Please DE, make a Warframe movie!!!

[AlexBDias]

DE always make a great CGI cut scenes and trailers, why not do a movie about the game? I am begging for this!!!!!!!!

Edited July 14, 2019 by AlexBDias

[TARINunit9]

If they start now, they might be able to make the November 2053 sweetspot release period!

[Dreadwire]

Yeah sure.....if they got money to waste 

[WhiteMarker]

5 minutes ago, AlexBDias said:

DE always make a great CGI cut scenes and trailers

But they didn't make the latest scenes from TennoCon 2019. They hired a company to do most of it.
And let's be honest, good animations don't make a movie. It's about the story. And DE isn't good with that.

[KnossosTNC]

Right, because past video game movies have been roaring critical successes.

Hey, remember when people begged Blizzard to turn their cutscenes into movies? Good times...

Edited July 14, 2019 by KnossosTNC

[-skimmer-]

1 minute ago, WhiteMarker said:

...It's about the story. And DE isn't good with that.

Care to list examples or we should just take your word for it?

[DrakeWurrum]

Would do better as an anime. Allows for a greater range of voice actors, and gets to show off the capabilities of the Tenno without limitations (or costs) of live action.

[sleepychewbacca]

4 minutes ago, -skimmer- said:

Care to list examples or we should just take your word for it?

The entire Warframe storyline in itself is made up as it goes. To translate this into a movie means; 

a) follow the game plot which in itself is fairly basic, and typical to fantasy tropes. 
b) make a standalone movie that will have no connection to the game lore to be interesting. 
c) retcon the entire story we have so far, connect it, and rebuild from scratch. 

To put everything all together, is to realise that the lore we have is choppy. The Second Dream was unique in that there was nothing before, and it suddenly went to 11 lorewise. But that's it. Our Operators are just... them. Nothing unique about them to fill a movie. 

Of course there's Vay Hek. The best thing we have in Warframe, and the VA of the decade. 

[WhiteMarker]

15 minutes ago, -skimmer- said:

Care to list examples or we should just take your word for it?

You mean aside from things like the syndicates and how the connections between some of them don't make any sense?

How Valkyrs Germesi Skin and her Prime Version conflict?

Aside from all the plotholes?

[AlexBDias]

Guys, please! Do not make war... DE just need do a good storytelling like Star Wars Story series, not be necessery a movie lore or something like that. DE made a good animations using the Evolution Engine and I hope they can do a great movie using the engine as well. Just hire a good screenplayer.

[IceColdHawk]

laughs in Hydroid Prime trailer

[Arniox]

50 minutes ago, WhiteMarker said:

But they didn't make the latest scenes from TennoCon 2019. They hired a company to do most of it.
And let's be honest, good animations don't make a movie. It's about the story. And DE isn't good with that.

Actually I think DE's whole overarching story about the orokin and the fall of that empire and sentiments and all that is very very interesting and cool. 

The thing I'd worry about if they made a movie is how long it would take and could they keep it consistent 

[DrakeWurrum]

44 minutes ago, sleepychewbacca said:

The entire Warframe storyline in itself is made up as it goes. To translate this into a movie means; 

a) follow the game plot which in itself is fairly basic, and typical to fantasy tropes. 
b) make a standalone movie that will have no connection to the game lore to be interesting. 
c) retcon the entire story we have so far, connect it, and rebuild from scratch. 

To put everything all together, is to realise that the lore we have is choppy. The Second Dream was unique in that there was nothing before, and it suddenly went to 11 lorewise. But that's it. Our Operators are just... them. Nothing unique about them to fill a movie. 

Of course there's Vay Hek. The best thing we have in Warframe, and the VA of the decade. 

I think it could be done well following along similar lines to the game plot, actually. And it may even give DE a chance to bring the plot together more cohesively, simply by looking over it directly for the purposes of doing a show.

Say there's a Warframe anime following a 4-Tenno Cell (which would make sense for dialogue and character variety, rather than watching one lone hero).

