Based on previous mechwarrior headlines there was a movie schedualed to come out oh say this febuary but it never happened can anyone tell me if I missed something or if this was just forgotten.

It was probably really bad, so they ditched it to retain their dignity.

Don't know about Feb. but I know this...

It is still in the works...they have a director, the guy who did 8-legged-freaks (the chick in that movie was smokin')...and that's about all I know!

The movie has been optioned. There's no release date set. Rights to a mechwarrior movie have been optioned before, but a movie has never been made.

Mechwarrior has so many "Rights" issues it makes it difficult to even get the project into pre-production. Now, given that they've solved all those issues, getting a major studio to put up the stones will be a monumental task.

Let's face, any Mechwarrior movie would be big budget. Lot's of CGI means lot's of $$$. Your looking at 200 million. Any studio(s) looking at footing that bill must be convinced that this will be a blockbuster. It's a hard sell.

My team and I will do the CGI for free :P

The budget USA movies have are pretty insane. That's why moviemakers are going to Australia!

The FX budget is not a major obstacle for the mechwarrior movie. CG may be expensive, but it's much cheaper than pre-CG alternatives. That's why FX look so much better nowadays. Because CG is cheap.

Look at the Star Wars movies, for example. The old ones have preCG effects, the new ones have CG effects. To make the new movies look as good as they do with late '70s tech would be exorbitantly expensive. Now, its expensive, but very doable. And as computing power increases, the cost of CG keeps coming down.

FX are not an obstacle for the film. The FX budget would not be much bigger than movies like Van Helsing and X-Men. Getting funding for the movie would be a problem. Van Helsing and X-Men got funding because of the recent comic book movie craze. Battletech, despite 20 years of successful franchises, will still have a major obstacle to face in finding funding. There haven't been *any* successful american mecha movies to date, so Mechwarrior will quite likely be a hard sell to American movie studios.

The history is also hard to include in a movie, because of the entire universe, you almost HAVE you know what's going on, and I don't think they'd start it in the first succession war, they'd start it in Dark Ages, so there would be alot of people who go, "Who the **** is Thomas Marik/Victor Steiner-Davion/Delvin Stone/ect.

I personally would not wanna see a movie for MW, as I don't think they'd be able to do it right, and also becasue I know they'd start it in the wrong era. DA is fine, but I don't think it could, or should be able to start in that time, too many questions in the movie would come up, and for once they couldn't just say "Jihad did this", because guess what? No one would know the HELL Jihad was!

For a DA movie, all that's really needed (in terms of audience knowledge of BT history) is to mention the WoB jihad as being a devastating war, launched by religious fanatics, that nearly destroyed humanity and led to the founding of the Republic of the Sphere. Then a brief mention that the HPG net allows interstellar communication, someone has broken the net and increasing factionalism and ambition threaten to tear the Republic apart.

No knowledge of Thomas Marik, Victor Steiner-Davion, the FedCom Civil War, the Star League, the Clans, or anything else from BT history is truly necessary. Any other historical info necessary for the plot (which doesn't have to be much, depending on the script) could be given in exposition.

if there is a movie, it needs to be a trilogy :)
The Blood of Kerensky Trilogy
part 1: Leathal Heritage
part 2: Blood Legacy
part 3: Lost Destiny
i can dream can't i

Personally, if they did a movie, I'd wanna see the 4th succession war, followed by the 3039, and then the clan invasion, but then again I'm an older generation of player, but the thing is, I think they did have the best plots and characters. I like almost all of Battletech history, I just think that those three points where the strongest part of the fiction fo rthe game, (As it is even proven since I believe the BT universe had its strongest following during those points didn't it?)

I dont care about the plot that much (anything they have is good) as long as it is not an animation movie cause I want to see sweet CGI mechs after Pirates of the Carribian I have high expectations.

If a Mechwarrior Movie was to be made, in order to reduce confusion to non-fans (who probably will not see the movie anyway) I would strongly advise that it be made around Ghost War. I know people here hated that book, but when you look at what it did, take a slow introduction into the Mechwarrior/Battletech universe, it was written very well. Stackpole Knows what he was doing and i would even commision him to write the script, or at least be an advisor. Of course that is just my opinion

three words. Stereotypical Holywood Actors.

Wanting their Multimillion Dollar contracts for mediocre performance. That is why people are traveling to Australia or New Zeland or even up north to Canada. Shakespear got it wrong, don't kill the lawyers, kill the actors