just seen the Ekko's Trailer, and my god was i stunned
now with Riot changing the ENTIRE LEAGUE'S LORE, they can make it a movie instead, i would watch the hell of it if it looked as Action paced as the Ekko's Trailer
DG Ashabel26 votesMaking a movie would be near impossible even with Riot's peak earnings. An average animated movie these days cost around 150-200 million dollars, not accounting for a marketing campaign; that amount of money would be immensely risky at this point in time, since characters in League severely lack the depth needed to carry a movie and the lore retcon means they were changed before much of anything was done to them, thus diminishing what little attachment was already there.
An animated series would be much more sensible. An average one costs about 1.5 million per episode, 2.5 if you want to make it look really good. They could use it as a series of short stories, kind of like the original Clone Wars series. Would help people actually familiarize themselves with champions as characters, not as eSports loadouts.
Second, Riot don't actually make any of the recent cinematics, they're outsourcing them to random studios all over the world. Bard's promo was done by Studio Mir, for example.
RouterSmiter1 votes[{quoted}](name=DG Ashabel,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=vzpM1wli,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2015-05-11T13:47:45.573+0000)
Making a movie would be near impossible even with Riot's peak earnings. An average animated movie these days cost around 150-200 million dollars,
DG Ashabel12 votesI said "these days," not "twenty years ago".
junglerboy164 votesThat moment when you realize you really are getting that old because your favorite childhood movie is 20 years old...
AsheGetsGanked3 votesIt def does not take that much money to make animation movies. as one guy said with toy story. past that point, it still would take a lot of freaking money to make, and really the characters of LOL don't have a lot of character detail anymore, they threw out the lore also. Also, quite a few characters wouldnt have much of an impact in a movie flick, so you would have to do something either where Viktor tries to take over the world like the skin line he has and his robots lol, or something with demacia/noxus.
I would love a movie, but it wont happen. LOL would prob fall in popularity by then if they just started making a movie. Instead, they will just make their short cinematics and everybody will wet themselves. they think that's good enough for them. i personally would like to see more though.
DG Ashabel15 votesAnimated movies do take that much money to make. Toy Story is dumb as hell to mention, that movie came out in 1995. That's like claiming Batman: Arkham Knight must have cost little to make because Sonic the Hedgehog was done by 10 dudes in Sega's basement.
For a quick rundown of how 3D animation budgets rose since then:
Disney Tangled - 260 million (they developed a lot of new tech while making it, therefore the subsequent movies came out cheaper) Wreck-It-Ralph - 165 million Frozen - 150 million Big Hero 6 - 165 million
Dreamworks Kung Fu Panda - 130 million Kung Fu Panda 2 - 150 million How To Train Your Dragon - 165 million How To Train Your Dragon 2 - 145 million Rise of the Guardians - 145 million
Pixar Toy Story 2 - 90 million Monster Inc. - 90 million The Incredibles - 92 million Ratatouille - 150 million Toy Story 3 - 200 million WALL-E - 180 million UP - 175 million Brave - 185 million Monsters University - 200 million
CGI movies have gotten really expensive during the last few years due to increasingly powerful tech and hardware demands. League of Legends would need about six times the cultural impact than it has right now in order to enter that realm. As much as I love it, I think we can all agree that Riot Games did the opposite of promoting the world they developed for their game, especially when they got every website out there to report on how they deleted the game's lore and didn't replace it with anything.
Celio Hogane HD2 votesor they could just make it 2D...
Tesla Effect2 votes[{quoted}](name=DG Ashabel,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=vzpM1wli,comment-id=0004,timestamp=2015-05-11T13:47:45.573+0000)
Making a movie would be near impossible even with Riot's peak earnings. An average animated movie these days cost around 150-200 million dollars, not accounting for a marketing campaign; that amount of money would be immensely risky at this point in time, since characters in League severely lack the depth needed to carry a movie and the lore retcon means they were changed before much of anything was done to them, thus diminishing what little attachment was already there.
An animated series would be much more sensible. An average one costs about 1.5 million per episode, 2.5 if you want to make it look really good. They could use it as a series of short stories, kind of like the original Clone Wars series. Would help people actually familiarize themselves with champions as characters, not as eSports loadouts.
Second, Riot don't actually make any of the recent cinematics, they're outsourcing them to random studios all over the world. Bard's promo was done by Studio Mir, for example.
Oh man, they could even have the same animators from Samurai Jack or Legend of Korra to do the shorts, it would be marvelous.
DG Ashabel5 votesStudio Mir, who animated Bard: Mountain, are actually the ones responsible for animation work on The Legend of Korra. It would be really cool if they got Bryke themselves on board, but I think those two burned out a bit after Nickelodeon turned Korra's production into a living nightmare.
