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If a movie were made....


I'm trying to base a screenplay around the Full Throttle game's storyline, so far the opening scene, the dialogue and everything are all the exact same ending with Ben starting to fight the rotwheeler on the road. If a movie were ever made, what kind of stuff would you guys (the fans of the game) like to see in it? The story of a scheming Vice president killing his boss, setting an outlaw biker gang up to make it look like they were responsible, and then trying to sell the company off for a lot of money is the basic plot of the game, so, if a film were made based off of that would that bother anybody? Let me guys know what you think.

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Not at all, though aquiring an official license would just be gold if you were aiming for full throttle in the first place
As a huge fan of full throttle, if there was a movie to have anything to do with the game, I would request the same hard-assed, yet witty catch phrases by the enigmatic ben
I would also like to see the cavefish, as they were one of the most intriguing character designs ive ever seen (very starwarsish however)
anyway, good luck

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The scenes I really want to be in the film are definitely:

The entire intro up to the point of Ben collecting the parts to have his bike fixed.

Old Man Corley's murder and his talk with Ben.

Ben talking to Quahog and Emmit and the whole thing over the fake federal investigator's ID.

The mine Road (although it will be pretty different onscreen).

Ben's meeting with the Vultures.

The Demolition Derby.

The Shareholder's meeting, complete with the exposure of Ripburger.

The scene on the plane.

Malcom Corley's funeral.

Ben Driving away into the sunset.

Those are the scenes I'm definitely trying to put in, can anyone else think of anything different that they would like to see?
If this were ever made into a movie I don't know how some of the subliminal Lucasarts rip off humor would translate into a film unless Lucasfilms made it, then it would be almost expected.

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i think theres definatly a few more scenes that should definatly be in it:
when he jumps poyaholger gorge (sorry can't remember how you spell it)

and the bloke who sells the bunnys as that had me in stiches the first time i played it, now its just me and the bunnies :P

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I don't know how the Gorge scene will fit in the film considering, that's not possible to do in real life, and then there's the thing with the Cavefish which is pretty unrealistic, on top of the fact Lucasarts will probably never even see my script. Oh and Horrace would be included with the Demolition Derby scene.

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yeah i guess the gorge seen would be pretty difficult but the bit where its blown up is very cool, i mean you could miss out he bit with him finding the ramp, just jumps with the booster and the hover motor.

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Well, obviously the individual fights with each different gang, each different biker are out. Now that doesn't mean the gorge blowing up couldn't be in the film, there just couldn't be a scene of Ben using a non-existant hoverlift part and a super booster to jump a freaking gorge. I was thinking as dumb as it seems, maybe the Rotwheelers, the Cavefish, and Ben could get caught up in the middle of a huge road rage brawl on top of the semi, which with the right special effects team would look amazing.

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Yeah, he could be in a big fight with the truck behind him, them as he crosses the bridge a cavefish turns round and fires that dynamite gun thing at the truck and Boom goes the bridge

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Well actually, I was thinking of the Mine Road sequence taking place before Ben and Emmit got to the Mink Ranch. Emmit's truck gets jumped by Cavefish (the fuel line has already been stolen from the bike)and Rotwheelers, Ben's bike is in the back and he knows that they'll probably try to steal it or damage it, so he decides to defend his bike more than Emmit's cargo, and then there's a huge fight on top of the semi in which Ben kicks some serious ass. Granted, that explains the Mine road, but not the bridge blowing up.

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that does sound really cool. You could always have one of the cavefish self destruct over the bridge?

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Well, the thing is, I know several ways to blow the bridge up, I just don't know any relevant ways of Ben getting past the bridge after it has been blown up. Him modifying his bike with a non-existant part, then finding a hidden cave with a ramp inside of it, just doesn't work in a film, but I do have one idea that's similar to that.

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Try keeping the movie rather long though, since the game was the shortest and easiest traditional Lucasarts game I ever played.

"I'm gonna get medieval on your ass!"

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Well, making the movie long is not going to be very hard, after all, if you look at the scenes I want to include, it's probably going to clock in at over an hour and forty-five minutes at least, even more when all the additions are added. I'm actually now trying to cut it down to about two hours, unless it needs more than two, I don't want it to be too short and I don't want it to be too long either.

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Okay. Good luck, mate.

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im hew here and im a old old fan of this game, so had to sign up to talk about it
i think i'd like to see t just a good actor playing ben because his so important and he really makes the game.
but yeh not sure about screen play, the whole atmosphere in the outback is just awesome, try to stay true to the game thats all i could say
ps im *beep* have trouble getting those dam goggles of the cavefish! those bastards with their oil spill

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Yeah, I hated that part. I really want to include the Cavefish in the film though.

