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[Hoo-doo]

I swear to god, i'm going to love this movie purely because anything that reminds me of the good times I had in WoW stimulates pleasure centers in my brain.

I'm hearing the Stormwind music in my head right now. I don't care if this movie is any good, I still desperately want to see it.

 

[neorej]

I'm interested to see how they depict Orcs and the Horde in general.

IIRC they wanted to go for a story that depicted The Alliance and The Horde as two combatting parties, not a good guy/bad guy scenario.

 

[Red_Man]

IIRC they wanted to go for a story that depicted The Alliance and The Horde as two combatting parties, not a good guy/bad guy scenario.

I like the sounds of that, particularly since the game is divided between players on both sides. All the factions have lots of history that would be great to explore.

 

[xenist]

I swear to god, i'm going to love this movie purely because anything that reminds me of the good times I had in WoW stimulates pleasure centers in my brain.

I'm hearing the Stormwind music in my head right now. I don't care if this movie is any good, I still desperately want to see it.

If the movie has a scene of you walking through the gates for the first time as the Stormwind music starts playing I'll be good.

 

[red731]

It is missing at least 20 avatars and "pls gib gold" over their heads.
But this movie is Warcraft and not WoW.

 

[sqwarlock]

Did the 2013 Comic-con teaser ever leak onto the net? I can't believe it's been almost a year and I've never seen it.

 

[Granadier]

Going to be so incredibly bad.

I agree.

There are only two outcomes to this movie:

• Bad
• So bad that it puts a studio out of business

Why live action Blizzard?

 

[lupinko]

yo if duncan jones made this good it'd be insane

It's all up to Zowie Bowie now!!

 

[NekoFever]

How are they filming now but it's not coming out until March 2016? That's a long ass production.

 

[A Serious Man]

How are they filming now but it's not coming out until March 2016? That's a long ass production.

It's on the same schedule as major WoW patches.

 

[maniac-kun]

How are they filming now but it's not coming out until March 2016? That's a long ass production.

1 year of filming 1 year post production.

 

[bengraven]

I have to admit...it's pretty cool seeing the Alliance crest in a live-action setting. Even if it's just a tiny blip in the background.

This had me excited too, seeing that little shield on the wall back in the blurry background.

That said, I'm still worried about this film.

 

[Empty]

hopefully this is just an excuse to give duncan jones a large budget with which to make a fantasy film.

 

[Misterinenja]

What are the guys supposed to be dressed like? I've never played Warcraft.

 

[jmood88]

I really hope that this movie ends up being worth him skipping a sequel to Moon. I've never played WoW so I have no idea what the story is and I'm typically not interested in fantasy bullshit but I'll go see it since he's making it.

 

[deleted]

I'm interested if they manage to translate WarCrafts visual identity into a live action movie. The architecture and armor was awesome in WC3 and I like a lot of what WoW looks like (didn't play since the beta).

So this is just Orcs vs Humans? No dwarfs, no elvs, no tauren?

And the worst case scenario is something like Dungeon Siege - In the name of the King, which was almost as unintentionally hilarious as D&D.

 

[AgentOtaku]

I always tell friends when they say "did you here? X movie is being made!," that I won't believe it until I see pics of people on the actual damn set

…yeah, can't believe this is actually happening.

 

[Touchdown]

Some of you are so negative. I'm excited to see how this movie turns out honestly.

 

[Sectorseven]

1 year of filming 1 year post production.

One year of filming? Who's directing this, Stanley Kubrick?

 

[tycoonheart]

Zug zug.

 

[JdFoX187]

How are they filming now but it's not coming out until March 2016? That's a long ass production.

Filming has begun on Man of Steel 2 and it's not coming out until May 2016.

 

[Rockyrock]

Hope this does good so we can finally get a Bioshock movie

 

[WyndhamPrice]

How are they filming now but it's not coming out until March 2016? That's a long ass production.

It was supposed to be December 2015 but then Star Wars planted its flag there and I'm sure they want to make money off of this movie.

 

[Obscura]

It was supposed to be December 2015 but then Star Wars planted its flag there and I'm sure they want to make money off of this movie.

It doesn't need to be released almost half a year later in order to do that.

It's probably so they have the time to do re-shoots after it bombs at test screenings.

 

[WyndhamPrice]

It doesn't need to be released almost half a year later in order to do that.

It's probably so they have the time to do re-shoots after it bombs at test screenings.

It's only 3 months and January and February are historically not a good time to release a big blockbuster unless you think it's crap and can take the loss. Stuff like The Lego Movie is an exception (and only cost 60 million).

 

[Darkmakaimura]

This movie gonna be a disaster.

 

[Mechanized]

Knew it was gonna just show humans.

Pretty shocked I know for a fact instantly that was the Stormwind throneroom.

 

[zeemumu]

Yep, Stormwind. There's an Alliance banner in the back of one of those shots.

 

[Saucy_XL]

My heart says yes but my body says no pls....

There are actually a lot of redeemable plots and stories within the games and books (that are marketable too). I really hope they respect the original works enough to stick to them.

Also really curious how they divide the story for each movie (assuming more get made) and what parts they focus on. I am anticipating some dumbing down of the story. Not sure how much the Burning Legion, Titans, Old Gods, etc will make it in. The deeper lore/history will likely be left out as was the case for the LOTR trilogy.

Also how are they going to make the transition from Orcs vs Humans to Arthas's storyline? If he only makes an appearance at the end of the first movie it seems hard for the general audience to get excited about a (seemingly) completely new character.