This is an unofficial news site about the live action movie adaptation of
Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe.
I am a Warcraft fan for more
then a decade and I think Warcraft lore is one of the best in game history,
also Blizzard is not making bad projects so this movie will be damn good.
Now we just need to wait 8) cheerz!
World of Warcraft
Battle Chest - $29.99
Wrath of the Lich King
ORDER - $39.99
BlizzCon 2008
So BlizzCon finished, everyone was expecting something new about the movie and we got nothing.
Seriously, someone asked one of the Blizz staff about the movie and only thing he said was they are making it, and if says anything more they will kill him.
Who knows what happend with the poor bloke, maybe BSS (Blizzard Secret Service) did something to him after all ;)
But is it only me or Blizz is taking this just little too far, or they are not really that much in the movie yet so makes sense to tell nothing cuz there is nothing yet.
And on IMDB it says movie going out in 2009. - strange are the ways of Blizz :)
Wrath of Lich King Cinematic
In the lack of any actual movie content I will put atleast something that is movie like. Its new cinematic intro for Blizzard World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King. In other words awesome, what else to say about this imba cinematic.
Uwe Boll and World Of Warcraft :)
Whatever else negative you can say about Uwe Boll, one thing you can’t criticize him on is his strong love for video games. I mean, there may be over 200,000 signatures on an online petition asking that he stop making movies, but he clearly loves the gamer market, and at least goes into each project hoping to make good films for that fanboy community.
Right? Right?!?
“You go for it, to please the game fans, but on the other hand if you have the hard core gamers, they live in their own world. And you cannot fulfill their ideas from a video game based movie, it’s impossible,” Boll recently told MTV News. “And to be honest, the real gamers are the typical download guys, right? They don’t pay anything for movies, because they illegally download the movies. So why I should please these guys? I need the normal audience.”
That’s the Uwe Boll I know and love – the Uwe Boll who’ll criticize even his most ardent followers. God bless you, sir.
But if you’re not going to make a faithful adaptation, why make an adaptation at all? Apparently, the folks over at Blizzard wonder the same thing, since they practically laughed Boll out of their offices when he approached them about making a World of Warcraft adaptation, the director confessed.
“I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, ‘We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you,’” Boll revealed. “Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”
A bad movie! He called his hypothetical adaptation bad. Awesome.
Warcraft Lore Cinematics
Nothing new from Blizz about the movie but just to something new on the web page. Someone ppl on YT made a nice collection of Warcraft Cinematics from WC3 and WoW so I put them all in Videos part of site to actualy have something there :)
Its a nice way to catch up on some historical events if you are new the the whole Warcraft Lore and for those who already seen the cinematics and know the lore to remember how we came to this point in WoW ;)
Cheerz
Nothing new but just to put something :)
Its just unbelivable how many new info is coming out about Warcraft movie. Let me see, in last couple of months - zero :)
Sometimes I just hate Blizz and their Top Secret Production. They could atleast once a month make public some concept art or a name involved with the movie, but thats Blizz :)
Anyway, I put two music videos in the cool stuff. Not about the movie thou, but atleast WoW community is doing something in public :)
Also check out the Tales of the Past machinima WoW story.
Blizzcon 2007. and Warcraft the Movie
Well finaly something solid about movie. On this years Blizzcon lots of
juicy details came out in a conference talk between few main people
in the project. First thing is that the movie is scheduled to go live
during 2009. but because at this moment not cast or the director is
chosen, i think late 2009. prolly :)
Second, the movie will be big, huge and even epic, budget is $100mil with
a + prolly because Blizzard is known to do their projects perfect. The
story will happen about a year before World of Warcraft story (game time
ofc) and it will focused on what the whole Warcraft is all about - conflict
between Orcs and Humans. There will be new hero introduced, a badass hero
they said with a theme of conflict and culture. The movie will be more
of War movie then a quest one from the Alliance perspective, so we can
expect a badass battle too. We will see races and characters already known
through the game story.
Here are few quotes from the talk:
“It’s actually not like the great adventure. It’s not
so much a quest movie. It’s more of a war movie. Well, okay, it’s
absolutely a war movie. Cultures grinding up to a horrible moment where
it just all spills over and gets out of control. Less of an adventure party
quest-type situation. More of an armies building to an inevitable conclusion
type situation.”
“While my heart lies with the Horde and Thrall’s an interesting character, from a movie making standpoint, a blockbuster
movie its a little rough to try and tell it from the perspective of this
green looking dude.”
Still no cast and PG-13 content comments:
“We are starting those conversations. We’re
going to be looking for someone of Zak Snyder (300) or Chris Nolan (The
Dark Knight, Batman Beings) calibre”
“I can tell you that this is the one thing about running a studio
and making these things that’s hard. You want to not compromise and
have the right level of intensity. The story and the director’s vision
is what’s ultimately going to dictate that. Personally one of my
favorite movies of all time is Lord of the Rings, which has a PG-13 rating.”
