Blizzard rejected first planned Warcraft movie by Sam Raimi

[spyke]

Blizzard doesn't have enough resources to do a in-house cinematic-like 100 minutes full movie using CGI at least if they want to maintain the quality that we see on the latests cinematics. They already struggle with deadlines to keep the curreent cinematics coming. To do a full movie they would need to hire way more people or a 3rd party CGI studio and that would not guarantee their seal of quality plus it would probably cost way more than just making a normal live-action movie.

[Felir]

good, after spiderman 3, I don't want Raimi with free range

Pretty much this. Ruined the trilogy.

[Hardstyler01]

The people suggesting Blizzard should make a full movie based on their awesome cinematics don't realize how much work goes into that.
It may be a 2 minute cinematic, but it takes as long to create as some entire movies. It takes so long because they spend so much time on the quality and they only have a relatively small team.

A full movie of such a kind would take insanely long to make. Unless they hired more people, but then they wouldn't have as much control over the direction it would be going in.

[Darksoldierr]

The people suggesting Blizzard should make a full movie based on their awesome cinematics don't realize how much work goes into that.
It may be a 2 minute cinematic, but it takes as long to create as some entire movies. It takes so long because they spend so much time on the quality and they only have a relatively small team.

A full movie of such a kind would take insanely long to make. Unless they hired more people, but then they wouldn't have as much control over the direction it would be going in.

Its more just a wishful thinking than suggestion, those CGI shorts costs way too much both in $ and in time to make

[Shadee]

The way warcraft is now it wouldn't make a good movie. They should just make an animated series based on mope with chen and li li and have it on cartoon network.

[paralleluniverse]

Blizzard doesn't have enough resources to do a in-house cinematic-like 100 minutes full movie using CGI at least if they want to maintain the quality that we see on the latests cinematics. They already struggle with deadlines to keep the curreent cinematics coming. To do a full movie they would need to hire way more people or a 3rd party CGI studio and that would not guarantee their seal of quality plus it would probably cost way more than just making a normal live-action movie.

In the 15ish years that Blizzard has been making cinematics, they probably haven't even made in total more than 2 hours of content.

15 years. < 2 hours.

[Felir]

The way warcraft is now it wouldn't make a good movie. They should just make an animated series based on mope with chen and li li and have it on cartoon network.

There are already a couple of books/graphic novels. I saw one in my local comic shop.

[Wildtree]

Two things I don't get here... And I believe both have to do with some misconception about how and why movies are made.

1. a pure cgi movie wouldn't be a great success besides maybe within the fan base. And nowadays cgi and real acting is very well mixed together.
2. Blizz control. sure, they need some say. But at the end of the day, Blizz are game professionals and not film professionals. In that field they are bloody noobs.
Blizzard has a reputation in the gaming industry, but zero reputation outside of that, whereas directors, actors and studios do have such reputation. That's just plain facts. In order to get people with a high reputation in that business Blizz needs to make compromises, or resort to rather different personal, which is still on a reputation build up.
As for the writing etc. in pure literature views, the written stuff from Blizzard is rather second hand quality, and nowhere near good quality literature.
If the available material wouldn't be heavily worked over and brought up to higher quality standards, the WOW movie would be a very expensive B-Movie. Or something for the cartoon channel..
All in all.... a Warcraft movie that is good, and at the same time yields financial success, needs a great script, a great visionary director, and needs a couple or three big name actors. As well as it needs awesome special effects/Cgi.

It is what it is..... A Warcraft movie falls right in between the category of the LOTR and Harry Potter movies.
No one wants to see a movie that turns out to be like the D&D movies.. Nor another disneyesque cartoon movie.
If I wanna watch that, I watch Shrek, Madagascar and the like. For that stuff it works, there it's fun and humorous.

Just my two cents.

[McNeil]

Hope they dismissed the idea of a new random human playing the lead role. I'd much rather have no main character

[Tuqui-tuqui]

Warcraft is about the struggle of an entire planet divided against itself uniting only when necessary.

