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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 swear to god if they do dailies of farming, I'll /ragequit the movie and punch the guy at the ticket counter.
There may be no "I" in team, but there's also no "F" in way.
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
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 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
I can see it now: A highly regarded WOW player doesn't show up to two consecutive raids and the entire guild leaves their basement to figure out where he disappeared to.
Alternate title: "The girl with the Dragon Mount."
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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More like "A screaming match breaks out on Teamspeak after the loot master gives all the raid winnings to his buddies."
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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!
TIL the entire movie will be shot from 3 feet above and 6 feet behind the main character.
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.
I can see it now: A highly regarded WOW player doesn't show up to two consecutive raids and the entire guild leaves their basement to figure out where he disappeared to.
Alternate title: "The girl with the Dragon Mount."
Iv already seen that one, its called The Guild.
http://www.watchtheguild.com/
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