I'd love to watch a Skyrim movie.
A movie probably following the story plot of the main quest,with the protagonist being a Nord male,as in the game's original cover.
If it sticked to the game's main plot,and the costumes and props used where as close resembling the game's as in the official live action trailer,it would be a hell of a movie,and pretty much it could be enjoyed even from people who doesn't even know Skyrim and play video games.

Meh. Don't count on a Skyrim movie. And unless the dragonborn is a woodelf, redguard, or a beast race I wouldn't watch it.

It would probably be difficult to make a movie based around Skyrim because The Elder Scrolls has so much history and lore that people watching the movie that haven't played the games wouldn't understand alot of what's going on.

All of the games are connected in some way. It would be kind of like creating a movie based on one of the later Harry Potter books without making a movie on the books leading up to that one.

I guess they could make a film based around Skyrim's main story but they probably wouldn't attach the Elder Scrolls name to it.

But with all that being said, a movie would be really cool. I could see a Lord of the Rings style of movie with the Dragonborn wearing that armor from the live-action trailer like you said. As unlikely as it is, it would be pretty awesome seeing the Dragonborn taking on dragons!

A woodelf as the Dragonborn in a Skyrim movie? Lol Dovahmidget.

Not interested in the generic Nord. And I don't think the Skyrim plot is good enough to make a movie out of it.

This actually brings up an interesting question. Saying you had to choose one, out of all the TES games, which would you prefer a movie to be based around?

Hey! Don't make fun of Dovahmidget .

This. TES is all about open world exploration, a movie with a fixed plot would be a failure.

I honestly don't understand why people want a movie on videogames. They all turn out terrible, and it is just a pointless cash in.

It really goes both ways too. Alot of big blockbuster movies have some hack developer company rush to pop out a videogame to release with the date of the movie for a cheap cash-in. That's why alot of movie based videogames are complete trash.

Resident Evil, Max Payne, Hitman, the http://i.imgur.com/ycXSa.gif....

Yeah, that's why I think movie tie ends should end as well. In fact, I had movie adaptations in general. I want the writers to come up with their own scripts.

http://i.imgur.com/ycXSa.gif.

People who haven't play the game doesn't know the races,and it would be easier for people to like the movie if the protagonist were human. And a Nord would be ideal,as he would also have personal motive for fighting.
I disagree with you,I believe that the main plot of Skyrim is MUCH BETTER than the plot of the majority of movies that have come out the recent 1-2 years.


If people from Bethesda Softworks worked along with the film studio,and fans of the game,I believe the end movie would come up pretty nice.


I remember when 300 was about to come out,everybody was saying it would be a flop,because it was based on a comic book.
But it even exceeded the studio's expectations.
Never say never.


@Legion64: The first Resident Evil movie was a good one,and I overlooked the flaws like (Who the [censored] is Alice?!) because it was a good movie by its own. Later movies got boring because they had no plot at all,Milla just ran around and flew in the air like superman killing zombies from the begging to the end. But Skyrim has a pretty specific and certain plot. If the studio stayed true to the game,it would be an awesome movie.

300 wasn't bad, but I wouldn't exactly call it a classic either.

The Resident Evil film series is a perfect example of a videogame movie being complete and utter grabage. Those movies are so terrible, yet they keep pumping 'em out.

If I had to choose, I'd pick Morrowind. It has the best-written Main Quest, with plenty of plot twists and mystery. It'd be more like a real movie, not just a two hour dragon-killing-fest.

Generally speaking about video game based movies,my favorite and I believe the best of all times was the first Mortal Kombat movie,the one with Christopher Lambert.
It did what 90% of the game based movies fail to do: Balanced the connections with the games,with the artistic freedom the director took. The problem with most game based movies is that the directors usually add or change too many things,usually making movies that could have completely different names and bear short connection to the games,(example: the Super Mario movie) or making the movie too gameish,and not considering enough that people who never played the games might want to watch the movie. (example: the second Mortal Kombat movie)

Not all of the where terrible.
Mortal Kombat was a great movie and it was successful,staying on the number 1 seat of the box office for 3 weeks.

interesting note: MK was the only game-based movie ever that was filmed with constant cooperation between the filming studio,the game developers,and game's fans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etPqpacKbsc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3RS87VNptw

Twilight grossed in 70 million dollars on opening weekend. (MK grossed 23)

And it was made with constant cooperation between the filming studio, Stephany Meyers, and the book's fans.

NEITHER of these makes Twilight a good movie.

Yeah but MK was a good movie. So there can be movies based on games that are good,as there can be movies based on comics that are good (300),as there are videogames based on movies that can be good (goldeneye 64)
There is a chance that a Skyrim movie could be good,don't be absolute that all game based movies are bad.

And think about the movies coming out lately.None of the recent movies that came out interests me. But an epic AAA fantasy movie I'd love to watch.
I think it should be given a try. The problem with most "game movies" coming out is that they are not movies that follow the games,but movies inspired from the games,and that's something important to note.
Because it would be different let's say if Bethesda told a studio "Hey,make a movie inspired from our game",and a different thing if they told "Hey,make our game a movie".
I like Skyrim's story enough,to believe that it could be a good movie. And if the trueness of the movie to the game was at the same level as the 300 movie is true to the 300 comic,then I really believe Skyrim movie would be a good movie,and succesful.

That's debatable, and as far as I know, only hardcoe MK fans liked it, which, as stated in the Twilight example, doesn't make it a good movie


I will agree with you on goldeneye, but 300 is NOT a prime example of what is a good movie, granted, it was okay, but that was only because of the high production values, but plot wise, it was generic


I'm sorry, but what makes an interesting movie is mostly interesting characters, something you rarely get from an epic AAA fantasy, video games and comic books are much better at handling that.

In Skyrim, the only remotely interesting character is Paarth, the rest range from okay to painfully generic, very few have personality, which won't make for a very good movie


Coping the story is EXACTLY the wrong approach to take for a couple of reasons 1. Skyrim's story isn't very good. 2. How to tell a good story in a video game and a movie are two entirely separate things, and thus, things will have to be changed in order to accommodate those changes. One example, in a videogame, you are constantly in a shootout, and the story is told through brief dialogues in between firefights. Movies that take this approach usually fail (although aliens would be a good example). For a movie, you want the first half or so to be calm, regular people just talking, getting to know the characters, etc. then build up to the fighting. Another example, let's take video game bosses, like Metal Gear Solid 3. Ocasionally, one of the cobra unit members would find snake and they would have a boss fight, this is acceptable in videogames, but would be stupid in a movie, in a movie, people would ask "who the [censored] is he, why is he here, why does he shoot bees out of his mouth?" and he would be seen as filler to extenuate the plot for no reason.