Today at BlizzCon 2007 we have heard our first solid and interesting information with regards to the Warcraft, or to some, the World of Warcraft Movie. This movie will be big, huge, EPIC even — in fact, Thomas Tull (producer of 300) stated a budget of over $100m would be committed, with a projected 2009 release date. Legendary Pictures are 100% committed to this project, it shall be a “tent-pole”, something to stand next to and say “we did that!” — whilst remaining true to the game and fan base.
The plot for the film will take place approximately a year before the start of World of Warcraft, including races you have played and lands you have wandered in, where lots of plot arcs are melded into a two and a half hour story. The film itself will revolve around a ‘badass’ new hero, with a theme towards conflict and culture — being a War Movie rather than a quest movie, from an Alliance’s perspective.
“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.”
And w.r.t to the Alliance:
“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.”
No director or cast have yet been assigned to the project and Tull stated that recognizable actors to play main roles was not a necessity:
“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,”
The not so good news — seems they are aiming for PG-13 content which claims to be a compromise. I personally miss the days of old when action heroes swore blindly.
“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.”
The film is still in its scripting process, but Tull stated that they are currently working with something that they are very happy with.
And now for the first piece of concept art of the Teldrassil:
Other Q & A info:
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.
And here is an after-video from IGN:
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The action and dialogue in the Warcraft games are more or less PG-13 anyway. As a huge Blizzard fan(boy) I’m looking forward to this.
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Yeah adding in swearing would be changing the game into something it’s not. I don’t think it’d make it any more gritty, just forced and pretentious.
Why simplify the plot? Every war has heroics and corruption on both sides.
Since at lest half of the players play Horde, you’re going to alienate them. And newcomers to the game will base their ideas on the movie. All of the Horde will be EBUL to them, and it’s just not true.
It would only take a little stretch of brain power to create a scenario that shows the good and bad of both groups. Your audience is perfectly capable of understanding “a green-looking dude” Hell, Shrek is a green dude, and he’s doing okay!
Live action movie would be made of suck. A CGI one would be fantastic. Of course, if they’re looking for actors…bleh.
I think they would be better off just making the entire movie animated like their cinematic.
In My opinion, they should make 3 movies just like LOTR, simply because they have had two World Of Warcraft games out already, and the 3rd one is coming, so I think they should make three movies
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wow, i can’t believe thay are actually going to make a movie.. that is going to be one incredible film, especially Thomas Tull who’s work i’m an incredible fan of. i can’t wait to see how it turns up =] good luck guys x]
cool i hopethe movie comes out as good as it sounds they should also make a movie based on the forsaken cus they have a long extensive and intracate storylin itd make a nice part 2
Definitely happy that Legendary has picked this up. Then again, they could pick up any blizzard title and make it into an epic film saga. I love the war idea, and with a huge budget it is going to rock.
I have only one problem with this movie though…are people ready for another Saga of humans and orcs battling in an ancient and mystical era?(LOTR wasnt THAT long ago). Still, this will be a great film, but Legendary needs to get back on Diablo(especially since it should be Rated R, it is the Lord of Terror here).
Keep it up Legendary and Blizzard, together you guys can bring to life the most epic videogames ever(minus FF7)
lol… people you are WAY too serious into this thing. =)
i look forward to the movie but you guys should consider getting a life? Or a girlfriend maybe?
Give some bloody war movie..No more LOTR…This must be sth different..instead of having 2–3 staring in the movive, i’ d like it more to see the whole story…Gief some Hyjal
Sounds good, Except i think it would be awsome if it was animated, i just cant imagine it being real. The in game videos are just so cool, i really think it should be something like that, except really brutal in the fight scenes.
Edzor [Stormscale]
Orc Shaman for the win.
If they make it real images, or whatever they call it, no doubt it will be a huge, monumental failure. The world of warcraft lives by the style of the characters, and making a green guy like thrall look god in a real image film will just ruin is image, and the same for the other races. I WANT AN ANIMATION MOVIE, just like the ones they put on the games, pretty good the one with the crow in Warcraft 3. This I would pay to see, will not spend a dime in a real pic movie on this theme.
I agree that the movie would be much better as a cinematic. I also think that the movie will not make as much money as it would if it were done from BOTH faction’s perspectives, not just alliance (ickkk).
Ok, ok, if it is live action I am going to personally make sure that the tape never goes on screen. The only reason I like expansion packs is because of the new cinematics. Blizzard, hear me! Cinematics is the way to go! Live action will ruin the movie! It’s going to be another D&D/Eragon Cheese fest allover again! I also think they should do a LOTR type of thing and combine war with quest.
THIS MOVIE IS GOIN TO FUKIN ROCK DUUUDE WOOOOOOOOO CANT WAIT FOR THIS SHIT TO COME OUT. GONNA BE FUKIN GREAT TO WATCH IT WEN IM HIGH MOFO.
I’ve liked the story for the warcraft movie be a what will be after the frozen trone.That will be so beater den some oder story.If they chose the oder story it will not be so good because they allways change something i now it must change but they can have for the main man in the movie Artahs or ilidan or maybe the leader of silver hand i can’t remember what is his name but he is in WarCraf III:Rain of Chaos…
I think the movie would only be really goood if it was CGI. Live actors just wouldn’t work with WoW, just a really long introduction cinematic with a storyline would be amazing. The only reason they should be looking for actors is for voice overs.
i 100% agree with Stella O , thats just not fair
why cant we have both the faction stories
having “Alliance’s perspective” thing totally sucks
its gonna be just like LOTR with the humans being the goodies and the orcs being the baddies and you know its not like that
so no im not looking forward to it,i think blizzard should make a movie with their cinematic’s =D but thats just my opinion
lol could you guys imagine “Gnome“actors hehe
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For real fans of the game I think that it will really be great to see WoW on the big screen. Kind of wished that it was from the Hordes’ viewpoint tho. I think that it would explain things a little bit better from that side other then the Alliance.
wow i think that wow would make an awsome movie espeacily the way the say they are goin to make IT !!!!
i would love this film to be in cinematics because that will just look fantastic unlike with actors who arent gonna look anything like the actual characters or even sound like them…and the special features such as a bear running on to a tauren and the tauren nailing it with a totem pole.…that will be impossible to do with real actors…and also the horde are the good side and thats how it should always be
I agree with Nate I think the film should be CGI i love to just wach the cinamatics of WOW cause there awsome and there only what 2 min. long hell 2 1/2 hours of WOW cinamatics would be crazy. And CGI the posabilatys are limitless,I think thats what the players want, although live action if done right would be nice but every movie based on games that has come to the big screen has bombed and i would realy hate for WOW to get messed up and go out like that.
thinking of all Warcraft fanatics around the world, i’m sure this one would become a “movie of the year” , and i bet if this will win as best piture.
I am a devout horde player, and I don’t really care if they make the movie from an Alliance(Noob) point of view, as long as they show a good percentage of parts where the horde stomps them like the dogs … no, worse, humans … they are.
i think ive read somewhere that the movie will have a trilogy like LOTR…
i think it’s:
Warcraft the movie: Fall of Quel’thalas
: Caverns of Time
: Battle of Mount Hyjal
I think the movie must be from a horde prespective because there are a lot of Horde fans out there.And to surely make a nice Warcraft Movie the crew must be a devoted Warcraft fans and to know and fell warcraft i have played Warcraft 3 Choas and Frozen Throne and Read 2 books.I hope the movie is big i cant wait.
I thing that the film must be and from the two sides the Horde and the Alliance and those who watch the film to thing about who is the good one. I thing that it will eb more interesting to people see the great leaders of the horde and the kings of the alliance at the same way.
the script from warcraft 3 would be very decent to use, arthas turning bad!!, orcs, humans, night elvs as allies against the burning legion & undead which is sumat at least different to the LOTR, plus the script is large enough for a trillogy n if not there always the throzen throne to fall into.… its the CGI video clips out of the 3rd game that give ya chills n would make a kick ass move…
300 was also created in 3D for certain cinemas
sooo i say A CGI warcraft movie with warcraft 3 script
n made in 3D for some cinemas:):):)
I’m pretty psyched about this movie guys, but i think that it would be better off made in CGI no? and having just the allies might look great, but both sides should be included, as half the players are Horde too eh?
Please please please dont make it like lord of the rings.
Keep it 100% CGI as per the cinematics, it really gives it a larger than life aura that you just cant get using real actors and sets.
They should totally make a Diablo movie next.
