Extra movies? (for bonus games)

[Kamille]

Does Lorne Lanning want to do an Oddworld movie quintology?

If he does would you like to see extra movies like Abe's Exodus was an extra game.

[Arxryl]

Hmm.... I'd like to see AO and AE as one whole combined movie. I think that by doing so, you would get a large movie plot and you could be able to watch for 2 or 3 hours instead of a 1 1/2 hour quicky.
But yes, I'd like to see the movies seperated, unless Lorne has a much greater scheme in mind than the games that have already come out.

[Bullet Magnet]

Well, the plots of both games are too long to combine as one film, but as the srory of the Quintology now includes AE, not having it would be confusing, and OWI knows well enough by now not to mess with the fans beloved canon.

[Slaveless]

It has been proven that AE is part of the Abe movie, since there was a little concept art feed back that said that the movie will include SoulStorm Brewery.

Now on the other hand, I imagined that MO would become more a mini series, instead of a movie. A movie for that would be too complex for a 2-3 movie. I couldn't say anything about the other three, since I don't know their plot lines.

[Arxryl]

Well, the plots of both games are too long to combine as one film, but as the srory of the Quintology now includes AE, not having it would be confusing, and OWI knows well enough by now not to mess with the fans beloved canon.

I do see what you mean. It'd stretch for a good five or six hour movie, but if you cut some parts down a bit, (such as the in game parts, like saving mudokons and running from Scrabs and Paramites,) they might possibly make it short enough to watch!

[Nate]

I think you guys need to think less about plots of the games being transformed to the movies than the important themes. The plots of the games cannot (repeat: cannot) be transfered to the movies as they would not work - the games are about a solo character (or a pair in MO) exploring and performing some actions whereas a movie would be more about the interactions between the main character and the supporting cast (and "hello, follow me" doesn't count).

Consider then that what is important is not the plot points about how many mudokons you've saved and where you've been but rather the themes regarding environmental and cultural destruction, addiction, animal testing power, money, abe being the saviour of the muds, munch being a lab rat, etc etc etc. These are the important points that will be transfered, not that there was a mud standing on a trapdoor in Zulag 1, screen 14.

Thus, there is no reason why AO and AE could not be combined into one movie. Visiting and destroying Soulstorm Brewery is less important than that Abe (and, in turn, the viewer) learning about the Brew and it's history.

[Xavier]

I'm pretty sure the main events of AO and AE will be included in AO's movie

[Wil]

Nate FTW.

It has been proven that AE is part of the Abe movie, since there was a little concept art feed back that said that the movie will include SoulStorm Brewery.

Rob Brown was talking about the Abe’s Exoddus pre‐rendered movie cut scene, not the Oddworld feature film.

[Bullet Magnet]

Surely AO must both include RuptureFarms and his spiritual quests in natice lands? It wouldn't do it justice to rush that.

Yes, Nate, everyone realises that it won't be exact replicas, and the games are conversions of the stories. But how much could they have changed to the plot set by the FMVs? Surely they can't do AE and cut out any of the characters (such as the Glukkons), and that would suggest visits to their respective areas.

Obviously there will be a great deal more character interaction.

Ultimately, the games were released before the films. Fans are familiar with the backbone of the story, and with characters that they love. I don't want to know what bitching could occur if they were changed too much. Though that would be unneccessary, given how much we have longed for and campaigned for more Oddworld, in any form.


Then again, no one expect the plot of MO to be anything like that of the game. OWI's beloved story was raped for the development, and it will be a warm day in penguin hell when it is not restored for his big-screen debut.

[Wil]

There are clearly two extremes being taken here. Obviously the first Oddworld film is not going to be an hour‐long chunk of Abe’s Oddysee followed by an hour‐long chunk of Abe’s Exoddus, but neither are they going to do away with Glukkons or, just to ram the point up your arses, Abe.

The story is going to have to intensified, expanded and mixed up in order to suit the big screen, which will create two separate canons for the Oddworld mythology, in the same way that there are separate canons for other franchises where they have crossed between different storytelling media (cf. the various incarnations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as a popular example).

That implies that the spirit of Oddworld is much more important than the bare facts, which is something that should be intuitive.

[Xavier]

still, I wouldn't like the story to be changed...

we would have 2 stories that could go against each other
my world would collapse

[OANST]

They're probably just making Shrek 3, anyway.

[Bullet Magnet]

They're probably just making Shrek 3, anyway.

Take that back!

[Bonedust]

They're probably just making Shrek 3, anyway.

Wow when did you here that OWI bought shrek from Dreamworks?>_>

If OWI does make a of AO and AE they will have to add a lot of stuff and make it more interesting because its one thing if we play the game and another if we watch it being done as a movie.

can someone tell me what FTW means?
sorry im abbrevationaly impared

[Wil]

FTW = For The Win, i.e. we support it.

we would have 2 stories that could go against each other

That’s already the case with the intended MO and the eventual MO.

[Xavier]

Well I guess I'll ask Lorne if I meet him in the street...

[munchman92]

wouldn't it be cool if all the games that were going to be made but cancelled like fangus and hand of odd were the ones which would be made into films?
or i would think so atleast

[Bullet Magnet]

What, a movie filmed from the perspective of the guy playing an RTS? Original, but not such a great move. In fact, Hand of Odd is a wargame. It would be folly to release something like that as the first Oddworld film.

[Wil]

In fact, Hand of Odd is a wargame.

I thought it was an environment sim.

[Arxryl]

I think that Hand of Odd was meant to be a large scale battle between Industry and Native society. In a way it's a battle, but in a way it's environmental.

[Bullet Magnet]

What do I know, my PC never met the specs.

[Nate]

What? The specs for a game that never existed?! The specs for a game that Lorne was talking about making it for the Xbox?!!?

[Bullet Magnet]

Exactly. It was not able to transverse the multiverse into other probability and causality chains in order to play the game. Because it didn't have the specs.

[magic9mushroom]

And I thought I was bad, BM.

[Bullet Magnet]

Pardon me?

[Xavier]

heh... hand of odd will not make it...
at least not the vision lorne had 5 years ago of it

[magic9mushroom]

Pardon me?

I thought I was uncomprehendably using oversized and incomprehensible words too much giving people the impression that I had a vastly inflated idea of my genius and liked floccinaucinihilipilificating people. But you leave me in the dirt on that score

[ziggy]

i don't really understand what this thread is about. The topic doesn't seem to make much sense

[Bullet Magnet]

i don't really understand what this thread is about. The topic doesn't seem to make much sense

No, it wouldn't, not since Mushroom and I started posting.

magic9mushroom: No one floccinaucinihilipilificates people like I do

[Nate]

Though I love mellifluous spamming as much as the next person, I think this one's been answered.

*applies his vorpal closing skillz*

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