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Diablo Movie Now in the Works?
To go along with the still fairly-mysterious World of Warcraft movie, via CVG comes the word at Blizzplanet that a movie based on Blizzard's Diablo games may be in the works. "Few weeks ago, a rumor circulated the net that Gary Whitta would be working with Legendary Pictures to develop a Diablo film. The participation of Gary Whitta hasn't been confirmed, but surprise-surprise. Legendary Pictures website is listing DIABLO under the 'In Development' section. No press release has been made available. The news section has been replaced by a 'Legendary 2.0 is coming soon' notice. A week ago, the news section over at Legendary Pictures website had not been updated since Q3 2006. Stay tuned for any updates. A press release could be posted by them in a few days. Diablo is coming to the big screen!"
but will it work. I think that in many respects a Diablo or Fallout based movie has some chance of being worth watching. Whoever gave the green Doom and Resident evil should have been fired. A game can rely on being interactive to advance interest, allowing for the player to make choices, and movies don't at all. The limit to the intereaction is in how one is moved by the movie. In that sense I think that a RPG based movie would have some potential in that adventure movies can and have been well done in the past.
Blizzard would be the place any Diablo movie would be announced, just like everything else they do. They would work it up, start the hype machine, and ride it through the movies release. I highly doubt they are going to let word just, spill out. Nothing should be taken for anything of worth till Blizzard, themselves, say they are making a Diablo movie.
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Why do they keep on making movies based off video games. Has there ever been a single one that wasn't completely crap? Sure they generate a few bucks, but it's not like any of the actors/directors/writers actually gain any prestige by working on these movies. Why even bother creating such crappy movies.
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I cannot say that I'm excited. But it begs to ask, will we see "Diablo 3: the Movie" game?
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Yes, all of the action and adventure of pointing and clicking. And pointing and clicking. With more pointing and clicking. Oh yeah and the occasional potion, too. Personally I'd like to see a series of StarCraft movies instead.
When you're basing it upon a game ...
Well, really GOOD writers could still come up with a good movie. But these people aren't looking to make a good movie.
They're looking to cash in on the name. They're hoping that enough Diablo players will want to see the movie that they'll turn a profit NO MATTER HOW BAD IT IS.
Otherwise they'd be mining the hundreds of years of literature for books that have not been made into movies yet.
This could really go anywhere. We have the many horrid to mediocre game movies on one hand, and the blizzard quality control on the other. I mean, it's blizzard; if they could keep up diablo/warcraft cut scene quality for an hour and a half, it could end in the general direction of 300, which is not at all a bad thing. Add in a rich lore, with numerous novels to back up the story, and the potential is really there...
in the movie flip equipment into the air and make dupes?
Hope not. Ask the Dungeons and Dragons franchise how hard it is to bring fantasy hack-n-slash to the big screen.
Too bad Frank Gorshin is dead, he could have reprised his role from the Diablo 2...
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90% of the movie will be about clearing the same sections over and over until the main characters gets the right ubber drop.
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No wait it could be about the main characters fighting cows with weapons...that actually might be fun to watch
At least this time, no one will release a horrible movie tie-in game to try to either take advantage of the movie's hype or to increase the level of hype around the movie.
If they can manage to make the paths and maps the story uses change each time you watch it. Sweet.
If not, it may be in danger of sucking like every other video game based movie.
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i think starcraft 2 followed by diablo 2 & a diablo movie would be some major blockbusters for blizzard... hopefully these rumors will come true. can't wait!
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Either source could work well, but I agree that neither was/is likely to.
Then again, there's a school of thought that says that 90% (or your favorite made-up percentage) of movies are going to suck no matter how many you make, so you might as well crank them out when possible. I'm not sure that that's quite accurate, but it's probably close enough to merit SciFi continuing to crank out the "scary animal of the week" movies until they hit paydirt.
As for the Diablo movie... take the basic idea that a sole farmer survives the destruction of his home and joins others in a quest to destroy the evil that did it... that's Campbell in a nutshell, so sure it can work. It's just hard to get a writer and director and actors that are good enough to make it work into a room together with a budget.
Tron was a great movie!
Of course, the games were after the movie came out, as I recall....
Farmer...quest...and a multi-billion dollar franchise grown out of low-budget actors. I think you just said "Star Wars".
