Author Topic: Metriod Movie (Read 9706 times)

Mannypon · « **on:** June 11, 2004, 11:53:01 PM »

I think its startin off on the right foot by having john woo involved. Hopefully they leave the franchise as is and dont alter anything. Ive read its supposed to take place during metriod 1's storyline. If the production value is high up there and its taking in the right direction, this could be a sick movie. What are your opinions on how the movie should be made and who you think should be casted as samus. EGM had the girl from T3 (which I think is perfect after seeing her pic again). On a side note though, what do yous think of a movie based on samus hunting down the predators from the predator movies. I think that'll be insanely hot lol.

Chode2234 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2004, 08:18:43 AM »

john woo's movies have been pretty horrible as of lately, I am also worried that they will focus too much on Samus' feminism and sensuality that they will forget that she lives to kill space pirates etc.

Berny · « **Reply #2 on:** June 15, 2004, 07:44:24 AM »

Sensuality? "Oh....Mr. Metroid. SO HOT! OH!" Seriously who the hell would she be sensual with? There's like Space Pirates and Metroids and that's it. Well, I'm SURE Hollywood could find a way.

Mannypon · « **Reply #3 on:** June 15, 2004, 08:17:04 PM »

nah, I doubt they will take that road. Resident evil had a fewale main character and they didnt really dwell too into her feminism. I have high hopes for the movie as long as the production value is up there. I dont want to see some bootlegged rubber suit for her armor. Theres so much they can do with this franchise, they better not mess it up.

Helios · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2004, 04:39:50 PM »

Well I can't say too much about this.... I mean saying "Metroid Movie" sounds good but I don't think it will be any good at all.... If it is not in 3d like Final Fantasy then I dont know how it would be any good... There would be too many costumes and all that bullshit... If they actually start this movie and show previews of what it will look like then I would be able to comment more about this movie but for now it doesnt look like they are doing much about this Metroid Movie..... Ohh well...

Djunknown · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2004, 06:49:31 PM »

Unless you're Pixar, I don't think anyone else is going to flock to total CGI anytime soon.

one of the things John Woo will have to do is do something Nintendo hasn't done yet. Give Samus character. There's the double edged sword. Samus's character (or lack of it) isn't really defined in the games; we don't know if she's brash, the strong and silent type etc. Fusion made the attempt, but it came off as pretentious if you ask me.

But hey, it couldn't be worse than the Mario Bros, movie.

Chode2234 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 22, 2004, 10:28:26 AM »

She is the strong and silent type for sure, how could she be anything else?

Syl · « **Reply #7 on:** June 22, 2004, 02:21:28 PM »

you guys need to read the E-manga, it definaely has more than enough info to make a movie out of, its incredibly interesting, and still has ways that things could go.

http://newtourian.com/ecomic00.html

Read those.

Forte · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2004, 07:24:58 AM »

They're making a movie? Personally I think it will ruin Samus. How many game-based movies actually were good movies? I don't think they should especially if John Woo is in it. I hope that this is just a rumor and it turns out like the real action DragonBall movie--forgotton. Samus is a highly respected bounty hunter in the game-world, not Hollywood. Look at all the game-based movies out there. There's Mario Brothers, Mortal Combat(not exactly a horrible movie, but still), Street Fighter, Final Fantasy(if it was based off the game, doubt it), Resident Evil, and other movies based off of games. I really hope that if they do go through with this idea, then they'll at least make a good one for Samus.

Chode2234 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 23, 2004, 10:24:17 AM »

I have my doubts, but hey, franchises sellt tickets. Probably because everyone goes hoping to see the first good rendition of a video game to movie? Maybe Master Chief will have a cameo appearance and Frank Oz will do the voices of the Chozo...

Berny · « **Reply #10 on:** June 29, 2004, 09:21:08 AM »

First of all, I doubt Metroid has enough of a fanbase to sell on the name alone. Then again, I was very surprised that Spiderman sold as well as it did.

Mannypon · « **Reply #11 on:** July 04, 2004, 02:02:51 PM »

I think the only way to make the movie work is with a high production value. Without that, and with how high tech the metriod storyline is, I think it'll come out as a low budget late night sci fi flick. They better have the production value real high, have the people that did the hulk movie, those effects were sick lol.

