Do you think a Dark Souls Movie could work?
Do you think anyone could pull it off?
>>337756012
You must be a normie to even think of such a stupid idea.
I can't think of a worse franchise to make a movie out of
no
no
>Dark Souls Movie
What would it involve? Two hours of killing various zombies with no dialogue?
>>337756012
god no
It would have to be something other than the Chosen Undead's arc. Completely different characters. Its the only way it has a chance.
In general, not a great idea.
fuck off
>>337756012
Would love to see it as long as there's a rape load of merchandising with it
>>337756012
you know how the Prince of Persia movie was almost decent?
A Dark Souls movie would have none of the advantages the Prince of Persia movie did
>>337756012
Bloodborne would work much better. Dark Souls doesn't have any payoff.
>>337756632
The sims
>>337756803
Just 2 hours of dialogue free deaths
>>337756683
All it would be is just a massive budget Darks souls lore youtube video cause a best all you could do is just explain origins
>>337756856
Neighbours and just about any other slice of life bullshit long running show.
Yeah it's pretty awful, but it's happened.
>>337756012
The real question is....
What is the Dark Souls of Movies?
>You died: The Movie
nah
>>337756904
Silent protagonist is different from no dialog.
>>337756012
Andrei Tarkovsky could do it. Too bad he's dead.
It's called the Passion of the Christ.
>>337756994
Lord of the rings/ the hobbit.
Takes a lifetime to watch it all and is accepted by normies.
>>337756012
They made that already, it had Tom Cruise in it and he's basically a man playing Halo in "real" life.
>>337757214
>>337756994
Edge of Tomorrow?Because he dies alot
>>337757393
I was thinking that too
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>>337756012
>Do you think a Dark Souls Movie could work?
It would end up just like Avatar.
Without all the backstory and lore no one would have any idea what's happening. If they tried to explain it all in the movie it would just be a history class.
Hollywood does not do subtle well.
>>337756012
>Do you think a Dark Souls Movie could work?
yes
>Do you think anyone could pull it off?
absolutely no
what about a dark souls anime?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4O6ttzNxBg
Del Taco could do it maybe, he loves gothic fantasy and horror.
No, never, shut up, kill yourself.
Francis Ford Copella.
Imagine.
>>337756012
No. This video is the best you will ever get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DGe4RtPmWw
>>337756012
it's already been done
>Do you think a Dark Souls Movie could work?
Yes
>Do you think anyone could pull it off?
There's only one that could.Guillermo del Toro
>>337758173
this desu
make it about the lord souls before dark souls 1 and it could somewhat work
>>337757631
I'm assuming you mean the last airbender, and the lack of history isn't what made that movie terrible
The only way it could work is if someone was narrating the entire thing, but that would make it feel like you're watching a two hour long cinematic lore dump.
>>337758519
That's actually spot on
Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Dark Souls.
How if literally no one knows what the story's about?
>>337758765
Actually, this would probably have the best chance of turning out semi-good. Have it centered on the fall of the dragons at the hand of Gwyn/the Witch/Nito/Seath.
My best case scenario would be a CGI movie with 3 adventures going about there shit trying to link the fire/age of dark.
Do shit, struggle, first person views, flash backs, adventures meet, fight/team up/runaways, key items, link the fire.
I just always enjoyed the souls cinematics, and I'd really like to see it put to more use.
>>337756012
Not really and absolutely nobody could bring that shit to life right. I mean, how do you make a movie about it without getting messy? Dark souls is vague,convuluted and that's why people like it. To be a movie it would become too linear. Now that's not to say that I wouldn't love a souls movie. It just would just need a lot
>>337758519
Neat thought on one way it could be done. Another way would just be to have the MC never die.
Also that's one of my favorite movies.
>>337757063
>taking a dark souls film seriously
>>337758774
But it did force them to present it in a retarded and condensed manner
>>337759282
It would probably have to be indie with lots of 2deep4you imagery and symbolism. Very little talking, but you still understand the general goal of the MC. Horror elements as well.
