[General Battuta]

Read the posts you're responding to

[Phantom Hoover]

You wouldn't be using Beowulf-style facial mocap anyway if, as people in this thread seem to think is mandatory, Samus' face isn't shown.

e: and i mean if her face was shown you'd just show the actress'

[StarSlayer]

Practical effects would look a lot cooler though.

[Mongoose]

Honestly I think Iron Man would be the obvious example of how to handle a live-action Samus.  Use a combination of a physical suit and CGI, coupled with close-ups of the actress's face inside.

[Phantom Hoover]

Iron Man has extensive scenes with Stark out of his armour or with his face exposed. I think if all the shots of Samus were either full armour or extreme close-ups of her face you'd have no sense of connection between the two. Plus, again, if you're going to do that then why not just actually take the helmet off for some scenes.

[Mongoose]

Yeah I didn't mean to imply that there wouldn't be any other types of shots, only that you could follow that model in general.

[Scotty]

Samus Aran is a human being.

Samus Aran is not a person.  Samus Aran is an implacable suit of armor with an undying hatred of Space Pirates.  Expecting more than that is how you get Other M.  Connecting to Samus is neither something that should be possible nor should it be attempted.  The story of Samus is one best conveyed through setting and reaction to the implacable, unstoppable object that is Samus.

Samus should be the silent antagonist to a protagonist group of Space Pirates.  She should kill them, destroy their work, hunt them down with a merciless, silent gaze.

A movie of Samus should be a horror movie where she is the thing that drags the main characters kicking and screaming from view.

[Scourge of Ages]

A movie of Samus should be a horror movie where she is the thing that drags the main characters kicking and screaming from view.

Not gonna lie, that does sound pretty cool.

[NGTM-1R]

In respectful disagreement with Scotty, part of the Samus thing has always been that under it Samus is a person. So yes, Samus can speak. She can interact with others. But the face of the character isn't a blonde woman with blue eyes. The face of Samus Aran is red with a green visor. We can see her take the helmet off at the end; that would be a respectful and appropriate nod to the games. We can see her interact with other humans, either Fed troopers or people she's on contract with. We know there's a person under there.

But Samus Aran is a classical example of the question usually asked about superheroes: who's real? Clark Kent or Superman? Is Batman's face his real identity, or is it his cowl? And in her case the answer is clear: the armor is her real face.

[Scotty]

The very best Metroid game has exactly one line of spoken dialogue.  The speaker is not Samus.  Several of the other games have some minor dialogue, most of it not by Samus.  The only one in which Samus actually speaks and we can hear it with another character is Other M.

Samus's speech is her actions.  Her face is the visor of her suit and her voice is the cannon on her arm.  There may be a (somewhat less/more than) human inside the suit, but she is juggernaut.  Speech and humanity are useless liabilities and wastes of time whenever she and the Space Pirates meet.

Plus it's another very good opportunity to have a movie full of sweet explosions and not a lot of dialogue.  As long as I'm being hopefully optimistic I'd really like a Space Mad Max.

[Bobboau]

speaking of which, Charlize Theron could totally do this.

[swashmebuckle]

Samus Shmamus, Mother Brain is the meaty dramatic role. I want Meryl Streep, or if we can't get her, the lady who plays the evil sorceress in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

[Scourge of Ages]

speaking of which, Charlize Theron could totally do this.

That makes two votes!

[Bobboau]

Samus Shmamus, Mother Brain is the meaty dramatic role. I want Meryl Streep, or if we can't get her, the lady who plays the evil sorceress in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.

that's a weird way to spell Tim Curry.

[deathfun]

Regardless of how Samus is going to be presented to the world, we can all at least agree that Uwe Boll should not be anywhere near this idea when it happens

[S-99]

I could see an 80's helen hunt doing the role more or less just fine. WATCH TRANCERS!

[FlamingCobra]

Regardless of how Samus is going to be presented to the world, we can all at least agree that Yoshio Sakamoto should not be anywhere near this idea when it happens

Fixed

[Scourge of Ages]

Well now I have to google something. Thanks, Omamba.

EDIT:

He also directed and wrote Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission, and Metroid: Other M.

Is this what you're on about? The Other M thing? I suppose that's fair enough, but he did also write Super Metroid.

[Ulala]

He also directed and wrote Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission, and Metroid: Other M.

Is this what you're on about? The Other M thing? I suppose that's fair enough, but he did also write Super Metroid.

With help from the late Gunpei Yokoi, whom is responsible for most of the series' greatness (not counting the Prime arc, which was done by Retro, not Nintendo).