A Movie From The Game???

[:.wormEX.:]

Dear Spadge:
I a question for you, but I´m doesn understand this.

¿ in what year Will we Launch the first Movie of Worms?

Respond hurry

[Plasma]

2026 is the expected date. Although knowing T17, it probably won't be until 2028 from delays.


It will, of course, suck immensely.

[bonz]

It will, of course, suck immensely.
No, no.
I heard that the original story writers of W2 will write the story for the movie.
The question is, will Andy D. be among those too, since he obviously also wrote the original story.
Although, Andy has to write alcoholic stories in his iBar(s) and also has to do story remixes and story scratching as a DJ, IIRC.

The most important story would be the question if they use 2D stories or 3D stories.
I would favour "2.5" stories as they used in the newer Worms Open Stories stories.

[Shadowmoon]

Team 17 making a Worms Movie? team 17 make games, not movies.

Can you even make a movie out of worms? come on, worms is a game where worms just blow other worms brains out. Now imagine putting that into a movie.

RESULT= Suck

In other words, no, there are no plans for it now, and I doubt there ever will be.

[robowurmz]

A Worms movie isn't really viable; there is no story, at all.

[Metal Alex]

A Worms movie isn't really viable; there is no story, at all.

There's one in the works with human actors.

[robowurmz]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Anything but that!

[_Kilburn]

Eye on Legs: The Movie may actually be fun. :cool:

[MtlAngelus]

There's one in the works with human actors.

Featuring: Adam West as Bat-Worm™. :cool:

[Shirdel]

EDIT: Oops, my bad. Almost forgot.
There will be no Official Worms Movie.
Well, not until a Team 17 Member confirms there won't be one. My squeal finger is pointing at... Afrohorse.

[yakuza]

Why is the general consensus that a movie featuring the worms franchise wouldn't work?
Because it has no story? Oh right. Seriously?

[robowurmz]

Hey Yakuza - write us up a script, find casting, and get a producer. Then, maybe we can see why the film won't work, eh?

[yakuza]

Hey Yakuza - write us up a script, find casting, and get a producer. Then, maybe we can see why the film won't work, eh?

That's a different reason, that reason is called lack of resources, now that's a valid one, it has nothing to do with "it wouldn't make a good movie because worms have no story lol wars".

So, next time you think of a great comeback full of sarcasm, make sure you're making sense.

Worms could make a valid 3D movie with the right people involved, the fact that it has no story is irrelevant to all this process, since it can just be made, like it was made for the Super Mario Boss movie, which sucked terribly.

[Metal Alex]

Worms could make a valid 3D movie with the right people involved, the fact that it has no story is irrelevant to all this process, since it can just be made, like it was made for the Super Mario Boss movie, which sucked terribly.

The point we all try to make is... Can you imagine a valid story for a Mario Bros movie? Worms would be in that situation, and considering there's no particular main character, it'd go even harder. It IS a very important factor.

Anyways, what I can easily see is an animated series of shorts... Kinda like the Worms 2 intro ones, but longer, and more polished.

[Plasma]

Several reasons, Yakuza:
1: There's no main character.
2: Worms is not a particularly well-followed franchise.
3: There's no general Worms story. Other than that there was a guy called Boggy B. Who died a lot.
4: Videogame-based movies usually suck badly in the first place. The Resident Evil series is the only game-based movie series I can think of that wasn't immensely horrible, and they were only average.
5: Lack of resources.

[robowurmz]

6. No director or producer would take you seriously.

[Metal Alex]

Just as a side note: yakuza was only targeting the story part :p

[MtlAngelus]

They could just slap any dumb funny story for kids and it would work as well as Antz, A Bug's Story, etc. Worms doesn't have any story, but it has a rather funny/expressive character design, and a long list of usable weapons to be featured in it.
So, if it was done by a major CG studio, and/or marketed appropriately, it would work.

Do I think it's a good idea? No. It would just be another of the long list of cg movies I don't care about.

[yakuza]

God, you people are dense.
When Pixar decided to make a movie about ants or bugs, was there a story? No, they made one up. They could of used the worms characters, it doesn't matter. "There's no story, there's no characters" is not a valid reason, it's just a lazy opinion.
The reasons afterwards are good, however, I was only picking on the dumb ones.

Would a Worms movie be good if Pixar decided to make it? Probably would, there no reason that would stop it from being good.

