A MYST movie being considered

[watermelony2k]

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Talk about out of nowhere. Just when I thought the game series was bowing out...

That said, a MYST movie could be visually magnificent. There's a lot of artwork and atmosphere to draw on. I haven't read the books but I'd imagine they flesh out the world much more.

 

[McCoy]

I've been wondering for years when this might happen. I have all the games. Replay them quite often.

 

[clint g]

Huh, I wonder how it'll turn out. It should be interesting.

 

[Dream]

So will this pretty much be LOST: The movie?

 

[Owain Taggart]

They've been talking about doing this for years, but I don't really see the Myst series as something that could be made into a movie. For one, the places you visit in the games are deserted and the only trace of any people are through books and notes throughout the games. The games are very singular in nature, which is why I don't really enjoy them because you almost never interact with characters.

 

[Harvey]

While that's true, they're also (apparently) drawing upon the novel series for material, which doesn't depict such an isolated experience. AFAIK--haven't read them.

 

[Sheep]

Why didn't they do this 10 or 15 years ago? Myst is the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question nowadays.

 

[David cgc]

There were plans to doing a made-for-TV Myst movie on Sci-Fi about ten years back. I think an adaptation of either for the first two novels could be fantastic. If they did "Book of Atrus," it ends right where Myst picks up (with the book the player finds falling through the crack), which could be a fine opportunity for another re-release of the game.

 

[LitmusDragon]

So basically Mirrormask?

(Always thought this movie looked a lot like Myst)

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They've been talking about doing this for years, but I don't really see the Myst series as something that could be made into a movie. For one, the places you visit in the games are deserted and the only trace of any people are through books and notes throughout the games. The games are very singular in nature, which is why I don't really enjoy them because you almost never interact with characters.

The screenwriters will have to use some imagination, that's all.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I've read the Myst novels, and I think that they'd make fine films. D'ni would be magnificent to see on screen if the fx budget was sufficient.

 

[Owain Taggart]

They've been talking about doing this for years, but I don't really see the Myst series as something that could be made into a movie. For one, the places you visit in the games are deserted and the only trace of any people are through books and notes throughout the games. The games are very singular in nature, which is why I don't really enjoy them because you almost never interact with characters.

The screenwriters will have to use some imagination, that's all.

A lot of imagination, yes and then there's the danger of it veering too far away from resembling Myst at all, kind of like the Doom movie not resembling its source material. True, there are the novels which were mentioned, but I think what people remember Myst most for were the games, not the novels, so they'd already be making a movie that strays from what most people remember the games to look like. It's a difficult balance. They're probably better off writing an original story using the lore and the characters mentioned in the books. So much what you see in the games though are things you read as having already happened.

 

[McCoy]

They could dramatize the things that happened between games maybe. I've always thought the backstory to Revelation with all the family drama could be pretty interesting to watch play out.

Edited to add: even the backstory to the first game, with Atrus' sons actions leading to their ultimate imprisonment by their own father, or the second, with Atrus' father kidnapping Catherine. Outside the game play there's actually quite a lot of action and drama.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I think a prequel is the obvious choice for a Myst movie. Everyone's most familiar with the first game. "Who made it" is the basic question that the player continually asks throughout the game.

I've got the teaser trailer all figured out:

<sound of linking book travel>
<dissolve in to the island of Myst>
<45 seconds of the camera moving through a gorgeous, desolate landscape with only the wind and the water being heard>
Then someone whispers in awe, off-screen:
"My God, who made all of this?"
<fade to black>
Title Card:
MYST
Coming Next Christmas
<sound of linking book travel>
<dissolve to black>

 

[Temis the Vorta]

A lot of imagination, yes and then there's the danger of it veering too far away from resembling Myst at all, kind of like the Doom movie not resembling its source material.

I never saw the Doom movie and if I had, I doubt my expectations for its literary quality would be very high.

I'm willing to give the Myst writers the benefit of the doubt that there is a way to write a good Myst story and that they can do it. I'll start bitching when they prove my faith in them is misplaced by fucking it all up, but I'm not big on pre-emptive bitching. At least it's not another superhero movie or a movie based on kid's toys.

I've got the teaser trailer all figured out:

<sound of linking book travel>
<dissolve in to the island of Myst>
<45 seconds of the camera moving through a gorgeous, desolate landscape with only the wind and the water being heard>
Then someone whispers in awe, off-screen:
"My God, who made all of this?"
<fade to black>
Title Card:
MYST
Coming Next Christmas
<sound of linking book travel>
<dissolve to black>

Sounds good!

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

I didn't know we had so many (Mysterians? Mystites? Mystalonians?) on the TrekBeeb.

Interesting. Well, I'm gonna do the stereotypical fanboy thing now.

They better not fuck it up. *folds arms disapprovingly*