FaceLeSs · « **Reply #12 on:** July 04, 2004, 08:53:01 PM »

I really dont want them to make up alot of new stuff or start to invent many different ideas in the metroid universe. I dont want the movie to be so different from the metroid series we have grown to love. Id rather them keep everything in order

notic · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2004, 04:04:40 PM »

A good Metroid movie would be an IMAX movie fully animated in 3D. I'd like it to show Samus just exploring some alien world alone with very beautiful graphics to give more atmosphere. It wouldn't really need much dialogue, just Samus investigating an unknown planet by herself in search of something (I'm being generic here just to analyze a good Metroid movie) that maybe the space pirates may want, or something to do with the Chozo civilization. It would also show Samus having flashbacks as a kid or whatever and stuff about how the Chozo raised her. This is all I can come up with so far.

I think another potential game movie would be Metal Gear. I think Metal Gear Solid (the only MG game I played) is like a movie all by itself it would just need good actors and that's kinda it.

Dasmos · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2004, 05:44:46 PM »

In my opinion they should do it half 3-d animation and half real like in spiderman. Have all the actors palying the playable parts and the rest 3-d. Like the space pirates. to tell tye truth i couldn't tell the real spiderman and the computer one apart!!

Mannypon · « **Reply #15 on:** July 08, 2004, 04:05:30 PM »

yeah, thats why it needs a high production value, to pull that level of detail with the graphics.

RABicle · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2004, 07:00:26 AM »

There's an easy way for it to not cheapen the franchise, they make it an art hosue movie. Unfortunately John Woo is involved so that won't be happening.

You know I was thinking, John Woo won't have the slightest clue as to how to direct a movie featuring a character who can't hold a second gun. I bet if the movie even goes ahead (I'll gives odd 20:1 that it will never happen) there will be some shoddy scene involving Samus holding a handgun in her left hand shooting baddies. Or better yet, why not two arm cannon's Woo?

This movie won't be good though, I just can't imagine how anyone could turn Metroid into a movie, let alone idiot John Woo, that guy is a joke. If you don't know which one of the Mission Impossible movies he directed (MI2) just watch them both and the most painful one will be the one he did. This test is 100% accurate, you can try it on anyone.

Uncle Rich AiAi · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2004, 09:46:04 PM »

Lucky I haven't seen MI2

This forum needs more RABicle!

Caillan · « **Reply #18 on:** July 22, 2004, 01:23:02 AM »

Uh, MI2 is a truly horrible movie. Of all the possible genres of movies I dislike, the ridiculous action ones I dislike the most. I hope Woo doesn't make this, though the franchise has been picked up before, and chances are that it will be picked up again if Woo drops it.

Franchise games seem to have been slowly imporving in recent times, with Spiderman and LotR actually being half-decent gamss. A massive improvement over only one (console) generation. I just hope that in the future game-to-movie conversions will become just as successful. To be fair, the Resident Evil movie was far, far better than it could have been...unfortuantley that still doesn't make it a good movie.

Games offer forms depth and excitement far removed from that which movies offer... is it so hard to draw upon those elements without transposing them to standard action cinema? With the exception of the FF movie (which was a dry and damaged husk) I've yet to see a game-to-movie that isn't action orientated.

Mannypon · « **Reply #19 on:** July 22, 2004, 11:31:06 PM »

wish the guy that did the hulk movie would pick up the metriod license. I think he'll treat the franchise right and not take it in a different direction.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #20 on:** July 23, 2004, 03:00:16 AM »

I'd rather have Sam Reimi on it...

Doerr · « **Reply #21 on:** July 23, 2004, 09:00:16 AM »

Ridley Scott could make a good Metroid Movie

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #22 on:** July 23, 2004, 09:21:25 AM »

The Hulk was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen.

Not to mention I never liked the Hulk anyway.

odifiend · « **Reply #23 on:** July 23, 2004, 12:06:55 PM »

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Originally posted by: Manny
wish the guy that did the hulk movie would pick up the metriod license. I think he'll treat the franchise right and not take it in a different direction.

lol. He already has the liscense as Woo directed the Hulk.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #24 on:** July 23, 2004, 12:10:47 PM »

Not quite.

It was Ang Lee.

odifiend · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2004, 01:19:38 PM »

Oh my bad. I knew I should have doubled checked that just to be sure. lol withdrawn.

Shorty McNostril · « **Reply #26 on:** July 24, 2004, 01:02:27 AM »

Why doesn't Jerry Bruckheimer do it and add it to his rather long list of movies. I think his movies are quite good. That's just me though.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #27 on:** July 24, 2004, 05:44:30 AM »

Pearl Harbor isn't good for him (he did do that, didn't he?), but the action was cool. He seems pretty reliable, as far as I'm concerned. Everything else I've seen is great. Murk and I were thinking of Bad Boys 2 in terms of action.

