Movie News: Warcraft
Greg
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Duncan Jones has been tapped to direct the Warcraft movie based on the popular RTS and MMORPG video games. the film is slated to begin in the fall of 2013 with a release in 2015.
Now stay out of the fire n00bz.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/warcraft-movie-lands-source-code-416956
Now stay out of the fire n00bz.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/warcraft-movie-lands-source-code-416956
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Brendon Connely has a post up at Bleeding Cool which I'm taking the info with a grain of salt until something official comes out. I'm trying very hard not to get my hopes and expectations too high.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/07/31/scoop-everything-we-know-about-duncan-jones-warcraft-film/
I expect a ton of jokes and there is a lot of fun to be had, we all know that video game movies don't do well. Duncan Jones knows the lore though, he isn't going to bring game mechanics into the movie, it is all coming from the story which I dare say rivals the great iconic fantasy epics. You don't need to know anything about the game in order to enjoy the novels or the comics (written by Walt Simonson), I would recommend them to any fantasy fan to read.
Is this a bad joke?
And since the Warcraft brand is crack cocaine that has been cut with ammonia and then boiled in meth, I'm sure we can expect numbers and awards on par with "Traffic" and the cult following of "Blow" and "Requiem for a Dream"
I have faith that Blizz and Duncan will keep this a lore movie and not just another video game movie.
The movie is "Humans vs Orcs" which was the first Warcraft game. Although it's implied that other races of the Alliance and Horde will be feature as well. The conflict between humans and orcs will be at the center of the film. Specifically, it's Lothor vs Durotan, with both leaders believing they're acting in the best interest for their people.
Director Duncan Jones is a longtime Warcraft fan. Having started out on Ultima Online, he's played a lot of WoW games along with many of the key members of the cast.
When Duncan boarded the project, the script was very Alliance heavy so one of the first things he set out to do was strike up a balance between Alliance and Horde.
The film is described as Avatar meet Games of Thrones.
Concept art for Draenor, Dalaran, Ironforge and Stormwind was shown so expect to travel to those locales in the film.
The production team is trying to build as many physical sets as possible and overly rely on vfx. The Lions Pride Inn was specifically named as being a location that will be physically built as a set.
They style of the film is described as a war movie, with Gladiator being used as an example. I've never seen Gladiator so I don't know if that is good or bad.
There was a lot of talk about the level of detail the film is seeking to achieve like how to draw swords since there are no scabbards in World of Warcraft. The discussion on detail has been serious including making sure that that the flora and fauna match up. The vfx team that worked on the Hulk in the Avengers will be working on Warcraft. Wei Wang (Blizzard) has also helped out a lot with creature design.
They have a good portion of the cast picked out but again, there were no announcements.
A questions about a trilogy was quickly shot down as they're just focusing on the first film at the moment and nothing else.
If the film is successful, Chris Metzen said maybe they'll do a tv show one day. I'm not placing any bets on that.
The film will be PG-13.
Ben Foster
Clancy Brown ^:)^
Travis Fimmel
Paula Patton
Toby Kebbell
Rob Kazinsky
Daniel Wu
Teaser trailer or other footage is expected today at Blizzcon.
Came across this. I know next to nothing about the game itself but I really liked the look of this. Any thoughts from the fans?
The story guys from Blizzard were working directly with Legendary on the story, the director has been playing the game from the first RTS through World of Warcraft. It's not going to be Lord of the Rings but I faith that it will be a good fantasy flick.