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Blizzard to Boll - DENIED!

Posted by timothy on from the no-cheese-for-you dept.

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.""

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  1. WoW Movie by Obsi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why couldn't Peter Jackson and some of Blizzard's cinematics team get together on it? I mean, Jackson DID take a large, well fleshed out world and adapt it to screen with AWESOME results.

    1. Re:WoW Movie by Xest · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.

    2. Re:WoW Movie by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

      There was a lot of parts that just really dragged on. And a WoW movie will be different how? Grind, grind, grind. Grind, grind, grind. Raid! Grind, grind, grind.
    3. Re:WoW Movie by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

      > 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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    4. Re:WoW Movie by Cornflake917 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The GP didn't say Jackson did an "AWESOME" job, he said that the results were awesome, which is hard to argue considering the success of the films.

      However, I think he did a great job. Look at any book-to-movie adaption, aside from movies based off books that read like a movie, the movies always fail to capture everything from the book. Given the herculean task of moving the trilogy to less than 10 hours of film, I don't think anyone could have done a better job. Yes, there were some important parts missing but unless you enjoy sitting down for 5 hours straight (I don't), something had to be cut.

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    5. Re:WoW Movie by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, there were some important parts missing but unless you enjoy sitting down for 5 hours straight (I don't), something had to be cut.
      In regards to a WoW film, I think you may be on to something.

    6. Re:WoW Movie by Wreckdom · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  2. a shame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a shame, because if there's someone who could capture the sheer mundacity of WoW, I think it would be Boll.

    1. Re:a shame by Wylfing · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Fade in to a low fly-by of a dwarf on griffin-back swooping over the trees of Winterspring. Cut to three adventurers (a human warrior with impossibly enormous shoulder guards, a female night elf with thigh-high boots and no pants encircled by a shimmering bubble, and a goatee-sporting gnome shifting back and forth with two giant-sized red-hot-glowing maces in his hands) on the ground looking up at the passing griffin rider. The camera swings to track the speeding flyer. Cut to an absurdly massive axe, crackling with electrical energy, cleaving the head of a white furbolg.

      HUMAN - Pile those corpses high, Ihealuloolzzz. Lilkneestaßßer needs that agility enchantment, and those greedy beasts in Timbermaw Hold won't give it to us unless we kill enough of their enemies!

      IHEALULOOLZZZ - By the light of Elune, Tànkérlordd, it shall be done!

      LILKNEESTAßßER - Off and away!

      Cut to 9-minute montage of our heroic trio slaying thousands upon thousands of furbolgs. Intersperse clips of them ripping beaded necklaces from their slain foes, and other clips showing them spilling gold-bound chests full of these necklaces onto the floor in front of the Timbermaw denizens. Over the course of the montage, we repeatedly see the face of an important-looking Timbermaw shaman. At first the face is frowny and angry, but over time it appears friendlier and friendlier.

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    2. Re:a shame by nawcom · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  3. Come on, let's deal with this once and for all by Ecuador · · Score: 5, Informative

    We are still almost 800k signatures short. Guys, just sign the petition and the nightmare will be over. (In case you missed it, Uwe said he will stop if 1 Million people ask him to.)

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  4. In a purely hypothetical case... by Cadallin · · Score: 5, Funny
    Wouldn't it be easier to just shoot him in the head?

    Not that I'm suggesting anyone should. Just y'know, it'd be a lot more expedient than a petition.

  5. Re:May I proudly proclaim... by dintech · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope the gaming suits and executives trying to learn everything the can from Blizzard's business model extend their eduction to this example too.

  6. Re:I love Uwe by thebonafortuna · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who modded this "Flamebait"?

    Note: Just because we don't agree, or disagree in the strongest terms possible, hardly means someone deserves to be punished for posting an honest, non-inflammatory, contradicting opinion.

    If you disagree, go ahead and do so in a constructive way - by posting an intelligent rebuttal. But if punishing someone for taste were allowed on /., the boards would degenerate into Mac vs. PC, Xbox vs. PS3, Red vs. Blue, reasoned vs. impertinent...oh wait.