>>337759907
>Horror elements as well
mmm I feel that would be a huge asset to the movie
>2 hours of the main character reading minor details about the stuff in the background written on sword hilts
Director: Christopher Nolan
Film Title: Artorias of the Abyss
Starring:
Aidan Gillen as the Chosen Undead
Christian Bale as Artorias
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth
Tom Hardy as Hawkeye Gough
Brendan Fraser as Manus
and Idris Elba as Black Dragon Kalameet
Come to a cinema for you in 2017.
>>337761270
>Nolan
Look, he makes some pretty okay movies, but his spectacle is the exact opposite of what Dark Souls needs. It has big moments, sure (Snorlax and Pikachu), but the movie should be all about subtlety and minimalism. So, huge periods of low tension with only a few BIG moments. See: lots of exploration, character building, and scenery porn for near an hour before a fight like Artorias and Smough.
Andrei Tarkovsky is the only one who could do Dark Souls' mystic and slow pacing well. Nolan, though, I admit would be AMAZING at handling the boss fights.
>>337762008
Nolan is a genius though.
Honestly, I would entrust my own cock to the man he's so good, have you ever seen the dark knight, at the end I almost cried, not because I was sad, but because I knew I had experienced the best moment of my entire life.
>>337762008
Considering how many boss fights there would have to be in a DS movie I'm confident it would turn out alright even if it was just eye candy.
>>337761270
>Christian Bale as the wolf knight
>Aidan Gillen sorta bumbling around
Yup, yup I'd watch this.
>>337756012
It would be a random hollow writhing in filth for two hours until they get killed by the chisen undead. Pure kino
I don't think a movie would work for Dark Souls, but a show in the same format as Samurai Jack for most episodes: where it's more about an undead's adventures through an extremely shitty decaying land and kicking everyone's ass while dealing with people who are fairly insane, and with it only sometimes going into the main plot of him working against whoever the strongest lord souls are at the time; could work.
I'd really only accept someone who has a boner for practical effects.
>>337762373
Really, a lot of boss fights would definitely be cut to fit in a 3-4 hour movie; essentials would be Asylum Demon, Queelag, Gargoyles, etc. some of the more memorable boss fights, like Vagina Dentata or Smashy Butcher Demon + Dogs, would have to be cut, or drastically reduced to fit on time.
>>337756994
I can't remember the name, but there's a 3-hour movie about 6 different time periods, all loosely connected in some way; that would be my vote.
>>337762920
All the directors who do are great, but too Blockbuster-y to work with Soul's atmosphere.
>>337756012
It could work if it were made as an artfilm. What I mean by this:
>focus on atmosphere over everything
>little dialogue
>little direct characterization
>ambiguity both morally and in the story direction
Unfortunately, the unwashed masses would hate a movie like that, so what we would get is some A-list actor with cliched characters, a hamfisted love story that doesn't fucking matter, and a shitty TWEEST. It's best to never even entertain the idea.
>>337762820
That's not a bad idea if it has a really good narrator giving context to certain things here and there similar to item descriptions
>>337756994
Primer. I needed a guide to figure out what the story was.
So it would be an hour and half of a guy fighting monsters, dying, then coming back to life a lot, with barely any dialogue, and a bunch of sweaty nerds will try to piece together a story with things from the background and hail it as the best new game of the generation because of how hard it is to sit through?
>>337756012
Edge of Tomorrow
Literally already been done. Unless you mean actual Dark Souls, in which case it would be shit because the lore isn't connected well. Unless they ditched the lot entirely, but then it would probably cater to a demographic that isn't the Souls fanbase.
Either way, Edge of Tomorrow is as close as we're gonna get, and it's honestly not too bad a movie.
its a game that focuses on minimal expository story telling and focuses on environmental instead. the movie would either be incredibly boring if true to source material, or hot garbage if it told a straight forward story.
the only thing that would work might be like a short movie about a side character and their plot even then it would still suck
>>337762008
Have you seen The Prestige?
The way that film uses the diary flashbacks translated to Chosen Undead on his lonely travel reading some historical markings on items to show background on ghe lore would be Gud.
