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In May 2006, Legendary Pictures announced that they had acquired the rights from Blizzard Entertainment to make a World of Warcraft movie. There was the sound of enormous rejoicing from gamers around the world and then … a great silence. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in joy and were suddenly silenced. Since then, the silence from Legendary and Blizzard has been fairly deafening. Two years later and still no news on the project. Apparently it’s still in development but they haven’t hired the “someone along the lines of a Zack Snyder, Christopher Nolan type” they wanted to direct the project.
With a planned release date of 2009 impossible to meet at this point, why not just scrap the whole thing? They could save themselves the embarrassment of spending over $100 million dollars on a movie that’ll end up tanking at the box office and become a pack-in freebie with the next expansion set. There’s a growing mountain of reasons not to make this movie; take a look at them after the break.
First and foremost, it’s only been eight years since Dungeons & Dragons came out, and gamers are still feeling the sting. This was a big budget (relatively — $45 million dollars wasn’t that small in 2000) movie based on another extremely popular role playing game. However, it tanked at the box office and is generally loathed by both fans of the game and moviegoers alike. Over the top acting from Jeremy Irons, deadpan lines from Thora Birch, and a ridiculous storyline that didn’t pay attention to the years of manuals and expansions didn’t help.
They followed that up with a direct to TV sequel in 2005 that tried to right all the wrongs: it included specific items from the games, made reference to many of the expansion sets, and had characters who followed the “rules” of the game. Plans were that it would lead into a series on the Sci Fi Channel, but that possibility faded into forgotten realms. The blurb for the series, which was to appear in 2009, has since been removed from the Sci Fi Channel website.
Second reason, as they say on NPR’s Marketplace… “Let’s do the numbers.” At last check, Blizzard had more than 10 million subscribers for WoW. That means if every one of those people bought a $10 ticket, they’d make $100 million dollars on the movie, which is what they’ve said the budget is. However, with prints and advertising often doubling the cost of a movie, that means it woulndn’t even have made a dent in making its money back. Plus, many of those subscribers are no doubt duplicate accounts from the same person, as evidenced by one guy who plays 36 characters at the same time. So if you account for those, and people who tend to not go to the movies, you’re already cutting your installed fanbase down significantly.
Third, it’s not The Lord of the Rings, which many people compare the Warcraft storyline to. The problem is that people had been reading the Lord of the Rings for years before that movie came out, so it had a large base to begin with. Even if you hadn’t read it, you were somewhat familiar with the legend of Bilbo and Frodo, either by hearing about it from friends, or seeing the Ralph Bakshi cartoons that were popular in the late 70s.
With Warcraft, you’d be hard pressed to get the storyline out of many gamers. Plenty of people jump in, skip past the cutscenes, and just want to start playing the game. The original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was a real time strategy games, pitting orcs against humans. You had to harvest lumber, mine gold, and build different units in an effort to both protect yourself from the enemy, and to eventually try and overrun them. Eventually a storyline and a plot were fleshed out through the four sequels that followed, and expanded even more in the World of Warcraft RPG game.
But can the average gamer tell you the plot? I played WoW for nearly nine months, and all I know is that I was a Warlock trying to level up. You had to complete hundreds of mundane quests like “Find this rare ale for me, so I can make my daughter’s wedding perfect!” in order to gain experience, while fighting off different creatures along the way. That’s somewhat of an oversimplification, but I just wasn’t aware of a single overreaching storyline. Don’t get me wrong, the game was still fun, but that was because of the gameplay mechanics and the rich world they’d created… not an ongoing story.
A good example of this is Metal Gear Solid 4. Easily one of the highest anticipated games ever released for Sony’s flagship PlayStation 3, it featured over 90 minutes of cutscenes. That’s enough to cobble their own movie together. Some of these were presented to the gamer in extremely long chunks, which led many people to just thumb a button and skip past them. In an battle of short attention spans, the it’s just too easy to press the shiny button to get back into the game. As a result, a lot of people played through MGS4, but weren’t too sure what had just happened.
Finally, it’s been over two years since the announcement was made, yet they don’t have anything to show for it except one piece of concept art. No script, no storyline, no director, no attached talent… nothing. The game has powered ahead full steam with the Burning Crusade expansion in January of 2007, and the new Wrath of the Lich King pack coming out on November 13th. So where’s the info on the movie? For all of the gung-ho attitude about it with a 2009 release date, it seemed to vanish overnight. Even at this year’s BlizzCon there was no movie news, except that they’re “working on it.”
It would be best if Blizzard shuttered these plans altogether, and instead released a series of DVDs or movies available to download that feature the same amount of animation that goes into the opening cinematics and trailers for many of their games. They look a lot better than they could ever hope the live-action movie would. Save us all and channel that money elsewhere, both gamers and movie lovers will thank you for it.
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All I have to say is no one can beat Blizzard’s cinematics and game trailers.
I would love to see them do something more, whether it be a series of shorts or a full length movie. Even if the story line isn’t great, the visuals would make up for it.
You seem to do not know Blizzard, if they say “we are going to make LOTR cry” eventually they will do it.
when it’s ready
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If you were to try and create a script with the entirety of WoW lore in mind, of course it would be impossible to bring to life. There are many story lines in the game that could stand on their own if told visually, and some of the major story arcs are ones which have very classic themes (Arthas’ fall from grace, for example.) I mean, if hollywood can manage to make a good movie out of a theme park ride, then I think they could swing a tale or two from Azeroth.
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It would be interesting to see WoW movie. I hope that they will not ruin the franchise with bad movie.
dude you doubt so much of the capability of them making a movie. and if you were to play the actual game not the online game. you would see that a great story can be written out, and made into a great movie. like thrall freeing his people from archamond. that has great potentail. same with arthus geting crazed on stopping the undead, and ending up as a knight for the lich king. even the online game based everything on the originals. so I’m saying get your facts striaght.
This article is kind of…. retarded? Why in the world would Dungeons and Dragons be the standard in fantasy games translating to movies? Even Advent Children would be a better comparison than that. Fans can’t control what an idiot studio does with a franchise. All Blizz has to do is self-finance like Marvel has and you have quality.
