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World of Warcraft Film Shooting Begins Early 2014
An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this year Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) was announced as Director of the long-awaited movie based on World of Warcraft. Legendary Pictures finally appears to be ready to move forward with production. Producer Charles Roven confirmed to SlashFilm that World of Warcraft: The Movie 3D IMAX Experience (suggested title) begins shooting in early 2014."
World of Warcraft: The Grind of Darkness
Producer Charles Roven confirmed...
Is there any justification for not having Uwe Boll do this?
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I'm hoping its 10 hours long so I have a reason to use my poop sock.
I swear to god if they do dailies of farming, I'll /ragequit the movie and punch the guy at the ticket counter.
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Why "World of" warcraft? Is the plot of the movie going to have the inherently global scope that an MMO does? Does Warcraft have a seriously different name recognition from "World of Warcraft"? Does it mirror the "plot" of the MMO? Or does it just take place in Azeroth?
I hope there are not too many fetch quests. Those may make for a fine addiction, but wont keep people interested for ever. Who wants to watch actors collect 100 pelts to craft a new sword?
The first hour is basically just a group of people waiting for their tank to get online so that they can start the raid. The movie ends a half hour later, after the group had to settle for their off-tank filling the spot of their main. The group then proceeds to wipe to trash mobs over and over and over, until their healer has a complete breakdown, quits the guild, disconnects from the raid.
.. it's at least 5 years too late
World of Warcraft: Killing boar in the forest
sudo make me a sandwich
How come that there will be a new Star Wars before WoW movie?
Why the hell is Blizzard so fucking slow?
It's just a reboot of the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
Probably waited a little too long. Story went off the rails around Cataclysm. Problems with class imbalances favoring overpowered death knights and paladins are so 2007 and 2008. Even the Mists of Kung-Fu Panda complaints are so last year.
I'm really not sure that they're going to manage anything with this that's significantly better than the godawful Dungeons & Dragons movie we got back around the turn of the century. Is the Warcraft lore and universe really strong enough to support a movie?
They had a reasonable enough storyline that ran from Warcraft 3 through to Wrath of the Lich King, centred on Arthas, but even that felt a bit Anakin Skywalker-derivative (though happily no Gungans here). Beyond that, the universe is about as generic fantasy as you can get. The elves have pointy ears and like trees, the dwarves have Scottish accents and like beer. Whenever they've tried to strike away from the core Arthas plot, the results have been either tedious (Cataclysm) or silly (Pandaria).
Ah well, I suspect that given the normal development process, any movie will just end up as a thin pastiche with only a passing resemblance to the original IP anyway.
I hope they make a bad movie and everyone gives a general 2-4 out of 10 or just enough so that the game gets affected. That way the game will lose subscribers and all other mmo's will trive from its destruction. Evil yes... but sometimes destruction must ensue in order for others to live adequately.
I really hope the movie is not a Live action film. Blizzard guys make some of the best cinematics in the industry, would be great to see a CGI WoW Movie.
World of Warcraft: The Movie 3D IMAX Experience (suggested title) begins shooting in early 2014.
No matter how bad the movie turns out, if they do a co-promotion that rewards players with a highly desirably in-game item, millions will go see it. I suggest that the item take the form of a ticket item that allows you to fight a special "Shark" mob, with a hidden weakness triggered by jumping.
Thrall, Warchief of the Horde - Chris Metzen
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner - Chris Metzen
Mekgineer Thermaplugg - Chris Metzen
Scarlet Highlord Darion Mograine - Chris Metzen
Malygos, the Spell-Weaver, Aspect of the Blue Dragonflight - Chris Metzen
Illidan Stormrage, The Betrayer - Chris Metzen
Prince Arthas Menethil - Chris Metzen
King Varian Wrynn - Chris Metzen
Ragnaros, the Firelord - Chris Metzen
Additional Voices - Chris Metzen
If it's only available in 3D and/or IMAX I won't be seeing it, at least not in a theater. 3D gives me a migraine and IMAX cost more to sit closer to a screen.
>> the long-awaited movie based on World of Warcraft
I laughed when I read that too. I don't think anyone, ever, has said, "the stories from Warcraft are so good that I'd pay to see them on the big screen while I passively sit around and watch them." Warcraft plots are just thin rationalizations for having two similar groups engage in tactical combat with one another, or set-ups for jokes. Even the cut-scenes are known to run long.
