15-07-2003 06:48									#1
	Could MOO3 backstory be made into movie? Support Apolyton

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?

	15-07-2003 21:20									#2
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Yes, it wouldn't be.

	15-07-2003 21:33									#3
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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.

	15-07-2003 22:12									#4
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quote: 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.

But you don't need the video game to make the movie.

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?

	15-07-2003 22:27									#5
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No. It is trite and cliched.

-Yook

P.S. Just like 99% of the movies, yes, I know that.

	17-07-2003 09:18									#6
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maybe

	17-07-2003 13:39									#7
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It sure might be better than all the caply moives SupicWood(HollyWood) is turning out lately.

	17-07-2003 20:49									#8
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Sorry if the game doesn't gross enough money to seropisly pay the bills you can forget about a movie.

	18-07-2003 08:34									#9
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It seemed to me to be a bit too much like Babylon 5.

	18-07-2003 11:42									#10
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quote: 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 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.

The moive was many thousand of time better than the book it was base on.

	20-07-2003 06:48									#11
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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.

	20-07-2003 09:50									#12
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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.

	21-07-2003 00:11									#13
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quote: 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.

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.

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.

	24-07-2003 00:50									#14
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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.

	24-07-2003 01:00									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Vince278 It seemed to me to be a bit too much like Babylon 5.

I concur. Races coming and going and coming back and yadda yadda.

	30-07-2003 09:53									#16
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NO!! IT A GAME NOT MOVIE!!!!!!

	30-07-2003 11:57									#17
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There was a short movie at the beginning of the game.