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The Movie won't be based on the game it will be based on The Infernal City

If it has a plot completely to un-related to any of the games/books, I don't see why not.

Theres a simple answer.
NOOOOOOOooOOOoooOOOOoOOOO!!!!!!!!!

With furter elaboration, TESV must exist before a movie.

That's because they isn't such a thing as character wrap, only word wrap, if a word is longer than a whole line it'll force it out of the text box. I wonder if anyone will try this out now...

Edit: To answer your question, though a movie would make the series more universally recognized, I just can't stand the thought of that cinematic Nazi, Uwe Boll, getting his hands on it in any way, shape, or form.
Besides the new Ed Wood destroying any attempt to bring a video to the silver screen, I haven't seen any other competent director capable of pulling off anything as complicated as The Elder Scrolls, nor do I see the appeal of a movie Elder Scrolls.

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NO!

Not Infernal City, perhaps Battlespire, I can see that best!


Side note, Morrowind would be an epic film if they made that!

No thanks. I have seen far too many books ruined by movies.

This topic has come up before, so I will start by saying what I often say in movies about this subject.

Movies based on games are generally not very good, I'm not saying they CAN be good, but they're generally not. While the transition into film has not been kind to many works of fiction that are not games, it seems that at least some movies based on printed mediums have been good in their own right, even though they often still will lose something from the books (to be fair, when you need to fit the plot of a full length novel into a movie less than two hours in length, something will likely be cut out in the process.) but it seems that video game based movies are rarely decent as movies, let alone adaptations of the source material that will leave fans satisfied. Perhaps this is because movies lack an aspect that is important in video games, gameplay. Yet some of the games that have been made into movies have good enough stories to be able to survive in a medium that lacks interactive gameplay, yet still they tend to fall flat. As I said, though, it isn't necessarily impossible for video game movies to be good, but they rarely are.

As to the Elder Scrolls, in competent hands, I think the setting could actually make a pretty good movie, if done right, the problem is that there is no guarentee it would be done right, and with the poor record most video game movies have set, it's only natural that fans would reject the prospect. To start things off, any prospect of making an Elder Scrolls movie based on any of the games needs to go out the door, at least, any games in the main series. One of the main selling points of the series has always been freedom, freedom to choose what kind of character you want to play, which factions you join, where you go, and so on. But in a non-interactive medium, such as a movie, this freedom cannot be present, you can't let the audience choose which house the Nerevarine joins or what race the Nerevarine is if the Nerevarine is an already defined character in a movie, a movie based on one of the main series games is bound to leave fans disappointed that the hero was not the character they wanted. Now a movie based on Infernal City... maybe that could work, but then, it would encounter the problems often experienced by movies based on books as well as needing to contend with the negative reputation movies based on video games have gathered. An original story could maybe work too, but in the end, I'd rather Bethesda just focus on games.

Uwe Boll. I think I've made my point. Even if it wasn't picked up by him it would have a nil chance of succeeding as a good movie.

No keep my TES pure game.

Yes, and it should be made by Owe Boll, with a limited budget...

Ow! stop hitting me! okay, no movie! no movie ever!

Did you know saying "I enjoyed a Uwe Boll movie." out loud is the main cause for instantaneous combustion?

"Ne" means "never".

They stopped it's production.

I think it would be cool, but hard.
I don't think they should make a remake of Oblivion or Morrowind in movie form, but just have a new story. I don't have many ideas of what they should do, but maybe of Talos's conquest over Tamriel, that seems like it would be pretty cool if it isn't too advanced.
Maybe.

On one condition, that they make the movie about the Battle of Red Mountain so that we know once and for all who did what and when.

Haha I can imagine.

Unfortunatly ill have to agree with everyone else in this room and say.NOoo
i want my noos to go out of the screen
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silly i know

Let's put it this way:

-game to movie = likely fail
-movie to game = epic fail
-game book to movie = dangerous territory (never been done before but considering the track record of movies and games... )

No, TES world needs to be played, not watched in a cinema

If a TES Movie was done by the right person I would be up for it, however it would most likely be a low budget cheesy pile of steaming crap with bad actors, So NO!

