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Blizzard to Boll - DENIED!
Drathos writes "From MTV Movies Blog by way of WoW Insider: Everyone's least favorite director, Uwe Boll approached Blizzard about making a World of Warcraft movie. Their response? "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you ... especially not to you.""
That's a shame, because if there's someone who could capture the sheer mundacity of WoW, I think it would be Boll.
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It can't be any worse than the WOW Pr0n I found on Pirate Bay recently.
:(
Pr0n chicks in green and blue body-paint with fake elf-ears and horns.
Not nearly as hot as you would think it is.
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Not a problem for bender! (... kiss my shiny metal ass :)
I'm one of the few that doesn't play WoW, but I have a lot of respect for Blizzard's commitment to quality. They won't release a project they don't feel is up to their standards, and would rather take a huge loss than release a turd.
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Based on his open responses to the community, if you really think a petition will make him stop then I have this lovely bridge I'd like to sell you...
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
I don't know...I can't even imagine how boring the movie would be.
"Now we go to fight the ultimate evil!"
"Wait, we don't have the key to his front door."
"Who cares? Can't we break in?"
"No! The door is too powerful! We have to spend days of our lives getting the parts of the key and forging them together!"
"The door is too powerful? Fine. You guys go get the key..."
"Sorry, sir, we ALL need a key. So we each have to go on the key quest separately, though of course we can help each other."
"WHAT? That doesn't make any sense!"
"The door works in mysterious ways, sir."
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...and people say the movies weren't true to the books.
Not that I'm suggesting anyone should. Just y'know, it'd be a lot more expedient than a petition.
Maybe the sheer horror of the experience would get some people to finally pull the WoW needle from their arms and I'd get some friends back.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
The primary thing that pisses me off about the potential WoW movie is that from everything I have read, it looks like it's going to be told from the perspective of the Alliance.
Come on. Everyone knows the Alliance is for pussies. And so are Blood Elves.
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> Well, he (actually not him, the graphics effects people) did make [LotR] very pretty,
> but my overall level of excitement from the movie is pretty low. There was a lot
> of parts that just really dragged on.
So it was a very faithful reproduction of the books, then!
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Well, presumably with Jackson it *would* be different. Boll, on the other hand, would faithfully reproduce what you said--just look at his other FPS movies.
*run around in the dark*
*shoot a bunch of monsters*
*run around more*
*shoot more monsters*
etc.
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When the movie does (not if) come I'm hoping they base it on a PvP realm. So as our hero is grinding he gets jumped by 5 angry members of the opposing faction and just fucking dies.
This should also happen every ten minutes or so.
I'm in a wheelchair, you insensitive clod!
As a former WoW (Horde) gamer I can see two kinds of responses to a WoW movie: 1) People who don't care. 2) People who are too hooked on Wow to care.
I think the real problem here is that no big-screen movie treatment could possibly do justice to the actual WoW experience in the same way that South Park did.
I asked for a Slashdot movie, although I could believe that the Boll production would hit the shelves as "Sashdot".
Also, the world really needs a Sashdot site. "Belts for nerds, sashes that matter". Hell yeah.
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...and straight-out changed things that were completely contrary to what actually happened. ummm...you realize that orcs are fake and that none of that ever happened right?Yeah. I totally get lost in the realistic portrayal of characters in Robot Chicken and Jason and the Argonauts, or even Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Highly realistic.
Seriously... so what if there's "real" lighting on it? The small scale expansions (ginormous water droplets and the like) make a much larger chasm for suspension of disbelief to cross than a well-done CGI addition or scene.
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They should base the script on Warcraft 2. That'll limit the dialogue to "dabu" and "yes my lord" and they should be able to finish the movie in record time.