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If there’s one thing Warcraft is known for in its virtual form, it’s expansion. So it somehow makes sense that the film based on the game is also undergoing a little escalating, at least in its title. The evidence is for all to see, as the newly-named Warcraft: The Beginning has launched a fresh poster.

Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones is putting the finishing touches to the film, which promises to show both sides of the story set in the seemingly peaceful realm of Azeroth, poised to descend into bitter war between man and orc when a portal opens between their two worlds. We’ll meet the likes of battle-hardened warrior Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel), the commander of the human forces and champion of his king, Llane Wrynn (Dominic Cooper). But as opposed to the usual faceless hordes of monsters attacking them, we’ll also check in with the Orcs, who arrive because they’re fleeing the destruction of their own home world, and are led by Durotan (Toby Kebbell).
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Had my eye on this project way before even Sam Raimi was originally attached to helm this. Universal appear to be confidant with the film by granting it a summer release.

Trailer makes it premiere on Friday at the propaganda fest that is Blizzcon. Shout out to noshades!

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Never played the games but with Duncan Jones directing I'm down as long as the trailers look cool.

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Really skeptical even with jones at the helm
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there was a trailer out at some con a while ago. still hasn't been released i guess.
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I can't believe this is actually getting made like a decade or so after it was announced. Who is this for? Who really wants a movie based on a boring video game that no one plays anymore? Hell, who wants any movie based on any video game?
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seagrams hotsauce wrote:Who is this for? Who really wants a movie based on a boring video game that no one plays anymore? Hell, who wants any movie based on any video game?
Valid inquiry.

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Loved the first three games, never fucked with World of Warcraft. Have zero interest in seeing this, although I guess I'd watch it if it came on HBO or something. Other than orcs vs. humans, which isn't much, there's no real story to be told in that universe.
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this will be fucking awful

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Very quick teaser:


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Jocking LOTR pretty hard huh

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i think the orcs will be sympathetic in this one
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as cool as the look is all signs point to this being retardedly bad. the acting and lack of atmosphere in the trailer alone is enough to put the care button on eternal pause

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Visuals are on point, but it still looks fucking awful.
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Looks like live actors interacting with Shrek characters.
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looks like blizzard just started their own movie/tv studio in response to this sucking dick
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but freal they're really mastered cut scenes themselves. since WC3 they've had cutting edge visuals & direction. of course the scenes are always ~3 mins which doesn't translate directly to a feature film -- but character design, cinematography blow this shit out of the water.
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I'm just curious why they're going the live action route at all. why not c
be able to control every single little bit of what you see and hear etc even though that has a bunch of limitations and even though it's tough work.
that's what people were buying into in the first place

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EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:looks like blizzard just started their own movie/tv studio in response to this sucking dick
hilarious and mostly on point considering what they're trying to do with that Skylander thing

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^^ yeah they should have gone the beowulf route.

i'm all for more hands on by blizzard's art team. they put out much better product:

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That trailer was better than the finished product.

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all the more reason for them to do movies.
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Agree with ric and EDM. It's really confusing why they would take a game with a very stylized, cartoony art direction and decide live action was the way to go. Aside from the human characters everything is CGI anyway, so why bother with this?
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seagrams hotsauce wrote:Agree with ric and EDM. It's really confusing why they would take a game with a very stylized, cartoony art direction and decide live action was the way to go. Aside from the human characters everything is CGI anyway, so why bother with this?
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that would've been a very effective 1st teaser, way better than the earlier trailers
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Another trailer:



Looks like good dumb fun, imo.

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I'm looking forward to it. I played a little bit and I feel obligated to watch all things sci-fi on the big screen for some weird reason.

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EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:^^ yeah they should have gone the beowulf route.
beowulf was awesome and the visuals were amazing, but that's likely because the gawd zemeckis was at the helm.

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