If there's ever a Warframe movie, what would you want it to be about?

[(PSN)Silverback73]

5 hours ago, Sebastianx said:

I'd personality want it to be either about the events of the Old War, a re-enactment of how and why the sentients were created, what went wrong, why and how they sent the Zariman 10-0, how the Warframes came to be and how it all ended. Might be a trilogy than a movie now that I think about it lol. (and yes I know that lore fans know most of these things already but it's still cool to see them on the big screen, just like Lord of the Rings, you read the books but they still made the movies and now they're one of the best movies to ever be made)

Or a movie about how the Stalker came to be, what happened, who's his Tenno, why he wants revenge on the Tenno, etc

What would you guys want to see?

 

See new player cinematic and old version with Vor getting cut down which I really like with the non-English.

To have a human element, It would have to be about the colonies and the mystery of the Warframes as a weapon that can save them from the Grineer and Corpus Oppression...what they are, and why they left.

I might use Kressa/Steel Meridian as a guiding force for the young actress depicted in the new player cinematic.

I wouldn’t try to do too much.

Have it end with the young Protagonist waking 4 frames as Steel Meridian and the colony she is from desperately tries to hold off a massive invasion force also searching for the frames.

The 4 frames wake, kick ass by driving away the invasion force and then destroying Grineer Galleons in orbit.

All is well until the last scene where the room with the now empty cryopods begins to fill with smoke as a silhouette of a black, crouched figure, barely visible manifests in a crouched position with a glowing, red eye...

”TEN-NOOOOooo!”

fin 

 

[Sebastianx]

7 hours ago, Vilmu said:

Not a movie, but a TV-show instead. There's just too much story to be told that a movie would end up like the Warcraft movie, where it makes little to no sense to those who don't know the lore already. It could/should be about the rise and fall of the Orokin empire. 

That WOULD work, there is plenty of lore to make a whole season just titled "The Old War" and have it start by presenting who the orokin are, or how they came to be even, watch them grow, then watch them look beyond our solar system and towards Tau,  then them building the sentients, then sentients going rogue, then the old war starts, Zariman happens, Tenno, Warframes, fighting, old war ending, and season ends before Margulis wants to save the tenno.

[Loza03]

I agree with the TV show idea, although personally I'd prefer an anthology series of sorts of civilian life in Warframe, which also dodges the need to try and translate abstract concepts of gameplay. An episode or so dedicated to each faction and/or sub faction, connecting via mentions or cameos from returning characters, or from themes carrying over. A Seven episode mini-series seems good since Seven shows up a lot in Warframe. Seven Acolytes, council of Seven, even the Entrati family has seven members (Mother, Daughter, Son, Father, Grandmother, and both Loid and Otak since they're separate individuals despite being in the same body)

 

Starting off with the Orokin, in the civilian sectors during the old war or during the fall. Both would leave room for excellent stories. Either way, the Entrati family cameo as their pre-infested selves. Depending on which was explored, follow it with Corpus or Grineer - Corpus for pre-fall (set it around the time of the founding of Corposium and have that factor in) or Grineer for the fall, since that'd feature proto-Grineer soldiers. The Corpus episode focuses on a non-military crewman, Grineer on the daily life of someone living in a Grineer colony.

Assuming that the Grineer came second, the person escapes on a Solaris Rail tractor, who offers to take them somewhere anyone can go and, clade or not - Cetus to lead into the next episode. We catch up with them there many years later as the Ostron episode follows an Ostron with a clan visting Cetus for the first time, exploring the differences between floating-market Ostrons and the ones we more typically interact with. Solaris presence there leads into the Solaris episode, following a similar format. A Solaris mechanic has had the company he works for get mergered with Anyocorp, his payments have spiked and he winds up packed off to Fortuna.

The next episode is instead titled 'Monsters', running double duty as we follow a very unlucky person who's wound up caught in the crossfire between two of the least human factions - their ship has begun being Infested, but it had some Orokin relics on board - relics that the Sentients want. We explore both sides of the conflict through the poor sod having to tiptoe around two monstrous, inhuman factions, witnessing two groups that are fairly simple for us through the eyes of a less demigod perspective. The protagonist is rescued by the Tenno, leading into the series finale titled as such, either having a Tenno protagonist exploring how the Tenno interact when 'off-screen' as it were, or their exploits from the outsider perspectives - as figures of legend, as fellow soldiers (albeit highly elite ones), as heroes, and of course, from the perspective of the receiving end. Bonus points if that receiving end is depicted almost as a Kaiju monster movie.

 

That's not to say Tenno wouldn't or shouldn't appear throughout the series, just at arms length until the finale.

[IIDMOII]

Resource acquisition obviously.

Tiered, gated, RNG based, resource acquisition.

One hell of a ride.

[(PSN)Madurai-Prime]

It should be about a buncha warframes (not operators because they'd break the flow of the movie) complaining about how they have to actually do missions and how their abilities aren't good enough and should nuke more.

[Proscriptor]

monodrama featuring limbo telling the stories of his youth

[DeccanTraps]

Lets go with a trilogy

Zariman: hunger games /lord of the flies naritave about the ill-fated Zariman 10-O colony ship and the operators fighting to survive against madness, intruding vacuum and thinning resources.

The Old war: I'd want more 'war is hell' than 'starwars' with no side coming out looking good, we tell the story of how those traumatised children are turned to chilld soldiers and thrown into the grinder.