Draygaia · « **Reply #28 on:** July 24, 2004, 08:15:41 AM »

You know I wish Nintendo pulled a FF: Advent Children with Metroid instead.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #29 on:** July 24, 2004, 10:50:41 AM »

Jerry Bruckheimer is a producer. He "pays" to have the "big explosions." It's Michael Bay, the director, who's largely responsible for how the Bad Boys movies and Pearl Harbor were executed on-screen (end results: meh). He did an absolutely awesome job on "The Rock," though.

I can agree with the Ridley Scott mention, based on his gritty work on Black Hawk Down and the Alien series. I happen to not like Gladiator.

GoldShadow1 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 25, 2004, 11:29:40 AM »

There's no need to make this movie. There's simply no way to do any kind of respect to the games filmically. The game's charm comes from its silence, its loneliness, its mystery - and it has only one real character, with no dialogue (except for Fusion). A Metroid film would be either boring as hell, or would be completely different from the game that it's based on.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #31 on:** July 25, 2004, 11:38:28 AM »

I know he's a producer, but I couldn't think of the other guy.
Pearl Harbor sucked in every way. Bad Boys was much better, though not exactly a suitable style for a Metroid movie.

I give full points to Guy Ritchie (not for this, of course. Just in general). He directed Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, both awesome movies (two of my favorites). British crime is hilarious, not to mention ultra-cool.

Oldskool · « **Reply #32 on:** July 25, 2004, 11:41:33 AM »

If they could keep the style of the Metroid Prime advert that originally appeared in cinemas, it would be great!

Shorty McNostril · « **Reply #33 on:** July 27, 2004, 11:01:06 PM »

Well whatever Jerry is, they should get him on the metroid movie. I think he would do a very acceptable job on it. Mind you he probably wouldn't be the cheapest of people to use.

Even if someone hadn't even heard of metroid, don't you think that seeing previews of a movie like that would arouse some curiosity at least.
That would probably give the general populous a good reason to see it.

kirby_killer_dedede · « **Reply #34 on:** October 16, 2005, 12:08:46 PM »

Sorry for bumping a ridiculously old thread, but a dude at this local video game joint told me yesterday there's a rumor on the interweb that Nintendo's planning on creating the movie in-house once MP3 is out of the spotlight.

TMW · « **Reply #35 on:** October 16, 2005, 06:29:08 PM »

I was going to say, "Doesn't Ninty have an in house movie studio now?"

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #36 on:** October 16, 2005, 06:40:59 PM »

They have an in-house ANIMATION studio...And I don't really see a Metroid animation taking precedence to other material...

nickmitch · « **Reply #37 on:** October 16, 2005, 07:30:37 PM »

A metroid movie is still a bad idea, even if Nintendo makes it in house.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #38 on:** October 17, 2005, 03:39:59 AM »

If a Metroid movie is a bad idea, then a Doom movie is...

Mario · « **Reply #39 on:** October 17, 2005, 06:29:33 AM »

A Metroid movie would be very hard to get right, but if they DID get it right it could revolutionise movies! No talking, no narration, only one character, yet still exciting! It would need to be VERY good though, but it's possible!

It would be good to get the Metroid franchise into the mainstream, which is currently isn't.

stevey · « **Reply #40 on:** October 17, 2005, 12:38:53 PM »

A metriod movie will suck even if reggie himself made it, any vg movie will suck if it dosen't than it was an rpg. there no way anyone can take metriod and get a good movie, there's no story.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #41 on:** October 17, 2005, 01:12:37 PM »

No story? someone wasn't reading the scans in Metroid Prime..

nickmitch · « **Reply #42 on:** October 17, 2005, 01:47:48 PM »

If the movie was based on the scans then Samus wouldn't be in it at all. . .But it would be AWESOME!

A movie about the chozo and their war against the X paracites and the creation of the metroids, who then wipe out the race.
*giggles*

kirby_killer_dedede · « **Reply #43 on:** October 17, 2005, 04:08:44 PM »

I agree, a generally Metroid movie would be silly. A Metroid Prime movie...that could be pretty intense. She sees Ridley and follows his trail to Talon IV. It would focus a lot more on the exploration aspect - it could be a mystery, actually. She slowly discovers pieces of her past that are a mystery to her via the scans, and all the while fighting baddies, and ultimately taking revenge for the death of her parents, and the extinction of the Chozo.

If you ask me, that's a pretty good premise, with or without the Metroid license.

wandering · « **Reply #44 on:** October 17, 2005, 11:20:33 PM »

The problem with translating Metroid into a movie is that, like most videogames, Metroid is great by video game standards but fairly generic by movie standards.

