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(re: KING’S QUEST MOVIE) Hello Mr, Mrs. Williams, I am writing to you as a fan of the King’s Quest games. They had a tremendous impact on me over the years and lately i am studying to become a film director in Australia and have wondered about writing a King’s Quest screenplay for a movie that perhaps some day be able to make. I was wondering what you thought about that, is it a good idea, do you object, any thoughts etc. I would be honoured if you relayed your opinions.
Thanks for your time!
AJD
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(re: re: KING’S QUEST MOVIE) Hello Mr, Mrs. Williams, I am writing to you as a fan of the King’s Quest games. They had a tremendous impact on me over the years and lately i am studying to become a film director in Australia and have wondered about writing a King’s Quest screenplay for a movie that perhaps some day be able to make. I was wondering what you thought about that, is it a good idea, do you object, any thoughts etc. I would be honoured if you relayed your opinions.
Sorry to be late responding…
There is a huge potential market for anything Kings Quest related. Kings Quest targets the same demographic as Harry Potter, and was always Sierra’s top selling product (until Kings Quest 8, which was the only Kings Quest game that Roberta was not responsible for).
That said, I would doubt that Sierra would ever allow you to do a film. I tried for 10 years to buy the film rights to Leisure-Suit Larry, and could never get them.
Good luck!
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(Rights to Quest for Glory Series)
Dear Ken and Roberta,
I can’t say how great it is to be able to finally have a chance to tell you how much of an impact your games have had on my life, not only as a gamer, but just as a person. I literally grew up on Sierra Online games. The first games I ever purchased were Conquest of Camelot and Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire for $15.00 of my own hard earned cash, earned by mowing lawns when I was 11 years old back in 1990. Now I am 24 years old, I have a degree in Film Making from the University of Maryland, and QFG II is still my favorite adventure game ever. I played all the Quest Series Games, and I still remember the surge of excitement I felt the first time I would install a new Sierra game onto my parents PC.
Anyway, I have thought for years that the original Hero’s Quest would make a great movie, and I was wondering who owned the rights to that material, if it was you guys or Vivendi Universal, the Two Guys from Andromeda or the Wizards at W.I.T. Any info you guys could send along the way would be great. Once again, thank you for all the years of solid gaming excitement.
Adam
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(re: Rights to Quest for Glory Series) Anyway, I have thought for years that the original Hero’s Quest would make a great movie, and I was wondering who owned the rights to that material, if it was you guys or Vivendi Universal, the Two Guys from Andromeda or the Wizards at W.I.T. Any info you guys could send along the way would be great. Once again, thank you for all the years of solid gaming excitement.
My belief is that Vivendi holds the rights to Hero’s Quest.
We had problems with the name Hero’s Quest, and had to change the name. I forget who it was, but a board game company went after us saying that we were infringing the trademark for their boardgame, so we renamed the series to Quest For Glory.
I am convinced that had we left the name as Hero’s Quest it would have sold twice as well.
Thank you!
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(re: Leisure Suite Larry film)
Speaking of Sierra franchises and movies, does anyone else feel like Colin Mockrie (from Who’s Line is it Anyway) would be the perfect fit for a Leisure Suit Larry film? Since the first time I saw him, I though: That guy IS Larry Laffer!
Just a random thought for all of you.
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(Sierra Intellectual Properties)
It’s great to see that people are excited about the idea of making films in the Sierra worlds. I too am getting into filmmaking, and the idea of making a movie revolving around the story and characters of King’s Quest 3, and numerous other games is really exciting.
Perhaps as the fans get older, and move into positions of opportunity as filmmakers, such films may be made, and hopefully made well!
Of course, it would be fantastic just to see more games made that live up to the great values and inspiration that grew out of the original games.
Here’s hoping!
The Sierra games were certainly the inspiration for my working towards a position in the computer game industry. I’ve been working in the industry for 3 years now, and I can see why it is so difficult to create truly great games, both because of the difficulty of such a task on it’s own, and then the added difficulties of the business and marketing things that come afterwards.