The sound of Drums: Our revolution, trying to create something after the overthrow of the Orokin, ending with our being out to sleep.

[Tiltskillet]

Fishing, mostly.

But seriously, it's really interesting thinking about a Warframe movie.   Just for example, it could be the first movie in history to receive 10 different hotfixes the first week it's released.
 

Spoiler

 

 

[BrazilianJoe]

I think a series format would serve Warframe well, as it is longer, and there is so much to unpack. 

Strategically, it may make sense to have the first season to happen before warframes awake, with the season finale being either the awakening (the trailer), or the fight against Vor. It would provide non-players time to sink in the world, and could have a lower budget, as there would not be warframes bullet jumping on every episode (as much as I would like it). If it succeeds, the subsequent seasons could have larger budgets.

Something like "Warframe: Awakening". 

It could recount some tale of young Konzu & friends going to the stars and meeting some folks, eventually bumping into the misterious Lotus - she could be undercover and walking around using a name like Margulis or something - and the events that prompt into the necessity to reactivate Warframes. 

 

[Methanoid]

doesnt matter what we "want" a movie to be like, it would end up being about some emo, lgbtq, small person of minority who has autism, a physical disability like a missing leg who identifies as a porcupine (not sure what other boxes could be ticked here), and they would be the best tenno ever to have existed with zero training or experience ever and would proceed to destroy all grineer/corpus/infested without even trying.

The film would then end with the end result being a 2 1/2 hour movie (aka life lesson) that basically told us we are all horrible people and the world is going to end because you are a gaming nerd who watches sci-fi films instead of saving the planet irl.  at this stage ofc, you will leave a 5 star rating on all movie review sites (because negative ones get deleted until you "do it right").

[BDMblue]

A problem is too much children actors. That aside the down fall of the Orokin. 

 

That or ordis. He’s got a good story.

[(XBOX)Doragonzuk]

On 2020-09-06 at 4:22 AM, Sebastianx said:

Thing is, it won't be based on what we do in the game, but the story of how things happened, or a specific event in Warframe's lore, could EASILY work, unlike most games that really lack story, while Warframe is incredibly rich in story and potential story telling

Maybe but definitely not live action, maybe in a anime inspired animation style

[BahamutKaiser]

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As bad as the monologs in game are? No thanks, the atmosphere is the only thing they could salvage, the story is terrible. 

[QueenKaiju]

The Warframe's life in the Orokin Empire, starting around the Zeriman Ten-Zero accident and ending around the time of their betrayal. Have the movie cliffhanger off around the time the game starts.

[Dreadlox]

Vor talk about the Y'anus key for 2 hours and 30 minutes. Nothing else.

[kgabor]

8 minutes ago, Dreadlox said:

Vor talk about the Y'anus key for 2 hours and 30 minutes. Nothing else.

[SilentMobius]

I think short-form storytelling like a movie is generally very poor at representing long-form stories, and even worse at representing interactive fiction without stripping out most of what makes the long-form story good.

The best, modern example of doing this in an enjoyably way is the Marvel movie franchises (MCU) since Iron Man, but I don't think anyone could say that the sprawling mass of 23 movies as being a good representation of the actual comics, at best they are a masterfully concise alternate-universe story.

I feel the same way about Warframe, I don't want a hyper-compressed alternate universe story squeezed into a couple of hours at most, shuttled along at breakneck speed by some hastily constructed relatable protagonist.

Maybe an animated show, or something like Netflix's Daredevil where we spend a whole season just setting up the character and world without slamming exposition in people's face and then letting later seasons actually ramp up the threat and plot, but even then, it's a tall order.

Maybe like the Mandalorian, Start with a killer doing killer things, show the world they have to live in, then soften the audience's opinions of them as they save the downtroden and socialise more, then run the second dream at the end of S1 and introduce the person behind the "mask" But it's a hard sell without the whole proto-western thing

[Proscriptor]

existentialist sci fi drama a la solaris, featuring grendel in the main role

[Lion]

Shy taking over the world with a million Mags.

[Bingotough]

A documentary. Cover the developers, the YouTubers, forum posters, etc. 

Drama enough for a feature film

 

 

 

[(PSN)Kakurine2]

Most movies based off games/anime are awful. But i think warframe could work as a animated movie. Or an anime.

I would do 3 animated movies. First movie tenno waking up and getting up to the war within.

Second movie umbra, a juicy lore dump on the orokin, the chains of harrow and space mom leaving us with the knowledge of the new war coming.

Third movie. Railjacks, demios, the new war, duviri, etc.

[(PSN)ATreidezz]

I would like a movie about Ballas and the Dax from sacrifice quest... I would like to know if their relationship back in the day was like Tony stark and Steve roger, until Ballas became twisted with vengeance going to the dark path after Margulis sentenced to death by the executors. 

[Serafim_94]

I'd actually watch a movie about Corpus merchant. Good setup for dealing with all the weird stuff in origin system.

[ixidron92]

If you want a videogame movie to be good, don't make it about the well established and well known lore/history of your game. 

Just have the warframes deploy on a mission and make the film about that mission. Obviously, i'm not talking about one of the in-game missions, but rather something kinda complex. 

[Wolfdoggie]

It'd be about a Tenno hunting down the serial killer known as Salad V who kidnaps a Warframe with the intention of eventually butchering and skinning it. The Tenno uses the help of another Corpus Serial Killer, who was captured and kept behind bars for killing and eating people, to find him quicker.