[bonz]

Ehrm, there already is a story:

This is a story of courage, honour and worms.
War had cast a shadow over their once peaceful land,
Gunfire filled the air, as worm turned against worm;
Where so many had fallen, others knew they must follow.
For one such worm, this day had already come.
When he was two, his father had left, never to return.
Three years he had waited for his chance to fight;
Three years of training, both day and night.
And though he was scared as he set off for battle,
He knew in his heart that it was something he must do.
Three inches tall, and armed to the teeth,
A fine soldier he made, and his name was Boggy B.

Chorus:
We are worms, we're the best, and we've come to win the war
We'll stand, we'll never run, stay until it's done
Though our friends may fall, and our world be blown apart
We'll strike with all our might
We'll fight for what is right till the end.

Scrambling up a hill and hiding behind a tree,
He looked at the battle that raged below.
It was there he saw his friend Spadge stood upon a bridge.
But another worm had also seen him, and aimed to have him dead
Boggy called to Spadge, but Spadge didn't hear,
He never knew what hit him, as he flew into the air.
It was all to much for Boggy, as he watched his best friend die.
Charging down the hill he had to have revenge,
What had Spadge done to come to such an end?
Reaching the bottom of the hill, Boggy suddenly heard a click:
He realized to is terror there was a mine under his tail!

[Chorus]

Hitting several cliffs and landing in a tree,
Boggy pulled himself together, there was much he had to do.
Spotting the enemy down below, he knew this was his chance.
Boggy grabbed a stick of dynamite and dropped it on his head.
The enemy, he tried to run, but all he could really do was squirm,
As the fuse ran out there was a mighty BANG, and everywhere were bits of worm.
With their leader blown to kingdom come, the enemy they turned and ran!
Boggy bungeed from the tree and landed safely on the ground.
As he watched the enemy squirm away, the cry went up: "We've won the war!"

[chorus]
[chorus fade out]

[robowurmz]

But it's a bit short to be made into a feature-length film though.

[bonz]

But it's a bit short to be made into a feature-length film though.
Have you looked at Hollywood movies recently?

[robowurmz]

Hollywood Worms would be a killing blow to the franchise I fear.

[_Kilburn]

Eye on Legs: The Movie may actually be fun. :cool:

Again, if we can make comics out of worms, why not movies? Okay, Eye on Legs wasn't such a good example since it would turn out completely random and insane, but there must be a way to make a decent movie.
And the lack of main character isn't such a valid reason, you can always make up main characters and stories, just like we do with forum comics.

[Shadowmoon]

There can be a story in a Worms Movie, but its going to be very hard to create a good story for it.

And making comics is a lot easier than making a decent movie. Here, you just slap forumers into a comic, add a couple of funny jokes, pick a simple story, and you have a good comic that a lot of people like. With a Worms movie, its going to be harder.

[yakuza]

There can be a story in a Worms Movie, but its going to be very hard to create a good story for it.

And making comics is a lot easier than making a decent movie. Here, you just slap forumers into a comic, add a couple of funny jokes, pick a simple story, and you have a good comic that a lot of people like. With a Worms movie, its going to be harder.

A good comic is also harder than a bad comic. What's your point?

[Shadowmoon]

A good comic is also harder than a bad comic

Not here, it isn't. The majority of comics i've seen here have been branded decent or good, and only a few have been branded bad.


Maybe in reality it is, but still, making a good/decent movie is a lot harder than making a good/decent comic.

Not saying a good worms movie cannot be acheived, though.

[Metal Alex]

The thing with comics around here is that they have their own story totally aside from the game. The ONLY reference I saw to the game in EOL, for example, was that worms had weapons. The rest would have worked the same if the characters were humans, lemurs, or toasters.

The thing was just that those comics are about forumers, more than the game. Sure, you can make a story out of nowhere, but you can't really attach to the game too much before running out of material.

[yakuza]

Not here, it isn't. The majority of comics i've seen here have been branded decent or good, and only a few have been branded bad.




So you're saying that here, whatever here means, good comics are equally as hard to make as bad comics?

[Shadowmoon]

By "here" I meant this forum, and I replied to Kilburn who said "why can we not make worms movies if we can make worms comics?" I was saying that making a decent/good worms comic is a lot easier than making a decent/good worms movie, thats all.

