Elder Scrolls Oblivion Film?

[Mrs. Sawyer]

http://movies.ign.com/articles/111/1119303p1.html

Bethesda parent company Zenimax Media has filed a motion picture trademark for Oblivion, the fourth game based in the Elder Scrolls series.

The trademark, filed on Aug. 17, covers "Motion picture film production; entertainment services, namely, providing motion picture theatrical films in the field of fantasy games."

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was first released for Xbox 360 in 2006. In April of last year, Bethesda secured the rights to create a filmed based in the Fallout universe.

Even though it will probably take forever if it all, the prospect of an Elder Scrolls film still excites me.

So if there was a film, who would you cast (since the main character can be anyone)? What characters would you include? Who would be your dream director?

 

[GhostPoet]

Interesting...the game barely had any real story. So they would have to write in quite a bit of additional material.

Ideally....I'd prefer the hero be a dark elf. But we'll probably get a generic human.


When did I become a cynic?

 

[TheFuture]

Perhaps Martin will be the main character with the main quest the story of the film. Oh and I demand that The Dark Brotherhood are in this.

All this being said the idea of making films out of games like Oblivion, Fallout 3 and World of Warcraft doesn't appeal to me. I mean there are no main characters in these games, the user creates the main character himself.

 

[GhostPoet]

World of Warcraft I can see them making a film out of...it has a RICH lore to pull from...but with Fallout and Oblivion, I agree...there's really not much to work with. Open world games like that don't really have a strong story.

 

[Wolfwood]

I have no problem with them creating a story inspired by the worlds of Fallout and Oblivion though. I don't think that's too much of a stretch.

 

[TheFuture]

Fallout 3 already got a partial film adaptation anyway, it's called Book of Eli.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'd rather see a Fable film. Or the plot from Fable II.