Just had this idea while watching the live action trailer of Skyrim. Wouldn't a full-length movie based on Skyrim be interesting? What do you think? And if you're interested in such a movie, who should star/direct?

If it was a good movie then it would be great.

Who would you cast in what role?

Az

"About Skyrim"... You mean the main quest or the guilds or....? (most likely the main-quest?).

If it was the main quest... It'd have to be done really well in order to be worth it. Basically, not a skyrim movie "because it's skyrim", but a skyrim movie that can stand on its own even if you remove the "skyrim" part from it.

As long as Diane Kruger was in it then yes I'd watch it

Viggo Mortensen as the Dragonborn?

He is a bit old now but nevertheless..

No way. Up to this point, every videogame-based movie ever made was either plain awful (or, merely mediocre, like Prince of Persia). The only movie I enjoyed about video games was Scott Pilgrim vs the World. And it was based on a comic book. There's a reason the big directors of Hollywood avoid directing videogame adaptations, and that's because 'game-movies' directed by people like Uwe Boll have given the genre such a bad rap. We would need someone like Christopher Nolan to reinvigorate the genre. If a Skyrim movie had the technical brilliance and excitement of movies like 'The Dark Knight', maybe. But I don't see that happening anytime soon.

And how would be a movie based on Skyrim be anyway? The hero runs into thousands of glitches while saving the world from a dragon? Very... metaphysical

Not Skyrim, but The Elder Scrolls, yes.

Sean Bean for sure. Especially since he already did the voice for brother Martin in Oblivion. Sean Bean is the ultimate medieval warrior actor.

Guy Pierce as the hero (loved his role in The Count of Monte Cristo).

Weta Workshop for weapons and armor.

Not really.
There is nothing in Skyrim that is all that interesting. Nothing you could take and make into a movie, to simply base a movie in the TES relm may work but Skyrim's story is lame. Very very lame.

At least Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow and Joan Allen should reprise their roles from the game. And yeah, Viggo Mortensen would be GREAT as the dragonborn. He was amazing in 'The Road'. I know, video game movies have a rather disappointing critical reaction so far, but maybe someone like David Fincher could do such a movie justice.

We had this discussion in a pub after a couple of pints and decided the best teaser trailer would have Vin Diesel (yes, Vin Diesel) carrying his daughter through an extremely narrow gorge as if trying to evade someone or something, the music all errie and getting higher as they approach an opening. Then above them a dragon appears and Diesel runs for it as they are both petrified and when in open space another dragon lands right in front of them, roaring. The girl starts crying (screaming would be so rubbish and cliche) and Diesel is just in shock and you can hear him trying to make a sound as he breathes out (that happens in shock, not some cheesy line) and the camera view revolves around them as we see the first dragon, it keeps revolving around them too see more dragons crawling towards them. They clutch eachother and the scene white out as fire engulfs them with a mighty roar.

The white out fades away and the music then changes to be a slow, saddening piano outro which shows Vin Diesel and the daughter's charred remains which resemble grey rock (carbonised really, like solid volcanic ash) still in the clutching position, his face is a scream and hers saddened and facing into his chest. The wind blows, rain starts to fall and the remains start to crumble. A dragon can be seen leaving the scene in the background as it swoops up into the air

If you show a Hollywood hard man getting scared to high gell and defeated with virtually no effort while carrying his daughter who looks about 6 or 7 years old, the audience will come back to cinema at a later date to watch what the hell would do that. The effect from seeing a hollywood hardman acting completely powerless is a powerful emotional thing because they were expecting him to save the day, not end in totally serious, non-cliched and gruesome way.

Oh when i first saw this I thought as an Animated Movie using Skyrim and stuff, Look up 'Great Skyrim Battles' forgot the actual Name, but #1 and #2 is awesome.
Honestly, i don't want Skyrim to be a movie, it has too much of a risk of failure imo.

Vin Diesel?

What next? Korn for the movie soundtrack?

This is a Skyrim movie. Not white trash action.

It's good to know you paid no attention to what I wrote.

I read it, and it would be a powerful piece.

I feel like the dragonborn would be really hard to cast, like he'd obviously wear the iron helmet and be a Nord and what not, but his dialogue would be tough to get viewers into it. But yes, I would watch it no matter how good or bad it was

In our discussion Vin Diesel wouldn't be in the film, he is already dead from the teaser, the question then is who is Dragonborn. We couldn't agree on that and decided it would not be ok to have a Hollywood hardman in the teaser to disjoint the audience from what they expected, as for the main star in the film itself... we didn't have a clue who could pull it off but agreed it shouldn't be a hardman lol...

I know I am talking like I am planning the movie, but this is what forums are for haha.

The only way Skyrim would work in a film is if it was deadpan serious, totally advlt orientated, sort of like an 'epic' feature.

If it was good then of course I'd be interested in watching it.

Skyrim's main quest that runs parallel to the civil war would be hard to make a movie of though

It would have to be an epic (2.5 -3 hours) for the different quest lines to run parrallel, it would need alot of narrative. However if the Dragonborn was Nord and his land suffering from Civil War and Dragon's mixing it up, it could work. The Dragonborn would obviously be torn between his feelings for either side and having to get them to cooperate to fight the ultimate evil, even if he detests either the Empire or the Rebellion. They could even refer to the Great War or the Oblivion crisis very sparingly to set up the prequels, would have to be the same director though to keep cinematic consistency.

Nope

A TES movie with a completely new story would be something else however.

no, films made after games and games made after films are horrible 90% of the time

plus it won't work, because there is no set story you do

everything is optional

skyrim is not suitable for a film. However games like DA/Mass effect can be a type of film. Skyrim simply is too open-world. There are many different ways to film skyrim unlike other games. And its quite difficult too. Since most films cover action, heavy plot, romance, this and that blahblah, skyrim is well, a difficult film to produce.

Would love a Skyrim movie!

Hmm, perhaps. If the main quest were involved(if that were the storyline), they would be spectacular places like blackreach and sovngarde. Plus dragons and epic stuff in it, it'd probably be a "avatar-like" kind of movie

Sure, if they had a director that didn't write video game fanfiction as a hobby. What the Elder Scrolls deserves is an awesome director with a lot of notoriety, one capable of truly capturing the mood of the Elder Scrolls, just don't let the storywriters from BGS have too much control over dialogue.

In the unlikely event that a good based on a videogame movie was to be made I wouldn't mind one set in the TES universe but not based on 1 of the games. If a movie were made based on Skyrim or one of the other games it would establish canon which TES has always avoided. Almost inevitably the Dragonborn would be a human male warrior-type which none of mine have been.