General / Off-Topic Hollywood movie or anime for E.D.

[Zeeman]

ED has enough history and Lore, and yet is open enough that you could do anything from a Star Wars action type flick, something like Firefly, with a cobra MKIII as the ship, a more gritty BSG (new one) style series, or even a Game of Thrones in Space type epic.

It's quite flexible...

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[MarktJones]

Puppets and models!

 

[Shadowdancer]

Live action is right out anyway, no artificial gravity means production cost just increased by an order of magnitude

 

[Frank]

Live action is right out anyway, no artificial gravity means production cost just increased by an order of magnitude

The best solution to that problem is what they did in Babylon 5.. keep your cool-looking spinny things and just ignore the problem the rest of the time

 

[krylite]

I think an anime would ruin the Elite franchise "rep". Wing Commander, the movie wasn't bad just because it was a movie of a space game,i.e. think who was in charge, and what he is doing now, lol.

Babylon5 and "Dark Matter" and "Babylon5:Crusade"(in its short run), imo were the closest in societal concept and production style to something similar to the Elite world. They could do a movie, but I think it would have to have massive production value, (mostly models) a fanatic genius director, and awesome fidelity, ie. Kubrick's 2001:ASpaceOdyssey, Jackson's LordOfTheRings, Donner's Superman I&II.

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[Seizewell Warrior]

The Mass Effect movie (anime) worked because it told the back story of one of the supporting characters in ME3 and took place in the established world of the Reapers and Collectors. That said, you probably need to have played at least ME2 if not all three to understand the context and some of the character references (Shepard, Liara etc.). You would need to find some recognisable lore or conceive a good original story given the game is set in the "real" galaxy.

Not impossible - some other game based movies such as Resident Evil and Doom have been successful but these, to some extent, relied on developing a story which doesn't necessarily mean you need to have played the game to enjoy the film or show.

Also there has been rather a glut of space based TV or late, Star Trek Discovery, The Orville etc. together with a string of cancelled titles so a studio is going to be very cautious taking on a new idea.