Do you think it would be possible to make a live-action Warhammer 40k movie that wasn't total shit?

If the story follows a common soldier or maybe a tech-priest. Space Marines are too goofy for live action.

it is.

youtube.com/channel/UCFMtdiQILuTZr22sKUeAOOA

no cause the setting is shit, too

It's all CGI you fucking retard

lel.
>CGI = live-action

fuck off GW we don't have any more ideas

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That's the whole appeal of 40k. Tolkiens races are popular in RPGs because they allow people to quickly imply personality without actually having to put the writing work in to display it.
What 40k does to fit with the scope of the setting is turn individual characters into chapters, companies, tribes etc
The faggot who plays ranger in every dnd campaign? Eldar
The cutter kid who hates himself and wants to shoot up the school? Chaos
The "i'm above left and right wing politcs" kid? Tau
The one guy in your group of highscool friends who gets laid and never really took it too seriously? orks.
All of these can be modified within themselves. So an edgy school shooter chaos kid who also has an superiority complex would pick tzneech.
A furfaggot who doesn't like the tyranids? He can homebrew a furry tyranid faction.
This is the true appeal of 40k, it allows people who like war shit to project their personalities to the extreme.

well, they are making an eisenhorn tv show

space marines are 8 feet tall

I lost count how may times I saw this thread

It would be like an anime where it’s all talk and build up for a 3 minute fight scene

Didn't know that, but it seems like it's still very much in the dark.
Hope for the best i guess

>Series has so much backstory and lore to the point it's impossible to tell any self contained story that makes sense to general audiences
So did the Lord of the Rings but most brainlets just remembered the quips and a few memorable parts of the movie. They'll still see it if they see god tier animation and violence.

>Audiences don't like grim or violent movies
Bullshit, you have any idea how popular Alien and Predator *still* are? What about the walking dead? That at it's peak was one of the most viewed shows on tv

if it was live-action, it couldnt involve space marines. It would have to be based around the imperial guard or navy. And I dont know how they would make the story understandable to the average viewer.

warhammer is fucking gay

No, and I don't fucking want one. Normies already ate up GoT, Star Wars, Doctor Who and many other series. Leave 40K alone. The last thing I want is faggot normies and trannies talking about it.

No because a big obstacle is being able to make the characters relatable to a modern Normie audience and everything is too grimdark and abstract for that so we'd need a lame pussifed character to act as an audience insert.

Just give the astartes guy money and let him do his thing.

Just make it a chaos incursion from Khorne. A you really need to understand it that there demons coming from space possessing people's mind and making them go crazy before they manifest and slaughter billions of people via the completion of a ritual

Like just make a movie about Angron's invasion of Armaggedon , there.

Or just don't make one at all because it'll be absolutely shit.

only if over half the cast is black and gay

>So did the Lord of the Rings
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are self-contained, simple, character driver stories that make sense within their own context. All the lore autism stuff was released later, even if Tolkien wrote it down himself earlier.

Warhammer 40k doesn't make sense unless you understand the last 10,000 years of galactic history and you need to understand the dynamic between all the different competing factions. It's not the same.

>you have any idea how popular Alien and Predator *still* are?
Both of their latest films flopped

It's really not that hard to make a movie about a chaos invasion m8. Its basically the plot of Doom except "blood for the blood God"

Actually because of how autistic 40k is it would be better in episodic nature except each episode is like an hour long for 12 seasons. I don't think being able to explain the lore of Angron's invasion of Armaggedon would take any less in that format

Or we could just not make a 40K movie at all.

>Both of their latest films flopped
Yeah, I know, but they've been riding on the coat tails of the original 2 movies for over 30 years now.

>Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are self-contained, simple, character driver stories that make sense within their own context.
Which you can easily do in a 40k story of you only want to show 1 perspective of the story or the gist of what happened via movie format. Like I said, there are a lot of things in 40k that aren't really that hard to comprehend. Here's how an 80iq person would look at the warp being explained to have demons in it
>Oh okay, cause like its another dimension
And then he would just see psykers and be like
>Oh yeah just like in star wars, cool

Nah I'd rather have it. 40k isn't that niche of a hobby anymore my man. I could care less about people being introduced to en masse. Just like with lotr the brainlets will filter themselves out

Or we could just not make it, save ourselves the trouble and you can promptly leave it as well. I'm alright with 40K not getting any adaptions.

Welp, you're gay and it's happening whether you like it or not

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>Hurrr it should be about the guard
What a bitch boy approach

/thread

We did that already.

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>implying the inquisitor wasn't based as fuck

>live action
It would either cost so much that they barely profit, or it would be shit

Give us a Horus Heresy trilogy and go from there.

