Post by Dan @ 11:43am 09/10/12 | 4 Comments
Written by Eisendrath, Bad Company features the main characters from the game. It follows four renegade soldiers as they exit military life and enter the private sector. But trouble is never far behind as they realize their commanding officer had used them to further the ends of a shadow unit within the government and now wants them dead to cover his tracks. Eisendrath is executive producing with Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson and EA’s Patrick Bach and Patrick O’Brien.Given that the report doesn't explicitly indicate otherwise, we're presuming the series will be a live action comedic drama, as opposed to an animated series.
Part of EA’s Battlefield series, Battlefield: Bad Company, a single-player campaign that drops gamers behind enemy lines, was released in 2008 and spawned a sequel two years later. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised the story’s humor as well as the game’s technical aspects.
The games were quite obviously inspired by films like Three Kings, Kelly's Heroes, and The A-Team, but the game's characters Privates Marlowe, Sweetwater, Haggard and Sergeant Redford were well crafted and memorable in their own right, so it will be interesting to see how they make their transition to film.
Buy now from Green Man Gaming Only GBP£1.97!
Latest Comments
4 Comments
Show
Follow Us
Advertisement
Log In
Posted 02:38pm 09/10/12
It's the sort of thing they need to put on cable, or at least treat it like a cable series. Write a lot of it in advance, go off and film for many months, have good production design and action. Something like a Generation Kill or Band of Brothers style production. It needs to be done on a Cable TV model.
Posted 03:42pm 09/10/12
The producers are the bigger doubt IMO, has anyone here found anything Happy Madison has ever produced to be even above average?
Posted 03:59pm 09/10/12
Posted 01:09am 10/10/12
The thing is, you think, TERMINATOR the series how awesome! But then there's not lots of actions, it's all quite small compared to what it could be. In cities, suburbs warehouses ect.
For this you want big explosions, car chases, lots of elaborate fights, varied locations. You don't necessarily wan't it to just be Burn Notice crossed with Leverage and Chuck. You want bigger. Although those are/were all good shows for TV action and teams.
The best action series on all TV is the cable series Spartacus. What they are doing on that, especially the last season is insane for tv. The upcoming season looks to blow that out of the water. However it's shot like a movie 10 months in advance. It's also not comparable because it's period set and a lot of green screen. However it delivers big scale movie quality action in a TV format. You need that kind of commitment for this.
Just look at how varied the locations in BC2 was. How big the plot was. That on TV would be awesome!
Also this is Happy Middison. They don't have a good TV track record. They recently did Breaking In, which was an amusing enough first season. For the second season they retooled the show and it was god awful.
All said there's a strong chance I could quite like this show.