[andystephens]

Another idea as well, maybe do the series and do a couple of movie spin off's. It could work..................

[AlphaOne]

  say what a FS movie??? when, where ? whose starring in it? whose making it? OMG i cant believe i didnt see this sooner. Is there a trailer for it ? Whats the time events? Will it be like Andromeda or like Galactica or both? Oh and are the special effects as good as they are in the game cuz well effects sure add a lot of....feeling to the movie.

I cant wait to see it? Oh please dont tell me its made by george lucas cuz he will bring some out of this worlds force to combat the shivans.

On the other hand he could come up with some verry good ideas as to how to incorporate fs1 and 2

Also it would be kind of nice to see some sort of a mini series. 2 hour long movies 2 or 3 of them covering the fs1 era the era between fs1 and 2 or fs2 in this case alone and another one as to a sort of continuation regarding fs2 and beyond. Excuse the spelling.

I for one would...well.....who wants a brother in adequate condition..il exchange him for the movies! Hope he doesnt see this

But seriously i would love to see a movie regarding fs it doesnt matter which part it covers.

[aldo_14]

say what a FS movie??? when, where ? whose starring in it? whose making it? OMG i cant believe i didnt see this sooner. Is there a trailer for it ? Whats the time events? Will it be like Andromeda or like Galactica or both? Oh and are the special effects as good as they are in the game cuz well effects sure add a lot of....feeling to the movie.

I cant wait to see it? Oh please dont tell me its made by george lucas cuz he will bring some out of this worlds foce to combat the shivans.

Calm yer shams.  Even if he was making a movie, there wouldn't be a cast or trailer before there was a script, would there?

And Lucas?  Are you drunk, man?

[AlphaOne]

well ia havent gotten drunk recetly if that is what you are sayng. Also maibe someone along the line of the brothers who did the matrix or spielberg or someone like that.

I havent read through the post when i posted. Now i have and well what can i say go for it there are a lot of people who would love to help i think and it would bring some new light into what the comunaty has been dooing. And who knows if its good and has good public apeal maibe the game industry would do a FS3 .

Regardles simply having such a movie would show the love and passion that surounds this game. I sure felt it a couple of times when i was sure some members would rip mi head off for some of the stupid things i said regarding the game.

[andystephens]

I am currently in the process of writing a pilot script for if it were to go into a series rather than a film straight away.

Do you think it should be based on the beginning of FS1 or shall I go a bit earlier/later??

[AlphaOne]

well how should i say this i mean we have little to nothing to go on regarding the ancients other then some monologues and they knossos device to give us a clue as to thery designs.

Also you culd go a little earlier then the fs1 era perhaps in the monts gooing to the 14 year war between the terrans and the vasudans. anc continue somewhat throughout fs1.

Also if u said it is a series the it would be good to actualy have a few episodes regarding the whole era between the fs1 and fs2 timelinesposibli gooing into detalis regarding the ntf rebellion in its beginings. and why not continue on with fs2 and beyond.

[andystephens]

My plans are hopefully to start a bit before FS1 then FS1, in between FS1 and FS2 and then onto FS2 completely

I can leave room for some movie spin offs, between them all, and who know FS3 could be an option as a game, which we then can continue the series!!!

[AlphaOne]

Well you could start with the period leading to the creation of the GTA. But no that far back cuz well it would be a waste of good episodes. Also the 14 year war is not comprised in the game but rather its last months. You could actualy create a couple of episodes which would explain in to somewhat adequate detail what happened before the war. Thn slowly move onto the war itself then you would actualy enter the fs1 era timeline to be exact. (timelibne regarding the events as they unfold in the game).

Also you could add some sort off spinnoff episodes in regards to the Ancients and the ancients war with the shivans.

[andystephens]

I think that's a great idea

I just know that this will be popular.

If you or anyone else has ideas, no matter how small, post them or email them to me.

Together we can make this big!!

[Nuclear1]

Do you think it should be based on the beginning of FS1 or shall I go a bit earlier/later??

If we were to get some great character development and stay true to the FS1 canonical storyline, we could start the series with Operation: Thresher, just before the events of FS1. Once some of the characters' conflicts there have been resolved or set aside, we could then move on to Ross 128 and the shift in attention from the Vasudans to the Shivans.

Going too far back into noncanonical or shady FS history (such as the first 13 years of the TV War, where the history has to be pieced together through Tech Room entries) could be difficult. We know very little about the Terran-Vasudan War, and since we already have a fanmade project devoted to working on that era, I would hate to see two conflicting storylines of the same period.

Well you could start with the period leading to the creation of the GTA. But no that far back cuz well it would be a waste of good episodes.

I'm afraid I don't understand. You don't want to cover the Terran-Vasudan War in detail, yet you don't mind going even further back in FS history to the creation of the GTA? Why can't we just have the same story that the fans already love put into action first before focusing on other sections of the history?

[Singh]

hmm...if your going to make a series, then I suggest starting with McCarthy (or whatever his name was). His history will have to go significantly before FS1 - yet not so much before that its impossible to state. He has involvement with a significant percentage of the plot upto the point of meeting the shivans - and theirs a lot of wriggling room when it comes to how his character develops, as well as his incarcaration in the GTVA and resultant trials. although the McCarthy trials were mentioned in FS2, their actual result and what happened has never been mentioned (to the best of my knowledge) and the fact is, anything could have happened. For all we know, it could have been a three day legal battle that made history in the GTVA for the amount of arguing and the law-changing decisions made, and McCarthy could have been released into GTVI custody, and done many behind-the-scenes flights aginst the Shivans - who knows, maybe even operations alongside Alpha 1? If you follow his character throughout Freespace 1, your seeing ****loads of action right there alone, enough maybe two to three seasons if you plan it out right. Hell, if you plan it right, you can introduce the next character into the story which will then take you to Freespace 2: Snipes. This also gives some interesting dynamic to the whole thing, not to mention exploring never-seen aspects of the GTVA (which your going to have to do even if you like it or not) the GTVI and SOC as a whole. Having it with snipes means that every episode is literally an adventure into betrayal, sabotage, rebels and most importantly: shivans!