Blizzard, please stick to what you know, and hurry up with the StarCraft II WarChest set so I can finally pick it up the whole series for $29.99.
are you implying they hadn't already jumped the shark with mists of pandaria that started as an April Fools joke for Warcraft III (prior to WoW)?
I really hope the catchphrase during the advertising of this movie is LEEROY JENKINS
A CG movie made from an MMO set in a Lord of the Rings knock-off universe. It has hit written all over it.
When you watch the movie for the first time, you'll be given a stamp book. Each time you pay to watch the movie you get a stamp.
For stamps 1-7, you only get to watch the first 15 minutes of the movie.
Stamps 8-14 allow the next 15 minutes, but you have to watch the first 15 minutes each time as well.
Stamp 15 allows you to sit through the ad break.
16-22 gives you the 20 minutes after the ad break, and you're told to enjoy the extra free content.
23-29 has only ten minutes, though, but that's okay because this is WARCRAFT we're talking about.
The 30th stamp will allow you to watch the underwhelming finale and the To Be Continued screen.
At random points you will be set upon by an angry mob as you come out from the movie. You will be mugged and beaten up with baseball bats for the true World PVP experience.
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i've always found it compelling, how all orcs became docile and listless after their defeat in the first war of orcs vs humans. the orcs were then rounded up and enslaved by the humans. thrall was raised by a human but eventually rebelled, freeing prison camp after prison camp and eventually amassing enough followers to found the horde and begin building a new nation.
i'm sure we will just get lots of dumb eye candy and explosions though, and the world will be blessed with yet another awful video game movie.
i could live a little longer in this prison
I hope there's a free trial for the movie, so I can try it out before committing to a subscription.
Could I pay someone to watch this movie for me? I'm only interested in seeing the ending.
When I played I used to cringe when people recited the lore of the game. I just kept thinking, "The lore is just an excuse to shove another weird looking group in the game for us to kill."
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Since the plot of Warcraft started to go south about the time Draenei were retconned in BC, got worse when they turned Arthas into a Saturday morning cartoon villain, and completely derailed by Cataclysm...
Why are they bothering? I'm surprised they didn't just cancel the whole thing once Raimi jumped ship.
This movie will probably center around one of the following characters:
- King Varian Wrynn, a royal d-bag who no Alliance player actually likes.
- Garrosh Hellscream, a royal d-bag who no Horde player actually likes.
- Thrall: Chris Metzen's mary sue character. He was reasonably likable in WC3 and early WoW because he did his best to restore honor to the Horde and at least made efforts to engage the other side for peace. Then Metzen decided to turn him into an over-the-top Shaman Jesus and make him the supreme savior of all Azeroth.
All of these characters simply server to undermine the importance of the players and their actions in WoW. Most players who actually care about the story have gotten sick of them and most of the remaining "major lore characters."
They may have as well let Uwe Boll direct. He would have at least made a movie that was so bad it was fun to watch just to laugh at the cheesiness.
Uwe Boll?
Have you ever heard of these things called books? They don't involve gameplay, but they are still a form of entertainment that Warcraft is a part of.
Warcraft fans have wanted a movie since before WORLD of Warcraft was even conceived.
You're probably just too young to know any better or for your opinions to even matter.
I'm sure the books were so good that even without the success of the World of Warcraft game this movie would've gotten greenlighted.
World of Warcraft is on it's way down.
Did Uwe Boll get the rights to make it?
The studio must have real faith in the movie if they're doing it in 3D.
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Southpark did this years ago...
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e08-make-love-not-warcraft
I played for about 2 years and enjoyed the heck out of the game. When I had my fill, I quit with memories of what I consider the greatest game ever created. Now, for some reason WoW is the object of derision of geeks. And, from complaints I can tell it's people who played FAR longer than I did as they're bitching about higher level classes and dungeons than I ever achieved.
It's not Blizzards fault that you played a fun and engaging game with the pathological craving of a drug addict until you couldn't stand it anymore. That's on YOU and your lack of self control. If grinding bothered you, you would've stopped playing before you got your first mount.
