Things like
Jurassic Park would need to rely a lot more on practical effects*, such as miniature sets and stop motion, combined with camera trickery.
As mentioned above, some films have to resort to being fully animated to get them to work.
Most of the Star Trek series and films used traditional special effects and models, so they are
mostly fine. They would just have to use them more often. The digitally remastered versions probably don't exist at all ITTL.
The Star Wars prequels would have to resort to less CGI, but there were a lot of practical effects too. They would look different, and have to resort to fewer epic battle scenes.
*well, more so than it already did, anyway
Lord of the Rings series. Much of the film was and still could be shot on site in New Zealand, but the great battles with vast armies of Orcs, Trolls, flying Nazgul, etc would be almost impossible to replicate in scope.
The armies of orcs would be possible with a huge amount of extras*. The ghosts would still work with camera trickery. The trolls and nazgul would need to be fitted in through a combination of stop-motion and practical effects. It would be
possible to make a LOTR film series, but not like the one from OTL.
The Hobbit would have 100% less bullshit gold foundry-based platform jumping sequences.
*here's another thing - the budget for extras in films will need to be
much larger without CGI, unless you can get away with miniature sets, trick backgrounds and close-up shots
This is a brief and dynamic list of films impossible to adapt into live-action without CGI:
I'm going to have to disagree with you on
several of these things.
Difficult, yes, but not
absolutely impossible. They would have to be more like
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? to work, though, and would look super fake. Probably better just make them full animated.
If you mean the
Michael Bay versions, yes. However, I must point you towards the early
Power Rangers series for how they would look like ITTL.
Not neccecaryily. You could make a film with the same premise but with toned down special effects. It would look more fake, but it could be done.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
The MCU wouldn't work
as it exists in OTL. However, it doesn't make it
impossible - it just needs to be toned down. There were plenty of Marvel films made before modern CGI, such as the Incredible Hulk. Given no CGI, people would have a lower standard of how good special effects would look like.
I'm going to agree with this. Better to make it an
Atlantis style animation. It would still look fantastic, though.
See above for why I disagree with this. It would look more like the Kevin Costner/Alan Rickman/Morgan Freeman Robin Hood film.
Depends on how realistic you want it to look. Again, see early Power Rangers for what it would look like.
- Any animation/comic/video game adaptation based on sci-fi/fantasy/horror premises
That didn't stop them making the Super Mario film with Bob Hoskins. Or the Mortal Kombat film. Resident Evil would could work, just more like Dawn of the Dead with some camera trickery.
Not really. A lot of that wasn't CGI. It would have to be toned down, use more camera tricks and models, but most of it would work.
Yes, this one would be very hard to do without CGI.
You
clearly haven't seen the He-Man film.
(Unless you mean films like
Child's Play, which was live action.)
Batman and Superman would like to disagree with you there. As would the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Saya no Uta
- NieR
- Spec Ops: The Line
- And others.
Don't know enough about them to comment.