What ever happened with the CoH movie?
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.
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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.
Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
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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.
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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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.
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#1: Make awesome batman movies.
#2: Make awesome batman games, not actually based on the movies, but their own things. (Arkham city and asylum)
And this is just idle speculation, but City of Heroes would probably fit in with them.
Awesome hero game? Already made. They could probably make some splinter titles.
And then there's some awesome lore moments not actually in the game that would make nice movies: Rikti invasion? Brass monday?
And any successful movies would have a side benefit of getting people interested in the game they're based on. Kinda like how batman feeds into itself.
Just an odd thought.
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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 |
LOL! That's just about right.
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.
Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
You know, you probably still could. Do people care enough to sue a Machinma? I don't think they would...
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Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
More a matter of needing a budget. Voice actors (at least the ones I know and would want to work with) do not work for free, nor do most composers. Plus with enough funding, I could afford to take the year or so off work to focus solely on making this.
Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
Well, we won't be playing this any more. Let's do it. Your husband can do at least 5 voices.
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Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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."[/COLOR]
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Not that I have a problem with the Rikti story or anything, but that as a film? Ehh... the alien invasion has been grossly overdone in the past 10 years, and nobody seems interested in giving it much of a unique spin. If they wanted to be different instead of doing the typical "Aliens come in cool ships, aliens start blowing everything up, humans think of a way to stop aliens" plotline, they'd be better off having the movie take place post-invasion. I think everything that happens involving the Rikti after the invasion has a lot more potential to be original than the invasion itself.
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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.