The wait may be over for Metroid fans who have longed to see their favorite intergalactic bounty hunter star in her own film. A team of talented actors and producers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Metroid: Enemies Within, a “10-minute live-action fan film based on Nintendo’s video game series Metroid.” Production credits include Emmy-nominated Christian Cardona in the director’s chair, and actress Rebecca Marshall, of the film Raze, in the role of Samus Aran. Disclaimers on the page reveal that the film lacks endorsement from Nintendo.
Although Enemies Within claims to be a short film project, the development of a feature-length film may hinge on its success, as one of the project’s two main goals is “to demonstrate the viability of Metroid as a film franchise.” The campaign features a two-minute video of detailed storyboards, and already boasts over $7500 of donations after being live for only four days. Donors are eligible to receive a Metroid T-shirt, a signed copy of the script, and other Metroid-themed collectibles. A generous donation of $10,000 or more will earn the fan Samus’s helmet and costume used in the film.
With an iconic outer space shot of Samus’s ship pictured on the site from the project’s effects test stills, Cardona and crew are sure to appeal to die-hard followers of the series. As quoted from Kickstarter:
“With the enormous talent and resources of the assembled creatives, we are confident that we can deliver an exciting proof-of-concept with production value on par with today’s top commercial films.”
Nintendo not involved?…
Count me out!
Wow, what a bitch
Yes because your opinions are the only ones that matters in this pathetic universe…
Go back to your Ukuku lover and get out of my face…
No, you just suck too much Nintendo dick.
I mean seriously? It’s a fucking fan film. Nintendo ain’t gona do shit with Metroid so why can’t someone else? A 10 minute fan film to perhaps prove that, 1. A Metroid film can be made, and 2. Metroid can actually have a fucking STORY, and good CHARACTERS that aren’t shat on and held back by dumb fucks who wana jack off to Samus like Sakamoto, and Nintendo who have absolutely no experience in writing good stories (you say Zelda, im gona punch your face). The only good writers Nintendo have are the guys who make Mario RPG games and Fire Emblem.
Yes because the Wii U has beeb out for 500 years and we still have no Metroid…
Impatient is what you and everybody else are…
And yet all everybody wants Nintendo to do is make a Metroid game that’s GOOD our last GOOD Metroid game was PRIME 3!! That was 7 fucking years ago!
I think we’ve waited enough.
Metroid Other M was a good game, the only thing that was bad was the portrayal of Samus…
No, shut the fuck up, it was garbage, ad it was a giant shit on the Metroid franchise and Samus as a character.
Fuck off.
I rest my case…
I just have to ask, TheDragon234. How did they wrongly portray Samus as a character?
They just choose to ignore all the canon already been established in previous games about Samus and put in that model everything that is not Samus.
Before that game, she was strong and independent
In other M she’s submissive, whiny and mindlessly follows order even though she’s a bounty hunter who works on her own, and not a soldier.
Reason why she loses all of her abilities in past Metroid games? Suit malfunctions
Reason why she loses her abilities in Other M? She has to wait until Adam gives her permission to use them. All of those undertones give a pretty bad vibe.
Gameplay wise, Other M wasn’t that bad, kinda fun even (safe for the point and click segments)…but storywise it was just plain awful
Yeah, I feel Carlos Hugo is right. Certain aspects of the Metroid series, whether Prime or not have been ignored, such as Samus’s portrayal or even the canonical storyline. I mean Adam knew how dangerous the Metroids were, eventually deciding to sacrifice himself believing he would destroy the last of them, only to help once again in Metroid propagation in Metroid Fusion, which takes place afterwards.
Go finds some friends and play metroid prime hunters you ninny
Six years ago actually if you know how to count backwards right. Genius.
Ok, so? Other M was still shite.
so what? your opinions are still shite.
you might think that game was bad, majority might say that game was bad. But a video game can never factually be classified as being good or bad because everyone has their own opinions. Even though most people might hate a game, there still might be people who love it. Don’t take this in the wrong way, but just thought I’d say that.
I personally didn’t have too much of an issue. In gameplay, I did dislike that you can only use the wii remote which made switching between first & third person a little awkward. As for the story I didn’t mind it much except for some parts of how Samus was portrayed. Could you explain what it was that you disliked?
