Warcraft movie coming December 18, 2015
The Warcraft movie is so real it has a date. Blizzard has announced that the upcoming film from Legendary Pictures will be in theaters on December 18, 2015.
Distributed by Universal, the upcoming film will be directed by Duncan Jones, best known for his work on Moon and Source Code. The budget for Warcraft is expected to exceed $100 million. The script is already complete, and production is expected to start this fall. The Academy Award-winning team from Life of Pi will handle the visual effects for the film.
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The Warcraft movie is so real it has a date. Blizzard has announced that the upcoming film from Legendary Pictures will be in theaters on December...-
I'm more excited for this than I probably should be.
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Moon director right? Should be good
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Sir, subs are dropping!
Release the movie! and tie in expansion
While I don't agree with the game play transitions from vanilla to current, I'd play WoW if I had the time. -
This movie has the highest chance of being decent of any video game movie. Seriously.
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But will still likely be terrible.
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Hehe, right on time for the Giant Bomb crew's GOTYcasts, so they can say "PLEASE STOP Making Video Game Movies!"
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Dancing elves?
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It's being produced by Legendary Pictures, who have a track record of helping make good-to-great genre pictures. Their films include:
Batman Begins
300
The Dark Knight
Watchmen
Clash of the Titans
Inception
The Town
The Dark Knight Rises
Pacific Rim-
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To be fair all the stuff from Warcraft 1-3 is included, at least in part, within the WoW canon and lore.
The only way this would be relevant is if they chose to completely ignore the additions WoW made to that lore but while that would allow them a little more freedom with the source material it would also piss off the majority of the existing fan-base.-
Right, but I mean if they did want to follow an existing plot it could just e.g. (broadly) use the story from Warcraft 3 (not that I expect them to do this), or in the loose plot threads area it could be about say, Alleria and Turalyon and their current whereabouts which fans would prob be pretty happy about it if it was done well and wouldn't be particularly bogged down by WoW baggage
Duncan Jones isn't retarded so as long as they don't let Metzen fuck it up too much (unlikely) I think they have a decent shot of focusing in on some tight enough story that it might turn out okay
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I just don't see how this could be good.
I like WoW as much as anyone, I've even read several of the Warcraft novels, and I'm generally ultra-forgiving on this type of film ... but unless they stray excessively far away from the source material and just do away with fan-service all-together I don't see how a Warcraft movie could be anything other than a jumbled mess. -
haha this is going to be so bad
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It's not the director. It's the budget and effects work required for something like this.
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If a 100 million plus and an academy award winning visual effects team isn't enough then what the fuck is? You troll too hard sometimes
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Not enough money.
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Cool. My knowledge of the lore ends with Warcraft 3 and its expansions, but I always liked it. It'll be interesting to see how it translates into film.
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It can be good, if they keep blizzards writing team far away from the script.
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uwe boll?
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FOR THE HORDE!!
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Gary Busey IS, Arthas
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