While scouring the hell that is ign I came across an article more or less calling a hint at an Oblivion Film... http://movies.ign.com/articles/111/1119303p1.html


and No mmo please......pleasse.....

Your thoughts on this?

Bethesda did the same for Fallout a while back, in that case there was an unrelated post-apocalyptic movie called "Fallout" in developement and they wanted to make sure it didn't infringe. It's possible they're doing the same thing for Oblivion.

As for the MMO bit, Bethesda is not working on an MMO. Now their sister company Zenimax Online Studios is working on an MMO (given that's what they do) and it's possible it's an Elder Scrolls game as well.

.......this twists me into uncertainty...while no one knows the games better than Bethesda themselves.....I don't know of any Films done/influenced/had a hand in/inspired etc by Bethesda or its affiliates, it doesnt even show up on the radar to me when one thinks of films....so would it be silly to have expectations..

It's just beth doing a little preemptive pissing in the manger

They just don't want somebody doing to OBL what got done to Doom

They probably didn't register the tradenark because they want to make a movie. Instead they registered it so that nobody else could make a movie over which they wouldn't have any control.

I seriously doubt that anyone would be stupid enough to attempt to make a movie about a game as big and variable as oblivion. Or any elder scrolls game for that matter. If it were made into a movie it would most likely just be a movie that takes place in the same world and have nothing to do with the actual game's plot.


Lol. By that I assume you mean a half-decent action movie (A-,B+) but a piss-poor interpretation of the games.

Well, there was this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110706/. Nearly sixteen years old.

Then there is this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0977663/. Only 3 years old.

And finally this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/. Still in development. I think Disney has picked up the movie rights. Set to be released in 2012.

You forgot http://www.imdb.com/media/rm523539456/tt0138703 from twelve years ago. They even did the title in a similar manner to TES IV.

The article says:

And it's from IGN.

Translation: Bethesda isn't making a movie named "Oblivion," but neither is anyone else.

That′s funny, since that same ball-weapon gets featured in Fallout Tactics.

Good one. Clever title design: OBLIVION



Hmmm... Me thinks someone is making a movie titled http://www.scifimoviepage.com/upcoming/previews/oblivion.html.

Directed by, Joseph Kosinski. Same guy slotted to direct both Disney remakes, Tron, and The Black Hole.


If Zenimax is not interested in producing a movie with this title, then why the sudden interest in a trademark? Why now?

Better question yet, how does a company trademark a word that has been in use for more than 600 years? Then again, if Subway can trademark "foot long"... :shrug:


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I don't seem to get overly excited at the idea of a TES movie. I guess it would all have to have a good story and present it really well.


Any idea Zenimax plans on charging by the month to play that game online? Like WoW?

Cue Arnold Schwartzeneggar's famous line from Commando..... <_<

PLEASE tell me that they aren't hiring Uwe Boll :facepalm:

Fallout movie? Go watch Book of Eli. Closest we'll ever get. Good news: it's not trash.

I could see a Elder Scrolls movie, but it would have to be written by a good screenplay writer and have good direction. No Michael Bays or comic book movie directors. I also think that instead of some epic story it should focus on three different stories. One story about a thief/ranger type, then a mage and some sort of fighter. Whle the stories wouldnt be related, the characters could run into each other from timt to time.

Sorry for double post but the Oblivion movie coming out has nothing to do with the ES series , its some post apacolyptic space movie.

An Oblivion movie would be fantastic, however, i fear very disappointing also. they just couldn't do justice to the depth of gameplay in a movie. It would have to be a 3 movie, 3 hours each, super epic, like LOTR.
Which char would they create to be the lead? Or would they do it like D&D where each of the 'Guilds' was represented by a char, drawring their destinies rapidly together for a multi char romp through the MQ.
It COULD work - but like as not, it wouldn't work. And once the screenplay writers started tinkering with it, the end result would be almost unrecognisable to hardcoe Oblivion gamers.
Case in point - a very sixy and slightly kinky, lady vampire called 'Bloodrayne' appeared a few years ago on PS2 and PC. It had its faults true, but the story lines of the two games released were interesting. She had some great combat moves, extreme acrobatics, big swords, big guns, and enemy stomping very high spike heels!!!! Sooooo, the game rights got bought up by German producer/director Ewe Boll and two low budget films got made. Maybe if you'd not enjoyed Raynes charms as a gamer, you'd think ok, the films are at least watchable, but to us gamers they were terrible and bore very little resemblence to the game char or what she normally did. Now, because the licence rights got bought up - no-one can go back and re-make those games as films (i.e. properly). What a shame. so, if Oblivion met the same fate at a low budget, low quality film makers hands - it really would become consigned to 'Oblivion' pretty quick.

If they DID do an Oblivion movie wouldn't it be great to have Sean Bean play Martin and Patrick Stewart as Uriel Septim - at least then the voices would be right lol...............