World of Darkness coming to TV?

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Unpopular opinion: early Bauhaus is overrated and unoriginal. Later, artsy-fartsy Bauhaus is *chef's kiss*

 
As much as I love 90s Goth music unlike hating all other 90s music, I should bring the topic back to television.

1. I want a Vampire: The Masquerade show and I don't really care about the others even if I'll probably watch them.

2. A lot of people think that V:TM will come off as derivative. I think that's true but these guys were not going to be fans of V:TM in the first place because the whole game is about playing every type of vampire that existed back then. A New V:TM edition should incorporate True Blood, Vampire Diaries, and Twilight because the whole thing is the game is about playing the kind of vampires you like.

3. Fans of shows like Supernatural, True Blood, and so on will probably like V:TM

4. Since it's by the Expanse and Witcher people, I think it will probably be a bunch of R-rated heavy violence and mild nudity programs. Which is the way it should be. "Prestige TV."

5. I think Bloodlines with its focus on a Neonate and the Camarilla vs. Anarchs is the easiest V:TM show they can make.
 
Didn't the Underworld movies get sued by WW for being to similiar? Did that lawsuit ever pan out?
 
Interesting. Anyways, I thought of that because if they do a WoD TV show...

It should be NOTHING like those movies. At all.
 
Didn't the Underworld movies get sued by WW for being to similiar? Did that lawsuit ever pan out?

It was settled for peanuts by the studio but badly needed money for a failing gaming company.

Sadly it led them to try to sue their own fan club and they alienated the entirety of their most devoted fans.
 
Interesting. Anyways, I thought of that because if they do a WoD TV show...

It should be NOTHING like those movies. At all.

Why? They're fun and cheesy.

I remember people who thought the D&D movies should be like the Lord of the Rings.

I'm like, "Why the fuck would we want that? I want them to be about idiots around a table yelling at each other inbetween their characters being idiots."
 
Why? They're fun and cheesy.

Not my taste in cheese.

I remember people who thought the D&D movies should be like the Lord of the Rings.

I'm like, "Why the fuck would we want that? I want them to be about idiots around a table yelling at each other inbetween their characters being idiots."

I don't think D&D should be like LOTR, but it shouldn't be anything like what we got.
 
Why? They're fun and cheesy.

I remember people who thought the D&D movies should be like the Lord of the Rings.

I'm like, "Why the fuck would we want that? I want them to be about idiots around a table yelling at each other inbetween their characters being idiots."
We need to make a more Nightlife-style Urban Fantasy game called "Trenchcoats & Katanas."

JG
 
I think the model for D&D movies should be something more like the Marvel movies, in terms of tone and character development, except within the sword and sorcery milieu.

Lord of the Rings is its own thing. I think The Hobbit movies suffered a bit by trying to be less like the book, and more a gamist fantasy by the end of the series (the Battle of Five Armies may as well have been a Warhammer movie).

In the case of a vampire movie for the WoD, my favorite is still Near Dark, but there has actually been a few in recent years that are noteworthy - Byzantium, Let the Right One In, Only Lovers Left Alive and, although it isn’t a vampire movie exactly He Never Died. If the TV show hits that sort of tone, they’d be doing it right. Of course, its not just going to be a vampire TV show - so how they do the other groups will be interesting.
 
So...you're asking me for softcore recommendations?

The internet just making porn too accessible for you?
Nope, I just appreciate FotA for the under-watched gem it is, that's all. Partly because I first saw it when I was pretty young and my mum rented it for movie night because, you know, Sandra Bullock. Hah-har, anyway, you can imagine how that went.
 
Nope, I just appreciate FotA for the under-watched gem it is, that's all. Partly because I first saw it when I was pretty young and my mum rented it for movie night because, you know, Sandra Bullock. Hah-har, anyway, you can imagine how that went.

Yup, nothing better than watching surprise nudity with your mom
 
Yup, nothing better than watching surprise nudity with your mom
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Hilarious fact, I accidentally selected a softcore film to watch by Netflix (CAM) when I thought it was a horror movie about a possessed computer. It was for visiting family.

Whoopsie.
 
ah, that explains it. I was 5 years old in 1985. The most critically acclaimed things I was watching were Scooby Doo, Spider-man, and Masters of the Universe.

But I did always wonder how Bruce Willis became a star
I remember going to see some movie in the theatre back in the day and seeing the first trailer for Die Hard. The whole audience burst out laughing when Bruce Willis was revealed as the star.

Bruce Willis as action hero? The guy from Moonlighting? Ridiculous!
 
How they should write the V:TM show:

"Watch Big Trouble in Little China and make the bad guys Romanian flesh-crafters and Kurt Russell a Brujah. Wang is a Tremere and still Asian."
 
I think every episode should have a vampire coming to kill the protagonist, who should be named Liam Macleod.

They fight with katanas.

Then the winner diablerizes the other and it's always Liam. There will be many explosions and much Queen music.

If you want to be all artsy fartsy, they'll have period piece flashbacks too but most of it will consist of Liam getting laid (plus biting) before the vampire of the week does something horrible.

And he's met every vampire.
 
In the case of a vampire movie for the WoD, my favorite is still Near Dark, but there has actually been a few in recent years that are noteworthy - Byzantium, Let the Right One In, Only Lovers Left Alive and, although it isn’t a vampire movie exactly He Never Died. If the TV show hits that sort of tone, they’d be doing it right. Of course, its not just going to be a vampire TV show - so how they do the other groups will be interesting.
I really quite liked Bit...



It's rubbish, but in an endearingly fun sort of way.
 
Years ago I got Let the right one in as a recommendation as how Vampire the Requiem should be. In tone. Well, good luck roleplaying that. I think any of these WoD games have quite something in common with spy movies, because they are all part of a secret society. So the pc's are always kinda, sorta undercover.
 
Years ago I got Let the right one in as a recommendation as how Vampire the Requiem should be. In tone.

LOL, good movie (the original,havent seen the remake), but it has zero simiiarity to the WoD.
 
Years ago I got Let the right one in as a recommendation as how Vampire the Requiem should be. In tone. Well, good luck roleplaying that. I think any of these WoD games have quite something in common with spy movies, because they are all part of a secret society. So the pc's are always kinda, sorta undercover.

Vampire movies are rarely a good source to play the game, though vampire SERIES? Sometimes.

The best way to play V:TM?

Gangster movies.

Betrayal, murder, fighting for territory, manipulating the public, and secret societies.

John Wick is actually a very good V:TM movie.

John Wick used to be the Sheriff of the Prince of New York when he retired to live with his Touchstone. After losing his dog to the very same Sheriff's arrogant childe, John Wick goes on a murder spree throughout his organization. Along the way, he stays at the local Elysium and trades on the favors he did for his Camarilla allies who are uninterested in the conflict.
 
Dusk Till Dawn was a cracking vampire series and actually better than the movie in my opinion.
 
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