I play Eve now and there's the same incessant, pretentious mocking of WoW from people act like they moved to the Hamptons with their "new money" airs of superiority. And, as perplexing as it is for me to understand, the same people who spend hours probing for wormholes or mining lasers mock their days grinding in WoW!
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
It's not Blizzards fault that you played a fun and engaging game with the pathological craving of a drug addict until you couldn't stand it anymore. That's on YOU and your lack of self control. If grinding bothered you, you would've stopped playing before you got your first mount.
Well it is kind of their fault, as in totally their fault. Why? For cynically designing a skinner box / game to string people along for months and months. They weren't the first or only MMO to do it but they were sure as hell the most successful and perfected it.
Anyway subscriptions are falling month on month so I imagine that there are a great many people who've quit either through boredom, cost or the growing realisation that they weren't actually enjoying themselves. It's not the end of skinner boxes though - most of the top grossing "free" games on mobile OSes are just shitty time management games working on similar principles.
TIL the entire movie will be shot from 3 feet above and 6 feet behind the main character.
The Plot of the movie will be as follows:
Moviegoers will watch as only a few of the cast actual show up on time for the movie and will wait around for about an hour or so for the rest. After which a number of key roles will be missing, and which point the cast will start pugging actors from other movies which are currently playing which will take about another hour of the movie. The last 30 minutes of the movie which will be an exciting action packed blockbuster, which will eventually end with all the good guys eventually die, saying the hell with it and.... fin... fade to black... CUT!.
I really don't get what's all the hype with 3D either. Very few movies can actually be compelling to watch in 3D, the new Star Trek being at least amusing in that front. But in general I think the trade off between having 3D and losing sharpness in the picture because of the glasses (or whatever it is that causes the distortion) is not really worth it to me anymore. I enjoy a Blu-ray movie a lot more than I enjoy 3D, but I don't go alone to the movies and it seems that a lot of people prefer 3D :(.
Wait... What movie theater do you attend where there's still a live human ticket vendor -and- there isn't a piece of glass protecting said ticket vendor?
Most places had the glass 20 years ago, and a lot of places started switching to ticket machines about 5 years ago.
No, the lore is there because some people grew up playing the original Warcraft games, so reading all that is actually pretty cool, and I'm really sorry that you weren't able to experience the single player aspect of the game a lot more. This is why stuff like QuestHelper killed a big part of the game. That's the whole point of role-play, that you make an effort to immerse yourself in the world.
...should be the title
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I have seen Warcraft books in Latin American bookstores and Asian bookstores and they do sell. I have read a couple and the stories are pretty good, especially the ones with Illidan.
The only movie theater he has been to was the one in his basement.
I thought they already made one...didn't Eric Cartman star in the first one?
I feel the same thing. WoW will always be part of my hall of fame games, no matter how many haters out there. I think the only games that can rival how much I played WoW is all my RTS games combined. So they must have done something right because I wasn't exactly alone and most of us weren't kids either.
Perrysburg Ohio, that's where
I believe in karma, which is why, when I do something bad to people, I assume they deserve it.
perfect timing... the movie can no longer drive away hardcore fans of warcraft no matter how crap it is.... WOW has already done it :)
The theaters around where I live also use humans to sell the tickets. No security windows, either.
It might be a city vs. suburb thing.
Well it is kind of their fault, as in totally their fault. Why? For cynically designing a skinner box / game to string people along for months and months.
Quite the opposite. A major reason WoW succeeded over EQ was because it took out the skinner box elements of past MMOs. WoW moved away from the old "he who stays online (in the skinner box) longer wins" paradigm.
From little things like rested XP, to big things like the (never ending) balancing between PvE and PvP, to adding new ways for people to level up and get geared for end game content.
Basically, you can jump off the ship at any time, and when you return, it won't take too long to catch back up. That is markedly different from the skinner box approach of those "time management" games you speak of, where frequent and continuous participation is encouraged, lest you fall behind.
I have seen Warcraft books in Latin American bookstores and Asian bookstores and they do sell. I have read a couple and the stories are pretty good, especially the ones with Illidan.
you do realize that without wow they would have been just written as generic fantasy stories, ad&d stories or star wars stories? right? or most probably as warhammer stories.
wow has the highest fanbase, so that's what gets pay of the week and that's the branding that goes on the story.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
...too late.
