MShipley88 wrote:The spat between Chaosium and Moorcock is part of my interest in the topic.Understandably, Chaosium has proven reticent on the matter.I'll believe the Elric movie when I see it.I have a suspicion that it will end up on the hands of the usual movie suspects............And then we'll get an Elric movie where the hero fights "to defend the balance of nature" with the help of a kid, a Wayans brother and a female warrior (there might even a robot to help out). .....The producers and director won't understand or respect the fantasy genre and we'll have something about as good as Dungeons and Dragons......Elric will be played by Leonardo D'Caprio, or someone else incredibly unsuited....possibly Alicia Silverstone......The morons who make these films will (again) fail to understand that "story" and "special effects" are not, not, not the same thing......The supporting characters will turn out to be muscle men in loincloths with horned helmets...possibly carrying huge wooden mallets, or wielding other weapons so unlikely as to be impossible to pick up, much less use in battle. .....They will get the entire point of the story so wrong that we'll end up with a movie about as logical as Underworld, with a hip-hop soundtrack and the whole thing will be a metaphor about how we must work together to save the dragons, stop global chaos-ing, and prevent evil and exploitative Chaos Republicans from destroying the Voormoosh Rain Forest......The result will be a mishmash that is worthless to adults and forbidden to children.Anyway...not that I have bad expectations, or anything. Mark (Yes...there was one Lord of the Rings. But, there have also been many many many Highlander II's...and even Sting could not save Dune.)
Understandably, Chaosium has proven reticent on the matter.
I have a suspicion that it will end up on the hands of the usual movie suspects......
....Oh....and Elric will be gay
Frank Herbert was deeply involved in watching over Dune and look what happened.....
good-looking Mormons in space
MShipley88 wrote:I'll believe the Elric movie when I see it.
Tom Cruise
grodog wrote:Heretics! I shall send Bishop Beesley and Gaynor the Damned to drag you blashpemers to the Seventh Dark
Invincible Overlord wrote:John,If I can find a copy of the rulebook in my boxed set, it's yours.
JasonZavoda wrote:You can also find some questions answered and rule variants at webgrognardshttp://grognard.com/titlee.html