Secondly, what about Harry Potter? Did every ticket sold go to a reader? Nuh-uh.
Third, there’s only one LOTR, but guess what? Tolk didn’t create all that stuff out of thin air, even his creations have a basis in folklore.
Point: quality is quality. Good script, good direction, decent budget, etc. Quality = Profit!
I still hope they would make the movie.. .
dude.. Uwe Boll is not the director of this movie.
Metal gear solid has the best storyline for a game based on a game. (e.g not LOTR because that was a book before a game) Metal gear solids cinematics are long i agree but if you have played or even glimsed at the older ones then you will understand the plot to MGS4 alot more.
But i do agree this seems to be a failing attempt, and as a director said, most of the people who play the game illegaly download their music and videos, so whats to stop them doing that for this?
It would be so much better if they put the money into maknig a Warcraft 4… because i have to say warcraft 3 is getting old and the graphics bad
Hmmm I would love to see, instead of a movie which would end up biased in the view of the Alliance and not tell the whole story, a T.V series which could properly explain all of the lore in due time.
However it would be a more present than past show and would center around 8 (10 in the second season) characters (each of a different race) and their seperate yet intertwining lives in Azeroth. It could work using flashbacks like on “Lost” and each season could represent the occurences of an expansion.
I think that could have alot of potential to really show what makes the series so original. A movie would probably turn out like too many fantasy ones already in theaters and WoW deserves better than that.
You are a fucking idiot, the reasons you say, isnt even a reason.. They dont touch the issue a shit. Omg be happy they make a movie.
The scrip t: Under development.If my informations isnt just rumors, as i dont think it is as i heard it on WoW insider then:
Script : Under development
Studio : Found
Lore/ History : They will continue where Warcraft 3 tft stopped, so before wow and after tft. Omg do your research moron.
Or they could just make an animated movie that has the same digital magic as their opening scenes. Voice-over uknowns would make it more desirable. Second, there’s loads of plot to the game. Long ago, the Highborne, an elite force of night elves, and the queen Azshara, were overcome by a lust for power. The night elves saw their addiction to arcane magic as heresy, and when the Well of Eternity was destroyed and the Scourge unleashed upon the world, the Highborne left, calling themselves blood elves. Azshara became an octopus thing. That’s a very VERY brief summary with VERY little detail, but that alone would make an amazing CG movie.
LOL ! Like da 4reasons u gave ! and like point on wer 1 guy havin 10 to 15 ids and playin ! they need time 2 settel in after da release of wow:burningcrusade & wow:wrath of the lichking , and wid da new warcraft 4 on da way its hard to say da date of release ! DA storyline may be a bit hard make on ! but u do not know blizzard dude ! they will blow your mind !
If u understand how da game storyline statred ! ur balls would be in your mouth u assclown! they hav 2 minimze 4 games storylines into a movie of atlest 2hours ! All u can do is critisise them ,and their work ! for they hav done one of the worlds top played games ! They might be takin their time cause they dont want 2 make up a fuked up storyline and embarrasthemselves by doin that and havin a huge loss ! Bizzcon known wat type of storyline tat we crave for !
LISTEN GUYS WOW IS FKIN AMAZING IT HAS MORE THEN 8 MILLION PPL THAT HAVAE BOUGHT THE GAME … ITS THE BEST THING EVER I M 100% SURE THAT EVERY1 WHO EVER PLAYED IT AND ALL THE PPL WHO HAVENT PALYED WOULD WATCH THIS MOVIE … ITS FKING AMAZING AMAIZING AMZING MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN THE TRAILORS MAKE ME SHIVOR WAT WILL THE MOVIE DO …. WOW HAS TO MAKE A MOVIE THEY ARE FILTHY RICH AND THEY OWE US AT LEAST A MOVIE
AND THE WOW MOVIE CAN BE BREAKEN UP LIKE STAR WARS OR LORD OF THE RING IN DOESNT HAVE TO ALL BE IN ONE MOVIE …
alright first off, as a wow player since beta, i speak for many when i say that a wow movie would be justified.
When you say that a story line is hard to find within wow, you are either a noob or just blind. Most quest reveal in indepth story behind everything. I mean come on, black temple, the history of illidan, the coming of the burning legion? ARTHAS, all veteran gamers of wow know the story, we’ve played reign of chaos, between the frozen throne, and maybe even read a couple warcraft books from time to time. Also one more thing
for blizzard to break even on their budget for the movie, you are only including world of warcraft players, 10 million people. Yes you are correct that many users have multiple accounts, but you forgot to add in these factors. 1) many gamers will more than likely see the movie more than once, and 2) i never read lord of the rings, or harry potter, but i still have seen the movies in theaters, needless to say, this will movie will draw people out of the game itself. you have to include people who dont even play the game will more than likely go and see this movie.
Your reasoning is pathetic
lol man…u dont know jack about wow and blizzard so pls stop givin ur self a hard time (by hard time i mean ppl calling u jerk,imbecil,idiot,moron etc.) and go write something about flowers or some other shit, maybe u will do better…
and mark my words,that movie will beat box office totaly
400 mil in one week,remember what i sayed
ty for ur time
regardz Twist!!
I think you have a very valid point on all of this, but you are also orgeting the other blizzard games like diablo and starcraft. Those players would pay to see the first Blizzard entertainment movie. With the growing number of players by the time they release the movie there will most likely be millions more playing and wanting every single piece of blizzard. The live action idea sounds terrible I do admit, and the cinematics idea you had would work the best for the movie. My last concern is the lack of knowledge you have for the real worldofwarcraft, many people know the whole storyline behind the game, thats why they created roleplaying realms, speaking from a amateur loremaster of worldofwarcraft I think they would attract all the fantasy nerds( sorry to use the term nerd, I’am one and proud of it) because of the rich lore behind wow. So if blizzard makes a movie you know its going to be good especially with there amazing amount of people interested in this great game
I love WoW, played since beta…and i think a movie would be a great idea…..a live action movie sounds terrible but Blizz has proved time and again their talents with the cinematics, and as for the plot….they could start at the very beginning..with the Gurbashi and Amani…or just work from the Titens arival…or just make a movie about Ilidans ‘betrayal’ or Arthas’ fall from grace…no mateer what blizz would rake in a whole lotta cash…and after all the cash they have collected over the years…I feel they owe us a nice, 1hr 30 min Cinimatic…for the time….we would all wait cause we wouldnt want a shitty ass movie..