Season 1 would be an "early beginnings" sort of plot, with them gearing up and learning what they can do while they uncover the goings on of the Sol system - not really sure enough of themselves, yet, to go against the Lotus' directions. Which means most episodes will likely involve the Lotus on some floaty monitor telling them of a dangerous threat before they head out, rather than them just randomly exploring a map.

It would start off with one of them waking up as we do in the game (ideally an Excalibur at the start). There's the whole bit with Vor. Before escaping on a Landing Craft, he can run into 3 other Tenno who were caught in Vor's clutches, cut them loose. For the sake of the show, the Orbiter would be handled different: instead of the one-man Orbiter we have, this would be a sort of "Orbiter Prime" that can house an entire Cell, complete with 4 private living quarters. So the first episode involves the four of them cramming onto a single Liset, and maybe for the sake of players watching we see a normal Orbiter get blown up before it changes course to the Orbiter Prime.

Note: all four Tenno speak, with their voices sounding somewhat as if being spoken over radio. Not exactly robotic. Their youth shouldn't be immediately apparent.

The first few episodes would deal with them getting free of the Ascaris, and then hunting down Vor for payback. There would be some character progression as they realize they have no memories, and aren't even sure what they are. Lotus offers no answers to this. They deal with the Once Awake quest on the way to encountering Vor, encountering the Infested. Naturally they encounter the Corpus when they go through Venus.

Fortuna and Cetus should remain untouched until a later season, to keep distractions from the early plot at a minimum. We can throw in some basic reason as to why they need to do things on the planet before they can unlock a Junction to progress on the rails (maybe connection nodes out in orbit or something). I think, for the sake of the story, all four of them stick with the same warframes until they learn about the Tenno spoilers. But we should be able to recognize them switching out different weapons. There could likely be an entire episode dedicated to their first Sentinels.

Naturally after we're done with Vor, we progress to them going through the Archwing quest, allowing them new ways to infiltrate enemy ships. Change from the game-plot: they actually succeed in destroying the Fomorian. The plot starts actually building with Stolen Dreams - where we encounter Maroo, and get that cryptic line from the Arcane Codices (ya know, about the sky being hushed).

We would need to have an episode or two dedicated JUST to the Stalker. And along the way, we'll get to meet Alad V and his Zanuka project. Tyl Regor and his Tubemen. Frankly, I think every boss deserves a dedicate episode to them, perhaps drawing on past game events for the plot.

Then we encounter The New Strange, and I think this is where the cell would get introduced to Simaris... and afterwards, make their first visit to a Relay, where they realize there's a vast network of Tenno supporters (including the syndicates). We could even have some episodes specifically involving each of the main syndicates, with the members of the Cell choosing certain ones to work with. (Think of this as the Tenno building up allies for their coming fights against their enemies) Naturally we get to see Chroma!

The ending of the season would be where we encounter the Natah and Second Dream quests, with the season finale revealing their true form... the true spoiler of what a Tenno is, and where we see the Lotus in person for the first time.

Season 2, the Cell starts using different warframes, embracing their truth. We get The War Within... We get Chains of Harrow. They go to Cetus and Fortuna, which probably take up most of the season. They get Amps, take down the eidolons. They help out the Solaris, taking down the Orbs. They travel along all the star chart, naturally. Visit the Derelict. We might not need to bother with a Dojo - could just pretend the Orbiter Prime fits that role for them. The Lotus still helps direct them right up until the end of the season... with the Sacrifice and the Chimera Prologue.

You get the idea. The point is that the story is fine, but would need to be adapted for episodic TV content, (and to a 4-man cast, to make it more interesting for character progression, exposition, and a TV audience). And it would really work best in an anime form, if you ask me. Live-action would be too limiting, especially with CGI costs.

Edited July 14, 2019 by DrakeWurrum

[Loza03]

Writing a story that's meaningful to players is one thing. Translating that to film is another.

People feel passionate about the Lotus betrayal because they've known her for years. People feel passionate about losing their powers in TWW because they've cultivated that power. Seeing that for characters you met an hour or so ago is much more difficult, especially since your average day for a Tenno is considerably less interesting when we're not doing it.

