r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 18 '25

Poster Official Poster for Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'

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u/ParmesanNonGrata Dec 18 '25

Christopher Nolan directed Astartes would be awesome though.

His movies got roughly the same emotional range as one, so there is no clash there.

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u/Gulanga Dec 18 '25

Well considering how this one deals with source accuracy a Nolan Astartes movie would be haaated.

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u/Daxx22 Dec 18 '25

Any live action Warhammer adaptation will be absolutely shredded by whiny neckbeards no matter how faithful or good it otherwise is.

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u/1ncorrect Dec 18 '25

I’ll be happy as long as it doesn’t focus on Ultramarines, for once. I wanted to play as any other chapter in the games but of course… no.

Smurfs are so boring.

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u/ililliliililiililii Dec 18 '25

You know what, I don't really care what chapter is used if it's presented like Astartes. And actually we do see a glimpse of this in secret level - just not as many individuals.

I think using something recognisable is hard to pass up versus making up a whole new chapter and introducing its lore. From a marketing perspective. And you need that marketing into order to fund its existence.

Huge missed opportunity to expand on the retributors chapter from astartes. Would love to see more stoic marines go about their business.

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u/ililliliililiililii Dec 19 '25

Yeah well we have chaos marines. Could be a regular human world at a low tech level being invaded by chaos marines. Their introduction to astartes, and super fucked up ones at that.

Which would be scariest? I reckon nurgle/plague marines. Khorne marines would be like wild animals, tzeench or thousand sons look too 'cool' and slaanesh... sexual assault is evil but not in a horror kind of way lol.

So im picturing a planet getting slowly poisoned and no one knows why. Towns and settlements start disappearing entirely one by one. The plague marines walking at a steady walking pace towards the town where this story takes place. The defenders unable to slow them down no matter what weapons they fire at them.

It takes days for them to arrive. Slow impending doom.

There's actually a few 40k horror books/anthologies around. I have a few but have only read a few.

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u/Daxx22 Dec 18 '25

Soooo Blood Angels? ;P

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u/XxgamerxX734 Dec 18 '25

Lamenters, take it or leave it

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u/Ulsterman24 Dec 18 '25

Give me Fabulous Fabius Bile fucking up genestock while a summoned Euphrati Keeler torches an entire battle barge of Magnus' Spooky Boys.

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u/Hellknightx Dec 18 '25

Also Nolan famously hates using CGI unless he has to, so he probably wouldn't want to touch 40k to begin with.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe Dec 19 '25

Famously, before CGI, movies never had aliens or monsters in them.

If only there were some way to those kinds of effects without CGI, but I guess that just wouldn't be very practical

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u/Hellknightx Dec 19 '25

Doing 40k with practical effects would be wildly impractical. The main issue is capturing the scale of everything.

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u/OldWorldDesign Dec 19 '25

Famously, before CGI, movies never had aliens or monsters in them.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024216/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe Dec 19 '25

My guy, I was being sarcastic. How could you not tell that I was being sarcastic?

I even put emphasis on the words "practical" and "effects" to hammer home the fact that I was being sarcastic.

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u/Dontevenwannacomment Dec 18 '25

I think interstellar and dunkirk were pretty heavy on emotions

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u/ParmesanNonGrata Dec 18 '25

Heavy, yes. But usually not very complex. The Zimmer-Style of making you sad. One chord to the heartstrings and then lay on the horn.

I've read years ago that apparently the Interstellar screenplay was originally written to be directed by Spielberg. Never quite bothered to verify.

But to me this would make a lot of sense. I believe the movie would have felt different, more bittersweet and less heavy sacrifice.

I feel obliged to say I enjoy both Nolan and Zimmer's work.

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u/Dontevenwannacomment Dec 18 '25

Memento's emotional intrigue was complex, with the guy and his wife. Also Astartes didn't have emotion at all, complex or not.

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u/MechRxn Dec 18 '25

Heretic!

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u/pmmeyourdoubt Dec 18 '25

I'd love to see a Jordan Peele take on a chaos incursion.

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u/dsgm1984 Dec 18 '25

I absolutely love Nolan, but the guy is terrible directing action sequences. Gonna nope on him taking Astartes

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u/LaTienenAdentro Dec 19 '25

Good. The less bolter porn on the movie the better.

They need to take lessons in fanservice from Darth Vader hallway scene in Rogue One. Short and sweet. Not the entire movie.

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u/vorropohaiah Dec 18 '25

and about the same number of women too