I loved the action part of the game, specially in “Hero mode” which made the game even more fun…
Zelda
And then…sticker star happened…
A 10 minute extended fight scene will be cool to look at, but it does not demonstrate the viability of the franchise to making a feature film.
Metroid Other M was the only media that had a chance at that, and based on your and the general community at large’s opinions of it, it failed miserably.
Can you hang yourself? It would be great if you do.
i hope their project doesnt work
It won’t…
It will probably be shut down by High Command themselves…
Yeah, Nintendo don’t like it when smart idea’s happen. They want to shut down all good things!
If they listened to any of your suggestions, I bet they would fall faster than the speed of light…
that project is so friggin dumb, i hate kickstarter. they gather money to make a movie based off of a franchise they dont even own.. wtf are people expecting this is ridiculous…. nintendo better not endorse this rip off
Agreed…
Humans today are so lazy to come up with something original these days and only wants to make money base don other’s creations…
Why is it so bad that they want to make a fan film of Metroid? Just because it’s not an original idea doesn’t mean it’s going to be terrible, or that the people making it are lazy. That’s like saying Peter Jackson is lazy and unoriginal because he made Lord of the Rings into a film. Just because someone expands on something that they didn’t create doesn’t make them lazy and unoriginal. And I doubt they’re really making that much money off of it. I for one think it’s cool that someone wants to try and make a Metroid movie. At least it’s more creative than what you’re doing.
Because it’s Nintendo’s creation not theirs…
If they get approved by them then fine…
peter jackson is not only lazy, he butchered the story of lotr to make his movie work. tolkien’s books are far superior/original/creartive. I have to agree with the annoying fanboy that is nintendo commander here.
Pragmatism is not laziness. He actually managed to turn a bloated, self-indulgent and dull book series into something halfway entertaining.
that’s your opinion, I agree with smurf turf, the books were more entertaining and less slapped together.
While that may be your opinion of LOTR ( I personally love both the movies and the books) it doesn’t mean that someones interpretation of a story is stupid or lazy and doesn’t deserve a chance.
jackson didn’t expand tolkien’s work, he shrinked it down to fit the movie trilogy format…
So?
I’m pretty sure all of the acting, directing and dialogue will be original. They’d probably write their own scenario as well. So the only thing that would be unoriginal would be the setting characters, and even then they might write original characters.
What’s wrong with people wanting to make a movie based on something they love? Of course they’d need to finance it, film production is very far from cheap. Who’s to say they won’t just publish the film online for free after it’s done?
There is nothing wrong, I just gave my OWN opinion thaqt I don’t like it if Nintendo is not onboard with it…
But people here are so retarded that they don’t understand that everybody can have different opinions…
And so the likes of TheDragon246 whatever his name is just attacks me no matter what I say because he can’t accept other’s opinions other than his own…
If they get funded good for them but personally I don’t like most Fan Films out there, specially if the original creators are not included in the making process…
That Sonic Fan Film was horrible! I like the Megaman one though.
I don’t think I’ve seen the Sonic one…
The Megaman I doubt I’ve seen it aswell…
Really? Whatever bro. I think this is cool.
Have these people never heard of copyright laws?
I’m surprised High Command hasn’t already shut them down.
They only go by emotions and think that everything others do is wonderful until they see the final product and complain yet again…
woop another kickstarter
I foresee Nintendo shutting this down due to copyright issues.
Would be typical Nintendo. Flashbacks to the EVO SSBM tournament.
That was obviously a mistake, since it was reversed a few hours later.
Same goes for the Youtube woe which was reversed in weeks. And now their next fuck up is no story mode in Smash Bros. 4 BECAUSE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO UPLOAD OF NINTENDO GAMEPLAY ALONE.
Lets see if they can weasel out of that one.
There are no story in SSB4 because its a waste of fucking time.
So much opinions everywhere….
There is no story in SSB4 because it would need them to put effort into something.
Sakurai’s reasoning doesn’t make it any better.
Sakurai’s reasoning doesn’t make much sense, but while I thought the Subspace Emissary was fun and enjoyable, it was overall completely pointless and there was little to no reason for it to exist. There is no need for a story to exist behind Super Smash Bros. and it did fantastically either way with or without one. It’s so unnecessary and while the story was interesting, it doesn’t really provide anything extra (aside from a boss and enemies that could potentially just be tossed into another mode more sensibly).
