Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34553226-20180321220252/@comment-25936766-20180321223713

No. Seriously, no. Never.

Live-Action films are much more grounded than Animated media. Even if the movie had some spectacular green screen budget, it would never reach the flashy style of Vol.1-3, barely even 4, because when you're dealing with real people, you can't easily do crazy stuff with them.

Basically, you're asking real life actors to be cartoons. That just doesn't work. This idea would only work with Vol.5, and only because it ditched all the flash and stuff into something slower and duller.

As for "each film is a Volume"....not really a good idea. It might work screentime-wise, but it doesn't work plot-wise, because of what happens in each episode in each Volume.

With Vol.1, the first 8 eps work together: Ruby stops a robbery, gets to Beacon, takes the Initiation, becomes leader of Team RWBY. So far, the plot is linear and each episode follows up directly on the previous one. It works.

Then we cut to Weiss having issues with Ruby, and then trying to become a better teammate, followed by Jaune suddenly being bullied by Cardin, then fighting an Ursa, and starting to take Beacon seriously, followed by Blake and Weiss getting into an argument about the WF, Blake runs away, meets up with Sun, the girls search for her, fight in the docks happens, Weiss forgives her, Volume over.

....Everything after Players and Pieces has no direct relation to each other. They are more like tiny little arcs, borderline filler, instead of continuations of the main plot. If you did that with an actual movie, it would be an horrendous decision.

Following Volumes are a bit better at this, but not that much, aside from Vol.3 where it might work just fine since there's good linear plot progression. Vol.4's all over the place however, with multiple plot threads that alternate all the time and we have no idea of when they happen in relation with each other, so it'd be pure chaos. And in Vol.5, the plot barely moves forward in each episode after the first 4, so it'd have a lot of wasted time.

And that's leaving aside the issues each Volume has plot-wise and writing-wise.