The Five Things you Should Know About the New Warcraft Movie
It has been six months since the official announcement of the first Warcraft movie, and although some specifics are a little scarce, we now know quite a bit about the outline of the movie and what we might expect when it is finally released.
Fanfare – The movie is being directed by Sam Raimi. His resume includes the first three Spiderman movies (he is rumoured to have walked out on the fourth) Scream and (if you are old enough to remember) the excellent Evil Dead. This inital announcement shows that this is no mini-budget tie-in or rip off. This is being seen as a major movie release with serious production and directorial values.
It is being written by the Robert Rodat (not Donat as reported elsewhere. Bob Donat is dead. We have said our final goodbye to Mr Chips sadly). Anyway, again a great pedigree. He wrote Saving Private Ryan, apparently after sitting and thinking on his son’s eighth birthday about war (apparently his son ‘s birthday is 6th June – D-Day). Not sure if my 9 year old would be happy if I spent his birthday musing about the past, but in Robert’s case it proved to be a good thing. Ryan is perhaps the greatest and most realistic take on war Hollywood has done in the last thirty years…
New Zealand is being cited as the most likely venue for the outdoor filming. This makes some sense, there is enough of New Zealand to go around, and the aspects certainly evoke an “Azerothian” feel to me.
Don’t hold your breath for this film. Although the people who announce on release dates are pretty tight lipped. We are being told that a film of this type will be at least another two years in the making. However, I would bet that it timed to be released with the expansion AFTER Cataclysm, and that will be at least three years from now. Expect there to be some shared concepts between the two. Perhaps even the re-emergence of “World of Warcraft 2″ rumours that have been doing the rounds recently.
At this early stage, one thing dopes seem certain. The film will be action based (as opposed to quest based) though whether we have Alliance verses Horde or either verses Scourge – or indeed a mixture of the two – remain to be seen. Of course, we could always have a new entity introduced just for the film.
Certain aspects are still totally unknown. The plot, actors and full storyline are a complete mystery. The chances are that even the film’s producers do not know who or what they are.
The production company is Legendary Pictures of “300″ and “Batman Begins”. Again, fantastic news for those of us waiting for a real action movie with top notch production values. I’m just thankful that Michael Bay has nothing to do with it any more. A man that can turn any specific title into “generic mush” with his direction should be kept well away from this movie. With it now being clear that this man is no longer part of the Warcraft movie we can breath easily knowing that it’s unlikely that our much beloved game will be turned into “ABC action movie on rails – with no regard to existing plot or Lore – made to showcase my special effects team Part 4″ like most of Bay’s output seems to be. Rant off.
This site is up and running again now, and we look forward to bringing you all the latest and best in Warcraft news in the coming months. See you soon.
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