While WoW is making a move the TES universe would (in my opinion) be better to make a movie about. And because they probably know how to make an awesome movie (if you look at the ESO cinematic trailer). I was thinking about a movie of the 2 TES novels. What do you guys think about that?

Video game movies are almost universally bad*. I love Warcraft (almost as much as TES and Warhammer) but even with the heavy overshight from Blizzard, i'm not expecting anything revolutionary from this. Maybe, MAYBE if it does well, it might open up the door to legitimately decent movies based on Video Games, but... eh. Fantasy also doesn't typically do stellar at the box office either.

* Mostly because of the efforts of a single man whose ability to churn out absolutely atrocious [censored] should be treated as a crime against humanity.

I suggested a TES comic book series a while back, a novel would be a good idea as well.

.. but I think a movie would be a bad idea. Most movies (based on video games) svck really bad.

There was a comic based around Cyrus the Restless before redguard, it was pretty cool and wouldn't mind more. A movie or tv series should be animated and take place during one of the lesser known events of Tamriel, I don't want crappy CGI action movie especially nowadays when almost everything Hollywood releases is crap.

Cinematic trailers aren't quite the same thing as actual movies. There's also the problem where there's been so many bad adaptions that a lot of people NEVER want to see a game get adapted into a movie EVER AGAIN for ALL ETERNITY. The thing is that there really is no good reason for the majority of movies based on video games to be so bad. I think a lot of it is basically filmmakers who are in it for the money, don't want to be bothered with properly examining and researching the IP they're working on, and/or simply want to do everything their own way while refusing to cooperate with even the creators of the IP in question (even including changing the entire tone of the franchise to suit their own interests like what happened with Super Mario Bros.). Seriously, whoever made the http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891592/ appears to have never even bothered to look at anything regarding the Street Fighter property outside of a list of character names and maybe pictures of Balrog (Michael Clark Duncan was seriously in this?) and Vega.

I think filmmakers need to start with a video game IP that's a little easier to make a movie with than The Elder Scrolls if the trend of bad video game movies is to be broken. It also would help greatly if there can be talented filmmakers involved in these projects who actually care about video games and can take such a project seriously. I think gamer stereotypes are affecting the quality of video game based movies as well, with executives and filmmakers assuming that movies based on video games need to be immature and/or action-heavy to the point of severely watered-down paper-thin storytelling and general stupidity-by-absurdity because of the idea that "video games aren't serious," and I'm sure there's still plenty of filmmakers who don't understand video games. The inability to take anything from a given medium seriously is likely the reason why there were so many campy (and often outright bad like a lot of pre-MCU Marvel movies) film and television adaptions of comic books.

We'll have to wait and see what happens with the Warcraft movie first. Maybe it will be good, maybe it won't. Hopefully the former is true.

Yup, literally look at everything Uwe Boll makes. It was all stuff that abused tax loopholes in Germany to make money but when the German government did away with said loopholes Uwe Boll was out of the job because he was no longer needed.

I think I read about something like that before. It definitely fits the bill of "in it for the money." The Super Mario Bros movie appeared to be a combination of "in it for the money," "we're doing it our way and our way alone" and possibly a bit of "we're not doing proper research for this." They literally hired strippers for a scene in the movie, which is of course brought up in the "Honest Trailer" Screen Junkies did for the Super Mario Bros movie.

I liked the super mario movie because it was so stupid and bad.

It would be nice if the filmmakers, the people of bethesda and greg keyes work togheter to make a movie of 1 or 2 books, so that you that you just get a film of a book instead of a own story inspired by games. So that we get something like lord of the rings.

Assemble the cast and crew. I'll have the screenplay for you by Wednesday, Thursday at the latest.

Hmm, maybe a movie about argonian maid can be good

I think a movie trilogy revolving around Cyrus and Tiber Septim's conquest of Hammerfell could be really good. It could introduce Tamriel to viewers through the eyes of Cyrus, an outsider, traveling from Skyrim to Argonia in the first film, in many ways an adaptation of the Redguard comic, while also involving the Battle of Stros M'kai. The second and third films would then retell the story of Redguard, ending with the signing of the First Treaty of Stros M'kai. Other than that, a TV series revolving around Hjalti Early-Beard as he goes from Alcaire to Nibennium, a story of ambition, treachery and deceit. The story could later continue with young Boreziah. HBO's Red King.

Honestly I think making books into movies is a pretty stupid idea as it always butchers the books in order to save time. There is so much happening in the TES novels that it would be hard to accurately display it all on a movie.

The TES books follow Annaig Hoinart and Mere-glim one moment then transitions to Sul and Attrebus then transitions to Colin. It's essentially three stories around the same event, each one perceiving the incident from different perspectives, that would be hard to transition to movie form.

Yeah, not so much movies but a miniseries (or full series?) based on the two books. That would work better IMO.

Do we all understand that making a movie involves the same kind of investment (in time and money) that making a video game does?