Yeah, it's almost like he mumbles all of the time when he talks, or something.

Yeah for the movies the should like hire some professional voices I know that gets complicated, but it might be better.

"Yeah for the movies the should like hire some professional voices I know that gets complicated, but it might be better."

Actually, they really shouldn't. Tom Hanks as Mullock! Kevin Spacey as Munch! Just stick with Lorne, OWI and co.

Not famous voices just people who do voice acting and not saying Lorne does a bad job, but people who could maybe do a better job. It would be highley unlikely though.

And the main characters of course would still be Lorne, but new people and maybe a couple who aren't have new voices.

Yeah, but Mullock has only appeared and spoken in the first Oddworld game so far, even Abes voice was hard to understand in that game!!

The people that do the voices for the Oddworld game are doing a really good job compare to other games(*cough*Resident Evil and fighting games with english dub), getting more people (professional/famous people would just be wasted money from the films budget, just save that money or use to promote the films e.g free stuff like the orignal Oddworld game, I can dream, I can sure dream...)

Guess gamespeakTM would not be a major part of the dialogue for the Oddworld film...

Well I loved the voices in AO, they were tense and very cute. The Glukkons sounded more evil big guys, and Abe sounded like a smuck, the sligs sounded cute, and it sounded they were acually wearing their masks. And I think of the main reasons why Muluck "mumbles" is becuase they wanted to make it more mesteryouse my guess. And Muluck the glukkon is a serious and cool kinda guy.

Sorry for the off-topic :rolleyes: ...

Umm, OWI are moer than capable of doing clear voices; making Molluck mumble was obviously done on purpose - so outside voice actors would make no difference.
I like the way they're all done in-house.

Eee... man writing movies is a tough business, coz not only you have to stick to the same magic but also coming up with fresh ideas with out messing up. Take tomb raider film for example, I thought it would have been better if it was made with CGI plus following the story's plot of the first tomb raider game
but nooo... they had to make it into a flaming rubish film!
Any who I loved the voices in the oddworld games and I think they should stay just as they are know.

Following the plot of an old game is something difficult you have to take the CGI and create it the way it was origanally. The odd-games are too long to put in a movie , unless OWI cut stuff out. Then it'll end up crap.

It's not that they do a bad job at it-I think that the voices in AO were excellent-it's just that the only one I couldn't understand all of the time was Molluck. And as for not even understanding Abe's voice all of the time, I could understand him just fine. I don't really think OWI should get other people to do voice work because I think OWI does it just fine. But I'm just saying that Molluck should be made a bit more understandable. But yes, I have to agree-Resident Evil has horrid voice acting it's almost funny sometimes! :D

And this black dude from the Movie "Anaconda"
*A dead guy pops up from the water*

"Oh man! Holy shit! shit. F*ck this sucks! Crap, Sorry man" He's ment to be the "bad ass" character from the group, so he says something like that :p

I think that Lorne couldn't fit everything that happens the original story into a game, so I think we might see things that were not included in the game, that will included in the moive instead what happend the gameplay. For example we won't see Abe going to Mudumo vualts, instead something more plot wise happending.

I heard the movies will more darker than the games, and have more depth in it.

Hmmm...that's interesting. I love dark stories-that's what attracted me to Oddworld. Hearing that it could be even darker is great! :D

Where did you hear this?! I've always wanted the games to return to the slighty dark-esque feel of AO. It was a less comedic take on Oddworld (No offense to the comedy part of OWI's games after AO, I just like 'em dark.). And if the movies would do this, well, that would be just grand.

I hope this is true... :D

I think I heard from Xav, Max or Alcar. It's usally them with the right info.