Questions from audience and answers:
Classes will be in the movie, but can’t give details since still
in scripting process, not exactly clear and we don’t know yet, but
we want many familiar elements in the movie as possible
What races will
be represented?
Not very easy to answer considering the timeline we’re
talking about, so they are not sure about if the Forsaken have yet joined
the Horde But not everyone can be in the spotlight in the first movie anyway
Warcraft has a lot of strong characters, would you consider going back
to do another movie on Arthas?
I would consider that, sure, but we haven’t
talked about what other films might deal with. We have to get the first
movie right first before you deal with franchises.
This is based on two
or three major moments in the games, so it isn’t radically apart
from the continuity, so it really holds together. We want it to taste like
the World of Warcraft world. but it’s also really fresh. I understand
the fear that you don’t want us to screw up the story, but we will
be respectful of the continuity but will hold up as a killer 2 hour movie.
It is a little modified. There’s so much in this world to deal with,
so you use that as a jumping off point to tell a kick ass story. They want
the players to enjoy the movie experience, if they are too much a slave
to the story that won’t be the case. They want to respect the world,
but to translate it to the screeen and is great on film.
Speaking at the Hollywood and Game summit keynote, Thomas
Tull (Legendary Pictures Chairman) gave some new information regarding
the Warcraft live action movie, ensuring everyone that the movie will be dealt with as necessary.
He begins, “We’re
doing World of Warcraft, and making it into a movie. I have very strong
feelings — from
the movie side — that making movies based on games just because they
sold well is a really bad idea. There’ve been some like that that
weren’t up to snuff just out of the gate. It doesn’t matter
to us if it’s based on a graphic novel like [Frank Miller’s]
300, or a TV show – if there’s a great universe and story,
that’s what’s interesting to us.”
In the following Question
and Answer session Tull stated that Legendary and Blizzard are working
very closely together to get the storyline perfect by pinpointing what
makes up the essence of the Warcraft universe:
“I think some of the
stuff that makes a game translate well into a movie is a good story. If
there’s a lore, if there’s a road and story and a world that’s
been created, and characters that are interesting in a way that’s
more than just point and shoot. You have to look at it and not make a novelty
out of it. Not just look at sales records. Blizzard plays a very important
role in this process. If you’ve created a game, be it Halo, Gears
Of War, or Warcraft [each being transformed into a movie] - you came up
with something that’s compelling enough to resonate with a huge number
of people. There has to be a trust, and you have to at some point hand
over the baton to people who know how to make films.”
“We are
working very closely with the designers and writers, and they’re
very involved. I think on the bigger [films] you have to have that. They’re
sitting right there at the table with us as we develop the story and the
script, and I think we’re nailing the story and what’s compelling
about it.”
There’s a World of Warcraft
Movie in the works, do you expect that to enjoy similar success? We’ve been working on that movie for years!
If people only knew how many years we put in to closing this movie deal.
We’re very happy with our progress though, it was really difficult
for us as a company to find some we trusted to work with. With Legendary,
well, they did Batman Returns and the new Superman so we knew that was
a company we wanted to work with. Bringing Warcraft to the movies is the
next step for us, we want to let people bring World of Warcraft into other
aspects of their lives. After all, we’re competing for people’s
entertainment time, whether it’s listening to music watching TV or
going to the cinema. Our goal is to provide the best entertainment out
there.
Any news on when we can expect to see the film? Hollywood has it’s
own pace but we’re working as hard as we can to push it forwards.
May 8th 2006 Blizzard Entertainment made an announcement that their
Warcraft universe would be adapted into a movie. Legendary Pictures, a
company behind Superman Returns, Batman
Begins and 300, are to develop the live action film with distribution
likely to be Warner Brothers as part of an existing agreement.
Paul Sams, chief operating officer for Blizzard had this to
say, “We searched for a very long time to find
the right studio for developing a movie based on one of our game universes.
Many companies approached us in the past, but it wasn’t until we met with Legendary Pictures
that we felt we’d found the perfect partner. They clearly share our
high standards for creative development, and because they understand the
vision that we’ve always strived for with our Warcraft games, we
feel there isn’t a better studio out there for bringing the Warcraft
story to film.”
Whilst Thomas Tul, CEO of legendary pictures stated, “One
of our goals at Legendary Pictures has been to bring heroic stories to
life in groundbreaking ways, and it’s inspiring to work with a company
such as Blizzard that takes that approach with each of its products. The
Warcraft universe is possessed of such a rich mythology and, as such, serves
as an ideal platform as we go about translating that universe into what
we intend to be a major event film.”
With regards to the adaptation,
Legendary Pictures’ Jon Jashni said, “We
are intending to approach this as we would the adaptation of a best-selling
novel: respect the essence of all that it is but also build upon that fertile
base while translating it into a new medium.”
