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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.""
I have to agree in a way, I've always liked the Warcraft series games and have always felt Warcraft III had one of the best storylines of any game I'd played.
I'd honestly rather see Blizzards people do the majority of the work as I honestly think they could do an as good if not better than job than Hollywood could. If it was animated I doubt they'd need much outside help, if not then primarily they'd just need actors and costumes people - certainly I don't believe they'd need any effects people or writers.
There are differences between film and game storyline creation certainly, but I think they could probably do it, certainly as you say with the help of a "game-friendly" director such as Jackson rather than someone whose about as good with the difference between films and games as Boll.
Worse, who wants to go see a movie where someone like Legolas has to shoot 200 arrows into an orc before it dies? Or Strider has to hit a goblin with his sword 300 times before it dies?
These aren't weapons. They're Nerf products!
Envision Frodo's spider scene. Now imagine the spider doesn't actually try to wrap him in webs, but just kind of barks at him. I've yet to see a game that actually has spiders fight the way a spider would, wrapping people up.
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Blizzard is already in the process of making a movie. In fact they have already snagged the studio that did 300 for the filming.
There's an ongoing meme that WoW is "using up" lore created from previous Warcraft games. And I'd have to say that this is true to an extent. We seem to be systematically killing all major lore villains, or helping the good ones resolve pre-existing plotlines.
Of course, WoW has come up with a lot of great original material. New villains/factions/etc. But we usually end up killing them also.
I can see WoW going on for a few more expansions, but after a certain point it'll get silly. Didn't Blizzard originally say that they wanted to stop at level 100? After that, they need to reboot the fictional universe somehow and start fresh.
A movie, set a number of years "after" WoW, would be a great way of doing that.
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I definitely agree. There was a lot of superfluous stuff that wasn't necessary to the movie. I don't have a problem with the removal of stuff; I just don't like it when stuff is changed that doesn't need to be changed. I loved the first movie. There were a couple changes that I didn't think were necessary but didn't detract from the overall plot. And then I watched the second movie. Faramir capturing the Hobbits to bring them to Gondor, the elves coming to Helm's Deep, etc. I remember watching that movie and saying "What the hell? That never happened!"
I certainly don't dislike the movies, hell, I have the Boxed Set of the Extended Edition DVDs. I really enjoy the movies. I also agree that it's definitely one of the best adaptions of a book (or books) that I've ever seen. However, I still don't think it was the best way to do it. Rather than just cut out un-necessary parts and make slight alterations to account for them, he went and straight-out changed things that were completely contrary to what actually happened.
So, while I do like the movies and I enjoy watching them, I still think that it could have been better. Jackson certainly didn't change a lot of the story, but those few niggling points grind on my soul like nails on a chalkboard whenever I see them in the movies. So, I'm sticking with my original idea of him doing a decent job overall.
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The grinding sequence was done really well by the Southpark guys.
I'd love to see a WoW movie that is up to Blizzard standards. I like the trailers they've made.
Indeed, it takes a pure genious to make exciting films out of that kind of base material. How he managed to make people actually stay in the theaters for over thirty minutes when the story actually revolved around something Tolkien has written will forever remain a mystery to me.
Now do proceed marking me Troll, I don't care. I'll stand by my opinion that from a literary point of view, Tolkien's written garbage. While the guy did a fabulous job 'inventing' whole races and languages and so forth, the writing still remains atrocious.
Don't forget Gimli being mainly comic relief. This still bugs me. You could have removed Gimli from the movie completely, and it would have been like removing the monkey from Speed Racer, a better experience.
In the book he was useful, somewhat noble, and not terribly amusing.
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