WARCRAFT from Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures (6/10/16)

[Bosco685]

From Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures comes Warcraft, an epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based on Blizzard Entertainment’s global phenomenon.

 

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home.

 

So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.

 

Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) and written by Charles Leavitt and Jones, the film starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Rob Kazinsky and Daniel Wu is a Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment production.

 

The producers are Charles Roven, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Alex Gartner and Stuart Fenegan. Jillian Share, Brent O’Connor, Michael Morhaime and Paul Sams serve as executive producers. Rob Pardo, Chris Metzen, Nick Carpenter and Rebecca Steel Roven co-produce. Warcraft will be released by Universal Pictures.

 

 

WOW!

[Hamlet]

Stop poking me!

[Meeklo]

Jeez…took them long enough to make a movie of that!

[Broke as a Joke]

I have never played the game but regardless that looks awful. Video game movies always seem to get the short end of the stick.

[Bronty]

I have never played the game but regardless that looks awful. Video game movies always seem to get the short end of the stick.

 

Same was true of comic movies for the first 20 years. Gotta walk before you can run. All hollywood cares about is the built in fanbase and sooner or later I'm sure they'll start to get more comfortable with, and start making better video game movies.

 

EDIT: just saw the trailer. Better than I expected, actually. Very Lord of the Rings, but that's not such a bad thing to ape in this case.

[Chip Cataldo]

I agree. Better than I expected. I like when they make CGI characters the main characters. Gives them more weight.

[Ken Aldred]

I've played Skyrim, Oblivion and Kingdoms of Amalur, and that looks exactly like what I'd expect of a live-action / CGI version of a RPG. Duncan Jones is a talented director and it should be far better than the churned out by Uwe Boll. Actually, that isn't much of a challenge.

 

I don't get to watch anything at the cinema anymore, so I can wait it out for the reviews.

[CheeseFrog]

I have never played the game but regardless that looks awful. Video game movies always seem to get the short end of the stick.

 

+1

 

Looks like something a 7th grader would like. No offense to 7th graders...

[Bronty]

^ so? you also just described every comic movie ever

[Flatliner1313]

Why does the CGI look cheaper than the stuff in the games

[Bronty]

Because you're overly concerned with how "real" a movie about orcs looks?

[Bosco685]

[Fan Boy]

Seen the trailer about this movie. I had remembered the game "Warcraft" long ago when I was in high school, and seen these ads in the comics popped up at this time. Didn't played it ever, but the movie looks good to see?

 

[fantastic_four]

I played all of the Warcraft real-time strategy games from their times of first release, and I have played World of Warcraft for over a decade. The movie looks decent, but it isn't blowing me away. Many of the CGI sequences look too video-gamey and not realistic enough.

[Bosco685]

[Bosco685]

For a mall display, that's quite the setup they rolled out.

 

[ComicConnoisseur]

This will do very good at the worldwide box office. This franchise is huge.

When I went to see the recent Star Wars we will find the WOW trailer was getting most of the audience's excitement amongst the trailers.

[Bosco685]

In November, Legendary Pictures released the first trailer for Warcraft, the epic fantasy film based on Blizzard Entertainment’s video game franchise. The trailer certainly looked the part. You’ve got humans in bright blue armor, and orcs in crimson red, just like you’d see on a Warcraft RTS map.

 

Anyone who has played one of Blizzard’s Warcraft games will remember the music and the blurbs of dialogue and strange noises uttered by units every time they were clicked on. YouTube user Robert Mermet has now added those sound effects into the Warcraft trailer, making it a near perfect recreation.

 

[JayT]

Will definitely see it even though not a Warcraft fan at all. I wonder if this has been rated yet because the CG, which admittedly doesn't look great, might look a bit better by the time it hits theaters.

 

Very interested in the idea of actually watchable video game films and to see how the market reacts.

[Bosco685]

Very interested in the idea of actually watchable video game films and to see how the market reacts.

 

It will be interesting.

 

Hitman, Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Max Payne have had mixed results. Yet this is another source to feed films if handled right with ramped-up audiences that have played the games.