Like old school original Diablo. While Diablo 2 was sweet. There is no capping the eerieness of the first one
i miss the days of Warcraft 1 & 2. That was the classic story, the invasion of Azeroth and the subsequent war between the Alliance and the Horde, with Heroes like Lord Lothar and others, culminating in the battle to destroy the portal. THAT is the ultimate “Warcraft” war movie
Has anyone really read much of the Warcraft lore?
They could produce an epic succession of movies that goes well beyond just a trilogy. They have created such a rich and complex storyline and history that to produce only one movie would be a shame. I would hope they test out the market with this one movie and after its certain eventual success they continue to tell the whole story from beginning to end.
At least the setting will be inside a very, very narrow point of the Warcraft history. This way, once they got us hooked they can go ahead and tell the rest of the story with more movies.
Seeing as how the budget is huge, I can tell i wont be disappointed when i see it. I think live action certainly “spice-up” Warcraft. It’d also be very cool to get a look at a lot of the races. I can’t wait to see what it turns out like, i’ll be first in line for that one =].
Wow I can’t wait for the Movie
But there is a question a huge population that is not acknowledged but expected to play and watch the movie that’s the South African dedicated players…not a mention of a server or even a server portal of some sort…not to mention all the companies that haved offered to host them…
But hey no mater 300 latency or 2000 latency we will support Wow
I probably won’t want to see it if it’s live action…blah. Real people are ugly and boring. I’d much rather it be entirely CGI, Final Fantasy type but advanced, how long’s it been? Seven years? That movie looked great, I’ll bet CGI skills have improved monumentally since then. And the cinematics on the game itself are amazing already, I could watch 3 hours of just that. I certainly hope they take a dual perspective and show both sides for their good and evil. As a Horde player and an American, I can relate to the good and evil in every action. To uphold order you must defend against evil, to defend you must kill, to kill is evil. All wars are evil and the fighting of terrorism soon becomes terrorism. If another country invaded ours even the whiny antiwarsorts would quickly take arms and become insurgents, to protect their precious way of life and their precious fat greedy children. Good day. FOR THE HORDE!
–BS
im glad for once that the alliance are going to be shown in the spot light because horde are usually in it and anyone who denies that clearly dont look further than their green nose, and as a response to Stella O shrek is a completely differnt movie so dont compare, cuz it just cant be.
besides people who have not played the game and watch the movie wud prefer to see from human side etc cuz we are human not everyone who gonna see the movie plays the game, so thats what they mean by making from aliiance perspective it can be more associated to normal people.
still its all good and i reckon theyll make another one maybe from horde perspective just to quinch ya first for horde XD
I personally can’t wait for the movie to come out. I believe it has great potential as a CGI movie. The only fear I have about a WOW movie is it will portray one side as being “good guys” and the other as the bad guys which could make the game one sided to new comers to the game. But on the other hand there will always be people wanting to be the bad guys. But altogether it is the top movie on my list to watch when it comes out!!!! GO HORDE!
For those of you whiny people crying over cgi vs. live action, why cant it be both? IE Beowolf, for those of you that havent seen it, it is an amazingly good looking movie. I dont think L/A will kill this movie in the least. Everyone was making this same argument for spiderman and x-men. And look how well those movies did.
I think this movie is going to be awsome. I am very excited. I do think The war idea of the movie is good too. But in my opinion i would have the movie animated.… It should have graphics like BeoWolf (which i thought was a horrible movie the critics made it sound so much better then it was). This movie Is gunna be awsome =)
They should make it CGI, live acting would suck.
And, they should really make it either from the Horde’s perspective or at least from both. I mean, Alliance aren’t complex at all. They don’t seem as rich and diverse as the Horde. And besides, I don’t want some stupid gnome being the next Jar Jar Binks.
Oh yeah, and how is it hard to show the movie from the view of a “green dude”. What, will all the little kids wet their freaking pants or something.
“Oh, a green dude. I don’t like them. In fact, just because this movie was shown from the prospective of a green dude, i’m gonna leave the theater.“
South Park already shows WoW through the prospective of the alliance, so why does the movie have to?
i agree that it should be CGI animation b/c thats what the fans have grown to love a live action movie will be a horrible failure. the game is based around fantasy and should be left if that realm to make it a live action movie will be too much like lotr and eragon dont get me wrong they were good movies but if wow was put into cgi animation and given the proper work that 100 million dollar budget allows then this will be the GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE TO DATE.
BLIZZARD I HOPE THAT YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH THIS MOVIE GIVEN THE FAN BASE THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE WITH WOW IF THIS MOVIE IS DONE RIGHT THEN GET READY FOR SOMETHING THAT WILL BLOW THIS WORLD AWAY
KATHRI 70 LOCK KELTHUZAD FOR LIFE
I too am GUTTED that this film is from Alliance POV. Really really peeved about that, and I know for a fact that all other Horde players will be too.
2 sides to a story please!!!!!
For the HORDE!!!!
Also just to add there were Orcs etc all perfectly portrayed in LOTR– why can’t the same computer animation be done for this??
Really… i am one of oldest player of warcraft/sc/Diablo and…
i prefer Warcraft 3 Style a Way better than WoW …
So i cant wait for the movie… whould be very nice.. i’ll not miss it !
–Fred
I personally don’t like the idea of the movie being from an alliance perspective, and I already am having douts about it.
I have played both Horde and Alliance, and personally prefere Horde, as do many of other WoW players.
Which side you prefer is not the issue, what is the issue is that it is implied that the Horde is going to look bad in this movie, and if you read the backs of the manuals that you get, or follow the storyline at all, both sides, Alliance and Horde, have done their share of good and evil deeds. Insinuating that one side is good and the other bad is ridiculous. It all boils down to if you want a Troll, Tauren, Orc, Undead or Bloodelf, or a Human, Gnome, Dwarf, Nightelf or Dranie (I can’t remember how to spell that, sorry)
I think that the movie should show both the good and the bad side of both sides, the trials that both sides have gone through, what they have won and lost, everything.
Is there not Humans in Scarlet Monastary that hate ANY race that isn’t human, regaurdless of who they are aligned with?
Seriously, reconsider how you want the movie to go…
Otherwise, I think that you are going to have some very unhappy Horde players on your hands.
I think that wow is going to do a great job with the movie.its just peoples oppinions that mess them up.i hope that they keep doing what they are going to do and if the movie has real actors it should look cool because i wonder how the mana and magic is going to look because if it looks fake then the whole movie will not be good.i really want to see a troll priest and especially a shaman because of thier lightning bolts.i also want to see thier armor,weapons and the cities should look awesome.i want to see the difference in armor and weapons like the actual real game.the races they should have are the humans,dwarfs,night elves,orc,and troll because the undead suck and i dont think they are good or anything. the beggining should be in the snow in dun murogh a dwarf training and doing quests or human in northshire abbey then a dwarf hunter and a human paladin team up then on the the way to kalimdor they meet a night elf druid that wants to avenge his family beacause the horde killed his family.they go to kalimdor on a quest for an old human warlock that says that they will be granted massive powers to help the alliance.
i am an alliance player
the name is kenu lvl 27
antonidas is the realm
and good luck blizzard with the movie
Its going to be a alsome movie. even though there going to do it from the Aliance point of view there are probly going to have more then 1 movie and if they do hopefully they do it from the horde side to because its not the HORDES fault to them they are the good guys
horde kicks ALL A$$
Now, now. Beowulf was all CG animation, and look how it sucked.
Also, the blizzard Cinematic team most likely doesn’t want to get ripped away from thier work on WotLK to go do a movie with some Film Company. 0 30
OMG i can’t wait for this movie to come out– i wonder if it will look like beowulf… hopefully the eyes actually move.. lol . As both alliance and horde player i’m really curious on what races will be put into this movie. Its still gonna rock either way i bet.
–kate
Kirin Tor & cho’gall FTW
I think making a World of Warcraft movie in live-action is fine, as long as there’s a little bit of CGI like what they did for ALL of 300. (Yes, 300 was entirely made with a CGI background. The entire movie was shot in front of a blue screen.) In fact, to show Azeroth in its entirety, I think the entire movie should be shot in front of a blue screen instead of real places.
The question on my mind is, how are they going to do the Tauren in the movie? Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes, Orcs (possibly), and Undead have been done before in movies, but how are the Tauren going to work out? You can’t have a World of Warcraft movie without any Tauren (Although I’m a more of a Night Elf person lol), and the thought of leaving them out just bugs me.
But anyway, this movie should continue on its course, and I hope to see a trailer soon!
