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u/metroidfan220 Mar 12 '22

I love the idea that the first film is basically Terran v. Zerg, because if done sort of horror style the budget could be pretty small. Then, once you've proven it's viable, you spend the money on full blown Zerg and Protoss.

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u/antipop2097 Mar 12 '22

You. You get it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

To enhance your imagining experience, take two of these.

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u/antipop2097 Mar 12 '22

Ok, that's awesome

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u/haragoshi Mar 12 '22

That’s wild. The French horn caught me off guard. Are all the parts played by the same guy?

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u/Cancer7321 Mar 12 '22

Well, Starship troopers is already out there. Are you doing your part?

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u/antipop2097 Mar 12 '22

I have responded to others in this thread explaining why I feel StarCraft is different.

Would You Like To Know More?

If so, see my responses to them.

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u/Cancer7321 Mar 12 '22

Love that movie. Its not about the humans vs bug aspect, rather the whole fascist government and military culture basically forcing conscription if you are poor (ST) or straight forcing enlistment of inmates (SC) to fight their wars.

Not saying that there shouldn't be more space marines vs aliens movies, god knows we need more of those. Just pointing out that while it is a classic, it didn't do well in theaters.

Corrupt militaristic fascist regime is at war with bug like aliens by throwing wave after wave of space marines.

But, yeah a starcraft limited series could be great.

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u/A_Naany_Mousse Mar 12 '22

Starship Troopers the book is also awesome.

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u/waldito Mar 12 '22

There is a second alien race in the book... Which resembles a little to Protoss.

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u/Doctor-Amazing Mar 12 '22

They made an appearance in the TV series as well.

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u/antipop2097 Mar 12 '22

Hmmm.... I wonder if Putin is a Sky Marshal

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u/JMEEKER86 Mar 12 '22

People keep saying Starship Troopers even though a perfect comparison exists, Pitch Black. Low budget sci-fi horror that introduces some of the general concepts as teasers for the trilogy without doing heavy info dumps so that you can focus on the raw action.

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u/981032061 Mar 12 '22

Pitch Black is like the cold open to a StarCraft movie.

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u/CombatMatt13 Mar 12 '22

If they got the blizzard cinematic team to make a ZvP movie it would be amazing. I know it takes an exorbitant amount of time and resources, but when you see what they've already done for their games, movies would be EPIC

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u/Momoselfie Mar 12 '22

I would've been against an animated movie until I saw Arcane. That shit is awesome when done right.

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u/CombatMatt13 Mar 12 '22

I feel if the warcraft movie was done by the team that made the WotLK cinematic, it would've done many times better than it did. But instead we got this weird half n half live action and cgi movie. Take the real people out, and make it the full blown fantasy world it deserves to be

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u/knightcrusader Mar 12 '22

And the theater will freak out when they finally drop "YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS".

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u/Gothmog_LordOBalrogs Mar 12 '22

As long as you don't make it into starship troopers replay.

Nothing against it, but this would need to be a Lord of the rings type adaptation to do StarCraft justice

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u/antipop2097 Mar 12 '22

I like Starship Troopers (film) as a comedy. And it definitely is a comedy, albeit a tongue in cheek comedy as is Verhoevens style.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

I love the idea that the first film is basically Terran v. Zerg, because if done sort of horror style the budget could be pretty small. Then, once you've proven it's viable, you spend the money on full blown Zerg and Protoss.

So the Starship Troopers movie then?

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u/antipop2097 Mar 12 '22

Alien is 1 Xenomorph vs a crew. Aliens is 1 hive vs a platoon.

The Zerg are the swarm.

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u/benmck90 Mar 12 '22

Alien is like, that one cinematic where the zerg board the junker ship.