Movie?

[Nick Virago]

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[SteveBB]

Tim burton recently brought out a movie called Corpse Bride which had skeletons as main characters and is also the director of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" which also featured skeletons. But other than that I haven't heard anything about it

[itchythesamurai]

Any idea where you heard this?

[VampireNaomi]

IMDB knows nothing of it and googling doesn't provide any useful info either. It's probably just speculation since people have been talking about Grim and Tim together for years.

 

By the way, you've got a great username and avatar. I take it we have a third Nick fanatic on board?

[pure1224]

But has anybody taken all the cutscenes from the game and made a movie out of it

[Shuz]

It wouldn't make much sense would it, much of the story occurs in the normal game mode

[Grim_comician]

There is a movie series called "Day off the dead", that humourously is based on eight underworld in GF's concept. There is a demo movie of it, linked from one of Grim Fandango's fan sites.

[I say, I say]

Tim Burton is known for doing film noir and also slightly twisted films; he has covered the aspects of death in both The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride, he could probably do Grim Fandango very well I'd bet.

[Scorpicus]

If he did do Grim Fandango, he probably would heavily adapt it so we couldn't even recognize it as Grim Fandango.

 

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[Nick Virago]

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[James Isaac]

Wow, that's a great find... if it goes ahead it may give Grim Fandango sales the boost they deserve

[SteveBB]

If this is true this should really give a boost to the community

[VampireNaomi]

I REALLY hope that is true, but I'm going to remain sceptic until something official is announced. Anyone can create Wikipedia articles.

[Smon]

I hope that happens... though it doesn't look like we'll see it for a while, considering he's working on another project set for release for 2007.

[swediot=)]

I REALLY hope that is true, but I'm going to remain sceptic until something official is announced. Anyone can create Wikipedia articles.

 

which is why i don't think this is true

[Smon]

I don't know... the Movie Center thing with quotes from Burton seems real enough...

[itchythesamurai]

Well I don't think it'd be too different if they are keeping the name Grim Fandango and the same setting. Could easily become the best video game movie ever though. Maybe even lead to a rerelease of the game? Special edition? Nah, not getting my hopes up just yet.

[VampireNaomi]

Oh, silly me. I didn't even notice the Movie Center article. That makes it seem a lot more credible, but it's still not certain.

 

I don't know Burton very well, but I heard he has the habit of changing the source material to fit his vision. If he were to make this movie, what changes do you think he may make?

 

Also, I wonder if he's planning to make it stop-motion, computer animated or what. Maybe live action?

 

EDIT: If the movie is going to be made (notice how sceptic I still am), I hope Burton plays the game and not just reads the script. I heard he made Batman without having read any of the comics.

 

Imagine what a movie would do to our community. Numerous people would go see the film because it was made by Burton, there'd be thousands of new fans, LucasArts would probably re-release the game in some sort of special edition style, they might even start considering a sequel if it was a success.

 

And then we could start being elitist "You aren't a true fan if you've only seen the movie!" bitches to everyone who stumbles upon these forums.

[itchythesamurai]

It would be awesome if he consulted the other great Tim and got him involved. (Schafer for those not in the know.)

[VampireNaomi]

Definitely. Maybe I'm being an idiot, but I can't get rid of the mental image of Burton getting rid of the film noir and replacing it with gothic horror. Am I stereotyping him too much? Schafer could keep him under control.

[Smon]

Definitely. Maybe I'm being an idiot, but I can't get rid of the mental image of Burton getting rid of the film noir and replacing it with gothic horror. Am I stereotyping him too much? Schafer could keep him under control.

Maybe, but he'll probably stick to the source material for the character design, but will twist and exaggerate the backgrounds, still, I hope it comes out.

[Shuz]

If a movie is going to be made I hope it is either A: a perfect screen adaptation of Grim Fandango with all the bits we love or B: something loosely based on the GF concept that is different enough to be considered separate from the game universe. I would hate to have something which tries to be A but ends up being B. Sort of like how Curse of Monkey Island tried to continue the Monkey Island series but is not considered to be a 'real' part of the series.

[Smon]

I hope they stick to the game, but cut out the puzzle bits, fun to play, probably not fun to watch.

[I say, I say]

I had a look at the source of this article, the blog from Movie Center; it doesn't look entirely reliable. It would be great to have a Grim Fandango film but I don't think it looks hopeful. Could be wrong though...

[VampireNaomi]

I agree. Speculating is fun, but it's no use getting too excited before there is any real proof. We'll only end up really disappointed. Burton's quote says that the script was sent to him. By who? LucasArts? Ahaha.