Though, if done right, it could still make for a cool movie.....if John Woo isn't involved.

"A Metroid movie would be very hard to get right, but if they DID get it right it could revolutionise movies! No talking, no narration, only one character, yet still exciting! It would need to be VERY good though, but it's possible!"

I think 2001 came pretty close to that. ...and, you, know, 2001 is exactly what this thing needs to be like: moody, artisitic, visually stunning, little dialogue, etc.

Of course, what we're likely to get is a Paul WS Anderson-style cheezy, frantically paced, action movie. Oh well.

TMW · « **Reply #45 on:** October 18, 2005, 09:55:49 AM »

Nah...if it gets made, Samus will lose the suit and probably end up looking more like the girl from P.N. 03. Space Pirates will be humans that are just pirates, and Metroids will probably be turned into some robotic, manmade menace.

Also, Samus will have a romantic interest. Probably some goofy, nerdy guy to offset her "masculine" side and show her femininity.

Or Ridley.

nickmitch · « **Reply #46 on:** October 18, 2005, 02:27:45 PM »

I think that Samus could be feminine with out a male interest. all she'd have to do is giggle and say, "That was fun," after killing a swarm of metroids.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #47 on:** October 18, 2005, 02:36:16 PM »

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Originally posted by: TMW
Nah...if it gets made, Samus will lose the suit and probably end up looking more like the girl from P.N. 03. Space Pirates will be humans that are just pirates, and Metroids will probably be turned into some robotic, manmade menace.

Also, Samus will have a romantic interest. Probably some goofy, nerdy guy to offset her "masculine" side and show her femininity.

Or Ridley.

Well, thats one way to Hollywoodize a movie

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #48 on:** October 18, 2005, 03:39:09 PM »

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Originally posted by: TVman
I think that Samus could be feminine with out a male interest. all she'd have to do is giggle and say, "That was fun," after killing a swarm of metroids.

Nintendo perfectly expressed Samus' motherly instincts in Super Metroid, so we don't need any of this "That was fun" crap...

TMW · « **Reply #49 on:** October 18, 2005, 07:27:53 PM »

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Originally posted by: TVman
I think that Samus could be feminine with out a male interest. all she'd have to do is giggle and say, "That was fun," after killing a swarm of metroids.

Oh gawd!

"Samus the Metroid Slayer". XD

Of course, I don't think I'd mind at all if Joss Whedon took a crack at Metroid.

Lets see what he does with Wonder Woman.

mantidor · « **Reply #50 on:** October 18, 2005, 07:51:57 PM »

Since Metroid is so heavily based on Alien, they should follow a similar path. The Alien movies were excellent, so why couldnt this one also be great?

TMW · « **Reply #51 on:** October 19, 2005, 07:13:33 AM »

Because no movie studio nowadays would make a movie like that. For one, its financially risky, and two...well I mean, look at what the Hollywood machine did to Doom, and House of the Dead, or Alone in the Dark.

Its like, they can't not change anything they get their hands on.

vudu · « **Reply #52 on:** October 19, 2005, 09:15:39 AM »

Only the first Alien movie had a Metroid vibe. The rest were much more action-oriented. There's no way a movie like Alien (or Metroid) could be made these days.

mantidor · « **Reply #53 on:** October 19, 2005, 06:13:58 PM »

Alien 3 wasnt action oriented at all and it was superb, but its true that awesome movies like that wont be made in these days, its really sad how hollywood went downhill.

nickmitch · « **Reply #54 on:** October 19, 2005, 08:23:33 PM »

I think that an Alien movie could be made now a days of course it'd be a re-make.

ThePerm · « **Reply #55 on:** October 19, 2005, 09:06:27 PM »

carrie-anne-0moss?

wandering · « **Reply #56 on:** October 20, 2005, 10:22:24 AM »

What're you saying.... that Carrie Anne Moss, being a mediocre actor, would be the sort of person that would be cast as Samus in a crappy Hollywood Metroid movie? Or that Carrie Anne Moss, being a mediocre actor, would be the sort of person that would be cast as Ripley in a crappy Hollywood remake of Alien 3?

