Warcraft Film

[Jubal]

Not sure if we've had a thread on this yet so...

Thoughts?

[Clockwork]

The plot looks like it's going to be one of those back and forth type things. I think it's supposed to be like a reverse natives vs colonists thing. Pocahontas but the injuns land in London looking for somewhere to stay. Unfortunately it looks like they mixed the plot from Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 with some additions from WoW in there.

The visuals look fantastic though and I'll watch it just because I'm a blizz fanboy and Warcraft nerd.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and the humans should totally have been CGI, look at the ones in the WoW trailer from blizzcon this year. They look great, as it stands there's a little bit of a dissonance between the CGI orcs and live action humans.

[Jubal]

I might go watch it if other people I know are doing likewise, I guess. I rarely go to the cinema at all tbh. It looks like a fun film anyhow, though I doubt it'll end up being a real classic or a big hit.

[Clockwork]

It'll likely be a big box office hit due to the amount of warcraft fans but critically, I doubt it. One of the things that sold the game as a whole is how hammy it is which was intended with the tone and setting and weirdness in it. I have reservations about how it'll translate to film as it looks like they're ditching it in favour of 'gritty realism' which can look out of place in high fantasy in general. Also I'm yet to be convinced that the writers know how to do anything other than linkin park style angst when they go for emotional.

[Jubal]

Are there enough WoW and Warcraft players to drive an actual hit on their own? Like, I can imagine there are plenty enough to make an average film that covers its budget respectably, but I imagine the film will have to appeal beyond the direct follower base to do particularly well.

[Clockwork]

A year ago there were 12m WoW subs now there's 4m after a bad expansion but given how it's set around the world as a whole and not any WoW expansion. I think there is still power in the Warcraft franchise to make it a financial success.

[SaidaiSloth]

I really wish they filmed this in IMAX. The visuals look great, but there's going to have to be a lot of good upscaling work for it to look good on big screens - the trailer looked dreadful at Melbourne IMAX.
Although I was expecting this to be incredible since Duncan Jones did Moon and Source Code, at this point I'm sorta thinking that the Assassin's Creed movie is going to be better.

[Clockwork]

That's a shame :/


Still annoyed that the humans aren't cgi.


Is the AC movie still a thing? Is the ME one then as well?


EDIT: Oops. ME is EA and not Ubi.

[SaidaiSloth]

Assassins Creed movie just finished filming, there's also the Ratchet and Clank movie which is finished, and also Sly Cooper, Uncharted and The Last of Us movies in development. The Mass Effect movie was announced 5 1/2 years ago, and at the moment according to Avi Arad is meant to be released in 2018 or 2019.

[Clockwork]

Did not know half of those were going to be movies. AC might be good but despite Fassbender being awesome, I still can't see him work as an assassin. Good new about the ME movie though, last I heard it was dead.

[SaidaiSloth]

There's also an Angry Birds movie coming out this year... it actually looks OK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U2DKKqxHgE

[Gmd]

Hugely exicited for this film love the story of warcraft and if they stick to the source it will be amazing (though i think they will simplify a bit). Also visuals looks amazing and i have complete faith in Duncan Jones (Son of the late David Bowie fyi).

Also ye Assassins creed movie sounds ok from what i've heard. Will this year be the year of good video game movies
photo looks cool:

[Clockwork]

The story they're going with is a simplified WC1 rehash with elements from RoC, BC and WoD . I do not have faith in it but I'm hoping the action will be so good that it doesn't even matter.

[Clockwork]

I was at the cinema yesterday and 6 out of the 12 screens were showing it. So many people went to see it. Great job releasing it on a bank holiday blizz.

[Jubal]

Did you see it, or were you going to something else?