What ever happened with the CoH movie?

I can't find it now, but I know I read something somewhere that suggested this was still being planned, and that was less than 12 months ago.

Essentially it's in 'Development Hell' and probably something that will never make it out. Odds are you have a better chance of George Lucas releasing a bluray version of the original trilogy minus all his edits in the past years.

AFAIK, it was merely rights to make a movie that were purchased. Not that a movie was necessarily going to be made... just think of it as some guy yelling out 'dibs!' even though he had no intention of using it.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

It's pretty much dead as a doornail. The producer who bought the rights was most interested in the Rikti invasion, which would've made for a great film. Unfortunately, Marvel's Avengers has stolen that thunder. But proved the basic idea was sound.

This just gave me the oddest idea. What if a movie company wanted to acquire City of Heroes? I know warner brothers has a video game divison now.

Aside from the name acquisition, all I've ever seen on this is rumour and conjecture - no solid sources to back any of it up. In fact, I've seen NO external updates whatsoever, not even anything to say it's been held up, cancelled... the thing was never even announced.

That acquisition was years ago now, to boot. Put simply - this isn't happening, even *IF* once upon a time it might have been.

One of the reasons why I tried to get the license myself (no joke) to make it. Sure, it'd have been all in machinima (I can't animate), but I was storyboarding a script, figuring out voice actors, and had made enough contacts with musicians that were willing to score any project I wanted to work on.

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This could've gone a couple of different ways, ranging from the ugly to the bizarre.

THE UGLY: Some coked-up Hollywood numbskull reads a headline in Variety: "Superhero movies make big money!" He digs thru the studio's list of intellectual properties and sees something. "What is this, City of Heroes, a video game or something? Whatever, good enough." But because CoH isn't as high-profile as Marvel, the project gets a budget of $516.32 (including effects) and a week and a half to film. Starring Nic Cage as Statesman, Cameron Diaz as Sister Psyche, some pro wrestler as Back Alley Brawler, etc. We get a CoH movie that makes the garbage on the SyFy Network look like "The Avengers".

Or...

THE BIZARRE: Some coked-up executive likes the general outline of the story (the Rikti Invasion) but has no interest in superheroes. He decides to do the film as a rip-off of modern alien invasion flicks like "Independence Day" or "Battle: Los Angeles". We end up with a well-funded and promoted Rikti Invasion movie that may be a blockbuster, but makes no mention whatsoever of superheroes or Paragon City. "Rikti" becomes a household word. Rikti dialect replaces l33t-speak on the Internets. "Directive: consumption of my: underpants, d00d-being."

My head hurts.

-The Copper Cockroach

I'd be more worried about how movie companies tend to look at tie-in video games the same way they do tie-in happy meal toys and thus make horrible games.

Here was my general outline of the CoH movie I was goofing around with just for fun:

Newbie hero comes to town. (In my outline, he's literally called Noob.) He's a magic-user and gets in on the Omega Team thing when the Rikti attack. I had a lot of overly-cutesy dialogue that needed to be fixed, but the structure was Superhero Movie 101 -- new hero comes to town, acts as the stand-in for the audience, learns the ropes, finds a motivation truer than the one he showed up with, many heroes get killed during Rikti invasion, Noob decides to make the ultimate sacrifice because he's one of the few who can do it, remaining heroes clean up and honor the fallen and missing.

Throughout there are hints of what's to come, such as a Vanessa De Vore having a mask collection, a few people ending up missing, Dr. Vahzilok working so hard to save dying heroes that he has an emotional breakdown... all to set up the sequel that features the Carnies, Dr. Vahzilok doing his undead shtick and a full-on zombie invasion, culminating in Hero 1's return.

It was pretty rough, but I think it had some decent enough bones to it.