[andystephens]

I am liking the ideas.... I am having a good old think and will continue to write the script.

Anyone got any ideas for names of characters and sample plots?

Keep all the ideas coming. I am so glad that so many of you are behind me on this!!

Cheers and I look forward to hearing more!!

Andy

[ShivanSpS]

Well... Bosch is also a great one to base... Their are in service as a pilot in the Intrepid in FS1 (but none know the exsact moment where their joing the Military...), then their go to Intelligence pilot afer the Destruction of the Lucifer, then comes the dark part...  the 32 years period betrenm the destruction of the Hades and FS2... when their reach high rank and created a rebelion, and stolen/get some informacion about a GTI Project involving a captured Shivan Specimen... then their start the rebelion and cause (none knows if intentional or not) the second retrun of the Shivans...


The only problem... none knows from where the Shivan come in FS1... im not sure if this is needed to make the series... but... all about this... all  players have a diferent idea about this... the original point of the aparence of the Shivan... the only knowed about this is that should be in Ross 128... but what caused to come... none knows..

-I have a theory about this, is what I using in a campaing that I making-
The first come of the Shivans has been a GTI fault, not intentitonal of course, their go to Ross 128 for make a field tests of a few new prototypes of ships and weapons, they selected Ross128 for make a low profile, their dont whant that this tests could oberseded by Vasudans , a(their go to Ross 128 which other GTI science ship, a faustus, the Hinteing, (who is mencioned later in Silent Threat), the Ships are carried in a experimental new corbette ship... Well, the idea is, that the GTI go to a Nebula which asteroids to test a new class of Anti-warship bomb.... but what whappend is the their addidentaly hit a part of a hidden knossos portal (their dont see it), and activated it, when the portal start to work, their re activate the subpace corridor to a other system, but the asteroids in the field crash and destroy the portal very fast, so the subspace as very unestable, but the Shivans can trip in a unestable Subspace... GTI never, known what their do... the only that their see is a piece of the portal and the BOOM! their never known what causes... or what their are... and because this information as very classified, none learn about this accident... later, afer their exist Ross128, in the midle of the first Shivan attack on the installation,the corbette that carries the Ships is ambushed and destroyed in Delta Serpentis and the Avenger cannon is stolen from it...

- But this is only my idea, and very sure that everyone here have his own theory -

[Apathy]

yeah lol everyone has their theories, some include the shivans were not born but created in the flux of subspace, so they don't really come from anywhere...


But yeah, I was thinking if you really were gonna create a series of movies the topics could be...
1 - Creation of the GTA, discovery of the Vasudans and beginnings of the war
2 - Shivans come and pwn everyone, basically FS1 story
3 - FS2 storyline here

I like the idea of movies following bosh though, although it would have to be planned just right to  make it interesting, in fact there would probably have to be a main character for the audience to connect with, not just alpha 1 or some admiral.

Oh yeah you have to have a soundtrack like Freespace 2, it rocks the like echo'ing voices sound very eerie, gives me goosebumps.

[S-99]

You know, just have the shivans come through an uncharted or unexplored node, or one that was too unstable for terran ships to go through, of course, somewhere near the ross128 system.
It gets rid of all this knossos nonsense. I mean in gamma draconis was what seems to be specifically the start of the knossos network, you also get to see them one after another from gamma draconis on. Screw the knossos idea, it seems to be something people use as a convenience to being able to have the shivans show up anywhere in campaigns(other than the fs2 campaign).

[achtung]

I hate to risk jynxing the whole ordeal but........

How is this actually going to be turned into a film or series?  3d modelling?  Live action?  Animation?  Machinima?  Combination of all?

At least a hint would be nice.

[S-99]

From one thing i assume, probably the game engine for cinematics. There's tons of 3d modelling there. I would hope there would be some live action for the terrans at least. God knows who would do a cg vasudan, or make a vasudan suit Probably animation too. You would hope a combination of all, that would make a really great product in the end. But i really don't want to go doubting this, i just hope this project if it starts proves to me a lot more capable than thought now

[andystephens]

In answer to your question i am thinking of making it using live action and cg. This i think will create a better programme. I am  taking all of your ideas on board and will be creating the pilot script very soon which i will let all of you read. Keep the ideas coming.

Andy   

[Fury]

Hmh, I really can't see how it would be possible to make a live-action series or even multiple movies out of FS. See, even Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning too SEVEN YEARS to finish and we're not talking about a single movie here. So far I can't but help think that this project is way too ambitious to ever go beyong script writing. If the series/movies would be full CGI, then there is little more hope but organising quality voice acting for the whole ordeal is pain in the ass. Sorry to burst your bubble but I don't think it is going to work without serious financial backup, which again is unlikely to happen if the series/movies is supposed to be free downloads. For commercial series/movies, you would need a license from Interplay.

[andystephens]

Well, I would want it to go commercial hopefully. I understand what you are saying, but I thought I have nothing to lose to give it a go, which I am. If things don't work out, then I am ok with it.

I will keep trying for this, and I am sure others would agree that it would look good when done