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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by michaelt on Thursday April 12, 2018 @03:31AM (#16818735) 

  The challenge with this is that a
  studio would be alienating fans
A standalone Boba Fett movie would coexist with Star Wars without much interaction with the main plot, but still attract fans as he's a cult character. The studio would benefit from the IP's profitable reputation, but they'd retain the freedom do new things and attract new audiences.
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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by bonesss on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:20AM (#16821168)
That's a bit of a tortured example: Boba Fett was highly popular, a named character, and was featured in literature and promotional materials. Mass Effect has no character remotely as iconic or well established as Boba Fett, much less a side character, much less "a different angle".

Star Was illustrates my point quite nicely: after a couple decades of world building they're already plumbing diminishing returns in one of the worlds largest and most popular IPs only one or two stories removed from their main narrative. I have high hopes for the Han Solo prequel, but Disney isn't putting money behind "alternative" Star Wars narratives until the nostalgia well is tapped, and even then they're going full-court on a trilogy.

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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by jonhendry18 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:24PM (#16822457)
"I have high hopes for the Han Solo prequel, but Disney isn't putting money behind "alternative" Star Wars narratives until the nostalgia well is tapped, and even then they're going full-court on a trilogy."

Um, Rogue One?

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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by Digit-Al on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:11PM (#16823445)
Rogue One is not an "alternative" Star Wars narrative - it's linked very strongly to the original story.
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Re:Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie? by jonhendry18 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:25PM (#16823569)
Yes, but unless I'm mistaken it's largely new characters.
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