Subspace Emissary really wasn’t too good…but at least they were trying something. There was noticeable effort behind the cutscenes and although the story was weak, it was still a step past the excuse plot (as in non-existant plot) the other two games had.
That’s one wasted potential with Smash Bros as a whole.
Wouldn’t you want characters to interact between each other?
Wouldn’t you want to hear what kind of things Samus and Megaman would say if they met?
Would it be a bad thing to have a reason for having all of those characters from different franchises in the same place, instead of just have them fight pointlessly?
A story adds depth and passion. Having one is a HUGE asset. The fact that they flat out give up on making one rather than than aiming to improve…and then the fact that a considerable percentage of the fanbase have absolutely zero problem with it baffles me to no end.
No, it wasn’t. It was okay enough for me to enjoy it, but not hugely great. And that is exactly why the fanbase is fine with it going away. Hardly anyone (even myself when I enjoyed it as an addition) thought it provided anything when added into the game.
The thing is that Super Smash Bros. isn’t a game built for story in the slightest. Nintendo builds their games around what the mechanics and the ideas behind how the games work are and what is Super Smash Bros.? All it has been ever since the very beginning was a pummeling party game that gathered loads of Nintendo characters together to bash each other and for friends to have fun over. It wasn’t meant to have a storyline that we ever got emotionally involved in or anything.
And honestly, if Nintendo decided to pull themselves together and fully flesh out the story mode then I can’t even remotely imagine them making it successful for numerous reasons (including original universe canon stories) and for the very fact of deep interaction, there would either have to be intense voiceacting and cutscenes (which clearly would not suit many of the games who have silent protagonists) or textboxes, which generally wouldn’t work either and would end up being a massive mess.
So to blatantly answer your question: No. I do not want to see the characters interacting on that level at all. It was cool to see how they interacted in the Subspace Emissary, but as you stated, that was poorly done and honestly I don’t see much room for improvement unless you’re looking into story and even that would be pretty hard to fix up.
Fair enough. I see what you’re trying to say and, although I can’t agree, I can see where you’re coming from.
However, and this is an issue I’m currently having with Nintendo as a whole, lately I’ve been getting the vibe that they’re trying to keep things way too safe and are afraid to evolve, lest their fans complain about the changes.
There is some appeal in their old school values, but video games have evolved from being just well…games. Hence why many are debating that they became a form of contemporary art.
Iwata recently claimed that he doesn’t feel his company is making art…and that left a rather bitter taste in my mouth.
You mentionned silent protagonists and voice acting. What I’d like to respond to that is that the reason why protagonists are often silent in video games (and even then, some still have a voice actor…look at the Persona series for example). But the reason they don’t talk is to make it easier for player to immerse and feel like it’s THEIR adventure.
But in a crossover game where there is technically no main character…that reason isn’t viable anymore.
Speaking of voice acting, I remember reading a review of Skyward Sword around last year complaining about the lack of voice acting. Back then, I felt that was dumb criticism and nitpicking…but eventually I began to agree. Now some might say it’s because they want to leave the characters’s voices to the player’s imagination…I think it’s just refusing to take risks.
Kid Icarus: Uprising and Fire Emblem: Awakening were both games with fine voice acting which added a lot of appeal to the games. Seeing that they managed to get big names for both of these games, I’m sure they could afford a great cast for a killer app like Zelda. And no, that wouldn’t mean Link would have any dialogue.
Then there’s the issue of storytelling and my main point really. I said it once and I’ll say it as many times as I need: I hated hated hated hated Paper Mario: Sticker Star. I could explain what I hated in the gameplay…
But it was precisely because they took one of the few Mario spin-off that was good at telling a story, and threw the plot out of the window. Going from a tragic story with legitimately threatening villains to….basically the same plot we see in 2D mario games (Not to mention removing Bowser’s awesome personality)…was not something I can ignore
In short, this is why I believe putting no plot in SSB4 is an objective step back, and another sign that Nintendo is afraid to try something new and rather insist to preserve their ideas from 20 years ago.
