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FF7 Advent Children Movie Trailers, Rumors 53

Posted by CowboyNeal from the video-games-on-the-big-screen dept.
Wingchild writes "I noticed that the trailers for the new Final Fantasy 7 movie are online at Square-Enix (Squeenix?)'s website, an event as yet unmentioned on Slashdot. Available elsewhere are trailer screenshots and plotline theory. The release will be straight to DVD (Square might still be smarting after the unspectacular performance of The Spirits Within), but it'll still be neat to see what Squeenix is capable of on the ever-moving CG front." S!: The AdventChildren.net fansite also has details of an interview with Tetsuya Nomura, pointing out "the movie [or a new trailer] will be shown in some form at this year's E3", and noting that the past rumor that "the movie will be playable on the PS2 only" has not yet been quashed, although it hasn't been confirmed either.
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  • PS2 Only? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by orion024 ( 694922 ) on Friday March 05, 2004 @05:50PM (#8479517)
    and noting that the past rumor that "the movie will be playable on the PS2 only" has not yet been quashed, although it hasn't been confirmed either.
    I'm not well versed in Sony and Sqaure's relationship... but it would seem that to limit the movie to PS2 would severely limit audience from which Square could draw on for sales (unless of course Sony was paying out the ying-yang for sole rights). Of course, it's only a rumor, but one I hope for the sake of those who don't have a PS2, as well for Square, is proven false.

    • Re:PS2 Only? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by incubusnb ( 621572 )
      every source i've seen about this game says its in DVD Format, DVD Format isn't exclusive to the PS2.

      as a matter of fact if i can't play this on my DVD Player which is hooked up to my 53" Flatscreen (read: My Dads 53" Flatscreen) i will be pissed and will Boycott any future Movie attempt by Square.

      i may have a PS2, but that doesn't mean i want to move it everytime i want to watch this movie on the Bigscreen

    • Re:PS2 Only? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by May Kasahara ( 606310 )
      I don't know about that... think of all the marketing and such that took place when the original Final Fantasy VII sold out. There were a lot of PlayStations that were sold back then just because of that one game. And that's not to mention all the other Final Fantasy games exclusive to Sony consoles that have come afterwards.

      With the fan base for the game firmly entrenched in Sony hardware, I really don't see why exclusivity would be a major issue. Wouldn't the vast majority of people who are interested i

      • Re:PS2 Only? (Score:3, Insightful)

        by tekunokurato ( 531385 )
        That was very different, in my opinion. That was a point at which the undisputably best game company around released a completely ground-breaking game on THE next-generation system and simultaneously announced that they would no longer be deving for nintendo. This? Sure, they've got an installed base of 40 million households in the US alone, but that doesn't mean everyone only wants to watch the dvd on those systems (which everyone who owns one knows have shitty quality!).

        I'm not saying it's impossible --

  • Ah, FF7 (Score:2, Insightful)

    by XellDx ( 737289 )
    Do you hear that? Its the sound of Squaresoft cashing in on one of their most profitable games ever.

    Not that I don't blame them. I'm titilated at the prospect of entirely new content for that particular game's story, I wish instead that they'd gone ahead with the rumored PS2 remakes [gamers.com] that where cancelled. At least I wish that had remade 7. With a better story.

    Or something.

    • Re:Ah, FF7 (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Pluvius ( 734915 )
      You forgot to mention that FF7 is the one Final Fantasy that should never, ever get a sequel. It completely ruins the already weak ending of the game.

      Rob
      • Actually, the reason the ending is "weak", is that the ending is too cute for it's own good.

        Meaning that it leaves with just as many mysteries than it comes in with.

      • Re:Ah, FF7 (Score:3, Insightful)

        by May Kasahara ( 606310 )
        But at the same time, so many fans have been clamoring for years for a sequel to be made (I'm not one of them; I wanted the remake ^_~). Square has been avoiding doing so for just as long... so you can't blame all of this on the company, really.

        Look on the bright side-- with all the renewed focus on FF7, lots of shiny new collectables have been coming out. And DigiCube finally got off their ass and released a FF7 Piano Collections :D

        • Square has been avoiding doing so for just as long... so you can't blame all of this on the company, really.

          I can blame Square for listening to its hardcore fans, yes. Remember what happened last time they did that? FF9.

          Rob
          • Remember what happened last time they did that? FF9.

            as opposed to FF8, where they try to recapture the profitabilitymagic of FF7 with twice as much angst and 4 times the side quests?

            FF9 was a breath of fresh back-to-basics-air after FF8
            • If you think 8 was based on profitablity and side quests then you never played Kingdom Hearts. Or anything released by Enix in the last 4 years. Or any survival horror game.
            • as opposed to FF8

              FF8, being just behind FF7 as the best Final Fantasy. So yes, I would say "as opposed to FF8."

              Rob

  • This should be easy. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Sylver Dragon ( 445237 ) on Friday March 05, 2004 @06:01PM (#8479648) Journal
    So basically, what they are doing is just re-releasing FF7, without all the annoying bits where you have to fiddle with the controller.
    Ok, its a cheap shot, but was FF7 much more than an interactive movie to begin with? Seems that this is just a logical progression. Take the most successful itteration of the series, improve the graphics and take the last drops of "game" out of it.

