Entropia: The Movie
A while back someone cut together a load of scenes from movies and computer games that all seemed somewhat 'Calypsian' and created a great
trailer for a so called, "Entropia the movie". Will certainly say it looked pretty darn cool so I began to wonder just how much scope there really was for such a thing? Certainly
MA's original storyline back drop is epic in proportions and provides massive scope for any number of short or long historical and present day accounts, the stories from The Gate and Entropian being fine examples of this as are the wealth of fictions available on Entropia Pioneers. My own fic, "a girl I once knew" has been commented on as being more like a trailer than a complete story (and I would say that was a fair comment) so could a movie be made?
Entropia pretty much contains everything on the scifi wish list so I would say "why not?" which brings us to the all important question of who would the lead roles be and who would play them? Well of course I guess it all depends on the story being told but personally I say why bother restricting life to one movie when you could make *several? The backdrop exists, its just a case of coming up with the imagination to write a few good scripts. Its interesting, having thought about this, that there are many many entropia fan movies however a minority of these
actually tell a story or feature key roles and a script. I would probably attribute a lot of this to peoples unwillingness or inability to voice act the characters they want to create or perhapse it is because direction of more than a few avatars to make machinima in Entropia is too difficult. I wonder if films featuring such complex scripts exist for other MOG's that are on the market? I know, for example, the online game, Fragment is in fact
born out of the successfull .hack francise of Japan and itself existed as a series of static computer games and animated series prior to existing as a MOG outside the realms of fiction. However, if the reverse is true of any other MOG's or indeed Entropia it would be great to know about and see what has been made.
Still, machinima aside, having seen the likes of Firefly (clips from which were used in the mock up Entropia trailer) it feels that there definitely is scope for something good in this vein of
the slightly bleak futuristic colonisation of some far flung galaxy. Personally, for my own stuff, although I think in pictures in my head, I don't know if what I'm aiming for with my own ideas would really constitute a good script for a movie as I feel such a thing would need to be somewhat more rapidly paced. Perhapse though the current or future writers of Calypso could come up with something more suitable and then we'd be left with the fun task of deciding who our ideal real life actors would be to pay our Calypsian Dopplegangers
For Wistrel, its hard for me to picture her exactly as, in my own story, I see her changing significantly as time plays out. However, recently I was looking up the new characters for the upcomming Harry Potter movie to find out who would play my favourite character, Tonks. I was delighted to see that she will be played by Natalia Tena who, funnilly enough, by my current view of things, would also make a pretty neat Wistrel...
Natalia Tena as 'Wistrel Chianti' (Entropia - coming summer 2008)
* Rather than the hollywood trend of sequels, I somewhat prefer the idea of several films that are entirely unrelated in style, depth, characters and time which would be somewhat more akin to the Animatrix ie they all exist within the same "world" but thats as far as any such restrictions would go.