I think that one part in the story when the Burning Legion invaded Mount Hyial… in that time, the horde and the alliance was friends together and defeated the Burning Legion at that time but i dont know what happend after that part… hope i get the answer soon…
Your all messe up… who cares how it comes out… WoW MOVIE!!! GOTTA BE GOOD!!!! As long as it doesnt come out like Pokemon im happy…
well personaly i think it should be cgi because real actors will just make it like lord of the rings just like jondoe said but im dead exicted i love the game im practacly addicted to it but i think the movie will be better because it will show you the real beginning to the war between horde and alliance but even though im all for the lliance i think they should show it in the hordes point of view therfore we will then now why they are against the allience then have a sequal from the alliance’s point of view and make an ending to the war in the sequal well anyway hope the movie is as graeat as the game find director soon guys.
This movie is going to be perfect. With a budget of one hundred million it has no room for fault. The reason they are doing it threw the perspective of the Alliance is because it would be hard to make a perfect movie through the eyes of a big green orc, or a tauren, or even an undead (if they put the forsaken in the movie). I personally love the horde, if it were easy to create a truly successful movie threw the eyes of the horde I would be all for it, but that’s just it, it’s not easy. It even said earlier, quote “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.”
As for the animated and real life issue of the movie. If you think about it the movie would be so much better if we could view the movie as if the movie was really going on in real life, LOTR turned out just fine and it wasn’t animated. If they put it in real life instead of animation it will add a bit more character to the movie.
As people were saying earlier they said that it should be more like LOTR by being a quest/war type of movie. Why sure it could be done but it would better if it was not done. They would have to find a specific character (or hero) but in order to integrate the character into the war story they would have to change the lore, unless they could find the perfect character at that specific time before the time World of Warcraft was set in, and if they can I am all for the quest/war type of story. Earlier somone said something about making more than one movie, which would also be good. They could span out the movie a little more and eventually even get into the times of World of Warcraft(I would love to see an epic battle of BC and WoTK).
This is the only area I could find to submit this inquiry, What about having some sort of casting call for all of us advid wow’ers out there who are completly looking forward to this movie.. as extra’s? Who better to play trolls night elves orcs and humans better then the gamers themselves. I’m a 23 year old model and very frequently.. “everyday” gamer. Mostly WoW.. or almost always WoW, I would absolutly LOVE to be an extra in this movie, and I’m sure Millions more would as well. Hell I bet we’d all do it for free
Ok. It is realy cool that blizz is making a wow movie! B-)
Show from the side of the Alliance? No one will ever be able to side with the green dude? Complete BS. I agree with Stella O. We make this human vs orcs, oh it’s gonna be LOTR all over again.
Worse, if the Horde is portrayed as evil, non-players (and many Alliance players for that matter) will forever link the Horde with being the bad guys, ignoring its rich and noble history (if any of them cared to read and understand).
A movie in which both sides are shown in both positive and negative lights is impossible? All the director and producers have to do is pick up a copy of any of Hayao miyazaki’s films. I personally recommend Princess Mononoke. There were no good guys or bad guys, just people with different opinions and agendas.
Alliance is associated with normal people? Whoa, just truly reinforces the belief that Alliance players reflect the shallowness of their faction.
But fine. They made their decision to show it from the Alliance side. The only reason i’m even gonna see it is because it’s Warcraft. But I really hope it’s gonna be in CGI. Live? WTF!? Are you kidding me!?
I’m excited to hear thoughts of taking Warcraft to the silver screen. There are so many key characters and story lines it has a multitude of directions it could go. Reading the opening statement that its going to be based on a bad ass new hero well as a pally lover I could only hope it will focus on the class but for some odd reason I feel this is going to be the intro of our awaited Death Knight. At any rate the director, writers, and producers will have a tough job ahead of them as this film will be carefully judged by Warcraft fans. You may as well look at it this way 9 million WoW players are going to watch this movie make it something worth while for us. I look forward to seeing this film.
Typetwo ~ Malygos
I think this looks like a very good movie. But in all favor from rumors on the horde side… All ally that play World of Warcraft are mainly 10–12 year old kids, who haven’t hit puberty yet, so you’re talking about making a NON animation movie that’s probably going to suck as bad as Eragon did, and expect the majority of under aged kids to go see it? When you could make it with Non-animation still and put it from the perspective of the forsaken/horde side and get all ages of people from 15/16–40/50 year olds to go see the movie. But oh well, your choice Blizzard.
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if you think it’s tough to make a movie from
the Green Guys perspective, U SHOULDNT MAKE MOVIES!
LOTR was live action and it was very visually appealing. Also look at Star Wars which is a good combination of live action and CGI. Purely CGI movies are a step away from animé fluff and are never epic-quality movies, usually constrained to a niche audience obsessed about a particular fad, often accompanied by juvenile scripting. CGI tends to be hypersterile and robotic too. While WOW has a large audience, its minor compared to the box-office turnout and residuals that a major blockbuster creates.. real actors, real people have real appeal (a point alot of hardcore gamers may miss).
The Teldrassil tree looks beautiful.. I wonder how far they can push makeup and prosthetics on the night elves so they don’t wind up looking like pointy-eared people!
I agree this movie should be a quest/war movie. It did wonders for LOTR to have multiple storylines other than fighting. And the WoW as most people and players is a quest AND war scenario. I personally favor the horde faction myself, but its also about bringing NEW people into the Warcraft World.. and simple fact is people in general (not everyone) are more attracted to the side they can most relate to, especially by appearances. In this case that would be the Ally’s. Im sure Blizzard will make the most of the opportunity in making this film. To be honest.. I LOVE the cinamtics Blizzard makes, but what movies in the past have been able to rely soley on graphics to make a huge hit? 9 out of 10 pure graphic movies have flopped. I think live characters and some serious special effects along with cinematics where needed will do the trick. Either way this movie is going to at least open huge because of the background of this awesome world and the millions that are familiar with it.
If it’s going to be a real movie, Gief Mr T the night elf warrior/Mohawk!
This movie gonna rule. I cant wait to see it. 
GL on making it.
Guys, having the Alliance perspective is wrong on so many levels..In fact, having just one perspective on a story is just plain simplistic! They should have both Horde AND Alliance perspectives shown, so that the viewer would not start thinking some are goodies and others are baddies. This will make the movie unpredictable..and we all know how RARE unpredictable plot lines are these days…(especially since ppl are accustomed with the WOW lore..or most of it anyway).
In the game neither factions are 100% good and bad, they all have their culture, their uniqueness..it would be a shame not to express that on screen. It would miss on a lot of clever plot subject (and CLEVER plots are again a rariry, sadly enough)
I for one am sick of the old Human vs. Orc architype. It was fun with Warcraft 1 & 2..but enough guys already! Tolkien did a better job at it, becuase his “Horde” did not have individualities or traditions or feelings for that matter…with WoW it‘s radically different.
Finally, making it a war movie is again going for the easy bit. It‘s just the sort of mentality that gets some playing WoW simply because it‘s fun to PWN NUBS and NINJA YOUR @SS. Why should all that lore be ignored? It‘s wonderfully isnpiring and more complex than any other video game I‘ve ever played! Sure, have war, but only as the background. There should deffinately be some quests, or the brains of many a viewers will go numb…
PG-13 is a very good idea. No pointless cursing could ever have made WoW what we appreciate.
As for live-action…that remains to be seen…with the ever-expanding CGI industry, it might not be so dorky after all. the cinematics are of course brilliant, but I think teh producers are going for a more “relistic” approach, better fit for a movie.
Hope Blizzard would not ignore such ideas!
Ciao, Diana
Thats a load of crap! Im a HUGE HORDE FAN!!! I’m utterly disappointed in this movie now. I was excited when I herd they were making a WoW movie, but now that I just read the story plot, I can tell you, the movie is going to BOMB in the theatres because they are not catering to both sides of the fans. Thats a load of CRAP!
What they should have done is started the story from an earlier time. Done another Warcraft game.
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Im so upset that they are doing alliance. That just made me not want to see the movie when it does come out. And I can ASSURE YOU, that other horde fans, WILL NOT go and see the movie if they are TRUELY fans of the almighty Horde.
FOR THE HORDE!!!
Thrall?
THRALL??!?!
AS A HUMAN?!?!
TOO BAD THAT THRALL WAS ACTUALLY A ORC CHARACTER!!!!
RETARDS!!!