A big thank you and congratulations must go out to Sierra for their amazing achievements through the 80’s and 90’s.
– Murray Lorden
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(re: Sierra Intellectual Properties)
Amen to that! The only media I’ve discovered that can be done at a small scale is comics. To go national with it isn’t that hard. Sierra did have a Roger Wilco comic by Adventure Publishing.
The most trouble with publishing a form of media is the video game. So much corporate baloney rules the scene now. Very few unique or fun games are created today, mostly from Nintendo, Sega, Namco, and EA. Maybe it’s me, but I’m sick of Wolfenstein 3d clones that have been made in the last 12 years.
If anybody ever gets a chance, ask Al Lowe about how sound was impossible to do on older computers, and how Sierra found a way to do it!
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It’s been almost a year since anything’s been posted here. I just recently sent a message to Ken asking the very question that has been discussed on here. I’m hoping someday to make Quest for Glory and Space Quest into films. It seems, according to Ken, that Space Quest would be incredibly hard to get done. I used to have connections at Vivendi, but have since lost them. I’m still in film school, but I’m working on several projects with Sony Studios that may or may not fly. We’ll see. I gathered e-mails from the ‘filmmakers’ who made comments here and will be contacting you. Maybe someday we WILL get something going.
-Aaron
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Owen Wilson would be an interesting pick, but I’d go with Jeff Daniels. Owen Wilson is just too goofy for my tastes and his movies seem to be about him, Owen Wilson… and not so much about anything else. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a funny guy, but he’s pretty much the same guy in all his movies. Jeff Daniels gets my nod.
— Cody
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I always thought it would have been neat to take all of the video footage from Phantasmagoria, and make a move that’s just basically a “Walk-Thru” of the game. I actually tried this once, pointing a videocamera at the computer screen and starting/stopping the tape after each motion. After about 3 1/2 hours of “footage” I was still in Chapter Four, so I gave up the “project” hehe.
That did get me wondering though… if you did take an adventure game like King’s Quest 6, Gabriel Knight or something equally as “vast and encompassing” and made a movie that was just the walkthru of the game from start to finish, how long would it be? My guess is well over anything anyone would want to sit through without an intermission. 🙂
Tom.
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Oh, man! Come on! Bruce Campbell for sure!
Bruce Campbell is a legend of B-Grade gold (Evil Dead 1, 2, 3).
And Space Quest really plays into that style, only B-Grade Sci-Fi, rather than horror.
I think Bruce would be perfect. 🙂 Get Sam Raimi directing, and you’ve got a masterpiece!
– Murray
PS – Aaron, that’s a nice camera you’ve got there!
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I was thinking, and you know what would be a GREAT movie (if done correctly)? A Laura Bow movie! Hell, it could be scary, a great mystery, and with the trend of thrillers lately, it would do great! As long as a good screenplay is written (hopefuly under Roberta’s watchful eye, to make sure her heroine is completly devolped and shown as Roberta dreamt her up as) and tons of mysterious and thrilling things are added, I would love this movie. Ken, do you think THIS would ever happen?
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“… (by raasugar@aol.com ) I was thinking, and you know what would be a GREAT movie (if done correctly)? A Laura Bow movie! Hell, it could be scary, a great mystery, and with the trend of thrillers lately, it would do great! As long as a good screenplay is written (hopefuly under Roberta’s watchful eye, to make sure her heroine is completly devolped and shown as Roberta dreamt her up as) and tons of mysterious and thrilling things are added, I would love this movie. Ken, do you think THIS would ever happen?…”Certainly, I would like to see it happen – but, I have no idea how possible it would be. I don’t know who (if anyone) is running Sierra these days, or what he/she might be thinking.