There have been many threads about this subject before. Search "worms movie"

[MtlAngelus]

There can be a story in a Worms Movie, but its going to be very hard to create a good story for it.

Just about as hard as writing a story featuring any other type of animated character... I fail to see your point here. If you can come up with a good story for a movie based on ants or bugs, then you can do the same on a movie based on worms.

[robowurmz]

The OP was talking about a movie based on the games... and since the actual games don't have any storyline, you can't make on based on the games.
But it is possible to write a story for the Worms themselves.

[bonz]

Here, you just slap forumers into a comic, add a couple of funny jokes, pick a simple story, and you have a good comic that a lot of people like.
Funny.
That sounds like every story from animated/cartoon movies from the past decades.
Add the generic bunch of protagonists with every cliché character and you're good to go.

[Shadowmoon]

A movie not based on Worms and just having worms in it, wouldn't be so hard. As for a movie based on the worms games... well, the whole objective of the game is to kill your opponents using weaponry...... so how easy is it going to be to make a story that doesn't suck?

[yakuza]

By "here" I meant this forum, and I replied to Kilburn who said "why can we not make worms movies if we can make worms comics?" I was saying that making a decent/good worms comic is a lot easier than making a decent/good worms movie, thats all.

There have been many threads about this subject before. Search "worms movie"

Actually, I said, a good comic is harder to make than an easier one, to which you replied:

"Not here, it isn't"

You're just confused everytime you try to post aren't you?

Also, in the RE movies, I didn't see the exact plot from the games, nor I saw the protagonist pick up health crates to heal herself, or kill big bad bosses in every different building. They just picked the zombies, the company and a hot chick and made a movie about Zombies. They could do the same with worms, regardless of its lack of story and characters.

[bonz]

A movie not based on Worms and just having worms in it, wouldn't be so hard. As for a movie based on the worms games... well, the whole objective of the game is to kill your opponents using weaponry...... so how easy is it going to be to make a story that doesn't suck?
How do you think all the war movies and most action movies work?
A lot of killing with the explicit presentation of the newest US weapon systems of the time.
Plus a lame back story (mostly full of patriotism, righteousness and moral) to justify the mass murder.

[yakuza]

Actually, I said, a good comic is harder to make than an easier one, to which you replied:

"Not here, it isn't"

You're just confused everytime you try to post aren't you?

Also, in the RE movies, I didn't see the exact plot from the games, nor I saw the protagonist pick up health crates to heal herself, or kill big bad bosses in every different building. They just picked the zombies, the company and a hot chick and made a movie about Zombies. They could do the same with worms, regardless of its lack of story and characters.

Make sure that when you're arguing with hypotheticals your arguments are solid, half assed efforts analyzing practical situations do not work with hypotheticals.

WOULD A WORMS MOVIE WORK?
NO BECAUSE WHO DO YOU KNOW THAT COULD DUB A WORM AND DO IT GOOD?

edit: quoting myself when trying to edit, I win

[Luther]

WHO DO YOU KNOW THAT COULD DUB A WORM AND DO IT GOOD?

Uhhh... I could probably find a couple.

[bonz]

Uhhh... I could probably find a couple.
At the T17 regulars' table at the local pub shortly before closing time? :D

[Shadowmoon]

No yakuza, I was talking about this forum, and it was clear I was talking about this forum, note "forumers" in the post you quoted when you asked me "what is your point?" I wouldn't just talk about an unknown forum, would I?

You misunderstood what I meant, when I said "Not here, it isn't" I was talking about comics on this forum, you must have thought I was talking about comics in reality- no, I was talking about comics on this forum.

[Plasma]

Uhhh... I could probably find a couple.
That was satire, Luther. At least I think it was. It's generally hard to tell when it's from Yakuza.

[yakuza]

Uhhh... I could probably find a couple.

That's my point, though, I was trying to sound like those who I don't agree with.

It's not a valid reason (lack of known worm dubbers) because it exists in the realm of possibility that there's someone who can and will do a good job dubbing a worm, likewise, writting a story, making up characters etc.

Shadowmoon, believe it or not, just because you (or someone else) take 5 hours to make a crap comic in this forum it doesn't mean that a good one, which takes half an hour, doesn't take more effort/knowledge/talent/skill - hence it's harder.
Generally, better quality involves more intrinsic effort/ability.

