Saturday, September 8th 2007
WarCraft Movie Details From BlizzCon 2007
Blizzard's chief operating officers Paul Sams and Chris Metzen are planning on producing a WarCraft movie for 2009. They are discussing the upcoming film project with members of Legendary Pictures, the studio best known for 300, Batman Begins, and Superman Returns. The movie will be based on both the original WarCraft and World of WarCraft.
More information on the WarCraft movie can be found here on the IMDb website.
Source:
GameInformer
More information on the WarCraft movie can be found here on the IMDb website.
20 Comments on WarCraft Movie Details From BlizzCon 2007
Game had boobies, movie had boobies. Worked out somehow.
If it's not CGI, don't make it!
If it's a movie first, it'll end up as a terrible video game.
If it's a video game first, it'll end up as a terrible movie.
The list of examples of this is SO exhaustive that I can't think of any that are exceptions (Tomb Raider included)
Da Vinci Code, good book, bad movie.
Harry Potter, good books, bad movies..
as for Halo the movie...I don't have high hopes, but they have a high budget...so you never know.
I've read the starcraft novels and they were excellent; i don't see why a warcraft movie would be impossible.
However IF and WHEN it is made im sure its gonna be cool :)
EDIT: I think a good observation here is that the games weren't actually based on the Star Wars movies themselves, but in the larger Star Wars universe.
Don't forget "Tie Fighter" was an excellent game back in the day.
Ok here’s my take on them doing a World of Warcraft Movie. First of all if they decide to go the live action real actor’s route they are going to have to put some serious effort and time into how they’re going to make it look because it could be a sweet concept but it could easily go very wrong. Movies based on fantasy worlds are very hard to do and if done wrong you could end up with something like Eragon, however if done right you could end up with something like Lord of the Rings. Furthermore if they decide to go the CGI route it raises the question of will it be graphically done just like World of Warcraft graphics or more realistic like Final Fantasy. Beyond these points another main issue is what they will use for a plot line. Throughout all the Warcraft history their has been an abundance of plot lines and stories and in no way could they encompass it all with the movie so they will definitely need to focus on one story in particular while maybe referencing other stories here and there throughout the movie. They do say though it will encompass both the original Warcraft and The World of Warcraft. One thing I do think they could do is focus on the arrival of the horde to Azeroth and play through that up to the scourge and Prince Arthas. Anyways whatever they do it will be very tricky because they stand on the edge of a blade where it could either be something fantastic or another flop that so many movies made after games tragically follow. Furthermore it is true sadly yes that most movies made based on a video game are quite horrible and badly done however one glimpse of hope is that this video game has one thing going for it that most games don’t that have been made into a movie, and that is the rich history and cultural themes that Warcraft has quite an abundance of to be pulled from.
-Christian578
As far as good movies to games, did you guys forget about Goldeneye?? That was the best game (besides Zelda) on the N64. I also liked Jedi Knight 2 based on star wars.