Genndy Tartakovsky, who created Samurai Jack and Clone Wars, is sadly stuck in Sony Pictures, where he's directing those terrible Hotel Transylvania movies. :/
Tesla Effect4 votes[{quoted}](name=DG Ashabel,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=vzpM1wli,comment-id=000400020000,timestamp=2015-05-11T16:13:34.109+0000)
Studio Mir, who animated Bard: Mountain, are actually the ones responsible for animation work on The Legend of Korra. It would be really cool if they got Bryke themselves on board, but I think those two burned out a bit after Nickelodeon turned Korra's production into a living nightmare.
Genndy Tartakovsky, who created Samurai Jack and Clone Wars, is sadly stuck in Sony Pictures, where he's directing those terrible Hotel Transylvania movies. :/
http://memecrunch.com/image/521ba9e1afa96f5b1c000069.jpg?w=400
Damn it Gen. I want more Symbionic Titan, Clone Wars and Samurai Jack, not Hotel freaking Transylvania.
DG Ashabel2 votesThat gif = everyone's reactions when Tartakovsky released his test footage of Popeye, then announced four months later that it's being canceled for the sake of Hotel Transylvania 2.
Tesla Effect2 votes[{quoted}](name=DG Ashabel,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=vzpM1wli,comment-id=00040002000000000000,timestamp=2015-05-11T16:21:47.892+0000)
That gif = everyone's reactions when Tartakovsky released his test footage of Popeye, then announced four months later that it's being canceled for the sake of Hotel Transylvania 2.
Dear lord, he is better than that. We know that since he already done some amazing work in the past. Everything that was amazing from him ether was never realized or never finished properly. http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/sym-bionic-titan/images/b/b7/Images.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140215194139 http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/samuraijack/images/5/5c/Samurai_Jack.png/revision/latest?cb=20130213201804 http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100610100944/starwars/images/9/9e/CloneWarsPoster.jpg
DG Ashabel3 votesYeah, I'm not really sure what he's doing in Sony in general. They're all about huge fancy movies and I always felt Tartakovsky's style is better suited for short stories, if only because both Clone Wars and Samurai Jack are heavily visual and require constant attention. Jack's 90-minute pilot episode always felt like his worst work, for example, because it was so exhausting due to its length.
But apparently he's working on another movie that is "an original and very personal project," so I wouldn't give up hope yet!
SEKAI6 votes1 movie? No. Because even if we only give each character 1 minute of screen time it would still be way too long for a film.
1 TV series? It perhaps can pull it off if they approach it like say Hunter x Hunter or One Piece I can sorta see that, but the problem is the budget, resource and time, and the lack of depth of almost all League characters in general really.
Aheadatime3 votesI know it's completely irrelevant since everyone understands what you're saying and I hate to be 'that guy' but it's 'standards', not 'standers'.
Berry Állen2 votesI would personally just like a new cinematic like they did last year, that was amazing.
The Loveless3 votesTwist of Fate is still the best one. New Day didn't do it for me.
Velasan2 votesI vote tv series! Posted this before and the community always votes yes.
Killstrado1 votesI love how @riot uses so many different styles on their cinematics, they usually fit more personally with the champ they include and it keeps things fresh and I never know what to expect. I'd really enjoy a series or movie for sure
KirynDawn1 votesI would definitely purchase a set of movies or episodes related to lore with/without voice acting even
Washu1 votesif you want to see league movie here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb8Jkw6mxFs
MrEly2 votesI watched a minute or two. It was god awful.
junglerboy161 votesyeah, terrible writing (likely half lost in translation to begin with) and poor quality CGI, with no real coherent plot. I skipped around a bit, but it's basically one liners and juxtaposing champions into cliched plots with little connecting them.
jama6551 votesBetter then the last air bender - an M night shamalan production
AsheGetsGanked1 voteslol of course i get downvoted. first of all, just because it may take a lot of money, it doesnt mean they have to have the greatest quality to deliver a stunning product, you guys are mixing up animation quality with script quality. You can tell a great story with just stick-figures.
My point still fucking stands. And also this wouldnt be a freaking MAJOR MOTION PICTURE.
zDaddzy1 votesYou usually can create a movie with an "expected" gain. Borrow money, create the movie and earn more !
Actually, a 2D cartoonish TV Serie would be better. 30 minutes a week. Cartoons like in the Jinx video trailer or the Bard's one. We would all follow this.
Tesla Effect1 votesIf they green light it now, you know you wont see anything about the TV show until the end of next year. Not to mention that we still dont have all the foundations of the new lore built up (currently in works), so anyone who would want to do a story in that world wont have all the information readily available for them when they start the production. I mean I would love a series, dont get me wrong, its just if they do plan on doing it, you will wait even more for it than the current base lore.