Unfortunately typical Hollywood formula requires that we pay attention to a single storyline so we can sympathize with the protagonist, their love interest and root against the evil guy. So, unless Hollywood plans on making a film series a-la Harry Potter, LotR, or Avengers, then I see this film being a disappointment to fans.

[vindicatorx]

good, after spiderman 3, I don't want Raimi with free range

Same here that guy shit all over Spiderman fans in that film I still get annoyed that Topher Grace was Venom. The only director off the top of my head that would turn out a bigger piece of shit would be Michael Bay

[Bigsilly]

With Blizzard in full control we will have an adventurer having to find keys in demon poop . . . .in a CGI movie... GREAT!!!

[Lothaeryn]

exactly. I want the story to open out both sides to show how both horde and alliance are people, not just generic good human and generic baddie orc. Give depth to both sides as you see in wow.

the issue with a plot like that is that it would require not one, but two main protagonists, going about their own story separate of one another if we go by faction divide as a reason for a lack of communication between the two, and following two main protagonists can be disjointing when viewing a movie.

Unless they came together at the end for some reason (which would feel very shoehorned by anyone watching it), it would essentially be two half-assed story plots put in one movie trying to explain the differences and similarities between the Alliance and the Horde, which would somewhat be of a waste of time for everyone as it would have had very little plot momentum.

[Shybat]

the issue with a plot like that is that it would require not one, but two main protagonists, going about their own story separate of one another if we go by faction divide as a reason for a lack of communication between the two, and following two main protagonists can be disjointing when viewing a movie.

Unless they came together at the end for some reason (which would feel very shoehorned by anyone watching it), it would essentially be two half-assed story plots put in one movie trying to explain the differences and similarities between the Alliance and the Horde, which would somewhat be of a waste of time for everyone as it would have had very little plot momentum.

I totally agree. There is no way this movie will be both a commercial success and be pleasing to fans, assuming it can somehow even pull off one of those. There is way too much back-story, events, details, and important characters to introduce to the average movie-goer and still have an interesting and coherent film, without sacrificing enough of those details and turning the movie into a generic fantasy movie. On the other hand without all of those details, I find it hard to believe that a "blockbuster movie" will still satiate the average nerd's desire for information, references, plot complexity, and relevance to current or past WoW events and still have the movie feel like it's WoW.

There is a reason why short films are often so good, because they're short. I'm sure most if not everyone in this thread understands that. It's so much easier to captivate an individual with a simple or even relatively complex concept, if you only have so many minutes to delve into a world. So many details surrounding the plot, the context of the story, characters, motivations can be left unanswered, and often times that even works for the film, as it leaves the viewer interested and questioning some of the finer points of the tale (but if you're making a full length movie, most often you're going to have to explain all that). You don't need long drawn out action sequences, plot twists, or surprises. Video game cinematics, and short films, are so good because they only have to sustain our attention and interest for a measly few minutes of our time. I don't see how Blizzard's adeptness in regards the quality of their cinematics relate to the full length film industry; I just don't see it. And that's just from a story perspective, assuming they can hire someone to do everything else that needs to be done.

Frankly, years ago when I first heard of a WoW movie, I thought it was a rumor and absolute garbage. You've got to have some major cajones to start an endeavour like this; thinking that not only will you satisfy your current player-base, but complete a feature film that turns a profit. I still don't think the movie will be good. I hold serious reservations.

One last topic. I played WoW up until the middle of Cata, and wont be playing any more MMOs again, but still greatly enjoyed the universe, having experienced the Warcraft universe since the original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. I also don't really care what random strangers think of me. With that said, I don't think I could endure the extreme social shame of walking up to the ticket booth, and asking for a ticket to a World of Warcraft movie. If I didn't fall over dead as the words were parted from my lips, I would surely die on my way walking to the theater. Now, maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but that's how I feel. The movie would have to garner critical and widespread acclaim, and be the talk of the town, nerd or not, for me to go see the movie. Until then, it's a rental for me, just for shits and giggles... and so I can hide from my shame.