LOL NOOOOB!!!!! I’VE PLAYED EVERY SIINGLE DAMN GAME THAT BLIZZ HAS EVER EALEASED SINCE WARCRAFT 1 AND SARCRAFT 1!!!! tHEY WILL MAKE A KICK ASS MOVIE WAIT AND SEE!!!!
We dont want a WOW movie, itd be too complicated. How about a DotA script? Sentinel VS Scourge? it’d be an epic movie… gives me goosebumps
U DONT KNOW ANYTHING!
1st of all the reason why the D&D movie failed was the fact that it was a QUEST movie….. that is what blizzard said they WERENT doing…
they were making a WAR movie, as in control for Ashenvale or something like that. and it is a pretty simple sotry line of they plan to make more than 1 movie.
1st movie- orcs come to azeroth, humans fight back, with some sidelines involving dwarves and stuff like that.
2nd movie- Dranei come into the picture with demons after them. and the humans reject the high elves
3rd - horde and alliance together to fight ARTHAS. and i kno that folo’s the games story lines but WHAT MORE DO U NEED, it’ll make good movies so
Hmm I’ve never played WoW and I have only played Warcraft 3 and TFT, but I LOVE the story.
I have read all the Warcraft books, except two, one in progress… (lol school report book) Richard A. Knaak’s books are the better ones in the series though; Cycle of Hatred is the worse, DO NOT READ THAT FIRST
The WoW storyline actually ruins the entire story and Blizzard has said that if there was to be a Warcraft 4, they probably will pretend WoW didn’t happen.
The movie would attract other Blizzard game players too though, but definitely not the average movie-goer who doesn’t play WoW or any Blizzard games. Chances are profit won’t be made.
I personally would definitely go to a Warcraft movie but I don’t know if any of my friends would. I would like to see this happen though even if it does it would take years until they even start.
Articles like this are so fucking ridiculous.
You don’t even work for blizzard so the money they spend and make does not affect you whatsoever, and if your so anal about them making a movie why don’t you just let them do what they (and so many of their fans) want and then NOT WATCH IT.
Your reasons are more like excuses. Please, do you think everyone who bought a Harry Potter movie ticket knew who Harry Potter was? Do you honestly think that the only people who would see this movie would be WoW players? WoW has 11.5 members at the moment (December 28,2008). MEMBERS, not ACCOUNTS. You didn’t bother to mention all the fantasy geeks and other gamers who would see it even if they didn’t know the storyline or characters.
The only thing I’m worried about this movie is if they hire actors or use in-game cinematics (like the Wrath Gate video). I feel if they use the same animations as the trailers and intro cinematics, this movie will be a definite success.
And for future reference, please stop writing bad things about good ideas. Even after reading your half-assed article, i find no reason why they shouldn’t spend money how they want to make a movie about this awesome game.
Blizzard is very much unlike any of the other companies out there. If anything it is most related to Pixar in the entertainment industry. Both will go to extreme length to make quality products. There has been many other CG-animated movies produced, but the ones everybody remember are Pixar movies.
Its not how amazingly fancy or lifelike the graphic is, ultimately the movie comes down to a good plot/story and good acting. Final Fantasy had amazing graphic but a very sketchy storyline, those other movies mentioned in this pieace besides LOTR had terrible scripts.
Blizzard has shown over the years that it will work on a project until they know it is 100% the way they want it, they will not skimp on quality to meet a deadline. Look at how many times they have delayed release dates on expansions or sequels.
Blizzard will not buckle under pressure from any of the big distribution companies due to budget, they will finance it themselves. Blizzard practically print money with the success of WarCraft .
Anybody would be foolish to underestimate Blizzard’s efforts and quality. WoW and StarCraft are shining examples of quality product that Blizzard develop much like Pixar’s “A Toy Story” and “Nemo.” Those movies ended up as memorable popular culture icons much like WoW with its 11 million followers.
Hey, First of all, It’s not a WORLD of Warcraft Movie. It’s just a Warcraft Movie. World of Warcraft is a game. And Blizzard said they think it will be done by 2009 like two years ago.
Things could change because they were creating the expansion set rather than setting up the movie probably. So if they want to please the audience and not tank it on the box office, they could just postpone the date to a later time. Think about it. If people think it will be a bad movie, they’ll most likely hear about it and probably think so itself it they try to procrastinate, it will turn out bad.
You’ve played World of Warcraft, and if you wanted to understand the lore, then you might as well go back to play Warcraft 1: Orcs vs Humans, like me. Just because people skip through everything and the cut scenes, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be interested in watching a movie based on the game series.
If you haven’t noticed they have a great CGI team and if they want to make it some CGI and some live action based they can do it.
Just because they said somethings like one or two years ago doesn’t mean they are sticking to them. They have minds you know and opinions can change.
Really, go stick to the games if you think the movie is going to be bad and don’t go watch it.
UMM i didnt finish the article because your intro was rediculous. you cant compare dungeons and dragons and wow together. they may be the same type of game but lemme tell ya, these are two very different gaming companies with different workers who have different ideas which is what wow has and may well surpass dungeons and dragons’s level of success
“It’s ready when it’s ready.” Someone must not know ANYTHING about Blizzard. If you don’t know that line, then you’re clueless.
The movie is going to be awesome, regardless of being live action. It’ll be like a Hellboy type of costuming for scourge, demons, and every other possible warcraft class.
And come on, just because it’s a movie made from a game, doesn’t mean it won’t have deep meaning in it’s lore. You just assume that it would be bad because you yourself don’t know the story. Go buy a novel about this game’s story line and trust me on this, it would explain atleast half the game to you.
I would also like to add that if you take months to level up then you’re doing it wrong.