    • So basically, what they are doing is just re-releasing FF7, without all the annoying bits where you have to fiddle with the controller.

      They already did that [imdb.com]. Didn't you get the memo?

      Rob
      • Yup, saw it, actually liked it, best Final Fantasy in a long time. But it sounds like they are being even more direct this time, but just taking one of thier interactive movies for a game console and takeing the interactive part out of it.

        • But it sounds like they are being even more direct this time, but just taking one of thier interactive movies for a game console and takeing the interactive part out of it.

          They already did that [imdb.com]. Didn't you get the memo?

          Rob (See, what I'm trying to say here is that TSW was already a remake of FF7)

          • Why? Because it has to do with the gaea, i.e. lifestream. The guy who wrote the story to FF VII also wrote the story to TSW. You have the same mind behind both.

            Most creative people find a niche, like Spielberg. He does WW2 movies mostly, because thats his thing, thats what he's into. No one ever says, "Great, one more WW2 movie from Spielberg." Instead it usually gets an applause. So whats the difference between the cat using his gaea ideas in several different creative pieces and Spielberg?

            • Why? Because it has to do with the gaea, i.e. lifestream.

              That's probably the main rehash, but there are others.

              Most creative people find a niche, like Spielberg. He does WW2 movies mostly, because thats his thing, thats what he's into. No one ever says, "Great, one more WW2 movie from Spielberg." Instead it usually gets an applause. So whats the difference between the cat using his gaea ideas in several different creative pieces and Spielberg?

              I'm not sure where you got the idea that there was anything

  • Link to AVI trailer (Score:4, Informative)

    by Newtonian_p ( 412461 ) on Friday March 05, 2004 @06:09PM (#8479720) Homepage
    That flash-video thing sucks, a link to an AVI of the trailer. [enixsquared.com]

  • You guys are so negative (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 05, 2004 @06:15PM (#8479796)
    I see this as an apology for "The Spirits Within." This is pretty much what everyone wanted when they first heard Square was making a feature movie. Instead, we got this weird sci-fi trip that only relates to Final Fantasy if you look at the philosophical roots.

    So, finally they are making the 'REAL' final fantasy movie. Fancy swordfights, magic, etc.

    I've watched one trailer so far, and it's really dark, and pretty much 'black and white.' I hope that's not what the movie ends up as.

    They need to run the whole gamut. Bright colors, happiness, flying machines, forests, chocobos, maybe even a small section with that crazy gambling joint. They need to have a bunch of the characters from the game, (although hopefully only a came from that cat riding the pink marshmallow thing.)

    Don't be afraid to make a movie out of the game...(instead of just a movie with the same name as the game.)

    • Re:You guys are so negative (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Pluvius ( 734915 ) <pluvius3NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday March 05, 2004 @06:22PM (#8479878) Journal
      This is pretty much what everyone wanted when they first heard Square was making a feature movie. Instead, we got this weird sci-fi trip that only relates to Final Fantasy if you look at the philosophical roots.

      The funny thing is that every entry in the Final Fantasy franchise only relates to Final Fantasy if you look at the philosophical roots.

      Rob (Anyone who thinks that TSW wasn't a proper FF movie doesn't know what he's talking about)
    • "although hopefully only a came from that cat riding the pink marshmallow thing"

      First of all, have you played the FFVII?

      "I've watched one trailer so far, and it's really dark, and pretty much 'black and white.' I hope that's not what the movie ends up as."

      You must have had watched a flawed video or you are colorblind, because from what I have seen it is not just black and white.

      Since, at the end of VII, the world that was left was pretty grim and all, somehow I doubt there will be much happine
      • you must not have enough time on your hands :) last time i beat FFVII, if you watch through the credits, you see a shot of Red XIII with 2 little fluffy-lion things (although supposedly he was supposed to be the last of his kind...but...*shrug*

    • Re:You guys are so negative (Score:5, Insightful)

      by CashCarSTAR ( 548853 ) on Friday March 05, 2004 @06:41PM (#8480131)
      *Ahem*

      I don't get the venom aimed at The Spirits Within..a lot of people say it doesn't fit in to the Final Fantasy canon (it does).

      The movie, on its face is one of the best sci-fi movies to hit the screen in a long time. The amount of detail given to the world they created is insane.

      As well, people complain that it's "not Final Fantasy"..well..it is..it just happens to be kind of our "Final Fantasy". It takes place in the US, of course. And it happens in the future, which fits for doing that.

      Anyway, enough ranting on that :p
    • I see this as an apology for "The Spirits Within." This is pretty much what everyone wanted when they first heard Square was making a feature movie. Instead, we got this weird sci-fi trip that only relates to Final Fantasy if you look at the philosophical roots.

