I honestly can't believe that I missed this thread! This tells how long I've been gone, which was only about three days!
But this is seriously the best thing I could hear! This is just great! I know that it will be really cool simply because it's an Oddworld movie, but I do have some of the concerns that Dave and Scrab Watcher had, such as not messing the movie up or it becoming a big flop like SMBs. Hey, it could happen with anyone! Not that I think that they will mess it up, but there's always a possiblility that something could go wrong. I know that OWI knows what they're doing when it comes to making films, so I'm not too worried about that. I'm just concerned at how the audience will react, honestly.
Now if they do use one of the characters/stories that we're familiar with from the games, (I'm not talking about making a movie FROM one of the games, I'm talking about using characters that we're familiar with from the games and somehow retelling the story in a more appealing way.) I think they should start with Abe so that everyone that has not seen Oddworld before will become familiar with it more easily. That is where the whole story started, after all, so the people that have at least heard of Oddworld before are bound to know about Abe a little more than Munch or Stranger. You'd be surprised at the people that I have talked to on other forums that had never heard of Oddworld, but as soon as I mentioned "Abe" they were like, "Oh, yeah! I remember now!"
By the way, I don't think any of the games' graphics should be used. I'm all for the movie-quality graphics.