Why not ? We cannot make movie based on fable from tes saga but we can use the world which is bigger, better universe than anyone, for example hes bigger that Avatar's.

WTF DID YOU JUST SAY? :swear:

I only read a page of the novel (I was looking it up online) and it seemed weird, out of place, too contrived. I'll buy it soon however to read it, just to have it as well, but first impressions were that it doesn't seem to work.

Now we come to a movie based on this. I don't see how it could work given the way the story itself is told. It just sounds like a bad idea. TES is interactive, it gives you the choice to do what you want, to go off in the world exploring random caves. You can't exactly do that with a novel or movie though.

So, no. I don't want to see an Elder Scrolls movie based off the novel, or a new story itself.

No...and here's why:

Being a movie-person I am firm in the idea that making a TES movie would be similar to making a Dungeons and Dragons movie (anyone catch that amazing piece of cinematic history? <_< ). The problem, narrative wise, is the main character in the game is you, and the games take hundreds of hours to fully complete and explore. So in order to compensate for that in a 2-hour film they will have to make it about a group of characters who sort of fall into vaguely the most popular choices for players in the game, and then create some generic problem they have to solve. That or they'd have to have the whole film be from the main character's POV....lol

I actually read about 60 pages into the new TES novel before I simply couldn't stand it any more - it was so silly, and yes, contrived in so many ways that it broke down my own interpretation of what the TES world was like. The games leave you with quite a bit of imagining to do in order to fully form the world, but I've never considered the games 'comedy' even though there may be funny elements to them. This is an example of how one person's needfully specific (because it is a linear narrative) interpretation can never really make anyone else happy. It also wasn't much better written than middle-road fan-fic so the fact that it is supposedly 'canon' (or is it?) makes it really even more disappointing.

So what I'm saying is it would be a ridiculous fiasco and terrible and simply wouldn't work. In fact, any game where the main character is customizable, ESPECIALLY in name, destroys the ability to create a cohesive narrative that will appease fans and draw in newcomers. Why name? Because you need a hero (Shepherd, Link, Lara Croft, Sam Fisher), and my hero's name is always Reymas of Ashborne. I bet you that isn't anyone else's, is it? So you hear about the TES movie being about the Dunmer orphan Reymas of Ashborne, who was the only survivor of a shipwreck on a remote island as a newborn (literally born during the storm that crashed the ship) and raised by an imperial-separated tribe of sea elves who are eventually massacred by what seems to be some warlock and his band of pirates who show up looking for Reymas as he is the last line of some crazy lineage and was found with this incredibly powerful amulet in his bassinet...during the fray he manages to steal a lifeboat and miraculously makes it to Cyrodiil where he is mistaken for another prisoner and thrown in the prison where he wakes up to meet the emporer barging into his cell etc etc etc...that isn't how you imagined it, is it? So you're gonna be disappointed.

Someone else mentioned doing a film based on a historical event, ie: the battle of Red Mountain (which I think was just done recently and terribly by John Woo, ha! j/k). This would be more feasible, but again, you wouldn't get that TES feeling that you, the player subconsciously get out of the games, you'd be getting someone else's version, and probably someone who only played Oblivion and never completed it. On top of that, how much emotional resonance really is there to that story for most TES gamers? It is OUR story that resonates the most with us. Worse yet, Todd or Pete direct it (god love em) and as much as they rock the games they are not film-makers and would not be able to pull it off simply because their mind-sets are rooted in interactive story-telling and they've never made a film before. Maybe...maaaaaaaaaaybe Emil could direct it, but it would still have the other issues I mentioned.

Hence, no TES movie...ever. And beth, get a GOOD writer to do the next novel please, fire that hack, most of the fan-fic writers on here could do 10x better with a little lore guidance...