Wacraft radically changed between the first expansion and the current one. Gameplay is very different from what it once was. Imagine football fans being told that the rules of the game are going to be completely re-written so that it plays more like soccer, that watching the now "old-school" football they loved is now impossible, and that if they have a problem with that, they can go watch baseball or hockey instead. Of course they're going to rage.
Why didn't they do this when the game was popular? This is going to go over as well as a Flash Gordon movie.
I live in Minneapolis MN and the big city has plenty of movie theaters where there is not glass that separates you from the cashier. It is the suburbs who have the security windows
If I had to guess, the chances of a security windows would be based on how much cash was being used verse ease of escape. The inner city first run theater (now closed) did not have security windows – but it took a lot of credit cards and you had to run 3 level of stairs before you got out of the building. The suburb one faced out onto a freezing cold parking lot.
I thought the weakness was saying the screen name backwards?
And on top of that, they added frickin' pandas. The idiots should have bought the rights of FF XI from Square Enix instead.
Female Mithras in santa suits... <Homer drool>
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Is it going to look cartoony and crappy like the video game?
The movie is not "World of Warcraft", it's just "Warcraft". Warcraft is more than just "WoW" - there's a rich book series that's actually very entertaining, and there were RTS games. All the games and books were amazing.
I can't wait for the movie..
There's a theatre in Perrysburg? I haven't lived in the area for 10+ years, but I thought you had to drive into Maumee.
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That isn't to say WoW is no fun at all. I expect like most MMOs it's a lot of fun at the beginning but that slowly gives way to repetition and grind and the process is so gradual that players don't necessarily see it happening.
They have finally sorted their major design requirements.
* Viewers not in the US will have the audio 200ms out of sync from the video.
* The first 45 minutes will be the dps waiting for the tanks and healers to show up.
* The movie will start out with the Horde and Alliance with about even representation, but in the last quarter of the movie the Horde will have 80% of the screen time.
* Melee will get great action shots while the casters need the camera to be stationary to be able to do anything.
* During the action scenes, 1 in 25 cinemas will be required to freeze on a frame for 10-15 second, then play the paused bit back in 1-2 seconds.
This company can literally make more on merchandising by making the tickets free... Movie-themed in-game mounts, movie-themes in-game pets, movie-themed in-game rare drops... movie-themed in-game.. oh, whatever. As long as the great grind continues.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
But... the same quarter that WoW lost 1.5 million subscribers, the US Budget deficit dropped roughly 3-fold. Maybe hyper-aggressive mercantile-minded individuals joining the rest of civilization actually produces actual economic activity.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
MORE DOTS! 50 DKP MINUS! Maybe they'll finally find Mankrik's wife.
I forget that I actually tried World of Warcraft. Everybody had an opinion, so I had to see it for myself.
I didn't last 3 days. I literally got bored of the game in three days. I was thinking I'd play it for a month or two, but when I discovered what the game actually was, which was just clicking on crude animations until they fall down, I said sayonara.
I don't understand HOW people could become addicted to it in the first place. It was just so BORING. My friends said it got more interesting later on, but why would anybody bother?
That's because you only played for 2 years. I'm going to assume it was either Vanilla or The Burning Crusade that you played? Those were good times! The story was interesting, the encounters challenging, the end-game exclusive.
Don't ever, ever go back. End-game is faceroll easy, level progression is so fast you miss all of the awesome content (Duskwood is empty, as is the entirety of Outland), and good story telling has been exchanged for lame puns and double-entendre. You will be disappointed.
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Full sets of Org and Stormwind, a romance between a human and blood elf and the story of their doomed relationship. Sort of an adult Romeo & Juliet. Lots of singing shop keepers and AH workers. They meet during an Alliance raid on Undercity where the Belf happens to be visiting the apothecary and the human is smitten.
When you sympathize with stupidity, you start thinking like an idiot.
At least Imax 3D is bright. Our only local theater has crappy projectors that are so dim that you can't see anything. I boycott 3D pretty much all the time for this reason. Sharpness? Can't say that I've noticed a big diff. I've yet to see anything that made 3D truly compelling for me, including The Hobbit. I'll wait for the 2D version or the DVD.
When you sympathize with stupidity, you start thinking like an idiot.
I wanna see Hellscream go all Le Mis on it...