Will they be putting the Blood Elves in? Well, they’ll probably be referred to as the High Elves, but still. I actually think that the movie would be cool if done in the Horde’s persective. It would prove a vital point, that in WoW there are no good or bad guys, its something I’ve learned when playing on both the horde and the alliance. I’m really excited to see this film, been dreaming of it since day one.
why not do a 2 plot move showing the strugle of the horde and the relative ease which alliance live in (true to game) culminating in an epic battle between the two heroic groups that is what a warcraft movie should be not some alliance movie that will make the horde look either stupid or cruel.. but to be honest as soon as i herd about the movie i said “I bet any money it is alliance based.” seems not only is the game bias to alliance but the movie also will be ..very dissapointing
First, CGI is a must as far as I am concerned. Second (and this is all coming from an avid horde supporter) a horde storyline alone would span multiple movie releases. I am not saying this to diss on the alliance players, but the human story line is so much more simple. There is so much culture in the horde storyline as far as I am concerned. I really hope, though, that they don’t make the horde into a bunch of bad guys which really isnt the case, and if they do, they are going to upset a lot of people. They can even follow the alliance most of the time as far as I am concerned as long as the horde get some wicked ganks in lol.
i hope it cgi lol would be funny if they did thrall as some dude with green skin nd would like it to be about arthus like the warcraft story line but also i want to somethng new and plz dont mess it up like most movies about games
A CGI-only film would only appeal to under-12s and those game/tech-obsessed miscreants with IQs into the lower double digits, and who consider the likes of “Tekken” as high art. CGI-supplemented (that is, minimal CGI) live action is the best way to give the film some balance and sense of accomplishment for viewer and production team.
I dont play the game like most because I cant be that dedicated to it like most. I am on the otherside a huge fan of the books and the story line of the game. I think that if they base the movie after the triligy WAR OF THE ANCIENTS by Knaak the movies would be the best thing ever put on the big screen. It would give those people who would like to know characters like Illidan a little better from his start to his pact with the legion and so on. Those of you who have read the books would know exactly what im talking about.
I just dont want to be as disapointed as when I wasted my money to see this years worst movie Cloverfield.
Aka’Magosh friends of the new Horde.
the horde has just as much interesting lore as the alliance. I play both, but i love the horde much more. you will make half the players (approximately 5 million people who may or may not be sitting in your theatres when your movie comes out) angry if you focus on the alliance. i will make the biggest scene if it’s all alliance junk. the horde is JUST AS MUCH A PART OF THE GAME as the alliance, and they deserve to be JUST AS MUCH A PART OF YOUR MOVIE as the alliance does. wars are fought from two (sometimes more of course) sides, and it is not fair to base an epic film of two and a half hours on only one side. just as many people can relate to the horde as the alliance, and “green dudes”… hah you made a mistake saying that. the horde is much more than a bunch of “green dudes” as it comprises of five, very different races. i will be sure to rate this movie as low as possible if i do not see a fair portrayal of the game’s events and history. the stories are very rich, on both sides. if you want “fresh” stuff to make a movie out of, perhaps you can make up some new lore. i hear the tauren are in need of some ;P
((Race:Orc Class:Warrior Realm:Moon Guard Name: Kargaroth))
((Race:Orc Class:Shaman Realm:Moon Guard Name: Drekthal))
((show me how little you know of green dudes. what does this mean? good luck. this also applies to the first orcish phrase i said above.))
Gol’Kosh, Bin mog g’thazag cha Thrall! Lok’tar ogar!
FOR THE HORDE!
Throm-Ka. nuf said ;P
This is going to be the shit… GO ORCS
Why would anyone who doesn’t play world of warcraft see this movie?! Besides alliance are a bunch of faggots. Lets see you got humans, migit humans (gnomes), fat migit humans (dwarves), purple humans (Night elves), and Draenei the alien lizards with tauren hooves… Why would you want to play a game as a human, when you can be one in real life!! This movie will be great, It should be centered around the horde cause we pwnsauce,
Alliance less QQ more pew pew — DitialExile
I would love to see a movie for big boys and girls but unfortunately since the game is rated for 12 years of age and older we would probably see a child movie. Pity, because the game has the ability to be epic in all aspects. Most likely we will watch a movie like the disaster “Dungeons and Dragons”.
This movie will KICK ASS!!!!!!!! but blizzard has to be very carefull with this… It for sure should be after the frozen throne or maybe in the Rain of Chaos… anything before that would seem to most othere ppl (who aren’t playing warcraft or have never played warcraft) like a copy of LOTR… they also must included all the fractions in warcaft to ever-widen the gape between this and LOTR… and i hope its a cimatic movie cause i saw the cinimatics for the New STARCRAFT 2 and it rapes ALL!!!! The blizzard team who did that should be applauded and cheered!!!!! so well if it will be a cinmatic well it would mostly be even better than that which in that case would… well rape and blow any other movie coming out at the same time to pieces and leave the whole LOTR thing in the fucking dust mangled and castrated! GO BLIZZARD!!!!!! U CAN DO IT!!!!!!!
I believe that making a WOW movie could be good if done right. However, if it is done like the movie D and D, then there are going to be a lot of disappointed fans. CGI all the way if this becomes a real thing. LOTR did alright with the graphics mixed with actors, but I personally like the CGI for the game trailers. Beaowoulf looked alright in ads, but watching it was somewhat of a downer due to the small integration of actors faces into a world of CGI (that movie could have done better if it was like LOTR). If Blizzard does do a movie, Star Craft would probably be a good “test” movie. There is an easier story plot there, which could be explained much more easily in a movie (only problem is that it could get confused with Starship Troopers, just with one more group). If this was made into a movie first, this could grab the attention of older fans and bring them into WOW + other Blizzard games and or movies.
Honostly the idea of live action isnt all that bad, only if they used it for some of the races, you can still have animation mixed in, for example real people playin the humans.… perfectly fine… having actual midgets play gnomes/dwarves, no one would take that serios, or look at star wars episodes 1–3 they where basically all shot infront of a green screen, but also very popular
as for how the movie would be played out, i think it would be best mabye if they had Horde agaisnt ally, showing both perspectives and then mabye them banding together agaisnt the Burning legion or something,
only thing i can see them messing up on is the Undead because there gona make sure that they arent scary looking (i guess to some people) but how you portray a dead man walking around not being a lil creepy idk good luck with that one
OMG, if this movie is done right and as far as i can see it should be it will ROCK THE BOOTS OFF LOTR. The one thing you dont see much in movies is the spell details in fantasy movies. Can you imagine the Special effects done on a Mage, Warlock, Druid Shapshifting OMFG it will be awesome. I would love to see images of a warriors wounds being healed by a priest in battle. I can see sooo much room for mind blowing images its rediculous. For this movie to be movie of the year DONT GIMP on the special effect.
It would be nice to have a horde prespective too though, maybe a good blend of the war starting from both sides. Show the planning for the war from all sides and build to a climax … i really cant wait for this.
first at all..i’m not good with English, so, I apologize if you read many wrong sentences… Using World of Warcraft plot it’s very interesting, but I think that using Warcraft III The Reign of Chaos would be more epic. In W3TRC you see how Arthas is corrupted, the Scourge invasion in Silvermoon, the liberation of the Orcs from the Blood Corruption and the Most Epic Battle of Mt. Hyjal…It could bring to an interesting story for those that don’t have idea about Warcraft Universe and thinks that LOTR it’s the best example of this genre of story (Warcraft can be BETTER than LOTR). If it is viewed and received by fans, I think they will request for more Warcraft Story brought to Movies like the very beggining of the saga (for example, the story described in books) or the Frozen Throne Story. And they must be carefull if they get the story distortioned too much. I hope, Blizzard can bring us an exciting movie so I can say proudly: “This is all Warcraft is meant to be”
just dont make the movie as bad as 300.….. I rly look forward to this
I am a great fan of warcraft and i really hope that this is gonna be a avesome movie, i hope its gonna be animated because i dont think it would look great if the movie characters were played by actors.
Why is no one focusing on the big picture.….
show it from BOTH SIDES. horde/alliance can coöperate.… i know ive seen them do it. it is possible to make a storyline the encompasses members of both sides working to one goal. look at the gates of AQ, both sides are working together to defend azeroth. it sounds like every immature person out there is haveing a virtual wank off trying to compete for who is the coolest.… both sides are cool, use them both together.
