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'Warcraft' Movie Post-Production |OT| 20 months of...hype? Maybe?
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Aren't those celebrity ads nearly 10 years old? That's a long time in pop culture.
Besides, popularity shouldn't decide when an adaptation comes out; it should be things like finding the right director, the quality of the script, advances in technology etc.
If a Warcraft movie came out at WoW's peak, we would have gotten a Sam Rami directed film with a (IMO) worse premise and inferior visual effects.
I'd rather get the adaptation now over any point in the past.
If a Warcraft movie came out at WoW's peak, we would have gotten a Sam Rami directed film with a (IMO) worse premise and inferior visual effects.
I'd rather get the adaptation now over any point in the past.
Found a gif from the latest TV spot, showing off Khadgar and Medivh getting all magicky.
I hope it does well enough, I love me some fantasy magic stuff.
The lack of Ben Foster in the trailers so far is the most disappointing part for me. At least he got a little clip.
Younger than I expected for some reason. I always imagined an Old Ben Kenobi kind of figure.Also...
Enter the Dragon Punch
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why does the marketing have to be so BAD
Same here. I've been waiting to see some Ben Foster.
Depending on when certain events happens in the movie, a good portion of Medivh's appearances might be very spoilery. It might be why he's in so little of the marketing.
RustyNails
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Legends stand together
Legends sit together
Legends pee together
What else did the amazing marketing department thought of when creating these cinema pioneering posters?
Legends sit together
Legends pee together
What else did the amazing marketing department thought of when creating these cinema pioneering posters?
Yeah that poster is fucking awful.
I'm getting pretty excited for this movie. I just started and finished season one of Vikings, and Travis Fimmel is awesome.
I figured it was something like that.
I figured it was something like that.
The lightning is from Medivh in the trailer.
Well, if I was a diehard lore fan I would be annoyed at that inconsistency.
Don't worry; there's already been pissed-off fans whining that Dalaran flies.
I think in the movie universe, the lightning is an arcane spell, but that's just a theory.
It's just how the movie depicts arcane magic. It's not that different from WoW's opening cinematics
Primethius
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I absolutely love the way Orcs look in this movie.
Well the first spell he was casting looked a lot like arcane blast, and what makes you say the cinematics portray magic differently? In the vanilla cinematic you see a human mage throwing fireballs at infernals, a blood elf mage casting arcane explosion and a human mage polymorphing a tauren and that's all the magic we've seen in the cinematics at least.
No you see a human mage gather frost spells around him and it's not looking that different from your typical movie "blue lightning = magic" trope
Acidote
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I doubt it's any of those two. Shouldn't both be in Lordaeron instead of Stormwind? But I am not sure myself where they were back then.
Also, regarding the lightning and orcs, wasn't Ner'zhul a shaman?
DerangedHermit
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Sölf;199411254 said:
Yes, also Guldan's mentor.
I know. Would look so cool.
They should also have all the different orc colors; red and grey too.
Faynwulf
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The way he hates the Orcs... I'd say he is most likely someone like Blackmoore.
I made a post about it in this thread a while back. But I expect Daniel Cudmore to be playing Uther or Turalyon. His character is kept under wraps while he's gone on record saying he's been shooting Warcraft for 5 months so his role is significant.
And it would be an awesome moment seeing the formation of the Knights of the Silver Hand.
Dunno but the mail the guy has under plate armor seems somehow light and cheap, not proper mail at all.
Indeed, this is my big issue with the armor in the film, it looks too plasticky, fake. Not because of the styling but the material looks too shiny and wrong somehow.
Also, the pauldrons are not big enough.
Anoregon
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I feel like that dude in the screenshot above is just a generic "kill all the orcs cuz they are bad" human, and not anyone important to the lore.
However, he does sort of look like Tirion would, and Tirion was pretty staunchly anti-orc until his tune changed after the 2nd war. The only caveat there being Tirion is from Lordaearon, not Stormwind, and this wouldnt be involved in first war stuff. That's the sort of thing that can be easily altered for a movie, though.
However, he does sort of look like Tirion would, and Tirion was pretty staunchly anti-orc until his tune changed after the 2nd war. The only caveat there being Tirion is from Lordaearon, not Stormwind, and this wouldnt be involved in first war stuff. That's the sort of thing that can be easily altered for a movie, though.
ShadowSwordmaster
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This is what I was thinking.
Reminds me of how Avengers is called Avengers Assemble here in the UK.
Scorpion Soldier
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Avengers was a rights issue though that Marvel had to work around. Warcraft doesn't have the same issue in the territories where it has the tagline.
Starwolf_UK
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What IP is there called Warcraft in some parts of the worlds?
I always thought The Avengers renaming was because in the UK there was a popular 60s Spy series called The Avengers which most people probably remember for a film in the 90s featuring Sean Connery which made that a toxic brand.
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