ThePerm · « **Reply #57 on:** October 24, 2005, 05:15:49 AM »

she just doesnt have to talk but on occasion

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #58 on:** October 27, 2005, 06:06:28 AM »

Yep, like the occasional observation to herself. Everybody talks to themselves whne they are thinking about something or doing something. A director with a good sense of the source material can turn out a real good product.

nemo_83 · « **Reply #59 on:** October 27, 2005, 12:05:59 PM »

I still believe there are plenty of themes in Metroid that could translate well to the screen. Imagine the movie would be half way between what a Boba Fett movie would be like and what the first Indiana Jones film was, but staring Uma Thurman. Metroid is a sci fi fantasy; its not just sci fi. There are supernatural tones in Metroid.

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #60 on:** October 27, 2005, 03:35:08 PM »

Uma I think is a little too old to start off playing Samus. I like to think of Sarah Michelle Gellar playing the role.

mantidor · « **Reply #61 on:** October 27, 2005, 05:42:07 PM »

O_o DIE!

j/k, but seriously, anyone but her

IGN movies did al ong time ago a rundown on possible actress who could play Samus, Uma Truman could be fine, but I have to say Charlize Theron is just perfect, too bad is Never Happening

EDIT: found it

vudu · « **Reply #62 on:** October 28, 2005, 09:31:58 AM »

I had a hard enough time swallowing Charlize as Aeon Flux. She just couldn't handle Samus.

mantidor · « **Reply #63 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:17:17 PM »

Trying to see Theron as Aeon Flux is hard because she doesnt fit that role at all

although shes a good actress and can put good acting hopefully, I was seriously exceptic but I watched some vids and I think she maybe can end up doing a decent job, the movie is doomed though, the casting was stupid, the guy doing Trevor Goodchild is ridiculous and is wishful thinking to expect the plot to be a bit interesting or at least a little close to the original animation.

The problem with Samus is that phisically she has been represented very differently, Theron can fit the new Samus face from echoes but zero mission is a bit different, fusion is also different, MP1 is completly different and super metroid had also a completly different representation of her. Theres no actress who can satisfy our expectations now that I think about it.

ThePerm · « **Reply #64 on:** October 28, 2005, 04:01:47 PM »

i need to write the script

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #65 on:** October 28, 2005, 05:18:30 PM »

There shouldn't be a script.
I think Theron would be good, and Thurman would be pretty good, but I don't think either of them fit Samus quite right.
I dunno. I'd say they pick an unknown actress if this movie didn't need to rely so heavily on who's playing Samus to get publicity.

ThePerm · « **Reply #66 on:** October 28, 2005, 05:21:47 PM »

erm there needs to be a script for every movie..and a good writer

King of Twitch · « **Reply #67 on:** October 28, 2005, 10:04:24 PM »

People will show up at the movie with their DS and type Pictoshat subtitles for it then Wi-Fi it to the projector.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #68 on:** October 29, 2005, 12:33:24 PM »

A movie only has a script if it has words. Metroid should have few, if any, words. Now, it might have a SCREENPLAY, detailing what happens in the movie. Is that what you meant? A screenplay?

nitsu niflheim · « **Reply #69 on:** October 29, 2005, 02:43:01 PM »

A script is more that words, it is the movie. Without a script, there could be no movie.

nickmitch · « **Reply #70 on:** October 29, 2005, 02:50:39 PM »

Well, a motvie could just be somed up in a plot over overview, which could come in a nice pamphlet.
So, what the movie needs now is a screen play and a plot over view.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #71 on:** October 29, 2005, 04:10:55 PM »

The definition of a screenplay: The script for a movie, including descriptions of scenes and some camera directions.

Implying that a script does not necessarily include those things. Screenplay is the term you use when referring to film, generally. That or shooting script. Kinda nitpicky, but I wanted to know what the point of writing a Metroid script was, if he had any words in mind.
I know what I am talking about I am a film major yes okay.

ThePerm · « **Reply #72 on:** October 30, 2005, 11:36:06 AM »

samas would say about as m uch as boba fett in my script....the p eople talking about her would be scientists and other people.

wandering · « **Reply #73 on:** November 03, 2005, 09:14:35 PM »

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Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
I think Theron would be good, and Thurman would be pretty good, but I don't think either of them fit Samus quite right.
I dunno. I'd say they pick an unknown actress if this movie didn't need to rely so heavily on who's playing Samus to get publicity.

Salma. Hayek.

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Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
A movie only has a script if it has words. Metroid should have few, if any, words. Now, it might have a SCREENPLAY, detailing what happens in the movie. Is that what you meant? A screenplay?

From Merriam Webster's definition of 'script':

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1 a : something written : TEXT b : an original or principal instrument or document c (1) : MANUSCRIPT 1 (2) : the written text of a stage play, screenplay, or broadcast; specifically : the one used in production or performance

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