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Warcraft Movie Coming in 2009

by Jen Yamato | August 05, 2007

Summary

Get your level 60 Blood Elf Paladins ready; World of Warcraft, the biggest MMO vid game known to man, is finally coming to theaters. Back to Article

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yodas gooch writes:
on Aug 06 2007 09:41 PM

Lamest. Idea. Ever. EVER!!!!

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SticksandStones writes:
on Aug 06 2007 10:12 PM

My only gripes with this film is the writing and the perspective. Having a mostly Alliance perspective is a weak cop out and clearly only done to cater more to the viewing audience, seeing as Alliance is more aesthetically appealing to people than the Horde. As for the writing, I believe that is what will make or break this film. And unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the writing is poor. Still, I have some optimism for this film, and I also don't see the justification for so aptly damning the film.

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kfarschman writes:
on Aug 07 2007 01:45 AM

I know where people are coming from with the whole giving it a chance thing and all. It's just it seems in today's movie industry something like Star Wars would never be made. It didn't have inherent pop culture interest and no immediate cross media appeal and not having a readymade fanbase from another medium. Just bothersome. Original ideas are faulted because they aren't already actively making money and having a fanbase in a different medium and they are ignored by Hollywood. It's one of the reasons that the business side of film sometimes really bothers me.

Also, movies wouldn't cost so much if there was less cgi. I rarely like cgi. I don't understand why people are fooled by it because I always notice it when used. I don't know why they gave up on the cheaper more realistic practical effects. I understand maybe touch up cgi or if something is completely impossible to do, but it seems like they don't even think of trying things practical anymore and go straight for expensive, crappy, cgi. My hate of cgi is what made Terminator 3 so enjoyable to me. There was tons of badass practical stunts and effects in that movie and was the single reason I liked it.

Jurassic Park had some of the only realistic cgi, but that's because they spent tons of money and time on it and it was mixed with animatronics, puppets, and other practical effect techniques. Why do people think that just pure cgi is acceptable. It sucks.

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deneco4 writes:
on Aug 07 2007 10:31 AM

My power is absolute!

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southwick writes:
on Aug 07 2007 01:11 PM

In reply to this comment (#1017648)
"I know where people are coming from with the whole giving it a chance thing and all. It's just it seems in today's movie industry something like Star Wars would never be made. It didn't have inherent pop culture interest and no immediate cross media appeal and not having a readymade fanbase from another medium. Just bothersome. Original ideas are faulted because they aren't already actively making money and having a fanbase in a different medium and they are ignored by Hollywood. It's one of the reasons that the business side of film sometimes really bothers me."

-It was called Firefly (movie Serenity) and it came out a few years ago.
-It was also better than StarWars imo.

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dopeheathen writes:
on Aug 09 2007 12:32 AM

It's gonna suck, better accept it now so you wont be saddened the day it drops. I'm not a WoW player or a fan but due to the internet vids like Leeeeeeeeeroy Jenkins and spoofs on Southpark, I'm fairly interested in seeing it. But I still know it's gonna suck.

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Huntressmoon13 writes:
on Aug 09 2007 03:34 PM

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Hey Chadowe,

I thought "Goldeneye" the video game was cool :)

But I agree with pretty much you are saying on the Game-to-Movie ideas: The original "Mortal Combat" was ok (it helped that it was pretty toungue-in-cheek), "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider" series have been eh, "Silent Hill" licked @ss, I won't even comment on "Super Mario Bros." and "Street Fighter," and I'm just as worried about "Diablo" as "WoW" right now.

Still, if it could be pulled off, I'm willing to have a go...Love to see if anyone would ever touch "Vampire Masquerade: Bloodlines."

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romsy writes:
on Aug 12 2007 04:36 AM

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you're kidding right? that whole south park episode was making fun of it not praising it, and its "pwned", from "pwn" a common typo of own, not "poned", you have no idea what you are talking about. as for the movie? its going to be a LOTR re-hash and its going to make money from people that have no idea what it is, because unless you can get Wi-Fi in the theater the addicts are not going to be seeing it, raiding molten core is more important.

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High School With Money writes:
on Aug 12 2007 05:14 AM

[i]Less of an adventure party quest-type situation. More of an armies building to an inevitable conclusion type situation."[/i]

Strange. [i]Lord of the Rings[/i] had BOTH. How is this different from it, again?

Maybe there will be noobs and griefers and player killers (oh my) abound. It needs the verisimilitude of major server lag that [u]makes[/u] the game. All the characters will speak l33t. And they'll be composed of goofy looking, also ran anime designs. The one in the photo looks like something Rob Liefeld threw up. All that's needed is the subtle, gentle touch of a music video director...

But even if this is successful, all it will end up being is a "ALL GAYMR MOOVEES IS TEH SUXXORX XCEPT WAR OF WORLDCRAFT LOLOMGDND!!!" footnote. Here's hoping...

