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well you may be right, but you could be wrong, we don't have access to all the information ........all we can do is sit and watch, wait and hope.

now there's a good point.

i'm going to say woo to this news.

Ah... are we talking the same Bruckheimer here? Coyote Ugly? Gone In Sixty Seconds? Armageddon? Con Air? I mean the guy's got a few good movies under his belt, but I seriously doubt the world at large would consider his stuff to be universally cool.




Rallan

You can look at the Wizkids announcement here. Don't forget that one of the Saving Private Ryan producers picked up Mage Knight, but Wizkids is still shopping around for a studio to pick up Shadowrun.

Chello!



No for me it has something to do with that Cruise fellow. TG is saved for me just because of the uber-kewl Val Kilmer and somewhat nerdy but somewhat kewl anthony Edwards.

As to the Rifts movie, let's just say this is gonna rock....this is a real production company with a proven track record of hits, not like that Courtney guy who did the DnD movie.

Though w/o script control, I can't wait to see what Hollywood does to Rifts Earth.... Any chance of an HU movie if this works?

Tony

Tony

Bruckheimer is the most profitable producer in Hollywood. I think he's universally thought of as a top notch producer.

Definate congrats are in order; 1, for making an RPG that ROCKS so much they're making it into a movie, and 2, for branching out into more markets with Rifts. I can't wait to see what happens when more people start picking up on how much Palladium has to offer.

Fantastic!

Star_Colonel_Ian chears for the link mate

Congratulations to the ppl at PB .

Good luck for the film production.

This is unbelievable news, my gaming group and I have been hoping for a Rifts movie for as long as the rumors have been circulating. When I announced it before gaming on Saturday, everyone cheered and started Hi-fiving each other. Somehow it just feels like justification to all the non-gamers out there. Congratulations to everyone at Palladium for ironing this out. Now comes the excruciating wait for it to come out.

One question (for now) Is anyone from Palladium staff going to be an advisor to this movie? If not was there some kind of script already preapproved by KS or anyone one there? I know you can't really answer any questions but it would help me clarify things. Because, knowing Hollywood can twist and change things, it could be very easy to toss a title Rifts on a movie and let the connection end there.

I don't mean to be negative I just worry about people losing the ideals of why we play this game. I'd hate to see the world get an altered version of what it is that we hold so close to our heart.

Anyhow, Good luck with the film I hope it will be a huge success.

as far as i know, palladium are not actually going to have anything to do with it, it will only be "BASED" on Rifts to my knowledge.

but I hear ya! ........fingers crossed eh.

Your welcome. I going to see the Shadowrun movie, but the Battletech movie sounds like its going to be bad because its a "coming of age story." Teenagers piloting mechs . Hopefully it will be good. Not going to even waste my time on the Mage Knight movie.

I hope they keep it pretty true to the universe, not like how they did it with Starship Troopers. 'Cus if they don't, we'll have people trying to get into the game and getting confused that it isn't anything like the movie.

But I think JB and the writers will keep it true to the story because that's why they bought the Rifts liscense, otherwise they could just come up with their own universe.

Ahhh...sweet satisfaction. Oh how I have dreamed of this day...

Make us proud palladium.

Woooo hoooo! Go Green Light!

Congrats Kev and Crew. May your core ideas keep somewhat intact all the way to the Big Screen.

-El Zacho

First off, I pray this movie will make it as some sort of success. Secondly, D&D didn't suck. You must understand, it was produced to be seen as if watching a D&D game in progress. So in that regard, it did rather well. (And if you are comparing it to LOTR.. Shut up. LOTR had an INCREDIBLE budget to work with. It was New Line Cinema's last ditch effort. They were flopping big time on their money management.) And on a personal note, my thoughts go to wondering how the story shall go. There is mentions all over the Palladium Books site, mentioning they will not be supervising or the such at the production of the movie. Does this mean they won't help with it at all, or will they possibly give some advice? I mean, we don't want the guy making a Glitter Boy some little 4 ft. tall drone for a D-Bee race, you know.

Anywho, that is my voice. I'm getting off my soap box.. (And taking it with me! Mwhahahahaha! Oh, sorry.)