*preserve their ideals.
(I know there are more typos but…well they don’t change the meaning of the sentence)
It was a mistake to ban them, yes. Banning this movie would be a mistake to.
If nothing else, this should get Nintendo to think about that Metroid game that they should be releasing.
How about a new Metroid game…
Patience my friend…
We still have atleast 4 years left for the Wii U…
hhhmmm always thought this was just another sony game.
Lol^^^ try harder……….scumbag mother fucker with no life^^^
what was i even trying. what??
…..what does this even mean?
im just making fun of sony games for just being movies. noting really.
Oooooh, i see.
Well to be honest, Heavy Rain, Beyond are, and frankly The Last of Us might as well be a movie, seeing as that’s all it does well.
exactly….. whatever stupid nintendo fanboys on here give me shit for making fun of sony too.
The Last of Us does nothing to go against the comments George Lucas and Steven Speilburg made unfortunately.
There are some good examples that ruin their words though
Majoras Mask, Earthbound, some rpgs ect
It’s going to suck like most fan films
And you know that how?
experience
I agree with this guy. I ain’t never seen a good fan-made film in my life. Fan-made drama is always a narmfest, anyway. They should stick to five-minute comedy videos ripped off from The Big Bang Theory or whatever.
i hope nintendo shuts down this shit
Um yeah I see Nintendo shutting this down FAST.
Why? Gamers don’t care about Halo the TV show, what makes them think they care about this?
I loved when they brought Spielberg in the mix thinking they would appeal the their Xbot slaves watching that Halo series ahahahahaha…
It’s really sad that this is the Metroid we’re getting instead of a new fucking game….
Honestly, unless they give it to a studio that can actually MAKE a story, then it’ll still be the usual stuff we’ve gotten, amazing, but dated.
Why is everyone complaining about a new metroid game? The last one was in 2010, why not make a new f-zero? We haven’t got one since 2004
Because that’s all they like, if it wasn’t for Metroid I’m sure these so called “Nintendo fans” don’t even like Nintendo at all…
What a moron.
Feeling hit by that statement?…
Because you of all should…
No? Because you’re just an idiot fanboy. Go ask Nintenward if all i play on my 3DS and WiiU is Metroid.
Then stop crying!
We both know a new Metroid game will come eventually!
> Says only play Metroid, not a “real fan”.
> Proven completely wrong. “Durrrrr stop crying”
> I play all Nintendo games, still want a new Metroid.
FUCK OFF, YOU SPAZ.
Take that dick out your mouth and grow the fuck up, and realise that people might actually WANT A FUCKING GAME, not to mention, one of Nintendo’s best franchises, seeing as the last one we got was fucking SHIT.
Fuck you.
Go wash your mouth first…
Haven’t hung yourself yet? Shame.
Yes, yes, we know your kind. “Hurr I’m teh only original and true Nintendo fan durr”.
Go suck a cock pathetic piece of shit.
Says the retard that only knows insults…
But there are seriously some people who only care about Metroid lmao
No the last Metroid game was 2007.
That piece of shit from 2010 never existed.
Other M was a pile of fucking shit, I agree Dragon.
you’re stupid
Does the actress have a nice rack and abubble butt? otherwise what’s the point.
Another fan project with some generic title? Yeah, good luck with that.
If funded this can, and probably will, backfire. The writer/director of this project has won an Emmy for his special effects in several television shows.
What that means is he can make this film look amazing, but he probably can’t tell a good story or develop a character – especially in ten minutes.
All he will be doing is ruining the chances of a legitimate film rather than showing its viability.
As a filmmaker (who at this point has only developed short narrative films), I can attest to the difficulty of developing character in ten minutes. It’s hard, and special effects only get in the way.
Nintendo can’t shut the project down unless they prove he’s using Kickstarter funds for profit. That shouldn’t be too hard because $90,000 for ten minutes of footage is a blatant rip off! Feature films have been made for $90,000. Granted, they weren’t filled with special effects, but that’s kind of my point.
He is obviously paying himself as part of this deal, and calling the film “not-for-profit” because it will be thrown onto YouTube and not sold to a distributor.