At the end of the day, anyone whos played WC3 (plus TFT) will know that WC has an awsome storyline and could easily be made into a movie, none of this WOW stuff cos its cos its not designed as a story based game. Though im sure no one wants a live action film, its gotta be a CGI.
And as for them not making a return u need to include dvd sales and ofcourse the ppl that dont play the game but wanna see the film etc.
i hope they make it. and the sooner the better!
no offence dude ( altho u do make good points) the WoW movie if made IRL would kick ass u wouldnt have to see animation u can finally see what the creators see so chill
L2Research A** H***
I must say I loved the Warcraft cinimatics, and i even find my slf watching them over and over again the story for warcraft has always been good. and for WoW goesalot of is good I even read the quests. I agree alot of people do not seeing in chat some one is always askin for help on what to do. seeing a wow movie not based in on the game, and as a stand alone epic movie would be great to watch and see a Blizz will try to impress us and hopfully will.
Dude, i don’t give a shit about a word ur saying ..er…Kevin Kelly..
I would love to see thatn movie. while you can stay on the computer posting bullshit that we don’t care about. 4 reasons? well here is 1 reason y it SHOULD BE MADE. People like it. So screw, the story is great, the games are great, why don’t you let the fans decide huh?
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For the person who tried to write this article, as us wow players would say, complete epic fail. blizzard could throw away 100 million dollors and it wouldn’t even be notice. 10 dollors a ticket blah blah equals 100 million dollors, if 10 million players play wow, i can almost promise atleast 95% of them would go watch the movie, then you take in consideration about 1-2 million people going to see it, just because there bored and hey it looks like lord of rings so can’t be so bad. Then you have dvd release which every wow player will want, at 20 dollors a pop, that makes it 200 million just in dvd sells, on top of the 200 million from the movies, making it a 300-400 million give or take. I just find it hard to believe you can even write this article and be allowed to. you played what 9 months? yeah because you know so much about it huh. Forget mortal combat, huge block buster hit in the 90’s also a game, i can think of over 10 games that were turned into moves that were success. You shouldn’t be allowed to write articles imo but hey thats just me. I think having a wow movie would be huge for the game, but it’s obvious when lord of the ring players try to write articles about wow stuff, so please stop.
BLizzard’s WoW storyline is HORRIBLE, a movie would probably fail miserably for more reasons than those listed above. BLizzard can only do what ti does by throwing money at all thier problems, how else would they get celebrities to advertise World of Warcraft? I can list several games that beat Blizzards cinematics and game trailers, MGS4, Crysis, WAR, DoW2, Far Cry 2 and many, many more.
Blizzard can never rip down juggernauts such as Lord of the RIngs, and with the release of WoW’s latest expansion, BLizzard has seemed to have milked it’s cash cow dry, it’s just a matter of time till people run out of things to do in-game.
Even people like Matt, above me
I’ve never followed WoW, myself but it seems like they are going to have the same problem that almost every game has these days. Not enough good story. I’m not talking about those cheezy love storys you alwasy see in these war movies either. I mean good original storylines. Take all the money you make off all those WoW succers (no offence) and hire some good writers with good ideas. Story can never be rushed either. If they really want good ideas, look to the audiance. I have some great and original ideas that I could contribute if I saw an oppertunity to get involved.
sigh, blerg your about as smart as the writer of this article, first of all, i quit playing wow about 4 months ago, and yes it got old, but name a game that doesn’t get old after a while. World of warcraft is the number 1 pc online game for the pass what like 3 years, i’ve played and tried them all, and non i mean non even come even close to wow in all aspects of gaming. personally i don’t have to say much the 10 million people that pay to play it speak for itself. so if your going to try to say games suck, movies will be bad, try not to crack on the number 1 played pc game of all time, including the current number 1 played game. a little fyi on a wow movie, a movie is only as good as the director and actors and writers. have those 3 chemistry and anything can be made into a good movie. and last your a complete crack head if you think blizz has ran out of money, lol. do you know how many people baught the expansion, obviously not. If you did know the facts and what blizz actually put into it you wouldn’t be saying there milked dry. and as far as running out of things to do in the game, well i’ll agree with ya some what on that, it’s not like pre-bc when there was always somethign to do, and is main reason i stop playing the game, got old and boring. but i just happen to think with the right people hired they could make a decent movie out of the game and the story line. Game trailers well wow has the longest ones out, i think there pretty tight, i mean can’t ask for much better.
Your so stupid.
Go read WoW lore and accutally know what your talking about fag.
wowwiki.com
over 100hours of lore their to read no doubt
Noob.
Matt, i apolagize but, i was kinda right? u quit! WoW has been the top game for 3 years now, but hats because of how addictive it was, i used to play and i look back now and see time wasted playing a mediocre game, which really doesn’t deserve the hype.
BTW, Ryan, how much of this lore, have u reaad, i read ALL of it wen i used to play, so, did u know that the Makura (lobster-people) mostly attact on sight, but a few can speak Commom (the games equivalent of english) and hav taken to walking the world as merchants, that’s right, gigantic lobster merchants.
If u wanna keep this up I have much, MUCH,MUCH more stupid lore where that came from.
who’s the noob now?
N00b
soz bout the spelling mistakes, i’m sleepy, so here goes…
1. but that’s
2. have u read
3. attack on sight
oh, here’s more stupid Lore!
there are fire giants in northrend
blerg just curious since were both former wow players, i have yet to find a game i enjoy playing like i did with wow as i got into it, any suggestions? Only reason i defend the game still is for that. I tried lotr the whole storyline and graphics is sweet, but the actual game play isn’t even close to wow
I play WAR now, (warhammer online) has a steep graphics requirment, ut it shows, and the story and gameplay is sweet, plus it’s cheaper than wow to start running! (it looks more expensive, but when u factor in expansions for wow)
It is strongly based around group play however… this is how they achieve a balance,and the game is truly balanced. Just join a high poulation server and let the in game group finder do the rest, there are public quests (group quests wiht better rewards, and easier to find groups for) scenario’s (battlegrounds that can be joined anywhere) as well as your other mmo stables. (dungeons, quests etc) PLUS it’s fun not addictive, so give it a go if ure looking for a mmo to play
Those 4 reasons are laughable. There is more lore than most of the pie face gamer geeks probably even know about. Its a great creative property and would easily rake in the dough as a mainstream, high end high budget fantasy film - epic like a star wars - and based on blizzard’s creative and artistic standards, it should come out nicely. You can’t possibly alienate the the hardcore crowd, the will just argue that the mage couldn’t have cast that spell without a reagent or something stupid like that. Then they will go back to their life, I mean, playing world of warcraft.