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The thing is, I really want to make the movie like the game without being the game if you know what I mean. I want to include scenes from the game, but still leave some unpredictability to it. There may be added scenes, added character elements, but ultimately it'll have an atmosphere like the game.

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i love the background its awesome
the setting is terrific the cartoonists who drew them are fantastic.
i think i perfect outback would have to be found to match it, and not to mention background music like in the game. so many small things that add up to the overall masterpiece!

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Well, the background wouldn't change. One scene that's getting changed (for the better I hope) is the smash-up derby. The arena is going to be a lot like in the game but there's like a, cage in the middle where a band plays. Like, I'm picturing Velvet Revolver in that cage doing a cover of the Gone Jackal's Let er' rip, and putting this god-awful looking makeup on them to add sort of to the dark theme, but none of it will distract from the scene, just add a little flare. What do you guys think of that or something like it?

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The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The cavefish are a direct result of said apocalypse, and the various fantastic technologies are remnants of a shattered utopia.

So yeah, flying across that gorge on a motorcycle may not be possible in real life, but it is in the world in which the game takes place. What's possible in real life shouldn't be your concern as a screenwriter, that is up to a good director with a good special effects team at his or her disposal.

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I don't recall this game taking place in a post-Apocalyptica wasteland...in the screenplay I'm adapting that is most definitely not the case. It would explain a lot of the game's elements, but there were things in the game that made it seem like that was most definitely not the case though...like I could easily picture this world being a big white trash slum area in a desert state, because the second one takes a lot of city-dwelling elements as far I could tell before they cancelled it. The story takes place well on in the future yes, but after an apocalypse...no. What I'm really doing with this story is underlying a lot of grandfathered in themes, similar to what the game did with motorcycles and hovercars. Showing how technology was so advanced, yet you still had purists who would have rather roamed the open roads then fly above them. Plus, there's an awesome action scene featuring a lot of bikers and Emmit's semi...I'll keep you guys posted on it. Don't worry, I would not change something unless I really felt it needed it.

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"So yeah, flying across that gorge on a motorcycle may not be possible in real life, but it is in the world in which the game takes place. What's possible in real life shouldn't be your concern as a screenwriter, that is up to a good director with a good special effects team at his or her disposal."

That was one of my favorite parts of the game actually. I am sad cutting it out, but to me it seems somewhat like a time waster that theater audiences probably wouldn't care too much for (I'm trying to make the script acceptable to film studios who have the general public, rather than game fans in mind...bad habit I'm sorry). In the place of the gorge jump...I described a fight scene with Emmit's semi...without giving too much about it away, I would definitely like to use the gorge blowing up with maybe Ben racing the obstacle of Emmit's truck across, and then him just barely outrunning the explosion. Maybe. That's just an idea I'm playing with.

BTW, did anyone find it odd that Ben and Mo were headed in the direction of the gorge at the end to get his gang out of jail...when the bridge was out with no way across?

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sorry but i feel it needs that sort of distance future feel with the hovering cars and kick a55 hotted up bikes. Can easily be brought to life in film seeing how really the only hovering cars you see is the Limo, Nestor's blue car he tries to run Ben down with and the big car smash up scene.

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The Smash up Derby has been and always will be one of my favorite parts of the game. I would cry if that scene were ever done cheaply in a live action movie. Another favorite part of mine that doesn't translate well onto film are the Cavefish. They should definitely be there, but they would need a ton of explanation before they came onscreen. The whole Mine Road sequence is something that's such a pain when translating the game into a film, along with the thing with the bunnies outside the Vulture hideout. It's genius but it works better in a video game rather than a film.

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Yeah i agree with that but still would have a huge bike chase or something with the cavefish before he has to use the ramp to jump over what was left of the bridge. Just such a kick a55 scene.


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Like I said in posts above I don't know how well the ramp jump is going to work out. It might change to him trying to outrun remains of Emmit's flaming semi across the bridge after it exploded.

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Alright, the screenplay I mentioned before is nowhere near completion as of yet, I hope to have it done before this September when I ship off to Boot camp. For the three months I'll be there nobody will have any way to contact me so I figure I'll try to let you guys know my progress if you're interested.

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The one thing I would want

"Warning:
Do not play in or around dumpster
Do not kick dumpster
Do not sleep in dumpster
Usage of this container for disposal of human remains
May be a violation of local health ordinances"
Right at the beginning they start you off with that joke and I was hooked from then on in.

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You got it! Is anybody not okay with my screenplay adaptation not taking place in a shattered Utopia? The future yes, but is everything a result of something that left the world in a post apocalyptic state? No way. That's a detail that really won't make any difference. I just want to know though, is that a detail that if left out would irritate too many people?