His hopes lie in Nintendo seeing the fan love and hiring him to write and direct a feature, but that’s not how the business works. They’re more likely to hire someone who’s been vetted in Hollywood as a writer and a mega director to boot. This guy will be lucky if he can work on the SFX.
New Gamer challenger approaches!
Nintendo Commander is correct, these guys being fans or not are stealing a concept Nintendo has crafted for thirty years and blatantly using Shigeru Miyamoto’s genius Samus Aran to milk blind kickstarter funders. Let them seek nintendo’s approval and avoid a law suit. Maybe they too can create their own Intelligent property.
Good evening Gamer…
How are things today?…
As you can see, I’ve had a fun day…
Stop talking to yourself.
Go and drink yourself you obviously oblivious Xbot…
Human Xbots today, entirely retarded and unevolved…
So you think i’m an xbox fan just for saying that? Bro you need help. I ONLY PLAY ON NINTENDO and the only non-Nintendo console I own is a PS2, and well I guess a Genesis.
“Because that’s all they like, if it wasn’t for Metroid I’m sure these so called “Nintendo fans” don’t even like Nintendo at all…” after he said that, I started to think he was a dumbfuck.
At least i’m not the only one who thinks he’s an idiot.
Those who complain about there not being a Metroid don’t even like other Nintendo games when I see their posts…
So there is some solid claim to my statement…
Oh you mean those 2-3 Nintendo fans out of the 3O+ million other Nintendo fans Nintendo has? Hey, you’re not stupid at all, but you should really think before you type. You shouldn’t call everyone an “Xbot” (Or whatever else you call people in your little silly war) because they said something you don’t like.
I only call Xbots to those who attacks me first or who insults Nintendo for stupid reasons so I don’t call anybody an Xbot…
Then how about you stop insulting me first and who are you anyway?…
HANG YOURSELF ALREADY.
No need to be harsh on the kid.
Miyamoto never had anything to do with the Metroid series…
I think I sent this in…. But I want a new Metroid! Nintendo is strict with their IPs aren’t they?
Looks cool, but not worth the money for a 10 minute short.
Personally, I’m plain curious why everyone here on MNN is so eager to see it fall apart rather than see this project succeed. I’m wondering why there’s so much rage and hatred towards the idea of letting fans create a short film based on Metroid.
One reason why I’m so curious is because of Synthetic PictureHaus, the YouTube channel that had made not just one but -two- short fan films for the Portal series (one being a documentary for Aperture Science and the other being a film on Doug Rattman) even with additional videos advertising the films long before they came out. And both of these as well as most of the rest of their incredible content received a great deal of recognition from all over the internet and got amazing praise for being so wonderful even if they weren’t sponsored or anything of a sort by Valve (who did -later- provide links and such to the videos telling about how amazing they were themselves).
Another reason why I’m so puzzled about all this anger is why people are even remotely bringing up the Metroid games and how they haven’t had any ‘good’ ones in so long (note that what the last game that was good all relies entirely on a person’s opinion so saying Other M was horrible is not valid in this at all [I furthermore haven’t played any Metroid games outside the first Metroid Prime, though I think they’re most likely almost all fantastic])and whatever that has at all to do with this. Because I honestly see absolutely no relation. This is intended to be fans’ work that will be handed out completely for free through YouTube from what I’ve been reading so far and has absolutely nothing to do with how long its been since the last game or how long it will be till the next one (and honestly, just be patient; the next game will come out when it comes).
Furthermore, I’m failing to see how the lack of Nintendo’s endorsement has a single relation to why people should or should not support this project. The last Nintendo-endorsed film that I know of was the Mario Bros. movie and that was horrible, though I don’t believe that is a standard for all game-based movies or any such thing. Additionally, what the hell does Nintendo endorsing a project have anything to do with supporting it in the first place? Might as well not support any artist who creates fan artwork based on a game, movie, or any bit if intellectual property of another’s since that makes so much sense, which would pretty much strike down a huge percentage of artists that hang around everywhere on the internet and would make absolutely no sense.