omfg u dont know absolutly ANYTING about wow story, and i can see that when u say:
” Don’t get me wrong, the game was still fun, but that was because of the gameplay mechanics and the rich world they’d created… not an ongoing story.”
in fact the best in WOW is the story, and u would knew that if u tried to read something about wow story….
i dont agree with a living person movie too, i think that the movie would be much better if it was like the wowLK cinematic for example.. and i can give a example of a anime serie brought to movie; Dragon ball evolution. i already saw the trailler and it looks a big s***.
the question is….
can you do the movie for just 1 year???
hmmm……….for me…
BLIZZARD CAN MAKE IT!!!!!…….as they say….
they’re making the script….and some other say…
it’s on 2011……..and i bet it’s 2011…
U don’t make much sense with this article. U had nothing to do at home and u wrote this.
Blizzard is not thinking like u thats why there making tons of money. People said that a second expansion for WOW will never sell, that it will be a disaster and guess what it became the best selling expansion set in the world! Now u hear the same things about a third expansion, that will come mid 2010, but does not stop Blizzard from doing a third one.
I hope the movie comes out soon and I still hope for complete animation.
Rest assured that more people would go to see the movie not just the subscribers. U know, there a lot more Warcraft fans then subscribers.
theres a huge storyline to warcraft. i have read like 3 of there books and i only read like 4 books by free will in my LIFE. and as with anything with blizzard you should know that anything they make they take there time and time and time and time and time time time years years years
oh and you forgot the fanbase is retartedly huge. starcraft warcraft and diablo all those people will go watch the movie or people who play final fantasy or rpgs or or ANY decently informed gamer
yea you definatly dont pay attention, blizzard loves to fuck with us keep us on our toes, remember the diablo splash pages, and really you never payed attention to the story thats over half the game, im not hardcore my any means but i know the entire story of the lich king and most of the other bits of history from the game and i like never read quest notes
honestly Rheagar, read previous comments before you post, i’ve already posted about stupid, lore, it’s mixed in amongst the steroetypical mediocre lore of the rest of the world of warcraft.
First of all I think it is a great idea to make a warcraft movie because its new and its fresh. They are also making a Dragon Ball real time movie and your not commenting on that! So i say you should shut up and let Blizzard do what ever they want. Besides its not like you are actually using your own money to fund the project so SHUT THE HELL UP! Kevin Kelly.
Make the film! i’ve already saved up money to see it. I believe if you make the film and people think it’s good then more poeple might be intrested in playing the game its self!
I love how you claim to be an “average” WOW player when you only played for 9 months! ROFL!!! I’ve been playing for going on two and a half years and I’m not even close to the true WOW aficionado. Next time you want to make rediculous comments, keep it to something you arn’t absoultely ignorant of.
Appretiate it.
I lol’d. I really did. Your arguments are somewhat reasonable at some points, like how you speculate on how they could screw it up with a bad movie. Everyone knows this. Everyone hopes it won’t be. Second, no story? Are you SERIOUS? /golfclap for your research there. The amount of lore for WoW is massive. Warcrafts 1-3, the books, worldofwarcraft.com, wowwiki.com, every one of the books, and so much of the qust text, which i am going to assume you don’t EVER read. Please though, write more. I could use more chuckles.
Mentioned books twice, my bad.
warcraft is awesome. A warcraft movie can be very iffy if they wait a few years like 5+ then they should do ok . but if they make a movie they should make it based on there storyline and it should start at the beginning of it 1 so they can make another and 2 so for all the lore fans out there. if they make a movie it could ether kill world of warcraft or it could make it even more famous i personally think that if they d othey should start it at the begining of the story of warcraft. another good way i think to put it would be to just make movies out of the warcraft books. idk it can ether go really good or really bad. but what ive hered so far is its going down hill for a “good ” warcraft movie.
i really hope they make this movie i really am looking forward to seeing it….and u played for nine months and was still lvling man damn u bad…lol
Its pretty stupid to think that the movie will be made from WoW. WoW isnt supposed to have a story. They want to make it off of the Original series story line.
well Blizzard has the money so i have no doubt if they wanna create something unique they will. I`ve been playing WoW for 4 years and i found out that people who stop playing the game after spending so much time they often like to talk sht, reason is they cant believe how much time they spent and they could`ve to something better with their life and blah blah blah. Warcraft has a great story line and if you really look at it its not much different from what LOTR offers as far as the story goes when you go the basics most of these fantasy based games or movies some what has the same story line what makes them difference is how that story is told and Blizzard did a great job with story telling and with the game, as far as the movie goes i do think they are making this movie to make more money but who cares if i did care i wouldnt spent that much money in past 4 years and i would love to see that movie and blizzard never disappointed their fans yet and i doubt they will now.
Okay first of all…..this should be a trilogy….and ill explain after this statement…..NOBODY MENTIONS STAR WARS!!! Lucas started it in the middle and finished with a different story. Plain and simple make a Horde movie….then an Alliance movie….then combine the two factions against each other for the third movie….to be the most anticipated movie of the 2000’s….and with that said…..BLIZZARD will always have money and will always continue to make money…..just do it already…..FOR THE HORDE!!!
well all you need to do is remove the idea that they(Blizzard) is making a movie. forget about it and then hopefully on the following years the movie will come up all you can say is “WOAH i didn’t know they were making a movie”
$100 million budget for the movie. typically half of a movie budget is for marketing, it’s not “on top of” the budget, otherwise the budget would account for that. I’m fine with the movie being made as long as it has a good director and an excellent script. most video game to movie adaptations go wrong because they either try too hard to stay faithful to the game, or they have a horrible script that is hard for the actors to pull off. Everything has to come together in a movie for it to be successful. sound, editing, writing, casting. I don’t care if it’s low on special effects, just tell a universal human story of some sort. The movie needs universal characters and a universal story. If they make this movie like transformers, or really anything “michael Bay-ish” the movie will sell, but will suck ass with the critics. Make a movie critics will love and they will sell the movie for you. I personally would like to see it with WOW lore, but light on magic if that makes any sense, keep it raw and real and dirty. And for god sake get a good writer and director.