I think another great idea would be if it was in IMAX 3d. That plus it being a cinematic would be sweet!
if the perspective will be just alliance side THATS BULL come on lets do it from both sides be fair
johnmanuel WHISPERWIND FOR THE HORDE!!!
making a warcraft movie would be awesome. Has anyone seen the warcraft mini flims on youtube? they are really neat they are flims directly from the game. They should a 2.5 hour movie to show the endings of those and making it all together
I think a neat concept for the movie would be with the soundtrack during parts of dialouge traditional classical music is played as in any epic movie. but when a fight is about to start and during fight sequences the music varies from the different types of music WoW subscribers listen to giving the fight sequences almost the feel of watching a pvp movie like so many of us enjoy watching. also WoW will just not be wow movie if there aretn a few easter eggs thrown in such as leroy jenkins and an illegal danish not so much standing out in the storry but when scanning the screen watching it the 2nd or 3rd time throguh us True fans notice those things. Also somewhere on one of the sound trake the melody to the Shade of Aran chant has to be played I dont care where in the movie it is but its gotta be played at least once or twice.
Im hoping this has alot of Mêlée fighting in it and Im talkin about hard and fast sword swinging like the actors really are trying to kill one another DW and arms fury warriors on rogues and teh weapons gotta be huge or its not Warcraft
So is this going to have an ending…or is it going to be like WoW? Hmm.
I really think the movie should either be done from the Horde’s perspective or from both.
Taking it from the Aliiance’s perspective really won’t explain things too well. I mean, how will you explain the big, bad orcs are being controlled? Or are you going to go the easy route and just pin the Horde as evil through and through.
It would really be a HUGE dissapointment if you did the whole ‘good guys, bad guys’ thing, because that is NOT the case at all. It is infinatly more complicated than that.
I’ll put some faith in it though, hope for the best and be first in line at my theater when it opens.
“Dungeons and Dragons” The Movie: $35 million
“Eragon” The Movie: $60 million
Up and coming Warcraft movie: $100 million
Waiting for the release date to go to see the movie as a hardcore Horde player and not bitch about it: Priceless.
$100 million budgeted and ready and willing to spend more, I bet you. It’s already been quoted that this is the “first”, there will be more, and they will suit other plots and situations. Live action will make simply the idea of the movie more appealing to a wider crowd, and, hopefully, a little more mature. If you don’t want to see the movie, don’t complain, just don’t see it. I, for one, am looking forward to seeing something that is a pretty big part of my life, having played Warcraft games since the age of 7, being put in an environment that everyone can share in. This is exciting and I can not wait to experience it.
As a side note, I am curious if there will be a public casting call for extras. I am a college student in theater and have been acting as long as I’ve played Blizzard games, so I hope if anything comes up it’ll be posted.
No meaning to go against what Blizzard has said… but Tales of the Past is the wow movie which a hell of a lot of people like. So why can’t you get in touch with Martin Falch, and ask if you can change the movies graphics increase the plot and get rid of the errors. I mean no offense by this. it was just a thought any way, from some one who likes World Of Warcraft.
and an adventure would be better… then rather a full lets just rip each other to hell bit and CGI would be a good idea..
and one last thing why don’t you involve people from RP servers or PVP RP servers to help with the movie… or ask people from RP relms what they would like.
A World of Warcraft Movie would be AMAZING idea Good luck if you go ahead and i hope to see it out soon..
a world of warcraft movie would be cool i know a ton of people that would want to see it. i have a lvl 70 pally named kalebcash on khaz modan and a few other alts and i love just watchin the previews that show up b4 u make your new charater of the new race. and seeing those just puts my hopes up for a WORLD OF WARCRAFT MOVIE! to come out.
I wish…
I wish they would make this movie using computer graphics, just like the cinematics that comes with the game. Why? Because they are great. Because you get alot further without the need for lots of human actors to play in the movie. You can create ANY effect you like, and it is closer to what the game is like. You can also create several movies at once, using the 3D graphic models available. A much better alternative if you ask me, AND the world has yet to see a blockbuster for grown-ups made entirely with computers.
Just for u guys out there that would like to know CGI has been made on Flims like BEOWULF already so i really dont see any problem with & why the Director would focus solo, on Alliance. Just sit tight and you will see Hordes in the upcoming Movies that will be made and equally shared in WoW epic movie. However I do think that to start out as an Human would give a easer plot or setting to a Movie Script. Iam Both Alliance/Horde but WoW FTW!
as a player of both factions i think that it is a good idea to make it from the side of alliance as long as thay dont make the horde look like a bunch of green ugly brutes after all do you honestly think there everyone seeing the movie would play wow? no.. so if avrage joe(non wow player)comes in to see this movie then watches a blood thirsty orc rampageing through a bunch of humans he will probably not like seeing what he is (human) get sliced limb from limb right? i respect horde an all.. but lets face it orcs make better “bad guys” then gnome-tards and come on ya got to have a “bad guy” in a war movie right?
I think the movie should have part alliance vs. Horde, and also Alliance and horde vs. The Burning Legion, It would make sense if that happened
Firstly I absolutly love the idea of a Warcraft/World of Warcraft movie and I cant wait untill it comes out but using real life actors as characters? Nah, I just dont think that will work. I think it should be entirely animated like the cinematics for the World of Warcraft game and expansion. The animation for the Warcraft Lore mini-movies are awesome (if you dont know what im talking about look them up on YouTube, sylvanel is the person that uploads them) and a 2 1/2 hour movie using those cinematics would just be mind blowing. But, if they were to make a movie totally animated I would hope they put detail into the features of the characters (e.g if a character has been wandering the wilderness for a few weeks, when you see their face it wont be clean and shaven, they would have stragly hair and stubble on there chin).
As for the story and how it’s based on an Alliance point of view, Blizzard/Legendary could create a sequel that shows the Hordes point of view, and after that maybe another movie from the Burning Legion’s point of view or something ect. Anyway, why does the story have to revolve around the the Alliance and Horde’s constant hatred for each other? In another movie I think it would be interesting to have the main event of the story as how minor other renegade factions affect the Horde and Alliance. They could show how the Scarlet Monestary broke away from the Alliance and a group of brave adventurers go and explore it and fight the Scarlet Monestary boss (can’t remember his name atm sorry). But yeah, just saying that there’s heaps of idea’s for other Warcraft movies considering the huge amount of Lore behind the games.
Well, it’s sure to be a great movie anyway
I would go for the CGI as well.
& from horde AND alliance point of view.
oh well.
PG-13 = FAIL
lord of the rings was NOT a war movie thats why it was acceptable and still good.
if they are gonna spend that kind of money and effort might as well go all out, pg-13 creates limits.
As long as they include a bubble hearth…I will be happy. But seriously — I look forward to this film the say way as I do adaptations from books. I expect creative license, and I take it for what it is…Hollywood trying to make a blockbuster. Whether it’s a good film or not, I’ll still love to play.
If it all comes together well, I’d love to see a part two involving the Horde’s side of the story, since neither Horde nor Alliance are ‘evil.’ Each has done what they must to survive.
I think that this will be an awesome movie. I prefer playing Horde Characters “FOR THE HORDE”!!! Please don’t cheapen the movie by trying to fit alot of stuff into a 2 hour time frame. At least make the movie like 3 1/2 hours of Epic good time.
so wait a minute, they dont want the movie to be told by a green looking dude, so they are gonna tell the story from a blue looking dude.… doesnt make sense to me. plus sure it would be harder to make it a horde perspective but it would be better overall… FOR THE HORDE
/sigh.
Another reason for 13year old Alliance players to gank low lvl Horde.
Although, I am really excited for the movie. But I wish Horde were shown in a better light.
These comments are like immature complaints with little to no factual evidence behind them. Blizzard hasn’t released much into this and there are already complaints. They don’t care what a bunch of random internet comments have to say. It’s their movie, and even with any information out on it, there is no right to negatively comment on it.
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“Since at lest half of the players play Horde, you’re going to alienate them. And newcomers to the game will base their ideas on the movie. All of the Horde will be EBUL to them, and it’s just not true.”
“i 100% agree with Stella O , thats just not fair
why cant we have both the faction stories
having “Alliance’s perspective” thing totally sucks
its gonna be just like LOTR with the humans being the goodies and the orcs being the baddies and you know its not like that
so no im not looking forward to it,i think blizzard should make a movie with their cinematic’s =D but thats just my opinion
lol could you guys imagine “Gnome”actors hehe
much love
For the horde”
“I think the movie must be from a horde prespective because there are a lot of Horde fans out there.”
“if the perspective will be just alliance side THATS BULL come on lets do it from both sides be fair
johnmanuel WHISPERWIND FOR THE HORDE!!!”
so wait a minute, they dont want the movie to be told by a green looking dude, so they are gonna tell the story from a blue looking dude…. doesnt make sense to me. plus sure it would be harder to make it a horde perspective but it would be better overall… FOR THE HORDE”
“/sigh.