Principally Night of the Living Dead and other George Romero stuff. So it could have made a good film.
Indeed it arguably was a good film if you still care about old-style zombie b-flicks... I'd rather they tried to do something a bit more interesting myself.
Most writers, even the good ones, don't make much money from writing.
So, throw a LOT of money at one of the good writers and allow him/her to write under a nom de plume.
Let the writer talk to some of the fans of the game to see what aspects resonate with them. Show them a walk through with all the dialog so they can get a feel for the game's universe and history.
Then turn them lose.
But it all starts with BUYING a good writer for the project.
Hey, now, Wrath of the Dragon God (aka D&D 2) wasn't bad, especially compared to the abomination that preceded it.
Maybe they'll finally explain how tiny little Rakanishu can hide two magical halberds and a pile of gold coins under his loincloth.
Have you ever seen the Diablo 2 cinematics?
As we follow our fearless band of gold farmers thru the tunnel systems, hoping to bring home $2 for a long hard day's work.
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I always click through the cut scenes...I'm just there for the action...that what we're talking about?
Wide angle shot of people milling around town shouting "TP PLS" over and over again. Some jump cuts of a sorceress of teleporting through to Baal A few minutes of crazy-intense ultraviolence (or loads and loads of bonewalls) with heavy metal soundtrack Then a tear-jerking soft-focus moment as one of the party lies dying. His final words are "dam lag" Oscar winning material right there...
Basic Plotline:
Somewhere in the ice caves (or whatever they're called, I forget) the bastard necromancer wearing his best armor and a shield with 6 diamonds meets up with this huge group of yetis with the one in the middle sporting healing, lightning and multiple shot. Blood Golem hits yeti, yeti lets out lightning, golem dies (taking out 50% of necromancer's life with him), lightning glob hits necromancer...dead. Necromancer resurrects, has to run into the cave in his underwear to collect all his loot...Blood Golem hits yeti...lather rinse repeat until Necromancer has hit his base XP level, zero gold, and Yeti continues to heal itself.
Necromancer finally makes it back to his previous corpse and loot, tries to cast a spell, finds out that the equipment didn't go into the right slots -- his favorite bone wand is on the floor while the crappy wand he stashed in the horadric cube (to sell at the local swap-meet) is now equipped. He wonders aloud if Harry Potter ever had days like these. Blood Golem hits yeti...
Scrapping together as much gold as he had left, he goes back to a previous act to pick up a decent amazon hireling (he never could stand those barbarians anyway)...takes everyone back to the ice cave. Necromancer doesn't summon blood golem this time, tries the stealthy approach. Yeti waits 15 feet from the old corpse. Necromancer creeps slowly...then in a mad dash runs to retrieve the corpse. As he retreats for cover, amazon hireling shoots Yeti with arrows. Yeti lets out lightning globs...Necromancer dies again.
Deckard Cain has witty remark about death at the camp. Necromancer considers dragging the old man along as cannon fodder...throws Cain at the yeti. Yeti kills Cain. Necromancer casts Corpse Explosion on Cain's body...kills Yeti, takes his clothes back. Yeti drops greaves with 50% lightning resistance.
They better get Sean Connery to play Decard Cain!
I can see the title now: "Diablo: The Quest for an SoJ"
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Hmm... Slashdot thinks that my description of a typical Diablo game violates their "lameness filter". I agree, but why should my post be punished for that? It's Blizzard's fault.
Have you ever timed the Diablo 2 cinematics?
D&D was lame to begin with however. Ask Conan instead. ;)
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It's going to be directed by Uwe Boll, the grand master of videogame movies!
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They put a product placement (Reeboks) on a bob-omb. Right before it exploded. Those four seconds were worth excusing the rest of the excruciatingly bad movie ("Trust the fungus!"). Granted, I don't know how effective the message was -- "Forget those Nikes, kids, who wants to be like a basketball star? You want to be like a suicide bomber, don't ya?" -- but I enjoyed it all the same.
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If your going to have a Diablo movie, you gotta have the cow's. It would be great to have maybe a 5 minute movie after the credits with everything besides the main character being a Cow. COWQUEST!!!!!
I'd like to see the main character trying to do the dupe/drop trick. He'd look absolutely retarded. Then after say, 10 tries, he'd realize he's in D2, not D1. Haha, he's a nub.
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