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Make it Mad Max meets Raising Arizona. Most of the game deals with the open road in the middle of nowhere. Good place to scout for locations would be hwy 40 through Arizona, plenty of open road and lots of side roads (Mine Rd).
I don't think the world the game was set it was necessarily post-apocalypse. (i.e. hovercars) but it definately wasn't the bastion of technology we have today.

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Well I never really thought it was either, but somebody posted that in an earlier message, and playing back through the game it looks as if it could be true, so I figured a lot of fans of the game thought that. I honestly don't see why Lucasarts hasn't drawn from the well of their video games to make movies. All of the older adventure games could make great films, and since they're not making anymore classic adventure games, why not introduce these stories to a younger audience who didn't play them when they were new games?

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DAY OF THE TENTACLE THE MOVIE or
SAM AND MAX HIT THE ROAD!
That would be awesome.

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Let's not forget Grim Fandango, or the Monkey Island series for that matter. Good games those were. Heck I even want to make a movie or series of films based off of the Dig. That was one heck of a game. If a Full Throttle movie ever gets made though, Mark Hammil has to play Ripburger.

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And for Ben?
Only guy I can think of would be the new sandman
http://imdb.com/name/nm0002006/
or possibly
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000620/ from sin sity

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I can't think of any cast at the moment besides Mark Hammil, only because nobody else on Earth could do that voice. Of course, casting really isn't my thing.

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But doesn't Tom Church look a lot like him?
Eniwez, when u getting shipped off to boot? I could take over the script ;p jk I actually wrote an AVP script 15 years ago with a MUCH better plot then what we saw, but alas they didn't want it. Probably because with the level of CGI I wanted it would have cost 200 mil.

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September 9th is when I leave but the date I'll get there is the tenth. I'd love to see what you'd do with the script if you actually want to take it over. Mine ultimately got tossed because between this, Zelda, The Dig, and numerous original screenplays this one got the boot. I can message you with some of the specifics if you want. Do you use an IM client?

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I PM'd u my myspace link. Thats about the only IM i use.

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I'd love to read this Full Throttle script, since I've been thinking about the same idea lately.

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Id like to see a series. Making scenarios for series is always easier than movies. If I were to see series I would like to see lets say call it season 1 by telltale games.

Here goes :
so that we havent seen ben for a while we start the game far from the core of the game, and we play role of some small villager (like luke in star wars). But we hear about the gangs on bikes. Episode one introduces those guys on speedbikes with adventure of investigating the caves to find character`s girlfriend or sister, whatever. But it starts small in the desert not introducing any elements of original FT. Then after some investigation of the disappearance (almost like in the zodiac movie) we hear about the gang in caves. So we go there and the episode ends in a suspense. End of episode one. Point is to get to know more about the enviroment, set, history of the world, why the atomic world started etc and give the player just a taste of what we will see in the new series. When the credits are about to appear we hear or see ben going into a bike chase in the village where our character (not ben) started his adventure.

Episode two introduces Ben already in the middle of some adventure and already in middle of a challenging Road fight. Takes alot of effort and thinking to defeat the enemy gang member so we are thrown in the whole new level of road fights than we saw in original FT. So Ben is badly messed up after the fight, but his bike is messed up way worse. So our goal is to repair the bike in the middle of the desert in order to do that he needs to help our character from episode one to get back his gilfriend/relative from the cave gang to help ben get the bike repaired. In the mean time we have flashback of how and why Ben got into this mess. We realise that Ben got into some misunderstanding of his own fault and trying to repair it only made things worse, that some members of his gang quit, some have died during the fights and now rival Gang and the Police are after him, everything looks like everything is coming to a bad ending.

Episode three - Ben repairs the bike and returns to where he had left (so we can know more what have happenned and on what point of the story are we now). We encounter his gang, we see that things changed after he left, some members dissappeared, Ben needs to find out what has happenned. So we realise that some members, maybe Maureen turned against him after Ben had to brutally get rid of traitors from his gang. So in the process Maureen leaves and with a small pack left Ben needs to star everything over again. The main plot now starts and ben hires new crew member - our character from episode one. Gang goes after to persuade Mayreen to return but the episode ends on another suspense of the gang being ambushed on the street going after Maureen

Episode four - Ben`s gang is badly outnumbered and fight erupts on the street. Ben loses almost all of his crew, almost dying himself, but now we control the new guy character and we need to save ben from getting killed in the fight. Now if we accomplish that the story switches to Ben as his ... psychotic ex girlfriend which is a biker comes with an aid. Now Ben and ...- (insert her name) join up to fight the rival gangs and the police.

And only I know whats the ending
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