Pfft!!
If well done, this would be an exciting movie, one that would not be dependent upon the fan base, or knowledge of the storyline.
The story is an excellent and epic one. Of determination, and self betrayal, among other things.
With today’s cg, there is no limit to what could be done with this. And, the whole sequence of movies could be written and planned for ahead like done in lord of the rings.
It doesnt need an existing fan base, nor does it need years of existance in published form to be a sucess. It needs vision and good investment–taking the time to do it right.
The existing fan base would be enough word of mouth, and like any other well done, good movie, it will carry itself.
I have to agree. Blerg is an off track attention seeking troll, with no knowledge of the game.
It’s obvious tripe dripping from his face that he has no clue.
There is a massive and epic story the game is based on. There is great game design, geared to keep you deeply involved. No way to “win” the game, and many different types of characters to have to master with different ways of game interaction. As well as different type of servers for different game styles.
Blizz can get celebrities to promote the game, cause these guys like the game, as well as the budgeting that allows for it.
Blizz is in no danger of losing what’s going on for any time soon, and only a “troll” with nothing better to do than to hear the sound of his own self important ideas planted in any genre he runs across, desperately hoping for some attention, warped validation, and alleviation of boredom, vomits forth such inane uninformed offerings.
blah blah blah, get a life and an IQ Blerg.
=P
they neva goin make it it would suck balls
This guy obviously doesn’t share the pulse of the game or its players. He thinks the movie will tank? More than 11 million players will see the movie, not including the friends they will hound at to get tickets to the movie and curious seekers. NEVER underestimate the capabilities of Blizzard. Blizzard only gets better and better and whenever they find a problem, they fix it. I haven’t kept up with the news of the movie, but I hear it is behind schedule, if it’s even true. Whatever the cause, I have faith Blizzard and I know my high hopes with Blizzard are never crushed.
You obviously know shit all about WoW. 9 months playing time? Come back with a better argument.
Everybody said “Blizzard is going to make an MMO-RPG” and everybody laughed. And guess what? They suprised us with one of the best games EVER! I have faith in Blizzard and I know it will pwn
Parallelism @ US-Illidan Horde
Look at all these fanboys who are backing up a multi-million dollar corperation who clearly does not care about what it’s fans have to say.
I wish people would get over themselves and realize that if bliz wants to make a movie they will make lt. For anybody that has a negative opinion about it your just made cause you arent getting paid to make it. Bliz has plenty of money to make this movie with or without those bitter opinionated souls. 10 million x $15 = 150000000 a month plenty of money to make one movie nobody wants and still change left over.
just do the math and realize that the money isnt a issue a few crybabies are.
İ fully agree wıth what people are sayıng about the movıes beıng a sucess. as a fılm student ı can tell you that yes there ıs alot more ınvolved fınancıally then just makıng the movıe, but wıth all the players, players frıends, bored people or just people who thought the traıler kıcked ass wıll go and watch. DVD sales merchandısıng and all that they can make theır money back and even ıf they dont people wıll have contınued joınıng and payıng ın whılest the creatıon ıs goıng on and even afterwards. ıts pretty hard to mılk blızzard dry.
they would rather take theyre tıme and make a masterpıece then rush ıt all at once. the sıstıne chapel took lıke 12 years to paınt! look at ıt now a wonder of art! thıs ısnt a dodgy superhero comıc remake where they rush ıt wıth some bıg name actor and clıche ıt wıth borıng sımılar tales. thıs ıs a movıe that has the potentıal to beat lord of the rıngs ın many ways.
for ınstance lord of the rıngs was borıng.
ım just throwıng ıt out there.
they walked, they talked, they laughed, they crıed.
ıt was a fuckıng drama.
then the next fılm had an annoyıng storylıne and charcter splıttıng that left you confused and epıc war scenes.
the thırd one was just overkıll. watchıng a war for an hour ıs faır enough but after lıke 2 hours of contınuous fıghtıng ıt just gets tıresom. ı belıeve the Warcraft movıe wıll fıx these problems.
ı guess my poınt ıs lord of the rıngs was flawed as all thıngs are and ıts my opınıon not yours, but ım just sayın hold tıght and waıt for the movıe and ıt wıll blow your socks away!
you are a fucking idiot, if this movie is done right, and it seems they are taking their time to ensure that they are, its gonna be huge. Don’t shoot it down because of steaming piles like D&D, that movie was garbage right from the get go. Don’t sell legendary OR blizz short on this one, it could really be something amazing.
And it damn sure doesn’t help that there are a bunch of douche-bag nay sayers like yourself, spewing your worthless opinions all over the internet. Stfu and keep your dribble to yourself.
They could make movies about the First, Second, And 3rd war…. who said it had to be be about Wow?
I have read the Warcraft Books and I think that if they recreate them [the books] into a movie, it would be awesome! Especially the ‘War of the Ancients’.
Yes the story of warcraft itself is great. i would like to see, How far blizz can go.
Agreed, it should be done with their game cinematic, because it would be far better than any live action.
you seem to not understand how movies make their money. u think ticket sales are the only revenue. they are probably about 10%… merch baby. merch. come over sometime ill teach you how to be a real reporter.
You my friend are an idiot
I know the story . I have read it on a official site
also<10 million people play warcraft and ithink they will be interested.and if the film will have as high level as lord of rings it will be much more popular.
noob
This is soooo funny!! Everyone is crying about “They’re not gonna tell the whole story!” “They’re gonna mess it up!” “It’s not gonna even be as good as LOTR!”