Same for most video games. Like, what's the bulk of Halo: Combat Evolved? Sure you have some pretty cool moments of story, but most of it is 'go here, shoot covenant' in terms of what actually goes down, because that's the gameplay loop.  And for Warframe? 90% of the game is 'go here, shoot Grineer/Corpus/Infested'. Without the time to set up the very personal working relationship players get with the items at their command, it'll fall flat because why should we care about this faceless killing machine that goes about and murders stuff at random?

Game stories are good because you play them. That's why the Pokémon anime doesn't adapt the games except by very minimal amounts.

[Gabbynaru]

Why? Gaming is a better medium than movies. That would be a serious downgrade that will satisfy no one.

[TalonBlue]

1 hour ago, AlexBDias said:

Guys, please! Do not make war... DE just need do a good storytelling like Star Wars Story series, not be necessery a movie lore or something like that. DE made a good animations using the Evolution Engine and I hope they can do a great movie using the engine as well. Just hire a good screenplayer.

I wish these forums had signatures. This post would be it.

[LordChronos]

It would have to be rated r

[Lost_Cartographer]

I'd advise against making a movie.  For one, they'd have to seriously stress the existing lore with new lore to make it interesting.  For another, most people actually wouldn't be super interested in watching a CGI Tenno doing what they already do in game, only with more style.  And that's what everyone expects from a Warframe movie - Warframes doing what they do in game, only maybe with about 99% less cheese.  Preferably.

Except Warframes as story characters really should play the Jack Sparrow (first PotC) of their own film in that they're more like very influential supporting cast, while the story focuses on normies trying to accomplish some goal while surviving all this extraordinary bull$#!% that's going on.

[AlexBDias]

il y a une heure, TalonBlue a dit :

I wish these forums had signatures. This post would be it.

What do you mean?

[nslay]

Make a Netflix episode/movie similar to Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (an interactive episode)... only with Quest elements (e.g. Komi, Warframe fights)!

So basically, a Warframe Quest viewable with Netflix and accessible by all without needing hundreds of hours of Warframe gameplay. Heck, maybe it can attract viewers to play Warframe?

[Marvelous_A]

They should make 5 minutes short animations focusing on a certain warframe's story like Overwatch did for their characters. Works really well. Especially for those who never get a personal quest.

[AlexBDias]

il y a 2 minutes, Marvelous_A a dit :

They should make 5 minutes short animations focusing on a certain warframe's story like Overwatch did for their characters. Works really well. Especially for those who never get a personal quest.

Great idea!!!

[Goodwill]

I think an anthology "film" in the vein of Halo Legends, Animatrix or even Love, Death, and Robots would be the most appropriate for Warframe.

Edited July 15, 2019 by Goodwill

[ChaoticEdge]

really? I having the moment of flashback of 2004 game and show "Defiance"

Spoiler

 

It be too much money to sink in a movie even thou you have warframe 3D uses in movies, just...No because warframe don't talk that is the biggest problem the only one who can talk is your operator.  Paying tons of actors isn't worth doing for its better to do not a movie or making a show out of it, the fact there is super deep lore for the game right about now and there is huge amount of spending massive amount money, timing consuming, making the script senses, additional looking for tons of tons of actors because there is going be lots death scenes in movies which it probably will take about 12-18 hours for the movie to fit every characters to have a role which we are looking at LoR version of their movie how long it took for them have their film to be done.

I have to go with no just please no, don't think they should extend that far.

Edited July 15, 2019 by ChaoticEdge

[(PSN)ErydisTheLucario]

Two things...Videogame movies always turn out to be garbage, and warfrqme doesn't have a consistent enough lore to be able to do a movie. I'm pretty sure DE would rather put work into the game itself than a shoddie game movie with the lore being a cluster#*!% ((sorry if thats not allowed, but warframe lore really is that.)) I dont like the idea of a movie, and thats likely the last thing DE will do.