[colecampbell666]

If FreeSpace is to be revived, then the revival will probably not lie in a PC game. With the runaway success of Battlestar Galactica, an imminent Star Trek movie which promises to suck less than anything Star Trek has done in years, and the recent conclusion of Star Wars, the time is ripe for FreeSpace to be developed into other media. Could you imagine a TV series following the exploits of Admiral Wolf, the GTD Galatea, and some other Alpha 1 fighting the Vasudans in the year 2327 or so?

Also, the idea of multimillion-poly Apollos and Orions being processed by render farms makes me salivate.

In my opinon, previous video-game movies and such failed because it's too much video game and not enough movie. And besides, FreeSpace is much less vulnerable to this, being more about the GTA, PVE, GTVA, NTF, and Shivans than Alpha 1 himself. It's easy to make a whole squadron of characters rather than a single Alpha 1, and there's a broad overarching plot into which smaller stories could be injected, Babylon 5 style. Doom isn't so flexible.

This is an idea that i've thought about . FS is like BSG and would make a superb show. It could have the same premise - Galatea would be the focal point and the show would center around the brave pilots of the GTA. How would we go about getting it (slim possibility) done? Take it to idea pitches? Send it to studios? Suggestions please/opinions?

[Topgun]

would be cool but I think if they make a show it will be a spin-off of the movie .

[Game_Master64]

i'd watch it. to bad it aint gonna happen

[Gamma_Draconis]

I can see it now, the main protagonist is gonna be "Alpha 1" and he will never say a word. Hell, you won't even get to see him or her or it?!

[Chesticus]

The only place to pitch something like this would be to Scifi channel. But they would want a script and maybe even a demo of concept. Showing it at a comic convention and getting support would be the best bet. That is how BSG came back was due to the interest shown by the fans.

Chesticus

Watch the skies

[Stormkeeper]

The only place to pitch something like this would be to Scifi channel. But they would want a script and maybe even a demo of concept. Showing it at a comic convention and getting support would be the best bet. That is how BSG came back was due to the interest shown by the fans.

Chesticus

Watch the skies

Comic-con preview would mean we need to get some one intrested in it first ... and maybe, just maybe, if a successful FS2 film is released, THQ might be convinced to buy the rights to FS.

[colecampbell666]

The only place to pitch something like this would be to Scifi channel. But they would want a script and maybe even a demo of concept. Showing it at a comic convention and getting support would be the best bet. That is how BSG came back was due to the interest shown by the fans.

Chesticus

Watch the skies

IIRC there is a new sort of "fan made" scifi channel that is taking input from fans on what shows they would like to see.

[Locutus of Borg]

Yes, and thye should get Summer Glau to play the ship drunkard.

[Stormkeeper]

And MM OJ can make a cameo in the background during the briefing when Robert Loggia, acting as (of course) Admiral Petrach, briefs the pilots.

[Hades]

That would ****ing own.

[Stormkeeper]

Then, when they show a bar scene or something, you can see Petrach drinking MM OJ, then a poster in the background with 'Bosch Beer is bad for you' behind him.

[Hades]

  I want this movie.

[Stormkeeper]

So do I. As well as every one in HLP

[Snail]

And MM OJ can make a cameo in the background during the briefing when Robert Loggia, acting as (of course) Admiral Petrach, briefs the pilots.

That would be possible during a cutscene, if this show never happens.

[colecampbell666]

Isn't there a script for an HLP movie floating around?

[Snail]

Yeah, but it's not so much FS, more about HLP. A tiny bit like the "void of spam" thread. Also, it's all about the old fogeys rather than current events. Includes guys like Carl and even Fantomeye.

[colecampbell666]

I knew that it wasn't about FS, I was just bringing it up.

[Kie99]

The only place to pitch something like this would be to Scifi channel. But they would want a script and maybe even a demo of concept. Showing it at a comic convention and getting support would be the best bet. That is how BSG came back was due to the interest shown by the fans.

Chesticus

Watch the skies

There were a fair few million BSG fans, there're only a few thousand of us, tops.  This isn't going to happen.

[colecampbell666]

Which brings us to My other topic

[Singh]

Should people be willing to ever make a FS movie, there's this story idea I have floating in my head I'd like to write one of these days...