With the news that the Eclipse Phase role playing game from Catalyst Labs sold film rights to the game before it was even published, is this something that Paizo has looked into? Have they been approached?
I have to think that someone who's a role player is also connected in Hollywood and would be aware of the buzz around the Pathfinder RPG.
Would it even be something that Paizo was interested in?
It seems like the adventure paths alone would be fertile ground for a transfer to the silver screen.
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With the news that the Eclipse Phase role playing game from Catalyst Labs sold film rights to the game before it was even published, is this something that Paizo has looked into? Have they been approached?
I have to think that someone who's a role player is also connected in Hollywood and would be aware of the buzz around the Pathfinder RPG.
Would it even be something that Paizo was interested in?
It seems like the adventure paths alone would be fertile ground for a transfer to the silver screen.
It's absolutely something I'm interested in. Paizo's not been approached yet by a studio, as far as I know. And while it'd certainly be tempting to take a big payment for the film rights... I hope HOPE HOPE we'd be able to resist saying yes to the wrong person.
AKA: I don't want Courtney Solomon or Uwe Boll to get the rights. I'd be cool with Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Guillarmo del Toro, Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, David Twohy, Katheryn Bigelow, James Cameron, J. J. Abrams, David Cronenberg, or Ridley Scott directing a Pathfinder movie though. So if anyone knows any of them... let them know they've got a green light from me! :-)
Guillermo del Toro. Anyone who wears a Cthulhu mythos ring and makes elves scary knows what Pathfinder is all about...
I'd much rather see a cartoon series.
It's expensive, but the Pathfinder setting is so uniformly fantastic that I feel a cartoon would suit it better than special effects.
As for a TV (or other) series, a Pathfinder story is really an epic by default, spanning many levels and locations. Having only two hours to drink it in would be a disservice to the setting and characters.
On the downside, you would face the impossible task of being faithful to the level of unapologetic carnage that makes Pathfinder feel so classic. No TV cartoon would ever get away with that in the states.
Perhaps a flash-animated web series. To me, that seems the best possible outcome.
Good idea, too. He may be evil, but he's honest.
In case you make a movie, in case that it plays in the Darklands, Nidal, Cheliax oder even Hell, be sure to get Tim Burton as Director :)
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Believe it. Hollywood-as-shark-tank is no joke.
AKA: I don't want Courtney Solomon or Uwe Boll to get the rights.
I don't blame you there. I still can't figure out how someone would actually pay Uwe Boll to make a movie
Could you imagine if Werner Herzog did it? I guarantee that someone would get eaten by a Dire Bear.
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I'd be cool with Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Guillarmo del Toro, Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, David Twohy, Katheryn Bigelow, James Cameron, J. J. Abrams, David Cronenberg, or Ridley Scott directing a Pathfinder movie though. So if anyone knows any of them... let them know they've got a green light from me! :-)How about Quintin Carantino (I'm sure I mispelled that....)
Quenten Tarrantino would certainly make an interesting movie... but his strength in movie-making is dialouge, not epic fantasy or visionary directing. Although "Inglourious Basterds" is a step in the right direction... but his movies tend to be better served by relatively mundane settings in which regular people get put in impossible or outlandish situations.
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AKA: I don't want Courtney Solomon or Uwe Boll to get the rights.I don't blame you there. I still can't figure out how someone would actually pay Uwe Boll to make a movie
Because not every executive understands who Uwe Boll is, but they sure understand the big pile of money he and his investors bring to the meeting to snatch up video game rights.
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AKA: I don't want Courtney Solomon or Uwe Boll to get the rights.I don't blame you there. I still can't figure out how someone would actually pay Uwe Boll to make a movie
It's a little concept called a "Tax Shield". Large corporations need "failed projects" to serve as expense to keep the taxman away. And wait! there's more: you can defer your losses over the next seven years!
Big execs also need these crap projects to bill their personal flights and ferrari purchases unto...
Exec company A: "Hey old chap! that movie project really kicked your ass! has the old man forgiven you yet?"
Exec company B (who now owns a yacht, originally listed as one of the expense of the failed project and sold to him later for one dollar): "Oh, tell me about it! this project was the death of me. The old man finally agreed to come on my boat next weekend... hopefully the bikini babe waitresses* booze cruise I have in stock for him will smooth things over..."
*said babes being an expense for yet another failed Boll project... :P
I'd much rather see a cartoon series.
Only if done in the spirit of old MTV animation or perhaps an anime produced by Madhouse and directed by the people of Record of the Lodoss War. I'd die if I saw PF as a saturday morning cartoon.
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AKA: I don't want Courtney Solomon or Uwe Boll to get the rights. I'd be cool with Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Guillarmo del Toro, Steven Spielberg, Werner Herzog, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, David Twohy, Katheryn Bigelow, James Cameron, J. J. Abrams, David Cronenberg, or Ridley Scott directing a Pathfinder movie though. So if anyone knows any of them... let them know they've got a green light from me! :-)
Bruce Campbell is quite approachable. He'd probably pitch it to Sam in exchange for a part - I could live with that ;)
More seriously, Sam Raimi; yes please!
It's a little concept called a "Tax Shield". Large corporations need "failed projects" to serve as expense to keep the taxman away. And wait! there's more: you can defer your losses over the next seven years!
I suppose if you want a failed project he would be the man to turn to