First Off, Congrats on the movie deal.

I think Bruckheimer is a good choice. His name on a movie is a big draw on the same target age group that Rifts is aimed at--15 to 30 (considering that many who play the game in the 25-30 range have been playing since the early 90's). It will help feedback to sell the game more to a wider audience.

The artwork and statistical data in the game will do very well to give the F/X guys the look and feel that the audience will expect.



And as for Starship Troopers, well that's a long one, but the main point is Paul Verhoeven is an indoctrinated European Socialist who has publicly stated that he saw the world that Heinlein created as a despicable fascist society....


(Interestingly, I'd say the Xiticix are very closely inspired by the Bugs in the original Starship Troopers)



Off the soapbox

Almost Forgot... Can't wait to see a Ley Line Nexus Explode on a Thirty Foot Screen!

Just because he's a socialist doesn't mean that he had to throw out the book and just keep the name. How many fans of the book went to the movie and were dissapointed because Verhoeven threw out everything that made the book great? That's what I'm hopeing that J.B., the director, and the writers don't do. They do that and we end up with 13 year olds arguing with us about what the CS uses for Power Armor because they saw something different in the movie! That's what I don't want to see, is them take Rifts, throw most of the current power players out, and keep the early Cataclism timeline!

And yes, a Ley Line Nexus and a Rift openning would be badass.

Congrats PB, congrats to everyone that made Palladium/Rifts/Robotech etc... so great. I hope all goes well in the future!

That's just great. It's about time Palladium started getting the press time it deserves! As a loyal fan of Palladium since the very beginning, I'm really excited for all you folks! Keep up the good work!

Your not the only one, I remember when Mechaniods first came out. *hugs his copy of that, which he keeps in near mint condition*

I hope to hear the release date on the movie soon.

you know you could have had that written into the option agreemant.....

Well only if they would agree to it and he wouldn't. I tried ...

Hey Lazlo, how you been? Long time no see.

ok peeps multiple points

a) Disney, mmm...can`t help but think all that truly `real` stuff that makes the palladium world stand out, as in death cults, neo-nazism, other-worldly beasties,(basically an appreciation tat we are NOT all 12 yrs old) etc etc etc may be `toned down` to appeal to mass-market holywood cinema audiences will apply

b) realised a) makes me sound like a power gaming moron wannabe goth

c) Rifts is easily seen as a power gamer`s paradise but has a depth and richness of flavour rarely seen in many modern RPGs. it has magic, Hi-tech and an acknowledgement of `real` themes such as predujice and the simple need to survive that many game overlook when placed against "Dwarfs hate Elves" and other one-dimensional basic concepts. I wanna see this preserved in any mass-market venture.

d) realised I`m using to many `

e) Rifts is one of my favourite games. I fear the dilution of the theme. it is such a rich gaming theatre, almost any type of game can be set in the world, unfortunately this includes your average "post-holocaust" love story with some interesting(ish) stuff in the background. (a la D&D movie)

e) there are more but I`ll save them for future posts

f) I sooooooo want a good Rifts movie. Will probably be the only thing that would outshadow the Matrix movies (Cyberpunk<tm> anyone) but am to British and cynical to raise my hopes.

g) er....better shut the hell up now

I think I may have emailed Maryann instead of posting on the message board.

oops.

If u read this, if poss can u forward that stupidly long mssg to the board cos I cannot expend the effort to type it up again.

thanx

Uhm... Gee. This'll teach me to be away from the boards for any length of time. Congratulations to the folks at Palladium!

Just a quick note to remind people like mystarinmajere... Disney owns several different movie companies in addition to Walt Disney Pictures (Touchstone, Miramax, and Hollywood come to mind IIRC). Don't let the Disney name make you think you're gonna see Winnie-the-Pooh buzzing around the 100 Acre Wood in a SAMAS or a Glitter Boy with mouse ears.

I think this has enormous potential, but only if they narrow their focus to a small group of adventurers (see the X-Men analogy early on in this thread). If the movie is successful (I'd like to say "when" but I thought the D&D movie was going to be a success too...), you still have lots of stuff to pull from for sequels.