And what I don't want see if they the movies, is when the inhaibitants always talk or face to the camera. Not in AO, but In AE & MO. Like when Abe's says "Help me resuce the rest of them", or "Yeah!" Or when Brewmaster says "Izz not fair, we had tiwcz the falour" Or the werdios doing an "I dunno" signe, or when Munch puts thumps up, Or a slig go's "I love this job! Hur hur hur" Or "Orders is Orders" Or "Man he is pissed" And the list go's on. I mean... who are they talking to?

keep in mind that the movies don't have to be the games story, but a view of what we don't saw in the game, so not 2 times the same story, but 2 stories the merge together: film and game

showing the other side of things

God, I hate that kind of thing with a passion. It's too cute. I mean, cute verbal humor is what makes Oddworld great, but when they look at the "camera," it's like they're acknowledging the existance of a player in their world. And that ain't kosher for movies, y'know.

It was intentional; they did it to make the bad guys more alien. I think I heard Lorne say that once but even if he didn't actually say that I'm sure that's why they did it. As you said it yourself, all the other voices were excellent so they must have made Molluck mumble intentionally. So no need for professional voice actors.

I would probably watch an Abe or Munch movie, but I would prefer if it were a Stranger movie. Stranger's character is just so much more mysterious and interesting. Abe's funny, but Stranger would probably make a more compelling movie.

I just don't think mumbling is going to cut it in an hour-fourty-five minute-or-so film. Since Glukkons have been proven able to speak intelligently, what's the point of returning to the first version? They should take away the drunken slur and the muttering and keep the evil growl in his voice.

Good god, those were cheesey. That is what I mean about humor in Oddworld. Oddworld was its best when it was dark and horrible (you know, mean, not bad, silly). Humor is good, but the message put across is not as strong anymore. But- it's all good. :p

Then again, I'm not one for cute fuzzy puppy kittens... I prefer violence and utter asshole-ness. Just how I am.

Like the way fuzzles are so cute.... until they are ripping the flesh off your leg.

No, I hate cutesy wutesy. RIpping flesh from the start, please. :p

Back on topic, is there any screens/pieces of the Abe screenplay? Probably not. But I remember reading something about it...

Yeah, if anyone knows where to find a piece, I would love to see it.

Though I think it may be a well hidden secret. Well, that goes without saying. I do not know if any has been released publically, but other members may know.

Anyone..?

What would be the point of releasing the screenplay before the movie is releasd? Especially from the company who revealed virtually nothing about SW until very recently.

There was that Discovery channel special a while back revealing quite a bit about SW.

I want to see that screenplay only AFTER the release of the film.
I have faith in OWI, they will do their film!

I think that Oddworld Inhabitants would do a fantastic film on thier own, but unfortunately, with it not being the most popular or games, they would have to have either a really famous producer, Director, or Publisher for it to actually make reasonable money.

Or they could hire a talented writer.

But most people who aren't fans will probably only go to see it if it has a good company name on it or famous stars.

But an oddworld movie would be 3D wouldn't it?.

Even if it's digital you still actors and directors

Yeah, Julia Roberts could do a girl mud.

Dear Odd, no!
sorry but I don't like the idea of extern help like movie writers, voice actors and such
I realy think it should be made 100% by owi themself

OWI make games not movies they'll have to get help somewhere along the lines, Halo movie has done that too.

I think it should be too, I'm just saying that it would probably need a well-known companies name on the film, otherwise it won't do verywell in the Box Office
Are you talking about the one that Pixar are supposed to be making?

Please, let only OWI do this movie, and like Xavier said, no extern help. A game with a good story line, is just like a movie, only for a movie you have to make the whole story by yourself, and nothing more. So you can also concentrate on that only. I think OWI can be very good at making movies. And it is not that they have to do it alone, but the can ask advise from people who did such movies before.

I never said I didn't agree with Xavier, but's that's what would probably happen to get good marketing.

I have to agree with Fuzzle Guy on this. I think having help would help OWI make more money from the movie and attract more viewers. Although we all can agree that it would be awesome if OWI did the movie by themselves, people who are not fans of Oddworld and/or haven't really heard of the franchise will honestly not care about the movie, at least that's what I think. But if they have help from big name companies (which I doubt that OWI will get help from them anyway-I'm sure they want to do this project alone), then that will get the attention of the people who didn't care about it before. ;) This is only my opinion about it.

Odd Chick, the marketing would be done by the distributor.

Not necessary. Who, outside of the CG industry, knows who John Lasseter is?