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And now, we present an inside look at the creation of the possibly upcoming MechWarrior movie:
Movie Exec A: “Hey [Movie Exec B], you know what people seem to be able to relate to right now, in this time of economic hardship? Giant robots.”
Movie Exec B: “Yeah! And you know what goes great with giant robots, don’t you? That’s right: vague nostalgic ties into this generation’s childhood, ala Transformers 2.”
Movie Exec A: “Hey, aren’t the MechWarrior people getting sued for that whole ‘stealing from a nostalgic property’ business right now? Let’s make a movie out of that!”
Movie Exec B: “Brilliant! Get Shia LaBeouf on the phone, stat!”
And that’s how we like to imagine the rumored MechWarrior movie began its development. But it probably isn’t. Joystiq’s claiming that Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Company is helming the project, as Eisner owns the rights to the franchise at the moment. Apparently, Michael Gordon, the man behind such cinematic greats as Godzilla and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra is directing. Other than that, nothing else is known. We’ll let you know when – or if – we hear more.
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Shckr57
October 03, 2009 at 5:59pm
i want another god dam game. ive heard of living legends for over a year now, but they have yet to put out. i under stand that is it a mod, but still.
Maverick828
October 01, 2009 at 11:17pm
I had heard rumors about a MW movie probably 6 or 7 years ago (but never heard about anything since), and have been hoping for one. I love the whole MW universe and its story and can only hope that if this truly comes to light, that it does justice to the franchise. Unfortunately, I'm doubting it will, but then again more and more comic and game related movies have been better then they were in the past, so it may just be a decent movie... we can only hope. Still, even if its only mediocre, it will be great watching those giant war machines blowing the crap out of everything on the big screen (lets just hope they dont ruin it with a huge love story or some other crap ala Pearl Harbor, great war movie, too much love story though! Yes I know, that was out a long time ago, but any WWII movie buff would probably agree with me, lol)
BaggerX
October 01, 2009 at 8:28am
Wow... I'm sure this won't be a steaming pile...
As much as I'd love to see a good MW movie, I just can't put any faith in it being created in a way that wasn't formulaic, cliched, and utterly devoid of the kind of story that we got with some of the good BTech books. Maybe they should just remake Robot Jox instead.