Another reason for 13year old Alliance players to gank low lvl Horde.
Although, I am really excited for the movie. But I wish Horde were shown in a better light.”
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I’m sorry, but these few comments, and others, are quite stupid. This isn’t World Of Warcraft gameplay and one piece of information that they supplied on the perspective shouldn’t be ignorantly talked about. The movie can be set in any race, faction, or side and I’m sure all will be included regardless of perspective. Stop whining like [insert synonym for immature, baby, young, unsophisticated, etc].
Thanks.
This movie would be amazing if it was CGI instead of live actors… I’m strictly Allience not Horde, but it still would be better if it was both sides view. I hope they have night elves gnomes and undeads.
bahh its just cheaper for blizz to make it from alli point of view, and blizz hate the horde..they always have.
im a horde fan and the horde story would be far greater and more interesting,so i hope they do include the horde in the movie and dont shine them in a bad light, wich im sure they will. FOR THE HORDE
Warcraft is a world… I hope they make the movie just like a world…
First things first:
…to those people who have comments like “Alliance are n00bs” or “Horde are ugly”, please leave your prejudices at home. This movie is obviously going to be about LORE, not PLAYERS. That rogue named “Gankuhard” who went around sniping lowbies in Goldshire or that goldfarmer who cussed you out in trade chat last night isn’t a lore character with a family or a home town or a mission in life, unless you’re playing on an RP server, and in that case he has nothing to do with the bigger picture. Characters like Thrall, Cairne, Magni and Tyrande ARE important to the big picture and the movie will be about people like them.
I’m a proud Alliance player but I love my Horde characters too. Warcraft III pretty much proved that Blizzard could break the mold and make a game where orcs and minotaurs were decent creatures and humans and elves could be corrupted. So I doubt we’d have to worry about favoritism, since Warcraft gets kudos all around for this balanced worldview.
The story’s been around long before Blizzard even considered making WoW, and it’s far deeper than even a fraction of the nine million players realise. I’ve been playing Warcraft since WC2 and loving the ride every minute, and I really hope Blizzard won’t spoil this. But then again, they’re such perfectionists that I don’t see that happening as long as Metzen’s at the helm of the creative department.
I have to be one of the biggest lore buffs out there, especially for Warcraft. Yes, I play Alliance, but only because I’m a ressurectophobic and the idea of partying with Forsaken makes my skin crawl (no offense to anyone intended). The lore behind Thrall and the Horde is why I love Warcraft and World of Warcraft so much. I agree with you hordies — the Horde’s point of view should be a huge part of the movie. This is a war movie, but there is no real good and evil, right or wrong. I think that struggle, with valor and corruption on both sides, would draw more people into the movie, as its something almost no movie has — no solid side to ‘root’ for.
–Mauryanna, Silvermoon server
I too am annoyed with the whole Alliance POV thing — but is anyone ACTUALLY surprised? The first thing I thought when I heard about the movie was that it’s going to be like an Alliance propaganda film.
All you Horde fans i too fell your pain about Blizz choosing Alliance over Horde but i think it is more suitable seeming though Alliance are considered the “good” side.
Secondly why do people leave comments like Horde suck or Alliance are only good at ganking, i mean the movie will have no relevance to WoW more to Warcraft 1–3. (but it would be entertaining if the hero was called Leeroy Jenkins)
Finally You either love Blizz or hate them but all the people who know them as Game Producers will know that they are perfectionists and hopefully this will be the first Game to Movie that is actually succesful.
Augh, seriously, only from the Alliance point of view?! Could you try maybe making half of it from the Horde point of view? Maybe ‘Thrall’s’ Point of view?
Lets not forget one thing, unlike LOTR you can focus on the Alliance and still show a Horde side to the movie. and yes this would look awesome as cgi, the only tragedy is if it came out poorly rendered like beowulf. and pg-13 is cool with me, just give me a good story with great battle scenes, cause thats where its at. good luck blizzard, with a fan base this picky, you’ll need it.
Pfft! The Alliance pov? If anything it should give both sides an equal chance! I suppose I can understand the appeal of an Alliance based film over a Horde based, although Horde are far better imo ^^, because of the whole good and evil stigma, but this game isn’t about which faction is ‘good’ and which is ‘evil.’ The target audience is not only gamers who are familiar with the game, true. Giving them a biased opinion from the beginning… wrong move.
And cinematics PLEASE. I don’t think I could bare to even attempt to watch a live action. Not going to happen for a lot of people.
if you scroll down and read Crebrals comment, he mentions setting out the films like LOTR, but in WoW, TBC, WoTLK. That is if this movie is a great hit, because it would give the fans more to look forward to! — And there is also more money involved as we all know thats what you love Blizzard! >:)
i think a movie is a great idea, as long as it follows the story, make it really relate to the game as much as possible is the best idea. including powers. show them riding mounts i think the movie could be great if enough time was put into the plot. warcraft has potential to be #1 blockbuster without question.
To the guy/girl who says that Blizz loves Alliance… blah blah. I hear this on both sides. News flash the majority of Blizz employees that play wow prefer Horde. They work their hardest to try and keep balance between the two factions but with all of the major code that goes into this mmorpg it is so hard to make sure that all of the major and minor changes that come along do not effect the balance. The general rule is that if no one is happy you have achieved that balance.
It will probably be the same with the movie which, no matter what side it is portraying, I will go see. FTH or FTA fools that are so engrossed in this factionalism that they lose perspective are just annoying QQrs. The idea is that a good action movie is about just that, ACTION. Horde and Alliance are fictional enjoy playing it just because you do, and enjoy watching the movie just because you do. Nothing else need be said.
oh, yes, i can see it now the orcs will come off as blood thirsty animals, the taurans will be like a rabid pack of dogs and the trolls will be dumb as a door nail.
cruize
thundering herd
all hail the horde
“WAAA! It’s alliance POV!” quit your crying
“WAAA! It’s not pure CGI!” Quit bitching
“WAAA! I WANT IT TO BE THE WAY I WANT IT!”
It’s not your damn movie! Let Blizzard and the other powers that be do things the way they want. The movie will be fine. Have faith in their story telling abilities. The movie’s about telling a story, displaying an epic saga… It’s not about appeasing you so sit back, stfu and watch the movie when it comes out…
sheesh… fucking whiners
As a long time player WoW, I think that making a move soley from the Alliance perspective would be detrimental. I think it would be far, far more interesting to interlace the perpective of both sides. Unless they plan on doing 2 movies, one from alliance perspective and the other from the horde.
I think Blizzard should get Guillermo Del Toro or Ridley Scot as director!
hey i think its soooo great that world of warcraft is bringing out a movie i cant wait to see it i love the game and those who love the game im sure will love the movie also
i love playing the game because when you play it your in this whole different world and you can like escape from reailty thats what i like about it and plus you meet new people and make new friends but i also think that the movie should be about both point of views from horde and alliance not just one but im sure if there is a second movie it with be based on that (ayeisha 39)
Tbh they should do both sides…Starting with 30 mins of ally, an hour of horde then an hour of them teaming up in Outland against the Burning Leigon.
Then in the next film, follow Kael’Thas’ Life.
And for a final film, do the ultimate showdown, Kael’Thas joining and Naaru and their allies and facing the Burning Leigon. Epic Films!
Ure**s — Level 70 Blood Elf Hunter, Bronzebeard
A movie like LoTR is the way to go and with CGI etc the look can be achieved that we all want. It will be awesome. Get someone like the Rock for the warrior, Natalie Portman for a NE druid, Angelina Jolie for BE warlock, Brendan Fraser for human pally, etc.
i think that the film shouldn’t be like real life graphics and should be like the Burning Crusade trailer graphics. i think that would make the film more enjoyable and more to relate to. Making it like Lord OfThe Rings i feel will take away the Warcraft feel of the whole thing. But thats my opinion. Please read this someone from Blizzard
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I’m glad they are doing it live action. It will be much easier to get emotional over deaths, and easier to get close with the characters, as opposed to an animation. And I’d assume the whole movie isn’t going to be portrayed as alliance being the good guys. They are going to develop both factions, showing the good and evil of each side, and it will be a clash which some people will decide they want the Horde to win and some people will want the Alliance to win. They won’t be able to afford making it “Alliance Good Horde Bad”, because they’d lose too much profit. And all these horde-lovers saying Alliance sucks, don’t forget that your faction is a cow, some snot colored witch doctor-esques, a small version of the Hulk (twice as ugly), a dead race that looks like their armor came from a trash can, and the race with only men that are gay.
