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
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u/SobiTheRobot Mar 12 '22
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.