EP would be better played like a cult sci fi series, something like Firefly or Andromeda or Star Trek. Then finish off with a movie.

nezumi.hebereke wrote:

Someone mentioned that Prometheus is Eclipse Phase with a party of all newbie players. If Prometheus characters weren't like a bunch of toddlers, wandering around putting everything in their mouths, it would be a pretty good EP gatecrashing movie. Beyond that and Aliens, there aren't a lot of movies that really capture it. Perhaps the best I know of is the new webseries, H+, which could be one take on the Fall.

When you say it like that, Prometheus is like running a game of Eclipse Phase for your local preschool! :D

Story-wise, I think Total Recall hits close to the mark. An Eclipse Phase film could make use of elements like psychosurgery, memory lack, and shifting identities to create a really interesting (if potentially confusing) psychological thriller. It would also be kind of cool to see the protagonist die repeatedly. Think Memento by Christopher Nolan, except every memory flash is punctuated by a gruesome death scene! What horror/thriller setting could do that!? Also, this is sort of a different topic, but I have been thinking about how to adapt the story of my favorite PC game, Planescape: Torment, to the EP setting. It just lends itself so well to stories about identity and dissociation. The challenge of course (for those of you who are familiar with that game) is that everyone is immortal, and almost everyone has amnesia, rather than just the main character.

Planescape Torment's issues can be inserted with ease into EP: see what happens when you abuse the backup and forking system a lot! XDDD Now seriously, I think an EP movie would be impossible if not as a closing move, because the setting is so complex. As for the SAO/AW things: you can see the translated light novels here: Accel World: http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Accel_World Sword Art Online: http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Sword_Art_Online Both series are written by the same author, and both belong to the same "setting": SAO is some years before AW (probably like 19 at the very least: 2 years of SAO + 15 years for the chip Burst Link requires installed since birth). Now, there are two EP-details we can find in these books (one in each): in Sword Art Online we can see "simulspace learning" of sorts, were you learn stuff that later you can use in the real world (with the physical limits of the body), and in Accel World we can see the impact of accelerated simulspaces on society (more or less). Also, Accel World can show a little of the Futura Project: children with their egos "accelerated", because we already know the sensations they project (there is a trope for that: "really XXXX years old", usually applied to vampires). Oh, and I prefer the SAO and AW fansub of utw.me (Unlimited Translation Works) to crunchyroll.

I think there is already a TF2's engine thingy released that lets you "make" movies: I already watched a recreation of the scene of The Matrix were Trinity and Neo get an helicopter and rescue Morpheus, using the audio from the movie and the engine from TF2 (and the characters from TF2 too! Agents=medic, Morpheus = heavie, etc...).

Rada... just avoid hollywood. For the last 20-30 years they manage to produce something edible once or twice a year... But when it comes to sci-fi, they just want all the gadgets and gizmos they can fit, and more :(

Ooh, I like Angel Heart. Imagine a strain of the Exsurgent virus that corrupts an ego, then creates a functional alpha fork that exists as a split personality in the same body, with all the old memories (in this example, I suppose the ETI represents the Devil). The infected ego would take control at opportune moments, but otherwise bide it's time.

Hi, I am new to this Forum but have played EP several times now (although not as much as I would like....). From the first moment this game thrilled me and I fell in love with it's setting. Since I am studieing Media-Science and am very interested in making movies later, I already thought about how Ep could be brought on Television. (Yes I would realy kill to be allowed to do this! ;-) So my thoughts so far: 1. The setting and exspecially the environment are very complex. The only way to bring that to the recipient is: a) an ongoing series with at least 50 minutes per episode (complex stories need more time!), b) completely digital/animated (since environments like 0 G Habitats or low grav. moons are extremly complicated and expensive to simulate) and c) it would be very hard to keep up the interest and focus of the usual recipient with always changing characters (bodies/moprhs) and would be impossible to make with several changing actors. 2. Now with this basics we can start with what we want to see in the series: The whole series needs a story which forms the framework, a character or story around the single stories. This framework contains a red line through the whole episodes the recipient can follow more easily and perhaps introduces a character as strange to the world of EP as the usual recipient himself, which can help to learn more of the world (Augmented Reality, Spacetravel, Simulspace, Transhumanism, Ego-Storage...). The single-stories are what makes EP what it is. Diffrent types of stories from classic Hypercorp espionage to exoplanetary science and firewall vs. TITANS scenarios. The diversity of those stories can sattisfy the needs of the community while at the same time been picked together to a whole picture piece together the framework of the series untill a final climax (of corse with a bad-ass cliffhanger that let's the people lust after the next season). 3. With this in mind there would be no great barriers for a EP-Serial that could contain (about) EVERY theme and subject the community want's at the same time as entertaining the Everyman. Now we need sponsors and a movie-studio. :-D 4. I know another way to increase the numbers of consumers but since I don't like copycats I'm going to keep this secret for myself untill I get the contract as director...(just kidding, although...). :-) So I think this way we could realise an EP-Movie. What do you think?

The film industry is caught in a godawful feedback loop: 1. Producers dumb scripts down because they do not want to take any risks, instead appealing to the broadest audience possible. 2. Audiences get used to this kind of no-brainer entertainment, and are disappointed when their expectations aren't met. 3. Rinse and repeat. (Actually, that applies to the music industry as well - only more so.) So yeah, it's not terribly tragic that nobody has bought the film rights to EP. We could end up with another "Dungeons and Dragons" on our hands. And nobody wants that. Has anybody mentioned "Dark City", by the way? I could think of some pretty messed up scenarios involving the forcefully uploaded minds that have been abducted by the TITANS...

I love that one