>>337756012
>story begins with a hollow escaping the asylum
>dies once or twice
>second time back he meets Oscar of Astora
>Oscar arms him, helps him escape
>Oscar gets killed by the asylum demon, you avenge him by doing a plunging attack
>Oscar gives you estus, etc
>you run off, raven takes you
>you get to firelink shrine, there you meet Laurentius, and the Crestfallen Warrior
>briefly talk about quest etc etc
>head to the asylum, save...
Fuck this is taking too long. You'd have to do a lot of modifying to the story, but I think its possible. Obviously there would have to be a lot of cuts and simplifications.
The biggest problem with this is the lore. It would have to be definitive. Can't count on the loose ends, which is why it would have to be dumbed down so it could be understood quickly in a 2 hour movie.
>Game X movie
Kill yourself.
bloodborne could be done much easier than DS
>>337756012
Could it? In theory, absolutely.
>grimdark as heck
>premise similar to beginning of DaS2 (nameless soldier who's forgotten his past and just beginning his journey into Boletaria/Lordran/Drangleic/Lothric hoping to cure curse, minus the stupid superfluous half-memories of family n' shit)
>MC has no prior knowledge of Lords/cycle of light n' dark/linking the flame
>spends most of his time alone after being told to seek powerful souls to stave off hollowing/curse
>very little dialogue, very little music if any
>MC unknowingly being groomed to link fire by those who stand to benefit (I'm looking at you, Kingseeker Fagtron)
>action is MC struggling mostly against other human undead/hollows 1v1 in beginning as he explores what seems like normal medeivel setting (like undead burg as opposed to Crystal Caves or something more wacky) using pragmatic, sensible gear
>begins encountering larger, scarier monsters above his paygrade as he descends into the rabbit hole, spending more and more time running in fear from bigger scarier monsters (Black Knights, Capra demon, Asylum demon or something)
>In the face of new horrors, MC is trapped or cornered, becomes hysterical and attempts desperate, frenzied attack against monster
>protracted battle lasts longer than it should, but MC is cut down in the end anyway
>Resurrected, MC is reminded that death is not respite from his new nightmare
>resolve splinters, newly forlorn MC returns to less horrific area in search of more moderate souls of other hollows, terrified of the pain and nightmarish nature of what he saw before he died the second time
>slowly resigns himself to facing the new terrors when over time he realizes meager hollows' souls do less and less to stave off his hollowing, accepting that he must allow himself to become a little unhinged in the terror deep, and lose a small piece of his humanity and sanity in facing it, rather than lose all of it when hollow souls no longer satiate him
>>337764816
It doesnt even need to be the DS1
According to DS 2 & 3, countless empires have fallen. They could just make shit up, keeping in atmosphere of course.
>>337756683
Backstabs lots of backstabs
I think Guillermo Del Toro could nail the atmosphere, but then the problem would be he would never be allowed to make it because he would insist on practical effects, and hard R rating.
>>337756012
fuck no
I suggest you kill yourself for suggesting such a moronic idea OP
>>337757179
this
Fellowship of the Ring is the closest we will ever get to something like a DnD movie
>>337765147
contd.
>...not willing to become one of the aimless, pitiful, thoughtless hollows he feeds on
>so he goes deeper, showing less and less regard for his health and safety as he battles larger monsters in search of larger souls to sustain his mind at the cost of his flesh, now knowing the body is fleeting in undeath, with his curse
>as he slowly becomes unhinged and jaded, killing with more abandon and closing himself off even more from other still-sane undead facing abyssal nasties, he neglects to notice clues in his environment and from others that there is a much larger event at hand, with bigger players (graves and homes of huge lords, subtle references to linking of flame and the self-sacrifice this requires that MC misses, but audience can catcb if paying attention, but no outright explanation)
>>337756551
Seriously this, what a fucking terrible idea. Fucking retarded norms.
No. Stop it. Not everything needs to be a movie.
>>337756012
>Dark Souls Movie
>Not Dark Souls Kart Racing
>Watch Dark Souls: The Movie
>Nothing makes any fucking sense
>Have to purchase specially marked cases of Dr. Pepper and Lays potato chips to get more of the story
>>337756012
It would be cool to have a DS movie in the same style as 300.
