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Some Warcraft the movie details
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| heijaangel |
Posted on 28-01-2008 09:19
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This artical is from: http://kotaku.com/gaming/blizzcon07/w...286074.php
At BlizzCon today, representatives from Blizzard and Legendary Pictures hosted a panel on the upcoming WarCraft film adaptation, giving attendees an update on the film's progress and addressing fan concerns with a follow-up Q&A session. On hand were Paul Sams and Chris Metzen Blizzard Entertainment and, from Legendary Pictures, CEO Thomas Tull and Chief Creative Officer Jon Jashni. In addition to confirming that the Warcraft movie will be a live action film, with a yet to be determined level of computer generated environments and effects, Jashni told the crowd they're still working toward a 2009 release date.
Sams, Metzen and Jashni made it a regular point to express their wishes to "not... create another video game movie" but to "create an epic." And while some fans may have taken pause at Jashni's reasoning that "we can't just make a movie for the 9 million World of Warcraft subscribers", it was clear that all four were passionate about bringing the mythology of Warcraft to the big screen as faithfully as possible.
The panel invoked the name of Legendary Pictures' recent hits Batman Begins and 300 as indicative of the quality of the $100 million-plus feature film. They also dropped names like Braveheart and the Lord of the Rings trilogy when discussing their vision for the Warcraft movie's action scenes.
For how intense those scenes will be, and what rating they're shooting for, Metzen said "It's hard for us to predict what happens. You want to not compromise and you want to have the intensity." Addressing concerns over a Nerfed fantasy war movie, he explained, "The story and the director's vision will ultimately decide that. We're definitely not going to make a G or a PG version of this. It's not PillowfightCraft."
Warcraft is still in the scripting process, but Metzen reported that they have something that they're happy with. The plot was kept under wraps but Metzen told the crowd it would take place about a year before the events of World of Warcraft.
The storyline is "principally told from the Alliance perspective." After revealing that detail, and waiting for the Horde aligned players to finish their booing, Metzen explained "While my heart lies with the Horde and Thrall's an interesting character, from a movie making standpoint, a blockbuster movie its a little rough to try and tell it from the perspective of this green looking dude."
"What about Shrek?!" a Blizzconner yelled. A busted Metzen quipped "Shrek's a good example. For a kids comedy."
According to Jashni, no director has been attached. "We are starting those conversations. We're going to be looking for someone of [300 director Zak Snyder or Batman Begins director Chris Nolan's] caliber," said Metzen. They snickered at a crowd member's suggestion for Uwe Boll, commenting only on the infamous director's recent boxing match.
With no director comes no casting news. That process hasn't been started yet, but when asked about whether they'd be looking for "big name Hollywood actors" or "fresher faces", Jashni played coy, only saying that "because there's a lot of interest in Warcraft, we've gotten a lot of interesting phone calls."
Following another fan suggestion, Metzen says they haven't yet contacted Chuck Norris for a role or cameo.
Jashni then recounted a story that involved Superman Returns star Brandon Routh accosting him upon hearing of his involvement with Blizzard, with Routh asking "Do you know the Warcraft guys?! Can you get me a tour of [their office]?"
By the end of the panel, we hadn't learned much in the way of concrete details, as much of the film is simply too early in production to talk about. As a sort of apology for being so vague, panel speakers showed one of the first pieces of concept artwork for the film.
Anyone recognize it?
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| Versipellis |
Posted on 28-01-2008 14:15
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they better make an incredible job cause my expectations are way high.. like all warcraft fans ofcourse..
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| Mordekay |
Posted on 29-01-2008 06:22
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Hmm, I allways liked the horde movies in WC3 the best... Awesome to see thrall fight maggy...  at least i think it was maggy, cant remember rly
And aye, expectations are HIGH!
But I'd watch it even if it becomes a flopp... But don't think blizzard would let it become a Flopp =)
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| Joe |
Posted on 01-02-2008 00:38
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Thrall and Grom Hellscream faught Mannoroc in the WC3 cinematic at the end of the orc campaign, Maggys alive and Mannoroc... well, died.. 
They're good at the gfx and we already know they're good at story lines, i hope they make a good movie
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| Friss |
Posted on 01-02-2008 04:01
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Hope it will be nice
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| Friss |
Posted on 01-02-2008 04:06
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And i hope alliance will win...
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| Lewsterin |
Posted on 01-02-2008 07:38
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They just need to smack something together alike all their opening scenes from Diablo 1&2, and their WC games, and we should be just fine.
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| strifie |
Posted on 02-02-2008 08:53
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hehe, i hope there will be something nice out of it
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| Titan |
Posted on 02-02-2008 19:14
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does that mean the movies going to be about the battle for mount hyjal and zin arashi?
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| strifie |
Posted on 07-02-2008 20:37
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the battle of mount hyjal and zin ashara (if thats the one you mean) happen according to the timeline 10,000 years before World of Warcraft, in the link angel posted blizzard told this:
Quote The plot was kept under wraps but Metzen told the crowd it would take place about a year before the events of World of Warcraft.
so they prolly won't be giving us that battle unless it's in a flashback, but it would have been cool tho, if they would make a movie about the war of the ancients trilogy
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| heijaangel |
Posted on 13-06-2008 10:52
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There are some new rumors about the movie 
An undisclosed source at a news site called “The Instance” claims to have insider information with regards to the Warcraft movie adaptation. At such an early stage any information like this is most certainly false and this has been classified as a rumor - which is giving this far too much credit. Im not even sure actors are involved in the process yet - firstly a director needs to be named.
If you see this information repeated anywhere, know that this was an April Fool’s joke/prank. People have been talking about these details as if they were facts and I am dispelling them now.
“I’m a personal assistant for a very well-known actor, and I’ve just handed him a complete script treatment for the new Warcraft movie. It’s going to be called “Warcraft: The Fall of Quel’Thalas”, and it looks like it may be the first of a proposed trilogy, with a second part called “The Caverns Of Time” and the final installment called “The Battle Of Mount Hyjal”.“
With the success of LotR though, everything seems destined for a trilogy these days.
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| Multitasker |
Posted on 13-06-2008 13:42
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Sounds cool, always been a sucker for blizzards movies so if they can hold true to the way they have always made em it should be a huge success, defenetly looking forward to seeing it...
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