Alpha Legionnaire
A Horus Heresy musical would indeed be awesome.
How about we make Hellfire
Lorgar's Villain Song? Instead of a gypsy girl the song could be about Lorgar lamenting being rejected by the Emperor and his Start of Darkness.
edited 12th Mar '11 3:35:32 PM by AdeptusAlpharius
I ♥ the VRS
Bigfoot Puncher
I was actually thinking about a straight war film (seriously, that's what 40K is all about) with meditates on how shitty life in the 41st millennium is.
A fistful of me.
You just broke my mind with that phrase. Mainly because I can see no reason to assume this game about demon-worshipping super soldiers vs. giant green football hooligans is intended to be taken seriously.
A movie about the Imperial Guard could be serious.
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The problem with an Imperial Guard movie is that it would probably seem like a WWII movie Recycled In Space. I personally figure S Murfs vs Orks fight that wakes up Necrons on a Tomb World with some occasionally well timed and enigmatic Eldar intervention would probably be one of the better plots for a 40k movie, if only to give as wide an exposure to a variety of factions as possible.
As a biased party, I would suggest that if we want Marines, we should make it possible to identify with them.
Thus we want one of the more human Chapters that know how to have fun.
Thus Space Wolves.
edited 13th Mar '11 4:39:05 PM by MorkaisChosen
Cast Brian Blessed as the Wolf Lord and suddenly every nerd on Earth is hauled to it as if by a giant magnet.
To repeat:
TAKE MY MONEY, ALL OF IT
Also, Horus should be done by Nicholas Cage. Nobody does a grown-man losing his shit like Nicholas Cage.
It'll be like the bar scene. He'll walk in, and then...
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK"
... Yes. BRIAN BLESSED is Logan Grimnar.
It's so perfect.
Bigfoot Puncher
Games Workshop seems to take their setting pretty seriously.
A fistful of me.
Except when Orks are involved. Then they tend to go into a bit of silliness.
Bigfoot Puncher
I just saw Battle: Los Angeles, and I must say, I'm quite sick of all this rampant cheesy heroism in films. They should parody this by making a film that paints the Black Templars as heroes as they drop an exterminatus on a planet, complete with a Rousing Speech about how the civilians are heretics who don't deserve to live.
edited 15th Mar '11 12:27:35 PM by RL_Nice
A fistful of me.
RL Nice actually has the right idea. Want to take it seriously? Show how a "hero" is often simply the guy killing the other guys more efficiently than anyone else on his side. Show how the Imperium would love guys like the Black Templars. Show the sheer horror of mindless obedience to violence.
Goddamn, it'd be a hard film to watch, but fuck all if it wouldn't work!
Bigfoot Puncher
^And the kicker is that they still save the day.
A fistful of me.
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Or maybe have it be about a cheery Fire Caste guard in a sterilization camp for captured humans.
"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."
Hi, I'm Talos
New idea: All these Ideas should be seperate movies
To repeat: TAKE MY MONEY, ALL OF IT
List of what we want
- Horus Heresy: The musical
- Fire Caste: For the Greater Good
- Imperial Guard: Hammer of the Emperor
- HS 40 K
- KILL!MAIM!BURN!: the musical
- War Hammer 40,000: There is only WAR
- Black Templars: FOR THE EMPEROR
edited 18th Mar '11 10:24:49 AM by badgertaco
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So to sum, we're sick bastards.
Hi, I'm Talos
You are correct
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Forum Villain
Agreed.
The Tau movie should just be called "Tau-ering Over You". Black Templar movie: "The Brothers Grimdark".
There should also be a live performance adaption, "Bright Star, Dark Eldar: The W H40k Shock And Awe-pera".
edited 18th Mar '11 2:57:15 PM by Pyroninja42
"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."
Hi, I'm Talos
NEW IDEA! All these seperate ideas are part of one Musical
- Horus Heresy:
- Imperial Guard: Hammer of the Emperor
- HS 40 K
- Tau-ering over you
- KILL!MAIM!BURN!
- Black Templars: the Brothers Grimdark
- The Eldar: Get out of my webgate you wippersnappers!
- Tyranids: OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM
- Chaos: Undivided
- Tzeentch: Just as Planned
- Nurgle: Burp! Fart! Sneeze!
- Slaneesh: Hel-LO there!
- Khorne: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
edited 18th Mar '11 5:03:03 PM by badgertaco
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By Rodgers and Warhammerstein.
... I think I can imagine the tune for "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"
Sneering Imperialist
The Imperial Guard are great fodder for a 40K film if you played up the Hopeless War element.
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.
Bigfoot Puncher
A day in the life of an Imperial Guardsman and the horrors he/she encounters.
A fistful of me.
Flavius Jellatus look down upon those imperial citizens that so happen to have tentacles. But when he's transformed by Tzeentch into one of those freaky, horribly wretched abomination, he finds out that the life of a mutant is not so easy.
The Great Northern Threadkill.