For the final project for Animation Class, I decided to do what I have been dreaming of doing for seven years now: create a film based off of the video game Metroid Prime. While making a film with the universe of Metroid and the character of Samus has been something I have wanted to do since I was a kid, it was not until recently when I had the thought that the structure of Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" would be perfect for a Metroid movie. So when it came to choosing my dialogue, it was my first thought to pull inspiration from that film. I titled it "Once Upon a Time on Tallon IV" which is the name of the planet from Metroid Prime. Where I was mostly focused on the animation, sound, timing, acting and drawing for the project, I decided to take the story element from something I was very familiar with. Thus, I tweaked the dialogue from the opening scene of "Once Upon a Time in the West" to fit the Metroid Science Fiction Uni