InsaneTiger
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Oh forget that... Battlefield Buddies.
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Battlefield to be adapted for TV
- Thread starter GavinUK86
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Oh forget that... Battlefield Buddies.
Nah you're both wrong. Battlefield Babies! Look how well it worked for the Muppets!
PeskyToaster
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EchoChamber
Member
Why all this games get movie or TV adaptations but no halo 
Could be a good thing that. The writers not having to follow established plot threads from games. Could be great as its own thing.
Then again a Bad Company series could be great.
mr stroke
Member
no, it will be about the dude that keeps trying to fly the chopper and crashes over and over again
Stiler
Member
I really don't see how this is going to work unless they have a decent budget.
Band of Brothers style would work best (following a group of people over the course of a war) but HBO this isn't so yeah.
Also what game or setting would it be about? The battlefield series isn't that accurate , especially BF1. If they made a ww1 series but actually went for a more historically accurate approach I'd love that, but I have a feeling they won't. It's far easier to just "wing it" and make it a fictional modern/near-future setting like bf3/4.
Band of Brothers style would work best (following a group of people over the course of a war) but HBO this isn't so yeah.
Also what game or setting would it be about? The battlefield series isn't that accurate , especially BF1. If they made a ww1 series but actually went for a more historically accurate approach I'd love that, but I have a feeling they won't. It's far easier to just "wing it" and make it a fictional modern/near-future setting like bf3/4.
bloodforge
Member
Base it off of Bad Company and it may be interesting.
How do you even inspire to that level over a multiplayer-centric franchise?
So, it would have to be a BF before Bad Company because there is no way this can be done with absolute destruction being the signature thing these days.
StrikeFirst117
Banned
Please be a bad company series, the potential with that seems amazing.
Masterspeed
Member
Isn't this just going to be a run of the mill modern day War TV Show?
Blam
Member
If it's a bad company tv show I'm all in but anything other than that and I can't do it.
Bad Company is pretty much the only Battlefield game that had memorable characters and they also lasted more than one game.
The Elite
BOSS
Finally, a show for me.
orichalcos
Member
Hm, TV Show.
My idea:
Season 1:
World War 1-2
Season 2:
Modern era (BF3-4)
Season 3:
Future era (BF2142)
(or reverse)
My idea:
Season 1:
World War 1-2
Season 2:
Modern era (BF3-4)
Season 3:
Future era (BF2142)
(or reverse)
afternoon delight
Member
What the fuck is unique at all about the series that will translate to television narrative? It takes place during war, across several theaters?
Whyyyyyyyyyyy
Whyyyyyyyyyyy
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
You'll be way better off watching Band of Brothers and The Pacific again.
Stallion Dan
Member
Pilot and cancelled.
Dragonslayer_023
Banned
We really need another show on the level of Band of Brothers or The Pacific.
Noisepurge
Member
Well if they get Tarantino or atleast Shane Black to make a Bad Company show then maybe
BlindJesus
Member
Well, Tom Hanks and Speilberg just finished filming another mini series that follows a squadron of pilots during WWII.
blainethemono
Member
better than The Pacific, though still not anywhere near as good as Band of Brothers
has there really been an update on this? i haven't heard anything about it for at least a year
Every season is a new war. Starting in WW1 and working forward.
How many other War TV shows are their? I'm certainly more interested in this than another detective show.
How many other War TV shows are their? I'm certainly more interested in this than another detective show.
Came here to say this
StaffyManasse
Member
Quoting because someone has to.
In Service
Member
Each episode is 30 seconds long and starts with a title screen. The screen reveals an actor standing on the edge of a battlefield. He takes 3 steps and is then sniped by someone from across the map. Fade to black.
This is such a generic idea, Battlefield has no defining characteristics (outside of the gameplay which is based around large scale warfare) as such it can be anything.
You take a war movie/TV show from any of the wars, slap the name BF to it and make a TV show out of it and it'll be done.
Edit: A Bad Company TV show based around dark humour could work though due to its small scale and more personal approach.
You take a war movie/TV show from any of the wars, slap the name BF to it and make a TV show out of it and it'll be done.
Edit: A Bad Company TV show based around dark humour could work though due to its small scale and more personal approach.
Please.
Not gonna happen.
Ever.
As much as we want to.
EA is too mainstream and DICE have no idea how they did it and a TV producer who calls the story "robust" in the Battlefield series "15 years of history" just talked out of his ass which is where his show will come out of.
OfTheOverflow
Member
Why do I find it hard to believe there's only '12 expansion packs'?
Or you could just watch Three Kings
Shivvy_NTL
Member
Ahaha
Insane Metal
Member
This is the only thing that makes sense
Haha I was thinking the same thing
Triggerhappytel
Member
Well, I hope the writing is better than the last few games. Of all the EA brands they chose to adapt it's a shame they're going with this and not, say, Dead Space, Mass Effect or even Mirror's Edge. Mass Effect would be so awesome as a Game of Thrones-style big budget 10 episode season, but it would need a very large budget in order to be done justice.
Duh! Of course.