I remember a few years back going to see “Galaxy Quest”, and “Deuce Bigalow”, on the same day. A few minutes into Galaxy Quest, I became convinced that whoever made it must have been a Space Quest fan. Then when I saw Deuce Bigalow, I thought “It’s Larry!” There is certainly a possibility that neither movie had anything to do with our games, but coming as they did at the same time, and just the right amount of time after we were on top of the charts with our games, I couldn’t help thinking it…
I was a little disappointed, because I had (and continue to) been trying to buy the rights to Larry as a film, and I was worried that a Larry script might now be seen as a Deuce Bigalow rip off. But other than this, I thought they were fun films, and was happy to see the characters living on.
-Ken W
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I understand your concern about people thinking Larry as a Deuce rip-off, but Larry’s a sleezy bar hopper (well, sometimes, atleast) and Deuce poses as a gigalo. And loyal fans (there are so many!) will know the difference, and they will definetly flock to see it.
But I honestly love Laura with all my heart and soul…seeing her on the big screen would be awesome…
Or hey, maybe a Laura/Larry movie!
“In The Land of the Dagger of Amon Ra in Pursuit of the Pulsating Colonel’s Bequest”
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-Ken W
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Funny you should mention that, Ken. I was working at Sony Studios last summer, and the producer that I was assisting was interested in getting the rights to ‘Larry’. He had gone to the E3 convention and was trying to get Vivendi to sell it to him. They weren’t biting, though.
-Aaron
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I’d love a Laura Bow movie. Suspense. Murder. Oh, that would be fun.
I have a computer game called Sim Cinema, where you make movies and release them and see if they are sucseful, etc. So far, I have made these movies in the Laura Bow Series:
Laura Bow: The Colonel’s Bequest (Budget: $99mil) Gross: $133 mil
Laura Bow: The Dagger Amon-Ra (Budget: $100mil) Gross: $199mil
Laura Bow: Night of the Opera (Budget: $108mil) Gross: $115mil
Laura Bow: The Tower of London (Budget: $110mil) Gross: $121milThey’re are all succesful! I’m going to make more. But in each of them, Steven Spielberg directs and Rachel McAdams plays Laura. I would just love the idea of a Laura Bow movie.
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Lol I wish. It’s not actual video (though I love to make movies), it’s sort of…well, here’s how it works:
You Make A Production Company
You Press “New” (For new movie)
You Write the title, pick the genre, if it’s an animated movie, or if its an epic (anim. and epic are optional, you dont always have to press them).
And if you want, you can write a description, though it doesnt affect anything
Then, you ask major studios, some reject you, some offer you a budget.
Pick one, then get the Director, Actor, Actress, Composer, Effects House, Sound Mix, and your ready.
Make a tagline, buy some advertising, (TV, Trailer, Magazine ad, poster)
Then pass by the weeks. When it’s done filming, yoou release it and see how it does in the box office, and if its succesful or not.Its a fun game. If you have a mac and want to play it, which i highly reccomend, go to download.com.
(Oh yeah, come to think of it, Rachel McAdams WOULD make a really good Laura Bow. She has the same colored wavy hair, which can really be seen more in Amon-Ra (the cover) and really does just look like Laura. Not very strongly, but they both have the same features.
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[quote] (by raasugar@aol.com ) Lol I wish. It’s not actual video (though I love to make movies),
What kind of movies have you made? Check out my website: http://ak47.talkspot.com
If you have any to show, I’d love to see them.
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I’ve also always felt that a Sierra Movie would’ve been great. Growing up with these games, I’ve seen MANY movies that I felt touched on the Sierra Universe, and couldn’t help but feel that some of these movies were inspired by some of Sierra’s older games.
For Example:
“Shrek” always makes me think about the King’s Quest Universe.
“Galaxy Quest”, anyone? I GUARANTEE that SOMEONE behind that movie had played Space Quest. I mean, COME ON!
“40 Year Old Virgin” is my current favorite for Leisure Suit Larry, but really ANY down on his luck, loser-ish character wanting to “get some”, reminds me of Larry and his plights.
Many other parallels, as well.
$.02
DJ
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