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Redwulf writes:
on Sep 07 2007 12:19 AM

I have some faith in this movie despite the reputation put on video game movies for one reason: (as far as I can see) blizzard has never throughout its history as a company ever published anything that has fallen short of exreamely high quality content. I personally have played and enjoyed warcraft II, III, WoW, Starcraft (though only briefly), and diablo II. Though they have only worked in the video game world and never have ventured into the movie world, I think that if the movie begins to look like a Piece of crap they will cancel it (They did just that to the game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the clans which had a fanbase and potential cashcow status.) I don't think that blizzard would ruin that reputation on their first product in Hollywood. You can call me crazy but I think it may actually be a great movie......

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Arannor writes:
on Dec 10 2007 09:40 AM

I think that the movie should stay in Blizzard. Moving to an actual movie production company like legendary is a bad idea, knowing how badly storylines can get skewed. Live-Action is also a mistake. Blizzard has so much potential to make their own movie using the same cinematic material as they do for the WoW intro cinematics. I remember the first time I saw the intro cinematic for WoW and i was totally blown away, and I still enjoy watching it. I'm sure other people feel the same way.

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bigymac writes:
on Dec 22 2007 06:07 AM

Live-Action = b-b-b-B-BULL****!!!

after all these years of dreaming for a warcraft movie and they are alrdy gonna *** it up. i know for a fact that every other warcraft fan wished for them to make a movie, but for it to be in the same style as the cinematics they had put into wc3 RoC/TfT aswell as the trailers for WoW/TBC... wtf is this real ppl ****

if u dont understand

1) ur a dum ****
2) go dl and watch the cinematic trailer for World of Warcraft (original or TBC)

now tell me does that not look real... and fuken awesome. the world matches the characters in it. if all of it is animated there will be NO MISTAKE! it will be every bit as awesome as every1 expects it to be. ppl actually applauding the idea of a live-action style, complete retards. if they do that then it will, as ppl have commented on many sites a **** house movie

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Lorialis writes:
on Jan 22 2008 04:28 PM

Really, I think the people who are posting on this site seem to think this is just going to be about the whole MMORPG stand point with just a bunch of random crap. Which it won't be, I quote from an unofficial, yet seemingly reliable resource http://warcraft.moviechronicles.com/ the following is part of the announcement at Blizzcon '07

"The plot for the film will take place approximately a year before the start of World of Warcraft, including races you have played and lands you have wandered in, where lots of plot arcs are melded into a two and a half hour story"

In other words, you have to be familiar with pure Warcraft lore to know what exactly this movie will be about. It will mainly be based off of the books, I'm sure, but will have visuals that will be similar to that of the game. It will lead up to why these factions are at war in the first place, and will inspire players of the game to get more of a feel for it.

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De4no writes:
on Apr 10 2008 08:25 AM

Personally I am extremely excited about this movie.

Many of you out there with your negative comments have never even played a Warcraft game, read any of the stories or lore or understand it in the slightest.

One of my favourite aspects of the Warcraft games, funnily enough, is the short ingame films they have. They look spectacular and often send chills up my spine when I view one for the first time, which I cannot say for many things I view.

Call it a LOTR rip off all you like, if they approach this correctly it WILL be a very good movie which they are aiming to be accessible to anyone, not just warcraft fans like myself.

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jumpinsnakes writes:
on May 01 2008 09:53 AM

With out a doubt it should be the same as the CGI they use for the Intro movies. That is the only way they can truly capture the fantasy world of Warcraft. Trying to create realistic magical effects and such will just all short. Not to mention there is some great voice talent and they could just have a star studded cast voice it and you wouldnt have to see their face so it wouldnt ruin your already developed perception of main characters.

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randy m. writes:
on Nov 02 2008 09:23 PM

it doesnt seem like to bad of an idea, but i think it should be animated, like a beowolf kind of deal, so much more you could do with it, and i just dont think that the actors could pull it off. i cant see it happening =/

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Caleb K. writes:
on Apr 03 2009 08:20 AM

The fact that the company Blizzard has never turned out a bomb leads me to be hopeful for this movie. I played WC3 and read into the lore a little; my conclusion is that these guys know how to write a story. If they get a good director (like Nolan), get someone capable of turning the story into a screen play, and actually give the movie the 100 mil budget it is going to be awesome.

In short, it could easily be screwed up. But, if they do everything right it could be epic.

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Albert M. writes:
on May 07 2009 03:28 PM

So many of you are retarded. Since when does a movie need to be good to be a good idea? Nearly 11 million people play World of Warcraft, millions of them will want to see this movie and most likely enjoy it even if it's sh^t. Blizzard are NOT out of their league, they are brilliant. And FYI, knowing how much effort Blizzard puts into their games, this movie will most likely be nothing short of awesome anyway.

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