Did anyone get past the first 10 minutes of that putrid effort Spawn. Rifts must be a better effort than that piece of junk...

Here's wishing a little luck to the Palladium crew that the film is as cool as we all want it to be!!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!



I AM SOOOOOO STOKED ABOUT THIS!!!!!!

been a while since i've been here, and to be treated to that press release first thing was awesome!! conga rats, guys, and i hope it all goes well!!!!

ok, i just read through most of the posts here for the film (trying to refocus my eyes from the strain), but i have a question that was stated earlier, and i don't recall ever seeing the answer. i might have missed it seeing how it is 6am here, and i haven't slept since Thursday...

anyway to the point: has Rifts been optioned as a movie, or is the movie entering any form of preproduction yet (such as the search for a screenwriter)?

i just hope the effort put into the film is not wasted - the sci-fi/fantasy genre needs a good jump start in the industry, and Rifts holds great potentail for doing just that. the sheer volume of elements that could brought to bear make my imagination salivate. here's to daring to dream....

From what I know, it's just an option deal. Bruckhiemer has not announced production of the film yet. However, the folks at Palladium seem very confident that this movie will get made.

I hope it does get made. As long as the script is halfway decent, I won't complain much.

I don't know about all of you, but I am a multi-RPG'er. So I keep track on lot's of RPG's, and I like to hear things like Rifts possiblely getting a movie. It was like when I heard about Dragonlance getting optioned for a movie a year ago, it makes you happy. Then you think about it, and think about it some more..."They don't think like me, they don't care about it like I do. I hope they don't do this, or that, or...man, they could really mess this up."

Now I am not saying they will. But I am saying that (as someone else posted) this world is a violent one. To make a Rifts movie you are probablely going to have to water it down so it's not so dark and forboding. You're probablely not going to see Coalition as a (real in the sense of the definition of Neo) Neo-Nazi army. But more as an army lead by an evil dictator bent on world domination at any cost, with no metion of Hitler being his inspiration.

Also, let's hope that the combat is not as klunky as the mechanics of the combat system.

If the movie is going to be anything like the game. Magic users and psionists are going to be the only real characters that grow with the movie.

We are also probablely going to be jipped out of enviroment f/x's. Such as, scenerary, activity, and action.

Just my thoughts, this is all.

If this is goiing to be a real disney movie, don't let the mom die. the mom always dies...

I want to see this movie, I just hope Hollywood does it justice.

Why does the mom always die? I just saw a Disney movie where the dad died instead, lol, it was the Lion King.

- ah, but could it be worse than the Ad&D movie....i hope not.

Ah... are we talking the same Bruckheimer here? Coyote Ugly? Gone In Sixty Seconds? Armageddon? Con Air? I mean the guy's got a few good movies under his belt, but I seriously doubt the world at large would consider his stuff to be universally cool.


- what are, for lack of a better term, his "science fiction credentials"? Has he made good SF before? I can't remember.

- top notch producer only means he can make money. Not all movies which make money are good.

"Don't let the Disney name make you think you're gonna see Winnie-the-Pooh buzzing around the 100 Acre Wood in a SAMAS"
- Ah, but what an image would that be...perhaps see Pooh squeeze off a few rail gun bursts....

So is there potential release date for the movie yet? Or are we looking at a couple years?

Well looking over the list of movies he has was involved I can name the ones I LIKED , well somewhat. There's Black Hack Down , Crimson Tide , The Rock and Cat People gets listed because I was really young when I first seen it. It was made in '81 lol. Oh and Kangaroo Jack wasn't all that bad since Anthony Anderson carried the movie. Everything else by Jerry Bruckheimer I didn't enjoy at all, so that's 4.5 out 30 movies because Cat People gets 50% deduction because when you're older it becomes boring.

At first the Disney name frightend me but then I remembered they ownmulti film groups.

Try http://www.jbfilms.com/ to see a list of films and crap with his name involved. To each his/her own.

oopps

Release date? It hasn't even entered pre-production?

The movie hasn't even picked up yet, has it? The people at PB have good hopes for it, as do i, but i think its a long way off. I also don't think the Disney part will affect it any. [/quote]

Tigger could play a juicer.