How would a Dark Souls movie work?

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convoluted

Praise.... THE SUN

You think it's going to follow canon?
It's a player character. They can have Letitia Wright as the main character, Seth Rogan as Frampt, Chris Prat as solare and Jack Black as Gwyn

The lore and backstory would be written on the burger/nacho/burrito paper wrap, popcorn boxes and sodas cups

reveals that he was gwyn all along

youtube.com/watch?v=Nvv9w-UPuSY starts playing

final fight of the movie starts

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It would be best as a silent film in black and white.

FROM games have no story, only lore.

GIANT DAD

I think it can't work if it directly adapts the game. The best course is to focus on the past version of the world where people actually were living semi normally.

what's the story in minecraft?

I remember there was some movie that was like about a Viking dude, I think, and there was barely any talking in the whole thing and it was kinda just violence and brooding
can't remember the name but like that I think

CHICKEN JOCKEY

What ever I make it.

The Northman?

Northmen?

Probably a lot like Mad God that's somewhat more outwardingly coherent and is more action oriented.

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they are all wearing the heaviest armor possible and just tanking hits, not a single parry or dodge

what the fuck happened...

"Guy goes around killing the old gods" is a story, albeit not a convoluted one.

5 different narrative lines, with their scenes mixed all together out of choronological order. Many of those scenes are also shot on same movie sets, preferably in same conditions. Any narrative line may and will loosely reference other 4 at some points, preferably at least with two loops coming out of those connections. Only one narrative line is allowed to have a well defined end and a beginning.

I mean I got through it before Iron Skin was nerfed so it's not like I can judge

That sounds fucking awesome, where do I watch it?

most fromsoft stuff is dark fantasy, the lore would be sick if adapted probably for any of them.
personally I think bloodborne would be the best, especially as a TV series

nah it was older than that I'm pretty sure, I haven't seen that one

To be fair, this kind of gameplay isn't viable in any other game of the series so you might as well try it while you can.

From forgot to allow people to have differing play styles in later games, that's what happened

I'd probably prefer an anthology style film. Flesh out some minor characters like pic related (it's really good), major events like the war against the dragons, or do an atmospheric low stakes short film.

Instead of rolling the film they're filming the roll.

They would have to add ecelebs like Giant Dad and Let me Solo her to have me bother pirating it.

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many such cases.

SOUL and CINDER

DUNG PIES

Crossbreed Priscilla musical number on how she's lonely and isolated

Would pay, cry, and shid if real.

Compilation of him dying to mobs then bosses then getting "gud" only for it to repeat when he encounters his first invasion and primary obstacle in the form of a invader that is somehow in his level range till the end of the movie where he learns by accident how to parry because he didnt read the tutorial messages.
I cant see anyone managing to make it into anything other than an action comedy in the current age.

So, Edge of Tomorrow but more medieval and gothic?

Pic is retarded

oh these dudes? They're the Abyss Watchers!

Sisu?

Yea that would be a good way to describe it.

Predict the music for the trailer of this kinosloppa.

I trust Solaire

Who would play Gwynevere?

youtube.com/watch?v=tyHpTG1MjVU

I AM CHOSEN UNDEAD.

Giant Dad

based

Let me Solo

gay

ornstein and smough

Idris Elba

Come on and slam! And welcome to the jam!...

I can't imagine Kevin Hart that big but their lines together would be cringekino.

Kevin Hart as Tingle in the Zelda Live action movie

Yeah I'm still waiting for my fairy! Should be any day now haha. I make maps in the meantime.

the giant lady, Ornstein and Smough are reimagined as the classic "snarky woman leader, smart & thin and big & stupid" trio a la time bokan

Are no-dialogue movies in vogue or something?

It would have to be an almost non verbal type of experience. Preferably an animated film.
Everything is conveyed through actions and intuited by the viewer as seen by their eyes. What little dialogue there is between characters should be treated as the backbone of the narrative.
Fighting sequences either really long, or really short. Elements of the games (bonfires, messages, invading phantoms, the gods) are used sparingly. Have maybe two bonfires total. One of them is useless/redundant. Get an asshole invader that REALLY screws over the protag, get an invader that slips and dies pathetically right after.
You cannot argue against this, it is the definition of kinography

Asylum Demon battle with Turned Down for What playing in the background as his ass slams the Chosen Dead many times.

Sounds like it could be something finnish. Did the guy drink a lot of alcohol in the middle of violence and brooding?

Dark Souls (And really every Souls game outside of like, Sekiro) as a story is extremely straight forward, but adapting it wouldn't be able to carry the same feeling you get from coming up against and overcoming genuinely difficult challenges. It's unique to video games in that, rather than facing any narrative setbacks, the player only ever experiences personal setbacks. From the time you get dropped off in Firelink til you kill Gwyn, you barely even slow down unless you die. The only exception is when you are captured by Seathe for like 5 minutes. In theory, a deathless run of Dark Souls would be some guy getting dumped in prison, followed by the most insane, whirlwind success story as he killed or finished off every major player and then either rekindled or snuffed out the first flame.

But this wouldn't make for a fun story. Most movies have some sort of call to action, rising tension in the second act, a start-of-third-act low point where all seems lost, and a triumphant return in the finale. There's ups and downs to the story and that makes it tense and fun to watch. Dark Souls doesn't have that in a narrative sense, the tension comes from the gameplay.