[Metal Alex]

Also, in the RE movies, I didn't see the exact plot from the games, nor I saw the protagonist pick up health crates to heal herself, or kill big bad bosses in every different building. They just picked the zombies, the company and a hot chick and made a movie about Zombies. They could do the same with worms, regardless of its lack of story and characters.

However, it sucked. D:

There are very few examples of videogames working as movies... Yes, it can work, but the less background there is, the harder it gets.

[MtlAngelus]

Just because you make a movie out of a game doesn't mean it has to be exactly like the game for it to work or for it to be able to bear the same name and gloat about being related to it. In the case of games that do not have stories, this even gives a lot more freedom when dealing with the plot of the movie, so you can say it's actually beneficial to base it on a game with no story. That way you won't really get all those "OH BUT IT WAS NO LIKE THAT IN TEH GAME!!1!" complaints from die-hard fans. :p
Another added benefit is that you won't see the same thing again but butchered up like you get with movies based on games that have actual (interesting) stories to them(*cough*MAXPAYNE*cough*). Instead you get something fresh, that even tho can still suck, at least has more potential of not sucking than a movie based on a game with a strong storyline. Because they almost always get them wrong.

[franpa]

But there is a story or at least in both worms 2 and Worms armageddon :( worms armageddons title music and worms 2 mission passwords!

[bonz]

But there is a story or at least in both worms 2 and Worms armageddon :( worms armageddons title music and worms 2 mission passwords!
Worms 4 Mayhem has a story too.

[franpa]

blah, who plays the evil, demonic & satanic 3D Worms games?

[Metal Alex]

blah, who plays the evil, demonic & satanic 3D Worms games?

They aren't that bad. They simply don't feel the same.

Also, the W4 story was quite... Lame. Probably on purpose.

[Lc11]

They aren't that bad. They simply don't feel the same.

Also, the W4 story was quite... Lame. Probably on purpose.

Duh, you can see the copy of "Back to the Future" beginning right there at the end of the 1st chapter... *points*

But ya, a movie based on Worms would work only when the series get a VERY GOOD storyline. And some characters, apart from Boogy B, Agent Dennis, Boogy Pete...

[Squirminator2k]

I'd been hoping to keep this a secret, but I guess the cat is out of the bag.

In 2004 Team17 and FilmFour commissioned me to write a screenplay for a potential movie based on the Worms franchise. I had a few ideas for what I wanted to do, so I wrote a spec script. The people at Universal and T17 loved it, and I began working on revisions.

In late 2006 I handed in a completed screenplay, which received moderate praise. After Christmas had been and gone I was informed that production, which was originally slated to happen within the UK, had instead shifted over to Burbank in California. I was asked if I would be willing to move over to work on further rewrites. Of course, I accepted.

The film has been in development hell now for the last two years. FilmFour are no longer involved, largely because they no longer exist in the capacity to produce a film on this scale, and so the production is now a joint venture between StudioCanal, Universal, and 20th Century Fox. At the start of 2007 a rough, unfinished version of a teaser poster was leaked - [you may have seen it (http://stuff.benpaddon.com/wormsmovie.jpg)] - but fortunately didn't garner much attention. (Aside: The poster was, of course, produced before FilmFour dropped out of the project. Indeed, most of the names mentioned on that poster are no longer involved with the project.)

Seven months ago I was informed that, while the project has not been shelved, I will no longer be involved. I am now stranded in Sunland, California, with only a laptop and the clothes on my back. Please, if you're in southern California... help me. Death draws ever closer, and though I do not fear its arrival (I have worked with Fox Executives and Producers... death is nothing in comparison) I would very much like to delay its flight for as long as possible.

[Muzer]

Lol .

[jelly worm]

theres no story in the worms games but they can of course make a new story and they cood create a worm that is the main character and name him boggy b or something

[Muzer]

And you needed to ressurrect a 4-month old thread for that...

[Vader]

All we need is Michael Bay. The rest of the movie will write itself around the explosions.

[kukuruza]

And how to you game doom? And a film? The film was pleasant to me more...
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[jelly worm]

well they could make up a story

[MtlAngelus]

well they could make up a story

They could also not. Which, coincidentally, is what they are doing! Amazing isn't it?

[DrMelon]

1-year bump there. Pretty impressive. How far down did you have to dig to even find this thread, jelly?

[Thurbo]

This bump's even better (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=32731)