Furthermore, by that ideal, why should anyone have ever supported Zelda Re-Orchestrated, who provided the fans and the world with Twilight Symphony, the album inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess? Their work had been going on for -years- before they stepped up to the actual symphony and when they started planning their work for the symphony, it wasn’t until very, very far into the project that they ever got endorsed by Nintendo to make the project or were allowed to license Twilight Symphony to ever remotely make a profit. Their main and biggest goal out of the symphony was to set up a whole bunch of work for the fans of the series to listen to and enjoy and help set themselves up in the musical business so that could actually work professionally.
And to say that 90,000 is way too much money for a short film esp. if that’s being donated, you’d be incredibly surprised how wrong that may be, especially if they are intending to go all out and make it as best as they possibly ever could. The entirety of the Twilight Symphony, which was around 3.5 hours long, costed an incredible amount of money, and Z.R.E.O. had opted out of getting any money except for their usual donations and a single KickStarter project. That project was set up for 18,000 dollars (they got about 24,000 in the end) and was in fact for only a -fraction- of their project’s entirety: The choir. And this was including professional choirs used for movies and with other high up music professionals in the Hollywood and music industries. So if this project is in fact intended to go all the way, then I see no valid argument at all behind this project costing so much and it being intended to act as a way for the person who set it up to earn money as I’ve seen suggested.
“Feature films have been made for $90,000. Granted, they weren’t filled with special effects, but that’s kind of my point.” was one of those arguments. But the problem with that argument is that Metroid would require all sorts of special effects all over the place. It is about all sorts of monsters, a bounty hunter, and space pirates in an extremely futuristic sort of view so the idea that special effects wouldn’t play a part in this work makes absolutely no sense.
So, considering all of this and looking at all previous examples (Portal and Twilight Symphony and even more looking further out if you want), I’m curious. What exactly is it about this project that makes the people here want it to fail or so angry? Nintendo endorsement and affiliation clearly has no part or play in what makes or breaks a project aside from the idea that they have the power to shut it down, the amount of money they’re asking for surely has no part in it since Zelda Re-Orchestrated needed 18,000 just for the choir of their project and even if it’s just around ten minutes this is already way more than just the music. So what is it?
Sparknotes version please.
That’s considerably lazy to not read what I wrote, but if you really absolutely need a ‘tl;dr’ version:
Zelda Re-Orchestrated produced Twilight Symphony without initial endorsement by Nintendo and their KickStarter of 18,000 only covered the choir used in their project. Synthetic PictureHaus, which produced loads of Portal short film content without endorsement also produced incredible amounts of amazing fan-made content that was only later recognized by the creators of the games.
Endorsement is nice, but doesn’t mean the content is absolutely going to be good or bad (Mario Bros. movie and fan works). And if the idea that it’s not their original idea and thus they can’t work on it is the reasoning, that’s pretty much saying fan artwork in general just doesn’t compute if it isn’t endorsed, which doesn’t make any sense.
Additionally, what does this project even have to do with how good or bad the last Metroid game was (which all goes under opinion), when it came out, and when the next might come out? So I’m merely wondering why so many people are hoping that this project fails or are so angry about it.
I dont mind the effort to put this together but the idea of people putting money on this when they dont even own the IP and they are not endorsed by the owners either seems a bit eeehh risky? i dunno.
I don’t know if I could agree with that. Zelda Re-Orchestrated never owned any rights to Zelda and had never been endorsed (nor had Synthetic PictureHaus for Portal) and yet each of their works were fanastic successes.
:D
Yeah if Nintendo is not involved, then The movie would probably not turn out good.
too many angry comments. It’s like the legend of zelda movie rumor all over again. *Turns around, walks off* Anyways, I’m not going to say a thing besides the fact that the actors may have rights and we don’t know a thing about it. I’d say, let them and see.
Yeah, I don’t understand the anger or sense behind it all at all. We don’t even know much behind what’s going on with them besides what they’ve provided on the KickStarter. Don’t know why people aren’t even giving a chance. :/
The only thing I said first of all was that if Nintendo is not involved in this project, I don’t want it but if it gets approved by them then sure…
Then they start attacking me for my own opinions…
That’s how retarded some people are in here and mos tof them appears to suffer from Tourettes…
Who cares if it’s not endorsed? It’s not like they’re claiming Metroid as their own.
Forget this trash. Support something that deserves to be supported http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/617502838/shadow-of-the-eternals-0
http://www.gofundme.com/bloodraynereboot