FOR THE ALLIANCE!
dude.. i been waiting for this one for so long.. man.. i thank you for making my dream come true
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I am exited to see this movie but if it makes the horde look evil it will suck. I also think it should show both sides struggles and victories throughout the movie. And alot of blood elfs they were meant for the camera
In my opinion, they should have Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings director) direct this. He has a lot of experience in what an “epic” movie should be about.
You all seem confused in that its not set in WoW times, its more like Warcraft III not WoW. I dont like WoW, too timely and costly. But I do love Warcraft III for the Custom Games!
I hope the WOW movie will be like the style of the cinematics of the games.
that would be freaking awsome!
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Game have a lot of details and it will be hard to put all that in movie so you can try with making samo tv seria.… or more movies … it will be easyer to make move based on waecraft 3 and TFT.. not wow
You guys should make more then one World Of Warcraft trilogy. The first one should kind of tell more of the story to help people who havent really played the game that much or at all understand more, and yeah have big epic war scenes in there. Then the other two can get more in depth about all sorts of other things. With better war scenes.
You guys should make A world of warcraft trilogy!! Because there is soo much in the game you cant squeeze it all into one movie without cutting out so much or making the movie crap. If you guys do make a trilogy it will be much better the Lord of the rings and all other movies out there. I would camp outside the theater to be the first one in a WOW movie!
Just make it more of a quest movie with hardcore badass war scenes.
Because i liked 300. But i would have liked 300 so much better if it was longer with quest(s) in it. The war scenes were great though.
Just have amazing war scenes but have perfect sized quests that let you know the characters you choose and the WORLD of warcraft more.
If you make this movie something like a quest/war trilogy, it will definatly go down in history as the best animated movie, wait the best MOVIE ever!
I really do hope that they won’t screw this up… Live action film from a game like this sounds like a damn huge risk… I’f I could dicide I’d go with the CGI… But, Im intrested what they’re going to push out non the less.
even though a lot of people saying that warcraft movie should be make by CGI.…but in cris nolan gifted hand…the real action movies will be more better.…don’t you guys agree with me???.…please nolan…take the chances to make this movie.…i’m goin to wait for this
its gonna be sweet
i kinda wish it would just be animated but mainly because blizz makes some beautiful animations
like if u watch the vids on the login of wow
it will still be great tho!!:DD
I think this is an amzing idea, and i cant w8 to see it. i dont think it should be a “quest” movie. but more of a film based around the different races within the Game. there is so much you can pull out of the game. that a trilogy would be a good idea. i have one question though is the film going to be CGI like the cinamatics. because i reackon that would be real sweet.
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I really like this idea and I hope they do a fantastic job on it. What would be cool since it is told from the alliance side is to have the orcs speak orcish elves speak elven and so on. Instead of them all speaking English. I have been thinking of doing something like this myself just creating scripts and stuff, but what would be really amazing is if they could possibly make the view more a neutral view where you don’t know who to really go for and the viewer chooses who to go for and then at the end of the movie have it as a kind of neutral ending. Something like the World of Warcraft book Cycle of Hatred. Where it shows the story from both sides and then ends in a way where the viewer that roots for the horde isn’t like “WTF no fair” but I am just rambling on and I can’t wait until it is released. W00t
So, iv’e been hearing about people wanting “cutscene” graphics, but haven’t you ever thought about how fucking long it would take to make a movie of these graphics and proportions? Jesus! By the time they got it done there would be a WoW 7. ( Not that theres anything wrong with that.…) And just what in fucks name are they thinking? Making an “RL” movie about a, get this Legendary, FANTASY GAME! It’s total epic BS. It’s gonna turn out to be the next Mario Bros movie. FOR THE HORDE, DK FTW alliance=bs
aawww i dont want a “wow” movie i want a WARCRAFT I-III movie >_< and its going to be with real actors? i think there is a big chance that this movie will become a flop if thats the case. i hoped it would be a pure CGI movie much like the cinematics i Warcraft I-III.
Been dreaming of a warcraft movie since 1998 and i hope they wont be ruin it
IDC how cool the movies will be at least make a scene where a captial get destroys by the horde.…FOR THE HORDE!!!!!!
haha they should use verne troyer for a gnome mage hahaha
Can’t w8 till the film but what month and day will it be runnin?
really he’s not ganna base it on thrall thats the most stupid thing they could do on there part .…reading thrall’s story is very intresting i couldnt get enough off it there making a big mistake not goin the prospective of the horde .…of thrall
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OMG… IF ITS A GREAT MOVIE I WOULD BUY ITT !!
I Don’t download everything!!! I want to movie!!!! T.T PLUS we are paying to play WoW anyway! those money should be used on the movie!!! ^^
COME ON GODDAMIT! THIS HAS TO WORK! THIS GODDAMN PROJECT HAS TO WORK! WOW NEEDS A MOVIE! ITS IMPOSSIBLE THAT UNTIL NOW A MOVIE HAS NOT BEEN PRODUCED YET!
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The movie should be based on Richard A. Knaak’s “Well of Eternity” trilogy, on Arthas or the Second War. Maybe there should be multiple movies bout warcraft!
GUYS GUYS… what r afraid from is the real pic idea…? well i insure u blizzard wont do somthing may broke WoW for ever beside LotR was real life action… no way in WoW movie they wont add some animation becuz they cant ; they will do it like LotR i mean real ppl acting but they got some animated scenes like in the cities and some creatures … its not life action 100% ; they gonna add animation for nessesery scenes
its cool that their’s going to be a movie about WoW but i dont see how it can be put into a movie like are they going to make it so its like the game or is it going to be totally different.
ill be intersting.
Well the thing is I think what most warcraft and WoW players want to see is a more realistic version of the fantasy game they play in. So that somehow when they play the game it feels more real to them. What i dont think is too important in that regard is whether or not it is a “quest” or “war” movie. What i feel makes the most difference and will be the most important is that it A)Is well scripted, B) Stays true to the Warcraft lore and history, and C) exposes the viewers to alot of realistic yet still fantasy-based material. IF it is a purely war movie, I think you run the risk of not having enough lore and fantasy material to make it appeal to the gamers who love the game world. To make it a good war movie, it will need a very active and detailed plot (with viewpoints of multiple characters) with a dynamic climax that happens gradually. Also the music will HAVE to have the correct mood, attached to distracting scenes. THEY WILL HAVE to have a unique antagonist (and this is where 300 got screwed imo) to make the war-movie plot interesting. an example would be a skilled undead assasin or something who plays an important role in hindering the enemy, or a character who abuses or mistreats the main character in the beginning of the story who he seeks revenge on. Too many war movies just have Side A and Side B having a series of mini-battles leading up to a final war. It has to have some creative distraction, even if it isnt an adventure movie. Anyway I hope this movie turns out something like the movie Mongol. What will REALLY MAKE OR BREAK the movie, once again, is the script quality (none of that Uwe Boll cheesy shit thank god), and the quality of the graphics and how true they relate to the game.
cant wait we r in 2009!! @_@
(Why simplify the plot? Every war has heroics and corruption on both sides.
Since at lest half of the players play Horde, you’re going to alienate them. And newcomers to the game will base their ideas on the movie. All of the Horde will be EBUL to them, and it’s just not true.
It would only take a little stretch of brain power to create a scenario that shows the good and bad of both groups. Your audience is perfectly capable of understanding “a green-looking dude” Hell, Shrek is a green dude, and he’s doing okay!)
***I TOTALLY AGREE**Good movies come from the heart , if you heart is for the Horde and you make them evil this movie will suck.I like the cinematic version. GO HORDE WHOOA
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I hope they who are going to produce direct and act in this movie read the warcraft and world of warcraft novels before they make this movie and play the game. The first one I read was Rise of the Horde. Excellent novels, but they shouldn’t focus just on one side. I think they need to show both sides wants and dreams and make the burning legion/scourge the enemy. showing how the legion turned them from making peace to being at war with each other,for there own plan of destroying Azeroth.
Also showing how the orcs where brought to Azeroth and also the draenei. In rise of the horde Orcs and draenei lived in peace together trading goods until the evil that came turned the orc against the draenei with lies.Just because one draenei leader who turned evil with evil magic want to kill his brother in leadership who would not follow him.This person chased him across the universe and found him on Azeroth after the naruu saved them.This evil vowing to destroy him and all the others who followed him.
