Warcraft, the movie! Page 2

  • Fatiguez 22 Jul 2009 11:30:15 8,930 posts
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    mowgli wrote:
    The film ends with one of those WoW funeral things which then gets crashed by a bunch of new players who think it is hillarious.

    Come on now, mowgli. It is hilarious.
  • Fatiguez 22 Jul 2009 11:30:36 8,930 posts
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    tee hee
  • MyAfroAndMe 22 Jul 2009 11:31:08 610 posts
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    Didn't South Park already do WoW? Bet the film is worse.
  • Pirotic Moderator 22 Jul 2009 11:36:52 20,645 posts
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    Didn't the southpark team win an emmy for the WoW episode they did? Blizzard deserve a lot of kudos for letting them take the piss royally out of them :D

    So they've already confirmed it's going to be from a human perspective eh? I guess that's to be expected. Hopefully they'll have a big enough budget to get plenty of the other races on screen.

    My main concern having thought about this for a bit is how on earth are they going to transfer the art-style into a live action flick without it just looking extremely generic. Taurens, the bright colour palette, the exaggerated proportioned buildings etc.

    I'd rather of had Del Toro doing it, but he's on the Hobbit isn't he. But without it's unique style it's just going to be 'another fantastic movie'.
  • Fatiguez 22 Jul 2009 11:41:09 8,930 posts
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    Curse those fantastic movies!
  • Biggy316 22 Jul 2009 11:43:43 25,288 posts
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    Am I right in thinking that WoW has no specific lead characters or storylines?

    I never played it.
  • Pirotic Moderator 22 Jul 2009 11:45:53 20,645 posts
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    It's has plenty of well known characters, but they would never be the protagonist as the games have never been single player/linear story driven.
  • Deleted user 22 July 2009 11:59:12
    /casts Silver Tongue of Sarcasm

    Hollywood have really got their shit together lately, there are some really imaginative great new films coming out these days



    Having said that, if Sam Raimi directs and casts Bruce Campbell in the lead role as Leeroy Jenkins then I'd watch it.
  • shamblemonkee 22 Jul 2009 12:00:33 17,967 posts
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    Arthas.
  • Pirotic Moderator 22 Jul 2009 12:01:06 20,645 posts
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    Shame that Halo movie didn't get the green light, would have been bizarre to see Halo, Gears and Warcraft go head to head... at the cinema..
  • WrongShui 22 Jul 2009 12:15:47 6,858 posts
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    LFG Cinema
  • BinaryBob101 22 Jul 2009 12:16:19 27,756 posts
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    I'm willing to bet big money that Sam Raimi will not direct WoW. Spiderman 4 and 5 are shooting back to back, and I read an interview a while back where he totally slated the concept of games to movies. It just doesn't seem his style.

    No go, guaranteed.
  • Trane 22 Jul 2009 13:26:42 4,050 posts
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    Leolian'sBro wrote:
    psychokitten wrote:

    Seeking some of the locations will be great, and it'll no doubt be full of references (hoping for Mankrik's wife).
    And this is why it will be fail, as 99.9% of the world have no idea who this is and even less interest.

    99.9% of people have no idea what Stan Lee looks like.

    Doesn't mean it doesn't bring a smile to the faces of people who do when he pops up in Marvel films.

    Leroy Jenkins for the main role tbh.
  • otto Moderator 22 Jul 2009 13:29:10 49,322 posts
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    Who are they going to cast as Krankie?
  • Nasty 22 Jul 2009 13:52:09 4,840 posts
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    otto wrote:
    Who are they going to cast as Krankie?

    Julie Walters?
  • Deleted user 22 July 2009 13:53:49
    mowgli wrote:
    They should make an art film set in one room. The film starts of with a young good looking guy coming in the door and throwing his gym bag on the floor and sits at his computer. He then decides because he has nothing else to do that day he will start up WoW for the first time, as his mates have been talking about it.

    The entire film is shot from one scene behind and to the side of his computer. And the film consists of his downfall. He gets increasingly fatter and unkept. You see the phone ring and after making excuses several times he eventually disconnects it. You see friends stop by at the door at the back of the room but they are also shunned with excuses.

    After a while people stop coming. He has now turned into the complete opposite of his former self and is barely recognisable. Eventually he dies.

    The film ends with one of those WoW funeral things which then gets crashed by a bunch of new players who think it is hillarious. The camera eventually switches to one of the players of the funeral crashers, it is a young fit and healthy lad who decided to give WoW a go today because his mates kept going on about it and said it would be a laugh.

    Film ends with "The Circle of Life" from the Lion King.

    Someone give me money.
    Stupid end of the page, I typed all this on my phone!
  • modo_komodo 22 Jul 2009 14:31:06 1,197 posts
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    Bravo!
  • otto Moderator 22 Jul 2009 14:34:57 49,322 posts
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    Nasty wrote:
    otto wrote:
    Who are they going to cast as Krankie?

    Julie Walters?
    I was thinking Jeanette Krankie but that's uncanny!
  • M83J01P97 22 Jul 2009 18:23:29 7,607 posts
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    Trane wrote:
    I'd prefer they just did a warcraft movie as opposed to a WoW movie, that might just be me though.

    It is a Warcraft movie, it's not World of Warcraft: The Movie. It's just a film that will build on Warcraft's already rich lore.
  • johnlenham 22 Jul 2009 19:07:41 4,000 posts
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    Wasnt the main pair Arthas and Thrall? but if its set just before WoW (I think?) I imagine the king wyrmright or whatever his name is will be the main chap.
  • M83J01P97 22 Jul 2009 19:17:11 7,607 posts
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    The one piece of concept art released showed Teldrassil as it was being grown.

    But the popular theory is that the film will deal with the as yet untold story of why the Horde and Alliance decided to break their peace treaty after the Burning Legion invasion.
  • Fatiguez 22 Jul 2009 20:53:57 8,930 posts
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    Warcraft film? I bet everyone in this thread £100 it'll have Verne Troyer in it as a gnome
  • Ged42 22 Jul 2009 23:59:46 7,985 posts
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    Considering how much of the film will have to be CG anyway, they might as well do the whole thing CG.

    The problem is one half of the fandom is going to want a deadly serious epic with huge battles, freudianly large swords and Night Elves in armoured bikinis. Where as the other half will want something more light hearted full of in jokes, Bruce Cambell as Leeroy Jenkins and Night Elves in armoured bikins.
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  • captbirdseye 26 Apr 2014 19:42:54 11,190 posts
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    Massive bump for an old thread but filming started on this yesterday...please don't be shit!
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