>Series has so much backstory and lore to the point it's impossible to tell any self contained story that makes sense to general audiences

Stuff like Dawn of War and Space Marine have managed that perfectly well. It's only convoluted if you make it convoluted.

no. it's unarguably irrelevant. go ahead and deny this fact.

Yes, but it would have to rely on heavy CGI and most fans would hate it, which is probably why it hasn't happened. An animated series would be kino if done right. But sadly, I think Astartes is the best content we will see for a long time.

youtube.com/watch?v=YeHlISy_HAI
Here is something if you are desperate. it's official, but the animation is shit. Still, not bad overall.

>40k
you niggers should fucking stop posting this bullshit here.
there's nothing in the 40k franchise remotely resembling Yas Forums
fuck off with your paper/plastic/vidya shit somewhere else.

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wow some autist made a youtube flick and now proper studio has to make something
you desperate trash

its bizarre that the Astartes fan animation is the best thing going for 40k atm.

surley some bigwigs have noticed.

>iPhone filename
Hello Rajneesh!

>he thinks phoneposting is bad
how poor are you?

Imagine owning an iPhone lmao

iTODDLERS BTFO

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market it like star wars except for adults

Make it about a psyker in the modern day

Dont make the first movie about a Guardsman, Space Marine, or Inquisitor. Make the protagonist a factory worker.
- His city is dealing with increasing civil unrest, which reaches the point that he gets drafted into the Planetary Defense Force militia. He's conflicted about it because he thinks the rioters have a point (the factory work is arduous and the hours are long), but he goes along so as not to get shot.
- Eventually the riots turn to full-on insurrection as a majority of the civilian population joins them and much of the PDF defects. Turns out everything was being riled up by a Chaos cult that had infiltrated up to and including the Planetary Governor, who deliberately made workers' conditions deteriorate in order to foment the rebellion.
- When the Chaos cult assert themselves openly, subtle but spoopy shit starts to happen and the loyalist PDF (our hero included) finds itself under siege in the districts it holds. Our hero helps out in a desperate mission to get an Astropathic message out to the wider Imperium; the Warp being what it is, no one knows if the message was heard or if help is on its way.
- Eventually the Loyalist bastions begin to fall and spoopy shit intensifies. Flashes intermittently appear in cloudless skies (especially at night) and meteor showers become frequent. Our hero and some remaining PDF and civilians are driven back to make their last stand in a Temple of the Emperor.
- Just when things look bleakest, Space Marines arrive in drop pods to save the day. They only get a few minutes of screen time, they don't talk, and they are scary as fuck despite being the "good guys."
- The epilogue depicts a montage of Guardsmen retaking the various locations seen in the movie from the cultists, culminating in a brief scene of Space Marines fighting daemons. The protagonist explains that while his city is being retaken, the others on that planet had fallen wholly to Chaos, and it will be a long and grueling campaign to reclaim them.

Why the fuck would you need to know the fucking backstory, to tell a story about astartes killing stuff? Not to mention most of the stuff in 40k is heavily inspired by other works and can be easily told through shorthand.

Show the backwards state of the Imperium by having our hero try to fix some piece of machinery in his factory, using prayer and religious rites. When it doesn't work he has to send for a tech-priest because "placating this machine spirit is beyond a lay technician's skill" etc. Pious people around him are seen venerating the God-Emperor whose image appears on both temples and propaganda posters. His boss tells him the production quotas just went up again for the third month in a row because war materiel is desperately needed at the Cadian Gate. Neither Joe Schmoe nor the audience needs to know what that is; old fans will recognize it but for new fans it doesn't need to be anything more than a throwaway line.

All Guardsman Party kino

>Series has so much backstory and lore to the point it's impossible to tell any self contained story that makes sense to general audiences

You don't have to tell the entire history of the universe front to back, just pick a particular subject and focus on that like every 40k already does

Yeah, games workshop are doing a good enough job at that as it is.
Best just leave this alone and hope we can keep one thing sacred.

inb4 someone shills the ASTARTES patreon

Have you seen astartes? That's the best Wh40k we'll ever get

He deserves it. I'd rather watch that than support the inevitable kikeflix adaptation.

fpbp
I like the 40k universe but I don't see it working.

Horus Heresy

CGI animated

100+ Episodes

Thing is
They fucking know how to make KINO. All hollywood slaves know how to make kino they are simply not given permission to which is a damn shame

The trailer for the first official 40k TV show looks pretty low budget/meh

youtube.com/watch?v=ijg-4YBK_qs

baddies are tyranids

Go back to /tg/ or actually talk about the 40k TV show that's coming out. Meta threads are cancer.