
Exboyfriend tries to get Samus to follow him and join the dark side err... Space Federation. Eventually he denounces the Federation, claims his love for Samus and dies horribly by a Metroid, cue horrific music, show the Chozo invented weapon and some nicely done suspense scenes and wham! 2001 eque opening to the living computer Mother Brain with thousands of giant neurons connecting to form three dimensional screens showing Samus and her life, as if it knew of her all along, as if it IS her. Now, instead of a kill motherbrain, escape from planet approach... let's make it more like escape Mother Brain, Samus makes traps, Mother Brain realizes you might escape, sends copies of it's data in to tiny shuttles out to space, begins to flood the corridors with acid and proceeds to beat the krap out of Samus.
Samus fights gloriously using every Samus Aran trick in the book, wounding Mother Brain (let's make her like a Blob (from the movie Blob) with a huge brain with sensors and technological doo-dads sticking out, as she becomes more pissed off she can form actual ligaments and form mandibles) something awful. Samus gets to her ship, planet is breaking down, Mother Brain in all her glory is twisting the ship like it's paper and Samus cries. She cries not only for her own death but for the man she loved and how her weak heart let her stray in to another man's arms where she even found love again and lost it again. And briefly she hears the cries for help from all the faceless people she has killed and her parent’s pleas for mercy to the Pirates right before they were executed. The ship crumbles around her, her body begins to break... and the orb that was given to her by her lover calls out her name in a barrage of voices, one of them her lover. She touches it and the orb explodes, killing Samus, killing Mother Brain, and destroying Zebes entirely.
Men are sent to explore the remnants of the planet, finding only raw materials (which could be worth something) and broken bits of mass. But among it all is that very same orb. It's taken to an Earth Colony to be studied and jumpin Jesus it activates igniting all electrical equipment in the labs and glows internally revealing that it's a womb containing the unborn Samus Aran. Then we're treated to a final scene with a little girl, about 6 maybe. Being questioned by men in lab coats.
She begs them to let her go play and they give in to her demands. The camera follows her outside to a green hillside and in the distance houses and buildings can be seen. There's a brief conversation between the lab men, maybe talking about how they'll never get any information out of her and that it's pointless to keep badgering the child. Perhaps a general walks out from behind a small room where he was watching them question little Samus and he tells him that the Chozo project is deemed useless. One of the lab men asks him "Then what do we do with these?" etc. And the camera pans to show various Samus suit parts and the orb that birthed her. To which the general replies "I like ham". I dunno, i'm not in a script writing mood, but the general idea of the story is there.
That's how i'd like to see it anyway.
i hate love stories in action movies...and this would have to have action in it...i dunno, they cheapen things. the worst part of the matrix was how trinity's kiss brought him back. blah.
i like the bit about her childhood...obviously it would have to be there...all hero's need a backstory. but i don't dig the bits about her falling in love.
anyway, she could join the federation because they paid her a lot...cuz she's the best of the best. i dunno. or she gets tried for a crime and has to join the federation to avoid jail time...or something. just ideas--ideas that'll prolly never be seen in the movie.
oh, an lazy, why the script writers who did romeo and juliet? it seems to me that shakespeare did most of the work writing that movie. :p
That's got some pretty awesome stuff in it, lazy!
If my name was Satoru Iwata, I would hire lazy instead of the Romeo and Juliet guys. That was really great! Please tell me you didn't write it off the top of your head.
The Great and Powerful Penny Arcade has made one of their funniest comics to date, in an attempt to say "Why not?"
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Penny Arcade is teh funny!! :D
Yes, definitely better than usual for Penny Arcade (IMO, they are often not very funny, but this is very good... :) ).
Pff, they're almost always hilarious.