Deadliest Warrior coming to the big screen

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=69848

Shawn Levy may direct, but could just produce. The concept is pretty much a blank slate from the show, so they could go any direction with it.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Time machine.

 

[Majik1387]

Didn't the video game fail?

 

[Jordacar]

I don't think it's gonna be based much on the video game.

 

[Majik1387]

Well the show didn't have much story either.

 

[Jordacar]

Neither does Battleship. Never stopped 'em before.

 

[Majik1387]

But Battleship actually sounds good. The show and the game never really had much going on for it.

 

[Jordacar]

Except for copiuos amounts of genitalia measuring. Sounds like box office gold!

 

[Pink Ranger]

I think it's going to be like Predators, but with time travel too.

On the plus side, it's basically a Heroscape movie for anyone who's interested.

 

[Asgard]

Time Machine sounds about right.

Or it might be similar in concept to the Riverworld movies.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I just hope the real warriors run across a group of obnoxious d-bag mma jocks like they have on the show, and then proceed to butcher them to death.

 

[Octoberist]

I smell 'Development Hell'

 

[Paroxysm]

I just hope the real warriors run across a group of obnoxious d-bag mma jocks like they have on the show, and then proceed to butcher them to death.

What obnoxious d-bag mma jocks are you talking about? I've only seen Rashad Evans in one episode.

 

[Silvermoth]

This could be interesting. I wonder if they'll have historical characters fighting each other or if they'll all team up to fight modern soldiers or whatever. I agree the show can be very over the top sometimes but the educational value is incredibly interesting.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Gerard Butler for Spartan
Brad Pitt for Hoplite
Colin Farrel for Greek Cavalry
Johnny Depp for Pirate
Jet Li for Ninja

 

[Paroxysm]

Eternal Champions:The Movie?

 

[Thundarr]

Gerard Butler for Spartan
Brad Pitt for Hoplite
Colin Farrel for Greek Cavalry
Johnny Depp for Pirate
Jet Li for Ninja

Jet Li is Chinese, ninja are Japanese. It would be better to cast Sho Kasugi, or if you need someone younger, his eldest son (can't remember his name, but he was cast in several of his movies, usually as his son).

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Jet Li is Chinese, ninja are Japanese. It would be better to cast Sho Kasugi, or if you need someone younger, his eldest son (can't remember his name, but he was cast in several of his movies, usually as his son).

I know that. I was just making a Hollywood-esque stereotypical casting
These are the people who turned Perseus into a friggin marine because long hair is silly

 

[Thundarr]

I smell 'Development Hell'

I'm afraid I have to agree. I really like the show, but its format doesn't really fit for a feature length movie. I suppose that it could go the sci-fi route, where society has resorted to watching death matches in gladiator arenas for entertainment. But to appear more humane, they travel into Earth's distant past to select the greatest warriors from history to pit against each other in fights to the death. Samurai vs Knight, Shoulin Monk vs Ninja, Spartan vs Viking, etc, etc, etc. And they don't think twice about it because, technically, even the Green Berets and the Spetznas have been dead for centuries. So in their minds it's not really murder.

Then there would have to be some sort of greater conflict. Like maybe one of the warriors they abducted from the past gets his fellow warriors to unite and rise in revolt. Maybe there's even a romance between the rebel leader and an outspoken sympathiser who wants the games to be abolished.

I don't know, I'm just shooting ideas out of my ass. But right now that's about the only way I see this movie working.

 

[Wolfwood]

Oh man, this could be like the History Channel version of the Expendables. That's awesome.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I smell 'Development Hell'

This.

 

[Thundarr]

I know that. I was just making a Hollywood-esque stereotypical casting
These are the people who turned Perseus into a friggin marine because long hair is silly

Fair enough. Though to be honest, I never watched the remake of COTT.

 

[Ratcrawler]

It BETTER be a musical!