1: Of course they aren’t going to tell the whole story with the 1st Movie… that would be Franchise Suicide! and the movie would be like 6 months long! LOL
2: They could honestly do anything they wanted to with this movie… as long as it doesn’t completely contridict what we already know about the Lore of all the games combined. This is largely because of the TIME FRAME they have chosen. BETWEEN Warcraft III and World of Warcraft. Duh!! Nobody knows anything about that timeline because as far as the games are concerned….nothing exists there yet!
3: This is NOT a LOTR type movie…this is going to be a War movie, NOT a Quest movie….so you can’t even begin to compare the 2.
4: LISTEN UP KEVIN KELLY!!!!!! You obviously don’t know CRAP about the game since you ONLY played for 9 months and didn’t get into ANY of the Lore of it all. So as far as I’M concerned….you’re opinion on this whole subject is irrelivent.
5: Does anyone honestly think that, after all the time and effort that Blizzard has put into the game series, that they are just going to let a Sub-par movie hit the silver screen with their name on it? I think not! They have been good enough to create a multi billion dollar franchise with these games….I’m pretty sure they are going to take the same care in making a live action movie to the same effect. They aren’t just going to say “here ya go producer/director guy…you have the rights to the movie now….go for it! Let us know how it goes…” LOL that is just retarded to automatically assume that would be the outcome.
6: Case in point….obviously they didnt think it was ready for a 2009 release….it’s been pushed back to 2011….. looks like a good sign to me. I would tell them myself…take your time, do it right…that way we know it will decimate all expectations…good and bad.
I say “Rock on Blizzard!” Make us proud!
wow kinda ruined my life and messed me up, BUT i forced my self to quit this addictive Awesome, Mega, Heavenly game. the fact is that if Blizzard (the ultimate accomplishment team) does tell all of us fans there gonna do something then of course they will not only complete the thing they’ll Own the idea completely. The idea for a Warcraft movie is fantastic and is argued heaps on, just like Halo because of the possible mishaps that could occur. Yet face it Millions! will see it, people because…
. even to people unaware of what WC really is, they will see it as a typical Phantasy movie and many like to see movies like that. And then they’ll be blown away and inform others.
. Next is because gamers from all game types such as HALO, STARCRAFT,DIABLO, LOTRO, WAR-HAMMER ONLINE and More! will most likely be tempted to see this Game-to-movie feature and how it turns out (which obviously will be Awesome!).
AND WAYYYY MORE REASONS but I’m to tired to write anymore ^.^ the point is i don’t wanna be mean you’re probably nice but just shut up and never blog again unless its about something pointless or how to be a dick-head and point out other peoples great awesome achievements that you label as mistakes. =P
You obviously dont understand ANYTHING about warcraft
When comparing to Lord of the Rings, Warcraft has a WAAY bigger plot than Lord of the Rings, it starts with Warcraft 1, goes all the way to warcraft 3 frozen throne, books, comics…
come on, you’re just a warlock leveling, that tells everything about you… no more comments…
by the way, are you a movie director? cos you cannot calculate a movies budget obviously
One simple thing.
If they make the movie the same type of cinematics as the wrath gate cut scene and WotLK Trailer the movie will be a huge success because they have one of the best story line’s ever and it’s not all gonna be compacted in to one movie it will be over 3 or 4 movies and still after that they will probably make a T.V series to go along with the movie because people will be longing for more that’s how damn good the movie will be.
So stop being a Fuck wit and making Dumb Ass comments when u obviously dont know anything about Blizzard,WoW/Warcraft,It’s fans or the Storyline.
Thanx i hope i never hear from u again :).
I think its funny how you think that only people who play wow are going to see this movie. The movie has an enormous budget and the people at wow know a thing or two about making something a success. Even if people dont know what the hell wow is, they will be drawn in by the movie itself. Knowing blizzard, its going to get amazing reviews, like all of their projects. which will lead to many more people eventually seeing the movie, and you can obviously see how long its taking them. they arent going to settle for anything with this movie. its going to be huge and people will remember it.
Blizzard is strangely one of the few companies I’ve seen say, we will release our product on this date… but never do. They push back the release at will without a single shred of worry of loosing fans or public interest in their products. Either way when it’s finally released it’s usually a hit which makes up for Quality over Quantity mentality these days. I would imagine we should all expect the same out of a movie based on a Blizzard game. Talk big, spit out dates, but wait 2 or more years past it’s release date and you’ll get trailers to tease you back into it again. In the end it will never be as great a playing a game watching a movie based on it. The level of emotion and interactivity with games is what makes them unique. You are the movie not a spectator which is why I suspect this movie will be made in mind for people not familiar or so hard core fans of Warcraft. It needs to reel in new audiences and inform basic gamers into a story which is either part of the Warcraft world or newly written. If you ask me what I would wish to see is a movie from Blizzard. Not a live action but a Computer Animated one, using their incredible CG skills and story creating abilities.
I think the movie should be a cinematic developed internally because they have some of the bar none best animations and trailers - everything always looks phenomenal.
Aside that, I don’t think the movie will be a flop either way… Fans want a movie and the game is so profitable, why not just put it out? Give back to the community that has made them so wealthy.
Even if the movie isn’t a huge grosser I don’t think it will be a loss because quite frankly ticket sales aren’t the only money a movie makes there is always money on merchandising etc and other things.
The budget was what it was for a reason, they know what they are doing.
In my personal opinion a game with such a huge following, so many years in production (I think Warcraft itself dates back to 1994? With Orcs vs Humans) should have a movie put out… The worst thing that could happen is the movie could break even and not be great. I wouldn’t even care though seeing the game brought to life as a movie would be fun.
Look at Blizz’s history though, they don’t really let that happen.
I agree, movies made after games in general usually aren’t very good. With the exception of resident evil, game movies usually suck. But I do want to see this movie made, because as you say, the game doesn’t give much of a backstory. I’ve learned bits&pieces of the story from a friend who has been playing warcraft since it came out, and from youtube, but I want to know more about the story, and playing the game doesn’t answer my questions. Hopefully the movie willl tell us the story of how everything came to be, why the horde and alliance became such great enemies, etc. I love the graphics used in the trailers, and if they use those in the movie, i think they couuld make smething great. Let’s hope they do. If it’s anything like the Lord of the Rings it will be an awesome movie.
