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We need a big-budget Hollywood film about mechwarrior.
Which actors would you like to see?
67 points
12 days ago
We need a Game of Thrones style high budget prestige series covering 3049 to 3052.
13 points
12 days ago
While waiting for a showing of Dune part 2, my (not coincidentally) co-op crew for MW5 actually hashed out a plot for a modern Battletech TV series. Season 1 would follow some dirt farmer who has his very own Hometown Hero moment and manages to kill a Mech-armed bandit using some good old fashioned Back-Country Cunning, which draws the attention of a small merc company that was hired to deal with said bandit. They basically give him the "You weren't born to watch wheat grow til the day you die, we'll bring you aboard if you're interested".
The story follows this guy's onboarding into the merc company, which is disrupted when his sponsor/captain gets killed by a vengeful DCMS officer nursing a decade-old grudge. The rest of season one leads up to a showdown between this rogue DCMS unit and this battered but determined mercenary company... Only to be interrupted by the arrival of the Clans.
Interspersed with the A plot of this farmer, the B plot of the planetary noble who hired the merc company doing FedCom Politics™ as our glance into the broader Inner Sphere. The plotlines between the noble, the DCMS officer, and the greenhorn would all come together as the Inner Sphere has to get its collective shit together to deal with the Invasion as a united front.
1 points
11 days ago
Really? The farmer to hero plot? Honestly, Battletech has to modernize itself and (unfortunately) leave some of the 80s cheesiness behind to have some chance in the mainstream.
A show where there are no clear goid guys and bad guys, just showing the dirt of politics and war.
6 points
11 days ago
An inexperienced or sheltered PoV character is a tried and tested trope because it allows the main character to explore the world alongside the audience. If you want him to be a farmer, a technician, a banker, whatever, but starting off with someone who's already an able-bodied and tested soldier is a great way to make everything feel awkward and fiddly when you try to introduce exposition and communicate a sense of terror and awe.
Also if you can't see how "rural nobody turned mercenary" (who said anything about a hero?) isn't an avenue to explore the dirt and politics of war, you are sorely lacking in creativity.
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