40k movies?
Submitted by Liam on 23 January 2008 - 5:23pm. General roleplaying
With Dark Heresy coming out on Friday Stu and I got chatting about it and movies. Films are another passion of mine but when we got to trying to think of movies that were like 40k we drew a blank.
Fantasy games have loads to fall back on as inspiration goes but what about the 41st Millenium? Are there any movies that are like 40k, or at least evocative of the setting and background?
The only one I can think of is the upcoming Mutant Chronicles movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/)due out this year but what about you guys?
What movies do you think say 40k?
- LiAm
Dune was a big influence on 40K (and a more direct influence on some of its other influences) for Techpriests and Navigators and all that jazz. It's been filmed pretty unsuccessfully twice, but David Lynch's version is spectacular as well as nonsensical.
Judge Dredd is a diabolical adaptation of the source material in plot terms, but it's pretty impressive visually, and since the source material was ever so slightly influential on 40K little bits of it have trickled down through the film.
The Chronicles Of Riddick is a mess, a grotesque vanity project, and a grievously wrongheaded sequel to Pitch Black, but it's basically Conan fighting an army who have escaped straight out of a 40K style guide.
This points us towards some better films outside the SF and fantasy genres.
The inspiration for the Imperial Guard, with their shoddy equipment and Commissars shooting them if they turn around, can be seen in anything set on the Eastern Front in World War II.
There have been a few films about the Inquisition over the years. Most would translate directly to WFRP but the Inquisition was always the most WFRP-y part of the 40K setting, so elements of something like The Name Of The Rose would slot in nicely.
Necromunda is about colourfully-styled gangs fighting in a city abandoned by the forces of law and order. It's pretty much The Warriors with laser guns.
Outland(The Sean Connery sci-fi) can easily be a lone Arbitrator on an Imperial mining facility that require policing and stamping out of hallucinogenic drugs introduced to keep the work force at maximum output.
Stu
Hell is just a word, the reality is much, much worse...
A prime example of imagery that i think captivates 40k Imperial guard would be
The 1997 film Starship troopers. The design of the mobile infantry matches that of the concept of Cadian guardsmen.
Also the Arachnids are very representative of the Tyranids.
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There was a film being made by some German 40K fans. It cost over 10,000 Euros, and looked very professional. But it ran afoul of the copyright laws.
Get more info here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7010484.stm
or
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071106/130519.shtml
Apart from that, the marines at the end of Alien 3 looked suspiciously like 40K Space Marines.
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