      Maybe that's why I liked The Spirits Within, I've never even seen an FF game. But I was interested in the CGI and the production quality as much as the story line. I think if I was an actor, I'd be concerned about the advances in CGI and the power
  • Is Ben Affleck starring in this one, too?

  • Well thank god. (Score:1, Insightful)

    by JonBovi ( 599577 )
    I'm definitely not a FF7 fanboy, but at least basing a film on the most popular FF episode makes *sense*, compared to wasting the brand name on a truly horrid piece of sci-fi drek that made Space Mutiny look like Star Wars.

    Of course, pointing a camcorder at a pc playing Duke Nukem 3D would have made a better movie than FF: The Spirits Within...

  • wtf (Score:1, Redundant)

    by IshanCaspian ( 625325 )
    Did anyone else have ABSOLUTELY no idea what that guy in the trailer was talking about? Something about a keesanai dayshoe.
    • If I'm not mistaken, Daisho is the Japanese expression for the combination of a traditional long (Daito) and short (Tanto) sword. It's generally regarded as an expression for something being 'well equipped', having the right combination of things required to perform a task, something along those lines (Disclaimer: IANAJAL/T (I Am Not A Japanese Linguist/Translator)).

      Kisan means something like beginning to count, beginning to number something.
      Of course, there can be a number of different meanings to this
    • go here [rpguru.com] for a translated version of the trailer. You'll need a bittorrent client.

  • Hell Yes (Score:3, Insightful)

    by FueledByRamen ( 581784 ) * <sabretooth@gmail.com> on Friday March 05, 2004 @08:08PM (#8480906)
    Best Final Fantasy game, meet proper 3d rendered graphics. I'll take eight! I hope they don't decide to do something stupid, like drop a character (Cid and Nanaki/Red XIII come to mind), and/or some major chunk of the plot. I see that Vincent is included, which is cool. I guess that all I can do is wait and see what it's like when it's released...

  • Also on Adventchildren.net... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by May Kasahara ( 606310 ) on Friday March 05, 2004 @10:00PM (#8481569) Journal
    ...is the even cooler trailer [adventchildren.net] from FFX-2 International + Last Mission. Just to warn you now: you're going to need an up-to-date DivX [divx.com] codec to be able to play it.

  • OK, people... (Score:4, Informative)

    by josh glaser ( 748297 ) on Friday March 05, 2004 @10:58PM (#8481903)
    ...it seems like a lot of you are either a bit mistaken or have no clue what your talking about, but here's the scoop on Advent Children:

    It is NOT a film version of the game. They're not taking the game and removing the gameplay bits (though a movie retelling of FFVII's story would still be worth seeing), they're making a movie sequel to the game. It is an entirely new plotline, taking place two years after the events of FFVII, and it has something to do with a disease called the "Star Mark Syndrome." Not much else about the plot is known.

    My thoughts on the movie? It looks bloody awesome. Cloud looks right, the environment looks right, Barret looks...different (but still right), etc. I'm greatly anticipating it.

    Now, could somebody fill me in? Is this trailer the one that was released a while ago, when SE announced the movie (the one that started with "Two Years Later," had some motorcycle and fighting bits, and ended with the logo) or is it a whole new enchilada? I'd like to know before I download it on my sucky dialup. Thanks.
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    • Here's what I've garnered from the rumours: Cloud is back and is trying to figure out this new illness afflicting people. Aparrently, it has something to do with the "Holy" materia (that which was used to repel Meteor). Holy was meant to protect the world from anything that threatens it. Meteor was the immediate threat but humans can be regarded as a threat as well, especially after abusing materia like Shin-ra did. During his investigation, he runs across 3 Sephiroth look-alikes (clones maybe), which

  • Ben Affleck? No... (Score:2, Informative)

    by Mitleid ( 734193 )
    I think it's sort of interesting (and humourous) how many people in this topic have mistakenly referred to the character in FF:TSW as "Ben Affleck" (AKA Pancake Head; maybe SP fans can enlighten me: where the hell DID that come from? HAHAHA. Regardless, I only refer to Ben Affleck as Pancake Head since seeing that episode...), when it was actually a CG model that looked A LOT like Ben Affleck but voiced by Alec Baldwin. I was confused too when the movie first had trailer's released; I thought the CG models
  • You know, I was just watching Final Fantasy, the spirits within with a friend who hasn't seen it. It was on cable and we turned it on half way through. So, I was explaining the "Gaia" thing and how it related to FF7 and FF8, and all he could respond with was..."These guys have guns that kill ghosts?"... "They have a satellite laser cannon, that kills ghosts?"
  • Microsoft just sent me 10 copies of MS VPC 2004.

    I'm going to run Windows 98 inside of them, for the sole purpose of playing FF7 PC again.
  • A lot of people have given a lot of crap about "not understanding" spirits within because it was a philosophical movie and "artsy", weither you like it or not that movie was crap, not because they touched subjects that are difficult to swallow for an american audience. Gaia and the "amalgalm/battle" of technology and spirituality, are subjects which have been treated with mastery in films such as "princess mononoke, spirited away, akira" and even in the final fantasy series themselves with enormous success.

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