DTV Telltale Walking Dead movie
Would you guys like it if there was an animated direct to dvd movie based on the Telltale Walking Dead? I know they did it for Devil May Cry and Deadspace, do you think it would be interesting for Walking Dead? There' a lot of material to work with, how Kenny survived, the cabin group leaving Carver or what happened after Omid died with Clem and Christa, they could even do an anthology of stories like they did for Halo Wars and Batman Gotham Knight.
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I think a Telltale Walking Dead movie would be great done in the style of these films.
Why ont just have them keep the TT tools style but more defined?
That would be cool
I'd like to see something like that. But it would have to be done right of course.
If it’s got a Lukey in it count me in man! T.T I need me some sweet ass Picasso!
Yes, but not telltale's version, more off the comics done in Animation, and i don't think we need one about the Telltale series to be honest. I'd rather have one with the comics
lol.
Not gonna lie, thought this was a real thing for a sec.
That 5 month bump for "lol." Such a wonderful contribution to a dead topic. It's perfect.
But on the topic, since it was revived, I don't know that it could work. The games, while ultimately ending up in the same place, do allow the players variable degrees of agency on how they get there. To do movies they'd have to set a canon series of events. There'd have to be a canon determination of who Lee saved in the drug store, which would lead to a canon determination of who Lily killed. There'd need to be a canon determination of if Lee helped Kenny crush Larry's head or not. There's so many things that the players could do differently that while ultimately they made no difference to main story, combined they make for a very different journey. Setting a canon series of events would cheapen the games and make them pointless.
That's probably why he suggested the premises he did.
Not gonna lie, I didn't bother reading the OP beyond the first sentence lol. That's my bad,
You realize theoretically, anyone can rip the walking dead models and make their own movies if they're dedicated enough.
you'd just have to add captions/subtitles instead of spoken dialogue.
Oh, I know.
Not only from the hypothesizes, but from experienced evidence.
Also, while captions/subtitles would be the most convenient, there are such things as soundalikes and imitators. Or hell, sometimes even the officials themselves.
@Louche
Something like that would get slapped with a lawsuit so fast it'd be shut down before it even finished uploading lol.
Even though it'd likely be non-profit?
Yeah. It all depends on how protective TellTale and Kirkman want to be of the IP. They could have it shut down if they wanted to, and definitely would if they saw that there's a market for such things and decide to tap it themselves, they could kill the competition with a legal letter.
A lot of purely non profit fan made games using existing characters from existing franchises get shut down and it's not always because the company who owns the franchise is being a dick; US copywrite law is weird. Like, say Company A has a successful franchise and someone decides to make a fan made game using the franchise's name and characters. Company A big dogs see it and think it's cool and leave them be because the fan made game is a labor of love, respects established lore and character development, and is free so no one is profiting off of their IP. 2 years later, another "fan made" game is released but this one is horrible, it takes liberties with the characters that the big dogs at Company A don't like so they try to have it shut down, but the second "fan" refuses because Company A has allowed the first fan made game to exist for years. Company A will have to go through a lengthy and expensive court battle to get it done because they didn't challenge the first game when it popped up, and in all likelihood the first fan game will also end up being shut down because of the second.
Most of the time, when a company slaps a cease a desist on some fan creator, it's not because they're assholes looking to shit on their fans; it's because if they don't they'll have a hard time shutting down things that actually need to be shut down. Though sometimes it is purely about money. Take Activision Blizzard and WoW private servers. They existed for years, private, invite only classic (no expansions) servers that were ran by fans, not for profit. Blizzard decided there was a market there for the Classic only servers so they had the private servers shut down, then not too long later announced they would be doing their own Classic servers.
Oh, so AM2R?
idk what that is.
Would telltale really care about some random youtube videos?
Recently, someone on youtube has been making full movie versions of the Left 4 Dead game campaigns.
They just use SFM, the game models and the game sound files. It's so simple (not really) but all the potential is there.
It's hard to know. They could have a "lol have fun" attitude or they could slap it with a cease a desist hard and fast like disney and nintendo do when something using any of their IPs pops up.
but there's tons of walking dead playthroughs up on youtube already.
how would this be any different? especially since it's already like an interactive movie.
Let's plays are left up because it's free advertising. Besides, when you upload something that is owned to youtube, like a song, youtube doesn't pull your video. The video is left up but the ad revenue goes to whoever filed the claim against the video. Most game companies allow their games to be played on youtube without filing copywrite claims because they get free advertising out of it.
All that said, a let's play is very different thing from a machinima. Companies have more of a reason to shut down machinimas if they want to, especially if the machinima takes away from the official product. Like I said earlier, I don't know that Telltale would shut something like that down, but they legally could if they wanted to (and if it was made using voice synthesizers so it seemed like something TellTale themselves did, they'd probably want to). That's really all I was getting at.
Not a let's play of a game that's already an interactive movie.
a machinima/sfm of the walking dead would just have some more dynamic camera angles, and probably would try to jam in as much dialogue from the game files as possible.
anyway, this speculation is really pointless. Fuck, I wish I knew how to make videos.
I was thinking a 2D film like that one Dante film.