40k as... an art film?

Actually, I'd do Eldar as wordless, weird harmonies and stuff- they're a bit more ethereal than the usual rather... heavy OLC.

I forgot to mention that I prefer any Warhammer 40,000 soundtrack to be orchestral. Sorry, no metal.

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Unless it's to do with Chaos, which is automatically metal.

A soundtrack similar to 300 wouldn't be out of place. This for example would fit the Imperium, or something like this as the Leitmotif of a Slaaneshi cult. And wouldn't this also fit in the grimdarkness of the far future?

edited 3rd May '11 1:59:39 PM by AdeptusAlpharius

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I must respectfully disagree with those choices, Alpharius. Come And Get Them fits only by dint of latin chanting, and the Xerxes' tent music doesn't sound slaaneshi (the tent scene is clearly Slaaneshi, but the music itself isn't). And that last one doesn't sound Grim or Dark. Sad, yes, but not really Warhammer-type bleakness. It fits heavenly choirs and quiet, slow, tragic deaths. In 40k, you go out torn to shreds by a daemon or being overwhelmed by a swarm of tyrannids, which that music doesn't fit.

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Depends. Sometimes you bleed out, alone and ignored, because you're too small to be noticed by your side or the enemy. Sometimes you die a slow, painful death to disease, having tried to save someone from daemons, only to be infected and bring the plague into your city.

The Chaos soundtrack should be composed by Noise Marines.

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Well, the Slaneeshi number certainly but Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeeneetch should probably get their own themes as well as a separate theme for Chaos United. That or a single Chaos United theme that also serves as a leitmotif that underpins the themes of the individual Chaos factions.

@ Made Of Axes: To be honest this video inspired me to pick Come And Get Them and to me at least it screams Imperium of Man. I would be interested what kind of music you would suggest for Slaanesh as Xerxe's Tent sounds to me at least like the soundtrack of an orgy held by The Caligula. The last one would depend on the scene just as Morkais Chosen said. Some other suggestions: How about this for the Sisters of Battle, this for Khorne Berserkers or Chaos in general and this as the soundtrack for a Tyrannid ambush.

edited 5th May '11 5:10:30 AM by AdeptusAlpharius

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So tell me, what would you like a live-action big budget Warhammer 40,000 film to be like?

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The life of some random schmuck from a technologically backward world who gets drafted into the Imperial Guard, and his new life 'exploring' a galaxy bent to murder him.

edited 27th Jun '11 5:26:13 PM by OrangeSpider

The Great Northern Threadkill.

I would want it to have a brutal Saving Private Ryan-esque realism to the combat.

Well, as realistic as such an over-the-top universe like as the 40K 'verse can be portrayed.

In other words- NO HOLLYWOOD TACTICS.

edited 27th Jun '11 5:11:48 PM by RL_Nice

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How about this for the start. We get about 20 minutes with these guardsmen as they prepare for a planetary assault. Within 10 seconds of leaving the drop ship, the commander is killed, and before the second in command can finish saying "I'm in command now!", he's killed. Then its 5-10 minutes of brutal combat as all the characters we got to know are killed in horrible ways. Then it cuts to the Lord General's ship where we meet the actual protagonists, a squad of stormtroopers.

Who also all die at the end of their mission.

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I would get Jeremy Soule to do the music. He already did Dawn of War, and his Elder Scrolls themes are fantastic.

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A little earlier in the thread, we had a running gag along those lines that ran all the way to the Changer of Ways who orchestrated the whole string of deaths sitting back before a roaring fireplace, saying "Just as planned!" and then getting summarily betrayed and destroyed by Tzeench.

edited 27th Jun '11 11:31:22 PM by Durazno

That must be what I was thinking of when I typed it down. I have bad forum memory, I can't remember which thread said what.

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So who was the better composer? Jeremy Soule, or Doyle W. Donehoo?

My opinion: Soule was better at creating leitmotifs for individual factions (as was Inon Zur). Mainly the warlike Ork theme, the heroic Space Marine theme, while Inon Zur nailed it with his glorious Imperial Guard theme.

Donehoo, on the other hand, does music that fits the 41st millennium more. Asides from the "For the Craftworld" track, his songs fit the general mood of the 40k verse better than they do specific races. The awesome Space Marine theme (Angels of Death) sounds more like it could be a main theme for the entire game than a theme for the Space Marines.

My two cents.

edited 28th Jun '11 1:58:50 PM by RL_Nice

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I loved Inon Zur's Winter Assault menu theme. Other than that, I am pretty indifferent. I believe that the Eldar have better music in Dawn of War 2, but other than that, I could go either way.

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Let's see... I think I'd enjoy an Imperial Guard movie where several wildly divergent regiments are forced to work together against a reversal of the usual formula: instead of fighting Orks who turn out to be catspaws for some other faction, they fight heretics with CSM support until both sides get utterly swamped by Orks.

edited 29th Jun '11 4:41:15 AM by Durazno

We could forgo the normal, standard tagline with a simple one: War Spares No One.

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The entire setting could make a good metaphor for just how horrifying the world would be if the right-wing fundamentalist extremists were correct in their beliefs.

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Oh no, Wh40k is far beyond that. Its about the inevitable slide and decline of all things, even the greatest most majestic, most RIGTHEOUS AND GLORIOUS, of empire will fall. And going furthers ,its about the horrors necccesary to halt that inevitable decline, even for a short while, and how all good can, and will be corrupted, or fade into nothingthness. It is all the horrible things in the world, packed into one galaxy and then Turned Up To Eleven

I could go on for hours about how Wh40k is nothing more than terrible terrible things.

Of course its kept alive by Rule of Cool , so everything's fine

edited 30th Dec '11 6:56:47 PM by badgertaco

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Not a bad idea. But I'll go one better. Nicholas Cage.......as Typhus.

edited 31st Dec '11 1:54:15 PM by nervmeister

If only we could ressurect George Carlin to play an imperial general. He'd be perfect.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.

They must use Imperial Guardsmen in any attempt to convey True Art Is Angsty. They're the 40K poster childs of relatable grimness (Chaos are probably a close second, but spikes, For the Evulz and plain insanity kinda breaks off the relatable-ness).