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The Five Things you Should Know About the New Warcraft Movie
By Paul Rone-Clarke | January 29, 2010
It has been six months since the official announcement of the first Warcraft movie, and although some specifics are a little scarce, we now know quite a bit about the outline of the movie and what we might expect when it is finally released.
Sam Raimi, the director of Evil Dead and Scream
The writer is Robert Rodat. He wrote Saving Private Ryan. Apparently, the story goes that he was \”inspired\” to write the Ryan screenplay when he realised his son\’s birthday was 6th June (D-Day). Let\’s hope nothing of importance happens on Ester Sunday during the writing of Warcraft, or we could have bunnies and chocolate eggs everywhere.
Back down under, the rugged landscape of New Zealand is being cited as the most likely location for the outdoor scenes. I like this idea as well. There is enough scope and variation there. I can picture an \”Azerothian\” landscape quite easily.
Don\’t hold your breath for this film. Although the people who announce on release dates are pretty tight lipped. We are being told that a film of this type will be at least another two years in the making. However, I would bet that it timed to be released with the expansion AFTER Cataclysm, and that will be at least three years from now. Expect there to be some shared concepts between the two. Perhaps even the re-emergence of \”World of Warcraft 2\” rumours that have been doing the rounds recently.
With the director and writer in place we can expect an action based movie to be the result. LotR was a quest movie with action in it. Warcraft will be an action movie with some quest and plot advancement in it. That\’s speculation for now, but with the pedigree of the writer and director (not to mention the production company) it seems far more likely that we will see a lot of hack and slash (and whizz and puff for the magic users out there)
Certain aspects are still totally unknown. The plot, actors and full storyline are a complete mystery. The chances are that even the film\’s producers do not know who or what they are.
The production company is Legendary Pictures of \”300\” and \”Batman Begins\”. Again, fantastic news for those of us waiting for a real action movie with top notch production values. I\’m just thankful that Michael Bay has nothing to do with it any more. A man that can turn any specific title into \”generic mush\” with his direction should be kept well away from this movie. With it now being clear that this man is no longer part of the Warcraft movie we can breath easily knowing that it\’s unlikely that our much beloved game will be turned into \”ABC action movie on rails – with no regard to existing plot or Lore – made to showcase my special effects team Part 4\” like most of Bay\’s output seems to be. Rant off.
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