There is soo much more though,and many twists and more evil that use these races to take control and to destroy them. There is soo many ways to go about this movie but going on just one side is a sad waste of the life story line of Warcraft and world of warcraft. The Scourge/burning legion needs to be the big enemy. I also would love to see the titans, Aspects,the dragons are sooo cool.
Hmmmm.…i REALLY dont see real life actors acting out WoW. its just.…in-proper. With all that makeup for the orcs night elvs undead..its just weird. and how are they gonna find 100000 Gnomes and Dwarfs? Hopefully its just not 1 midget repeated over and over into 100000’s like in Charlie and the chocolate factory. They should Animate it well like they did in the Cinematics. THAT would be better. Oh and they HAVE to add Blood Elvs and Draenei. They just HAVE to. And they should make it like the series in the game also. Like the first movie will just be WoW. The 2nd will be Burning Crusade, 3rd is Lich King.
I agree, Real actors would SUCK! It should be CGI, they can do so much more than any actor could. Also, ALLY RULE. Horde can’t beny it. We kick your butts!
Lol, i love wow and im looking forward to this movie but have they even started? because the movie would be like 3 hours long
But to be honest i think blizz will make millions out of this movie and more people will start joining wow, I play Eu its boring lol US is better. So there looking for actors? hmm i think it should be definately Animated, because look at the Expansion trailers there awesome and so i think BLIZZARD get your asses into gear and make it, ANIMATED you will get tonnes of veiwers and newcomers both ways wether it be Animated or Acted by actors, Lol and whos gonna the voices? i can do good orc For the horde lol.
the relese date of the movie is still 2009? cuz its already july.
bored ?? no more wow ??? retired.
looking at the concept art it is most likely a live action movie and i know a lot of people are saying it should be animated like the expansion but it wouldn’t be as good as live action it would be like lord of the rings with different characters and plot line but it would somewhat look better as a live action than an animation and cinamatics are better with live action movies than animations,i mean compare the matrix animé with the live action movie it looked better as a live action
I cant beleave their making a movie of world of warcraft thats awsome but i dont think they should use real people it seems kinda hard i meen how are they going to pull off tauren and orcs but oh well and im a huge fan of the horde. I cant wait until the movie is out in theaters.
oye maaa kaaa naaka bhenchod tumhari maa ki chood mein danda
gonna be a nice movie anywas
What pisses me right off is the fact that they had to make this film with actual people.
The intro movies of the game & it’s expansions are completely mind blowing.
They could blow JC’s Avatar right out of the water if the entire film was CGI, done by the boys at Blizz.
I don’t give a rats ass what the story will be. I want it to look good. Not some 5 course cheese meal like Sam Raimi’s Spiderdouche; Final Fantasy style. Although FF had a terrible plot, their artists were tight for what they had to work with back in the day.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE — C — G — I !!!!
I wonder what if they’re gonna have all the expansion bosses in it. I hope so.. Or make a perfect trilogy
But have they even started the movie?
I hope Arthas will be the “main boss”
I love this game! Too bad they aren’t gonna do CGI…
It would look so amazing. Real people are easier to model and stuff (due to the fact that they are mobile), but Tauren (ma home race) and Orcs will look nothing like they should. Maybe the two will be CGI and the rest will be people?
I can’t wait to see Gnomes…they’ll look ridiculous.
As for the in game WoW: I will never stop playing until an expansion so uncreative Blizz HAD to pull it straight outta their asses comes along.
Aw, too late. BC already came out (wow, so off topic. anyways…) I can’t wait to see this movie! I hope it’ll be as stunning as I hope!!
And to Wade, a little bit above:
Who the hell gave you permission to call trolls snot-colored? They’re obviously bruise colored
For the *awesome* Horde!
Of course the movie should be from both perspectives; otherwise it will look like a LOTR rip off. The whole damn point of the game is that there are two warring factions–neither all good or all evil–that had to come together to defeat a common foe. Besides, I can see humans (even really short ones, and ones with pink ponytails) any day on the street. Whether in a fantasy game, or a fantasy two hour ride in the movie theater, I’d like something more interesting. “Zombie” characters that are smart and fast? Minotaurs with a Native American-type culture? Trolls and orcs that do more than grunt and hit things? Awesome! And for the Alliance side, who wouldn’t want to see a gnome whupass on foes twice their size, dispelling their “cute” image? And, from a feminist perspective, I hope they keep the WOW trademark equality of the sexes, and the female characters are more than jiggle bobs in leather bikini’s.
blizzzz ur going to lose a lot of respect for this movie if u dont tell it from both factions! personally im upset that its being told only from the alliance point of view and i see that other people feel the same.telling it from the alliance does make for an interesting storyline because being human ourselves we can pretty much relate to being human (even though we dont live in azeroth with elves and orcs) but the horde also offers a bit more fantasy into the movie. why do you think older teens play horde? lets face it! its badass and its something new, something were not used to! every movie we see is told from a human point of view, twilight, lotr, even avatar (kind of) lol n even thts rly popular so telling the story from thralls point of view would really do no harm… not to mention thrall has a really interesting storyline! think about it, WoW has more fans than twilight (which is basically made up of common age groups) but if its all about the allies the horde players may not go see it, depending on how serious they are about it, and youll only get about 1/2 the fans. but if u include the horde a bit more im pretty sure ud get many maaaaaany more people to see the movie.
Hello Blizzcom! im sorry to burst this bubble, but it’s 2010, and there is no “100 million dollar invested” world of warcraft movie, even close to previews yet!the only recent movie that was both epic x100000 and cost a lot for the filmmakers was: James Cameron’s AVATAR! sorry!
p.s.: AVATAR was an awesome movie! anyone who hasnt seen it, should! and before it leaves theatres, too!
i hope it will show in 2010 ^_^ keep up the good work i will looking 4 it ^_^!
people people calm down, Blizzard has probably foreseen the problem that making it from a humans perspective will not make live up to expectations with their limitless smarts, and if they do make a 2nd one it will obviously be from say the orcs POV to compromise… u have to have faith in Blizzard u guys
I rhink there should be made alot of world of warcraft movie along time ago, there are so many things to make a movie out of.
You can almost make a movie for every zone and instnce in the game, and then even more after the new expansion packs.
When blizzard talk about the making of the movie, they say they are going to make on out of ONE of the expansions.
What they should do instead is make alot of movies, explaining most of the story of world of warcraft, i have heard and read pieces of the story and im really curious of the rest of the story. Im sure that other people like me also have found out lots of the story, but not many people know the whole story, and im sure that it bugs lots of people that they dont the whole story. So if you make a movie about the story im sure alot of people will be pleased. I know that i will atleast watch the movie is you do
Also you can make a movie for every zone, it will take a houndred years to make a movie for each zone, but you can make movies fore lots of the zones especially the ones that are in northerend or outlands.
I love this game!I will never stop playing until an expansion so uncreative Blizz HAD to pull it straight outta their asses comes along. And i want work in Blizz
omg im going to die. I just love a good storyline and this game one of the best i have ever seen in a game that i enjoy playing its just awesome. i really hope they update us on how there working on it and if it will be coming soon like in a year or 2.
I think that it would make a great movie/movie series to start off with Wacraft 3 and Warcaft 3 Frozen Throne series progressing on to WoW Games. Then you have all points of view and a very amazing storyline mixed with war and quest. Plus, it’s much more understandable than starting off at WoW 1. And of course, the Warcraft 3 storyline is cool anyway. As I see it, this can go one of two ways anyway: Great and LOTR epic or horrible like the DnD movie (I was very disappointed when I saw that having played the old DnD myself). I can’t wait to see it. I just hope it doesn’t take 4 years for each, saying they do more than 1.
I think they should start the movies off at the Warcraft 3 game then go on to Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne storyline from all characters perspectives with a good amount of 3rd person. After those storylines, they should move on to WoW. That would be pretty amazing. Mostly because the original games are pretty amazing with the storylines. That also gives all perspectives. And of course, you have a timeline progression. Plus, freaking amazing several storylines supporting both old and new game likers. I should also state that this could go either way however they do it. It could be great and as epic as LOTR, or horrid like DnD (I was very disappointed by it because I actually played that game). So, I’m looking for it. Can’t wait–hope they finish soon. And if they make more movies, they should know that they shouldn’t take forever making it. Probably easier and faster to make it computer animated. Just saying.
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WE WANT A ANIMATION MOVIE!
NO ACTORS PLEASE!!!
like the trailer of the game