Starcraft movie!

[dustinbrowder]

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If Starcraft 2 was made a movie what storyline would you like to follow and from what perspective should it be told?
For example would you like to see the original SC1 storyline followed and through the perspective of say Jim Raynor, or all the characters perspective.

Should they follow a book storyline or maybe from a war and political perspective?

BTW: Did you burst into tears of happiness, thinking they may have announced a starcraft movie?

EDIT: Additionally, how do you think the cast and staff should be for it, should it be CGI, live, cartoon, 3D?

I'd like to see this man portraying Mengsk:
Valerian:
Stukov:
Kerrigan:

[Brendi]

I think the original starcraft campaigns would make for a nice movie.
I think it should focus more on the political parts, mengsk ambitions and such.
I believe a PoV focused on Kerrigan would be a nice twist for us original SC fans.

[Freespace]

I think the Dark Templar saga would make for an awesome movie trilogy. It would be friendly to newcomers to the universe, and awesome to the hardcore fans as well.

Also, each of the three movies can start with a 3-4 minute narration about one of the three races' history (like LotR did). So we would have Terran history (the 4 supercarriers arriving), Zerg history in part 2 (by this time we know what the zerg are, so the Xel'Naga overmind history) and the Protoss history in part 3 (again, by this time we have an idea of who the protoss are so we get the proper Xel'Naga and tribe wars history).

James Cameron, Neill Blomkamp or Peter Jackson to direct, please.

Milla Jovovich as Kerrigan, of course.

And 200 million $ budget per movie, at the least. Terrans live action, everything else CG.

[dustinbrowder]

damn penelope is hot, would probably deter a bit with her hotness from the "evil" kerrigan, would it would be joy watching her as kerrigan.

And lets be honest, who wouldn't want to see her in some hot stuff action scenes cough shower cough

[senervo]

what? another game movie to get trashed and burned?

i hate to sound unnecessarily unoptimistic about the whole idea but i was never too into having a starcraft movie in the first place because these kind of movies always turn out like...well, shit!

I think what i'd dislike about the whole thing is:

1: pg-ratings that they will be forced to include as this would allow them to sell a whole lot more copies of it

2: CG-effects of Protoss and Zerg that would make the whole movie look worse next to the real actors (unless they made it ungodly well)

3: inadept directors that never truly followed the lore of a game and made up his own shit...

... you know what?
let's bring Uwe Boll in as the lead director and i'm sure this movie'd be gold...

's not like hollywood can't drill someone hard enough in the buttocks anyway.. ok... sorry for my rant..

[senervo]

I think the original starcraft campaigns would make for a nice movie.
I think it should focus more on the political parts, mengsk ambitions and such.
I believe a PoV focused on Kerrigan would be a nice twist for us original SC fans.

see, this is instantly a problem for this thing to be a movie...
viewers would crave both a good back story and plenty of action...
unless this'll be a 3 hour long movie i doubt they can include everything reasonbly well and still make it look smooth during transitions...

Or, we could have sequels but i don't even want to get started with that...

(Oh, damn... i'm terribly sorry for the double post, mods... eh... can i fix this?)

[DemolitionSquid]

Lets see how the WC movie does first.

@ Senervo

Did you know Uwe Boll actually called up Blizzard to ask to let him direct the WC movie, and Mike Morheim basically laughed in his face?

[BusinessMonkey]

Thread's been done before... And it was long living as well...

Had some nice points too.

http://sclegacy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5009

[flak4321]

@ Dustinbrowder:

I agree with your actor choices, save Sean Penn. Great actor, but a 60 year old cannot play Valerian, who is depicted to be about 20-25, in my opinion, especially given the timeline of the novel I, Mengsk, which shows Arcturus as in his mid 40s when the Dominion is formed and perhaps early 50s now. My suggestion would be to tap the young fella who has been playing Lt. Horatio Cain's son on CSI Miami.

I do not agree with Penelope Cruz either. Sexy yes, capable yes, but doesn't have the look. I nominate Katherine Heigl as an option.

Other suggestions:

Matt Horner: Karl Urban
Raynor: Robert Clotworthy or perhaps Michael Weatherly (NCIS)
Swann: Bob Hoskins or the gentleman who plays Hagrid in Harry Potter or maybe John Rhys Davies (Gimli: LOTR)
Zeratul (voice): Danny Glover
Warfield: Lou Gossett Jr.
Stettman: Zach Braff
Duke: Sir Anthony Hopkins (he might be too classy for Duke)

I have to check out the link to the older thread too.

[Gradius]

how about:

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jim Raynor - "quick, get to the banshee!"
Pamela Anderson as Sarah Kerrigan
Adam Sandler as Matt Horner

and Val Kilmer obviously need to be Valerian. :P