Also by the way, the movie isn’t only going to be seen by people who play the game. Everyone has heard of WoW even if they haven’t played it, and what will probably happen if the movie is good, which I think it will be, is that more people will start playing the game. The money they make on the movie is not just from people paying for tickets. They ARE taking their time with the movie too, which tells me it’s not going to suck. And even though WoW doesn’t give that much story, the previous games do, so real fans of the franchise do have some idea of what is happening. But there are books as well, so it’s not like there isn’t a story behind the game, the story is actually HUGE. You just have to find it, and any real fan of the game is going to want to do just that. I just started playing, like I said before, and I’m reading some of the books, and I find out what I can online, because I think the game is awesome and I want to know as much as I can. WoW fans everywhere are ooking frward t this movie and I think you’re wrong about it. Lord of the Rings was a HUGE success, and this movie will be too.
i would put money on them making it a CG film over live action. it would look alot better and all they would need are voice actors. also if they make the movie then it would most likely have to do with the horde vs alliance, with some monsters in the way to stir things up, have to do with raids and such through out the game, or just a completly new story line thats a hybrid of both of these
also, give yourself a pat on the back for picking the most unrelated nonsense for Warcraft lore. next time why dont you try and choose something relevent.
You fail. Go back to everquest if you really cant siphon out the littlest of lore from playing wow. If all you were doing was shit like “Find this rare ale for me, so I can make my daughter’s wedding perfect!” then you really have no opinion of a warcraft movie.
Wow im sorry but this has to be the most poorly written oppinion on anything i have ever seen i read the entire thing and i honestly did not even get one reason on why the movie shouldent be made your reasons make no sence what the fuck does dungeons and dragons have to do with world of warcraft!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, that’s all I can say. You seem to believe that World of Warcraft has no story line, and that it consists purely of innane quests such as “Go get me that shoe”. While it is true that some of the early quests in WoW are rather bland and pointless (especially on the Alliance side) the story is far deeper than you seem to realise. More than the games, Warcraft has a rich plotline that has been covered through a number of novels, comics, mangas, and other sources. Just go to Wowwiki.com, everything you could ever want to know about Warcraft lore is there. The plotline is indeed very strong, and they have plenty to pull from to make a movie. That being said, I hope they focus on making it a warcraft movie, and not try to model it after the playstyle of World of Warcraft. That one decision would be a major error in judgement. If they focus on the storyline of the world, however, I see no obstacles set before them. Your assertion that Warcraft’s story is undeveloped is not only unfair, it’s wrong. Research what your talking about before you go spouting this inane nonsense.
agree harry, dont argue about things u dont know, the story is great. That being said, I would love the movie, and I think many would, if if contained the whole storyline, from the time the titans ruled the universe (and the shaping of the burning legion) to the time of the orc and human war, or even to the time of the plague of undeath.
Wow why the hell would you compare MGS to warcraft. you know what Warcraft 2 even had a story line it was all about destroying the demons from another realm that pretty much controlled the orc. Its just like a book, my dad played that game and he does not play WoW but still would love to see the movie and im sure there is more people like him out there. so you cant just count the people that play world of warcraft.
why not do multiple movies, have each story take place and then some how combine them in some form or way. that way you wont piss off the fans and you could make some really awesome movies.
I would love to see this, and also it would make a lot of money too. 
You can hardly say there is no story line because there is a hole Worldofwarcraft lore AND what do you think they do on RP realms? make it up as they go along!? nooo theres a worldofwarcraft lore to follow understand. There are loads of moments in Worldofwarcraft that are part of a story line, where do you think Arthas/the lich king came from..the sky? no he is the son of the now dead king of lordaeron…thats a story right there! and you’ve played fo nine months on a pve server probably so you wont know the storylines+you havent been to outland or northrend, northrend is a stroy in its self, so dont talk crap understand.
I see you’re point,but in chosing of a movie ill see far in the future
and a concentration efort in making more,or faster expansion of wow,or even concentrating theyre efforts in making a w4(warcraft 4) i will rather w8 for the expansions/w4,and watch looney toons by then:}
Just an opinion.
As u were talking so visciously about the storyline of warcraft i gotta correct u as u are wrong abot the beggining. The main hatred isn’t between orcs and humans but betwwen orcs and undead or as te call themsef Forseken. And those 4 reasons ain’t good enough for a company like Blizzard to turn down their project.
erm, Daghlara ur waaay off this time. it started with the legion trying to take over azeroth (and drain the magic of the land or something). when they failed the first attempt they sent footsoldiers, aka corrupted orcs, to ease the second attempt. the possesed medivh, a powerful guardian (here possesed by a dreadlord demon ,varimathas i believe he was called) and an orc warlock (gahz’rul or something) summoned a portal, linking azeroth and the orc homeworld outland together.
so the orcs did what they were supposed to do, they caused chaos and made it alot easier to invade by the legion.
HUMANS VS. ORCS NOT UNDEAD!!!
though a while after the invasion the curruption of the orcs dissapated and they became a much more peaceful race.
the only link to the undead is that the orc warlock who summoned the portal was granted power from the legion and (he was dead, thus a spirit) his spirit were fused with the armor in the frozen throne. the original lich king (before arthas joined the movement so to speak) was a powerful dead orc warlock!
still no war strictly between the orcs and the undead at the beginning.
Hey, i REALLY love the idea of making a world of warcraft movie! And wtf? i suppose you haven’t read the history behind wow ? If they would make a movie about everything or not just a movie.. several of movies they could make a serie. If you go on google and search for info about world of warcraft you will notice their is more than just material to make a movie. For example ive newly read about the nagas and how they step appart from the nightelfs and went to hide in the maelstrom. In their own city. And i think blizz could also make books i would definitly read them. I do admitt that i like sci-fi books and books such as lord of the rings. Soo if you complain about that blizzard don’t have any material, you should really read your homework. But i do agree that its a dissepointment that they are going to make “Real people” movie. I would pref animated as i gues most of you guys are going to do. And about the money. As they said they are going to make the movie not just for the gamers but more for the “globe” and they defintly have the material.