How has the trailer for this been up since October without a word around here about it?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZK1KyEaAe4

He even has the domain name:

http://www.shadowrunmovie.com/

I had to hear about this from the SR4 developers' del.icio.us feed.

Is my search-fu weak or is DSF falling down on the job?

Are those the same guys who made that French Canadian (which is what I'm guessing this is) movie about a guy who hasen't played in ages looking up his old gaming group to discover the two hard-core players are still playing their original characters at Epic levels, and expect him to join at 1st level?

Then they treat him like crap, and he gets them back by arseraping the paladin in his sleep, and the paladin attacks him and misses and kills the sleeping Cleric? Then the players attack one another, while the DM and the guy who just joined go out for a beer?

kinda reminds me of "The Gamers" O.o

Rule of 1?

Hi! I'm the one who did the movie. Indeed, we're french canadian but we're not the same gang that did "Tom et ses chums" (with the sleeping cleric). My previous film (old) can be seen at www.theactionfilm.com

I updated shadowrunmovie.com last week, found the final name of the film for the english version (Crossing Shadows) and made a digg story submission with it. The launch is set to march 1st. Since all the special effects are done, the only part missing is a bit of background music. I've got a couple musicians doing good music in their spare time but these days they don't have much spare time and I still have around 8 minutes of film to fill with original music. If anyone here has old compositions lying around that you wouldn't mind seeing appear in the movie, just leave me a message.

Very cool. Keep us posted

It actually looks... not bad!

Heeeeey... Pretty high quality too!

could be a interesting one to watch indeed

im seeing a increase in these kinds of fan-movies.
with good cameras, and cheap software one can done some nice stuff by the looks of it.

Maybe there's hope for a Blue Planet movie...

Blue Planet? Anybody? Am I the only one who plays this?

Looks pretty sweet!

I'll probably come up with another trailer showcasing more of the action and Shadowrun parts over the parts with the gamers. I show astral projection, matrix, mana bolts, cyberware, adept powers, monofilament whip... but no metahumans unfortunately. I chose having no trolls/orks than cheap looking trolls/orks.

Quite possibly.

yeh dont put any trolls in, we dont want to see angry fat buggers in their mums basement.

Great teaser, top effort. Cant wait for the full release.

i got the FFG version on my shelf here, nice game by the looks of it but never been able to test it in actual play...

are we talking SR3 matrix or SR4 matrix?

or maybe i should ask, AR or VR?

Blue Planet is indeed a wonderfully fleshed out setting hampered by very specific rules that probably would have been manageable had the game ever gotten to third edition. I've long entertained the notion of doing a SR3/4 BP conversion but I've never really got around to it, after all, how would you rate a dolphins agility?

SR3 and I kept it simple (by that I mean no combat). I can do video 3d motion tracking so having a sort of overlay vision over the real life footage wouldn't be too hard. In fact it would look fantastic but I haven't read the details about augmented reality (or SR4 at all) so I'll have to keep that for another Shadowrun movie, if I do one.

Hey Olivier!

This is really nice stuff... you should consider posting a link on the www.shadowrun.fr forums, I'm sure that would interest people on this side of the Atlantic.

If you're releasing on March 1st SrFr could even help you spread the word...

Don't hesitate to contact me in private, I'd be happy to help you out !

The movie is completed and available for high quality download on the site:

http://www.shadowrunmovie.com/



In case my server crashes, mirrors are:
on Veoh.com
With a high quality download link in the "Download options" tab.
or
On Gametrailers.com
Lower resolution, better for older computers

would divx/xvid or similar formats be to much to ask for? wmv isnt healthy for a linux geeks blood pressure

hobgoblin: I will try to have one up on the server this week. You're not the first to ask, hehe.

I'm downloading it now, I see that it's English subtitled. Est-ce qu'il y a une version francaise?

(My apologies to the native French speakers, my keyboard makes those fun characters difficult to include.)

looking forward to it

This is very cool - just saw the posting today. Looks intriguing, am downloading now!

I watched it yesterday and it was great!

I love the special effects with the eyes (switching to different types of vision and hacking was amazing), and the run getting hosed was hilarious!

Very, very good job!

It was great although I did get a little confused about what was happening in the 'real world'. I particularly liked the way you portrayed astral projection and hacking.

-JKL

Just watched it. That was incredible.

Acting, great effects, a storyline ... and no annoying cyber-dolphins!

32 minutes of this week's gaming session will be devoted to watching Crossing Shadows.

Nice work Olivier!

Certainly not. I'm a fairly large Blue Planet fan, so there's at least two of us around here. Last time this got brought up on the mailing list about six/seven months back Jeff mentioned that a television adaptation might be the better route for something like that.

And just to drag this post onto vaguely on topic-ness similarly if Shadowrun were to ever transition over I think either an animated film or even better animated television series would be the best options.

My favorite line so far:

(In reference to being turned invisible)
"Well do it better. Make me invisible... better."

The level of special effects that can be accomplished by amateurs is exciting. The day anyone can put together a star wars movie isn't long off.

Olivier, awesome job on the film. Very impressive. The effects were excellent, especially the eyes / matrix / invisibility and astral projection. The laser whip was pretty good too!

Entertaining story as well!

Excellent work, and pure fun for us shadowrun lovers out there.

yeah I thoroughly enjoyed it Thanks for putting this up guys.

Must download tomorrow. Need sleep.

Just watched and I must say, "Well done, sir!" I wish I could speak French: Trying to read subtitles can be a bit of a pain while watching quick action.

My favorite line:
"It was an insane mission, but next time ... I'm the game master."

Je dois pratiquer le francais. Il faut discuter le film au sujet Shadowrun en francais.

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You should practice French. It's fun to discuss the Shadowrun film in French.
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I think.

Porque nadie use el espanol para Shadowrun?

Hahah that was awesome! Bien joué les gars!

I ought to practice French, rather than you should. It is necessary to discuss the film, rather than it's fun.

Darf man noch was zum Sprachspam beitragen?

Nein!

Seriously good movie, I enjoyed every minute, you should make a feature length movie and sell it on your site, I'd definately send you $20 over paypal for it and I'm sure others would too

Es por que, señor. Porque en Inglés es "because."

gracias

BTW, I can't spell in English either.

If you want to learn French to be able to watch this movie, make sure to learn Canadian French. On the French Shadowrun forums, most people had to wait for the english subtitles to understand everything.

Jagged Alliance 2 taught me that if you want to be an effective mercenary you must use Canadian French.

EDIT: Incidentally, I'm glad you said that thing about the French people having trouble understanding. I had trouble catching the dialogue and I studied French in school for a very long time, so I was temporarily afraid that I was retarded for not being able to get everything.

La Malice
http://www.jaggedalliance.com/mercs/mercbio7.html

Another thing to convince my group to play Shadowrun with.

And maybe find some Arts Students who need ideas for a film project...

Finally watched the film. Excellent ending!

Olivier! Whoa!!! Pas mal cool, ton film! Qui a dit qu'il n'y avait pas de sci-fi au Québec? Chapeau, sérieusement! C'est une production très professionnelle! J'attends le deuxième avec impatience!

P.S. Real men speak Quebec French. (Just teasing. You can put all those knives away now. )