The Five Things you Should Know About the New Warcraft Movie
With the first production Warcraft movie now almost a certainty, we have a look at what this means. What can we expect from our favourite game franchise at it reaches the big screen?
It will be directed by Sam Raimi. This is good news. Sam has great directorial experience on films such as Evil Dead and Scream, not to mention the first three Spider Man movies. The Hollywood rumour mill has it that Sam is keen to keep to the existing lore and outline of Warcraft. Something that can’t be said for many film tie-ins who immediately alienate the audience by breaking the whole Lore of the product they are based on. Good news then.
It is being written by the Robert Rodat (not Donat as reported elsewhere. Bob Donat is dead. We have said our final goodbye to Mr Chips sadly). Anyway, again a great pedigree. He wrote Saving Private Ryan, apparently after sitting and thinking on his son’s eighth birthday about war (apparently his son ’s birthday is 6th June - D-Day). Not sure if my 9 year old would be happy if I spent his birthday musing about the past, but in Robert’s case it proved to be a good thing. Ryan is perhaps the greatest and most realistic take on war Hollywood has done in the last thirty years…
New Zealand is being cited as the most likely venue for the outdoor filming. This makes some sense, there is enough of New Zealand to go around, and the aspects certainly evoke an “Azerothian” feel to me.
The earliest possible release is late 2011. That’s almost two years time. It is far more likely however that the film will be out in 2012. Why? Because this reviewer feels that whatever the expansion after Cataclysm is, it will be out in late 2012. My betting the two will be released together, and there will be a synergy between them. Expect Lore to be advanced and concepts inter-changed between the film and whatever the fourth expansion turns out to be.
With the director and writer in place we can expect an action based movie to be the result. LotR was a quest movie with action in it. Warcraft will be an action movie with some quest and plot advancement in it. That’s speculation for now, but with the pedigree of the writer and director (not to mention the production company) it seems far more likely that we will see a lot of hack and slash (and whizz and puff for the magic users out there)
Certain aspects are still totally unknown. The plot, actors and full storyline are a complete mystery. The chances are that even the film’s producers do not know who or what they are.
On that note, perhaps the best news as far as I’m concerned is that the production company is Legendary Pictures (Batman Begins, 300) With a pedigree like that I expect to be blown away by the new Warcraft movie.
Now this site is up and running properly again, we will take the time every so often to keep you up to date with the progress of this movie. Expect star Bio’s and location shots as soon as we can get hold of them.
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