IMO the only way to adapt Dark Souls would be as some kind of experimental art film where the story is seen through the eyes of some random, minor hollow. The first half an hour would just be this grinding, soul swallowing Groundhog Day as they live and die in a stagnant world. Then they hear about some total lunatic that is somehow upending all the existing powers and fulfilling a bunch of contradictory prophesies. This hollow and maybe a few allies seek this guy out and the player basically randomly kills one of them. The third act would just be the group processing the loss of one of their members and the total upheaval that the world is going through, finally free from eons of stagnation but rapidly and chaotically transforming into something totally new.

ZANZIBART, FORGIVE ME!

I hope it's just a summer time brainrot kiddie flick since these games don't take themselves seriously as lorefags think. Miyazaki would probably not care.

crestfallen knight

So... nothing changed?

cast will be filled with zionists

Fuck Hollyjew. Leave Dark Souls alone. Go fiddle some movie game.

We either get a very boring movie that no one would watch or something filled with nothing but jokes and cameos. No in between.

Hire a french art house to produce the film. The whole four (4) hours would be a silent film about a lunatic person who believes himself to be immortal raving around in a asylum surrounded by inmates in rags and sadistic wardens, until finally collapsing in the same cell he started in, only to start the cycle again.

That would be the most boring and pretentious piece of shit to graze this god green earth. It would bomb in the box office and the theater seats would be empty as hell.

Its genre would be French New Wave cinema

Would probably do well in Cannes though.

Kid's movie slop>Woke shit>>>>French Reddit Wave

It would be the most braindead sloppa but I would still watch it if it is entertaining.

Souls isn't convuluted but people that hype up its lore are retards. It's unironically 'vibes' the movie

Valhalla Rising.

The actual fans would probably want something funny and not serious like kill joy lorefags want it to be.

filtered by French kino wave

Movies have too much fucking exposition. Example is TENENT. Just let us fill in the blanks and imagine. Denis Villeneuve's movies are all academy award winners.

as convoluted

kek
just let j.j.abrams make the movie

Funny way to out yourself

valhalla rising

Hire David Lynch or some shit

Anon...

Well... shit

Rick Moranis as the voice of Seath
Chris Tucker as the voice of Nito

That sounds exactly like the game. Just walking from place to place and occasionally hearing some grand sounding name.

Kevin James as a Capra Demon on a segway who inexplicably joins in on Jack Black and Jason Momoa's shenanigans as they adventure through Lordran
Adam Sandler as The Gaping Dragon, and it's literally just Adam Sandler's head crudely cgi'd on a dragon's neck, and he's like 'SOO WHAT, YOU NEVER SEEN A BIG SCARY DRAGON WITH A MOUTH ON HIS CHEST, GONNA CRY TO YOUR MOMMY ABOUT IT?"
The Rock as Havel the Rock, and Jack Black explicitly says out loud, 'YEAH, I CAN SEE WHY THAT NAME FITS', and all the other characters nod and agree
Kevin Hart as Havel the Pebble
Vin Diesel as Vamos, but he can only say 'Vamos..."
Jennifer Coolidge as Reah of Thorolund, except her companions are immediately eaten by Adam Sandler's gaping dragon, and she instead falls in love with a man-serpent that got kicked out of Sen's fortress
Soundtrack is entirely Radioactive by imagine dragons covered by Jack Black

Seth Rogan as Domhnall but the helmet looks like his face

You can literally just use the world of ds as a frame of reference and make something up. They could do a movie on carim or berenike some shit that has nothing to do with the overarching story of dark souls.

Aye siwmae... UHUHUHUHUHUH

The stupid laugh echoes throughout the depths

Dude, twin-humanity lmao

Giant Dad was actually a community meme build, not a lore figure from Dark Souls :)

Film's post-credits scene is Jack Black sitting at a round-table poker game in Anor Londo with a group of Lordran buddies, which includes a Mushroom Parent, Miyazaki himself, a wheel skeleton, Jason Momoa as a red invader in maiden's attire, and a confused looking Petrus of Thorolund

Suddenly a huge foot comes crashing down from the ceiling, squashing Petrus into a gruesome smudge of cheap red putty

Black jumps up and does a ridiculous karate chop, "Damn! I forgot to mention. Guys, this is my Dad, he's kind of a giant!"

Momoa stares up slowly in terror. "Hey... Giant Dad!"

All Star by Smash Mouth begins playing, and the camera slowly pans up to the glowing face of Vaatividya staring down from a hole in the ceiling

Noland could definitely do Dark souls justice. I can see Tom Holland as chosen undead and Cillian Murphy as Solaire. Jeff Bridges as Gwyn.

Tell me about Smough
Why does he wear the mask?

Hunter Schafer as Gwyndolin.

In terms of how good the games would translate to movies

Elden Ring > Sekiro > Demon's Souls > Dark Souls > Dark Souls 2 > Dark Souls 3
Any Armored Core > *

Anyhow. Why adapt Dark Souls 2 in particular?

I hate pretentious Hollywood tards. Souls adaptation should be directed as a Monty Python inspired piece.

Why adapt Dark Souls 2 in particular?

Who wouldn't want to see Jack Black explaining things like 'BONFIRE ASCETIC - REVIVES ENEMIES AND TAKES YOUR NG EVEN HIGHER', him being hit by a shockwave and crying out, 'SHOULD'VE LEVELLED ADAPTATION - DAMN THIS SL1 RUN', or, 'DOORS OF PHARROS, NEVER KNOW WHAT'S BEHIND THEM, SECRET CHEST, HIDDEN DOOR - BUT YOU'LL NEED THIS - A LOCKSTONE. A PHARROS LOCKSTONE. TO UNLOCK A PHARROS DOOR'