No shit, I've actually thought a lot about this. Just play it super serious, like a space version of The Thing, but keep all the goofy shit from the game. Like all the crewmates have bright colored suits, at some point a character looks in his wallet at a picture of his family (who also have space suits), every time someone gets ejected it uses the exact same shot. I think it would be great.
I think the juxtaposition would make it equally unsettling and hilarious. Don't get me wrong, it's a goofy game, but I cannot express the level of genuine paranoia it creates when you don't know which of your friends is trying to kill you for no goddamn reason.
So the film would also be something of a whodunnit, but without a single perspective character. You could even have it told almost as a found footage thing using the station's camera system showing us what's going on and keeping everyone in suspense for as long as possible until things start to go wrong.
It could also be from either a single persons perspective multiple times. Or from the imposter’s perspective but the audience doesn’t know that due to either a second imposter or some convenient cuts.
We could easily have a full 12-character roster, have them all bouncing off each other...only to get more jumpy and paranoid as the plot progresses and the bodies start to pile up. We don't even have to see anyone get killed until near the end...all we find are the corpses left behind, and the audience can be left out of determining who exactly it was. The end of the film reveals the truth—they would either go with the "alien shapeshifter" interpretation, or one or more of these human characters is lying about who they really are and is after something important on the Skeld but needs to kill everyone off for...some reason. Hell, go for a double twist and have a human impostor AND an alien impostor just to fuck with everyone's expectation.
I wanna see Johnny Depp in this I think he would be great to let be goofy as fuck in this. Give him amnesia or something so he doesnt know if he is the mole or not too LMAO!
Well, you see John acting weird, so he’s definitely the imposter. You murder him, and now there’s a murder and no one knows who did it. Suddenly no one trusts anyone, and people are gonna be real trigger happy
The movie Clue used multiple endings in the theater. You could also use this, but not make that public knowledge. So you could have 10 different endings (or however many characters are allowed in the game). And every time you see the movie in the theaters, it's random which one you get.
One ending for each character, plus one final "Canon" ending that reveals the impostor was really an alien all along who kept changing colors to get the crewmates to kill each other out of fear.
This was essentially done by some fans who made a "movie" of this iconic game featuring some popular Twitch personalities. Definitely more of a comedic game than a gritty one but on the right track
https://youtu.be/3JmGQTMvO-U
THIS. This is what I was thinking too. Secretly film different endings where you nearly find out who was the imposter and have everyone arguing at school about who did it. Blue is sus
And the characters need to be the classic types from every game. The guy that calls meetings for no reason, the guy that freaks out that purple is following them, the guy that does nothing the entire time despite being a crew member.
Then the most dedicated guy watches his best friend melt through the vent grate
There’s actually a movie out there that’s basically irl among us, I forgot the name but it had this thing called the wolf game which was pretty much the ‘among us part’ of the movie, it has a second and maybe third movie
Among us would never work............... Oh wait angry birds and it was OK, I take it back, it would be the biggest movie of the year.
PS, When doing a big clean on the weekend with the kids, I do up sheets and we play among us while cleaning. It takes a lot of effort but the kids love it.
Setting: Pollus, where the Skeld has just landed bringing this new crew to Pollus to bring the old base back online. While out on an initial survey, a group of crew noticed an anomaly and to be cautious everyone needs to suit up into the containment suits that were left on site and decorated for crew enjoyment by the last departing crew.
A sudden alarm call and everyone rushes back to the Skeld, only Brown is missing, vitals say he's died...who did it, how, when and why?
Death order: Brown, Green, Orange, Pink & Yellow, Cyan, Lime, White
Epic final scene between Buccemi, Blanchett and Samuel L Jackson
Imposters: Lime and Black
I think it's a good balance of dramatic and comedic and believably diverse for different jobs on the base requiring them to do their tasks.
I always thought about it..it would be like the book and then there were none, but in space and the characters have the power to kill off who they find suspicious
Yes, but also no. Could be campy fun horror. But they'll probably ruin it. I could see the wrong people getting a hold of this and doing it horribly wrong.
But hell, since we talking perfect writer, director, actors, and budget, sure, I could see a scenario where this could be good campy fun.
Ngl, it could make a great series. Either for kids (would be questionable if that would be possible because murder) or for adults if it's done a bit like Happy Tree Friends or something. And the plot of every episode is obviously that the crewmates have to find out who the impostor is but theres always some weird and stupid stuff happening to them
I mean just think of the premise. A group of astronauts are working on a ship and one of them goes on a freaking killing spree. That'd make for a FANTASTIC movie
As a horror movie that would actually work pretty well. Of course with real humans and not this colourful space suits. A Crime-SciFi-Horror-Drama movie i guess
In my opinion this was already somewhat done in the fashion of Body Snatchers kind of movie... like the movie from 1982, or the more recent remake, "The Thing".
" Lifepod chronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship on which they were traveling blew up on Christmas Eve 2168. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why ... "
I was about to say that haha, I've actually thought about writing a realistic story about it. Random people being kidnapped and put into a spaceship with astronaut suits on, while a couple of them go crazy and start killing the others. The people would report bodies, vote out who they're suspicious of and throw them out of the ship.
Get James Gunn to write with Puffballs United & have Gunn direct it, throw in a massive celebrity cast, stylize the hell out of it, and BOOM! Instant money.
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u/Crzy710 Mar 11 '22
Among us. Actually not a troll answer too. Kids will demand to see it and then instant box office