>>337757393
nice
HBO miniseries with each episode focusing on a different character who ends up dying/having a super bad end. No happy endings allowed.
>>337763146
Cloud Atlas?
The Nioh movie would shit all over it
>>337756012
So long as it isn't about Chosen Undead, maybe. I'd be interested in seeing a Lords v Dragons movie adaptation. Plenty of explosions and action, token female (Ciarin), romance between her and Arty, subplot of betrayal on Seethe's part, etc. It's got the perfect elements for a film, but the one fear I'd have is it giving voice to such important characters that it may detract from the overall mystique and roles in the lore. Like Nito being voiced by Vin Diesel or some shit.
I think Bloodborne would fit better, as it could utilize the horror aspects to appeal to a larger audience than just fans of fantasy.
>>337761270
>Nolan doing a vidya movie
I'd think he would rather be killed then direct a movie based one a game
>>337757738
berserk?
>>337758519
Shit, that was actually pretty good.
>>337763146
Pulp Fiction?
>>337756012
Nope. Too much grind, too much content, doesn't lend itself to a 90 minute runtime.
Something like the witcher books works.
>episodic so marketers don't freak out about needing prior knowledge
>not very esoteric content
>monster hunter goes to x
>smoozes with locals
>hears about monster
>monster shown to have done horrible things
>begins learning about monster
>finds some local love interest to fuck about with (hollywood demographic types are literally erect at this line)
>more banter and prepwork to kill monster
>goes to fight monster
>local girl shows up and helps
>kills monster
>rides off into sunset
Easy as fuck m8's. Someone spec that shit.
>>337757393
>Edge of Tomorrow
REEEEEEE, YOU RUINED ONE OF MY FAVORITE MANGOS, YOU NORMIE SHITS. FUCK YOUR BULLSHIT HOLLYWOOD ENDING AND STEREOTYPICAL LOOKING AYY LMAOS
>>337756012
Holy shit. That's the Quiet Resolve gesture.
Or Conviction from Bloodborne.
I can't believe I haven't seen that 'till now
>>337768062
All You Need IsChill
>>337763146
Cloud Atlus
>>337768496
No but seriously. We could have seriously had such an outstanding and amazing movie, but Hollywood fucked it up. I'm salty.
John Boorman in his prime
>>337756012
Unless it is some obscure animated Asian action adventure with almost no dialogue, no.
Even then it will be shit.
>>337768621
Shit son, if a moderately decent movie adaptation starring Pete Motherfucking Maverick Mitchell of a good manga gets you this riled up, wait until you see what they're doing with GitS and possibly Akira.
I don't know but if you gave me lots of money a good Hitman movie might exist.
>>337768660
This was a good movie. What's it called again?
>>337769909
Haven't they tried like 3 times now with Hitman? At this point, I'd rather just watch a fucking snuff film than another 2 hours of some bald metrosexual going around shooting people.
Go watch Excalibur.
>>337756632
Shadow of the Colossus. Pretty sure the film is still going ahead.
Dark Souls as an OVA series might work.
>>337770196
But that's the thing. Shooting people isn't the draw of the games. But that's easier to market then a bald weirdo dressing up in strangers' clothes.
>>337756012
Yes, Souls games have many memorable characters like Siegward and Sunbro. It would be a great movie.
>>337756012
>Do you think a Dark Souls Movie could work?
No, because Dark Souls has shit story. Like utterly non-existant.
The lore is often vague and convoluted.
>>337770029
Think hard
>>337768062
No scene where they get battle axes cause bullets are limited
>>337756012
Dark Souls has no story and not a single interesting character. Yeah, it would make a great movie.
Retard.
>>337767006
What is that pic from? Looks like it was traced over some Adult Swim show
Considering how most of DS's playerbase are dudebros who play it because it's lolsohardcore, I doubt a movie would be anything that fits the game.
>>337769420
They're doing that to akira?
>>337761270
>Tom Hardy as Hawkeye Gough
Heh.
>>337774136
Oh yeah.
