Warcraft Movie Release - December 18, 2015

Oh... probably will be dalyed to 'unknown date' 2 months later.

Will never happen.

While I'm not as doubtful as some others, I'm guessing this is already a pessimistic estimate. It probably won't be pushed back much unless something serious happens to stop it.

More importantly, filming begins January 13, 2014.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_%28film%29

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/

Should have released this film back in Wrath. It would have made bank.

I'll wait to see a trailer before I judge but my hopes are not high.

If it is live-action I hope it flops so that they put future movies on hold. Also I hope it's an original story if it is live-action, so that can later be disregarded. Then they will halt future movies for the foreseeable future, and then in 2025 we might see the first of an awesome series of 100% CGI movies telling the whole Warcraft story beginning with the events of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, or shortly before. Looking at old cut scenes from the Warcraft RTS games just makes me want to see this done with CGI, so that the characters will remain true to their present versions and so that these characters can be used without problem in the future and without recasts and so forth.

But given that one rumor is that the Last Guardian will be the plot for the movie I really, really, really hope that it will be 100% CGI with this movie, since that is the an awesome way to kick-off the story.

First time, movie was announced in 2006 year... Now we got 2013... So... We waited seven years for release informations, and next two years for movie release...

Sorry... I don't buy this...

Originally Posted by Zarc

If it is live-action I hope it flops so that they put future movies on hold. Also I hope it's an original story if it is live-action, so that can later be disregarded. Then they will halt future movies for the foreseeable future, and then in 2025 we might see the first of an awesome series of 100% CGI movies telling the whole Warcraft story beginning with the events of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, or shortly before. Looking at old cut scenes from the Warcraft RTS games just makes me want to see this done with CGI, so that the characters will remain true to their present versions and so that these characters can be used without problem in the future and without recasts and so forth.

But given that one rumor is that the Last Guardian will be the plot for the movie I really, really, really hope that it will be 100% CGI with this movie, since that is the an awesome way to kick-off the story.

It is going to be based around the last guardian and it will not be cgi, going to be lots of actors. I mean really, you'd have to be an idiot to try to do a huge hollywood movie without any actors. Sorry, you may want it to flop, but I doubt they want it to flop, since they've budgeted over 100 million dollars and basically pinned the whole legendary pictures reputation on this one movie. (They just signed a new deal with Universal). Look at the movies they've done in the last 2 years and tell me what flopped? This is the same studio that did the watchmen, 300, The dark knight movies, pacific rim, etc. We're going to see at least a decent wow movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_Pictures

I'm sure they expect it to become a franchise.

Us:Heroes of the Storm....could that be the actual ne--
Blizzard:Hey everyone,WarCraft Movie release date is on 18.12.2015!!
Us:OMG!Finally!Yes,I can't wait!! ....*continue*
Blizzard:Geez guys,that certainly was close....

Pretty certain this movie will go straight to DVD.

Patch notes for the movie will be released two weeks later.

This is a description of the Comic-Con teaser.

A view of a desolate, dry landscape full of rocky outcroppings that pans to a scruffy, armored human soldier drinking water from a leather skin. A cage with rocks in it is shown followed by a squeaking noise as a green tinged sky is shown with dark clouds and green lightning. The waterskin is tossed to the ground and the soldier draws his sword with a sound of metal ringing off metal. The human walks over to the skeleton a fallen soldier and picks up the soldier's shield. He smashes his sword on the shield, apparently testing it. Cut to the muscled green arm (likely of an orc) of a creature heading toward the soldier. They circle each other with flashes of green skin and some armor as they charge each other. An extreme closeup of the orc as it raises its hammer and brings it down as the human raises his shield. Cut to black. A Warcraft logo. And then the Blizzard Entertainment logo.

To me this looks like a Burning Legion movie. Which seems awesome conisdering it won't get confused by the people that live under the rocks.

In some ways I'm as skeptical as you guys, but at the same time this is a movie studio, not Blizzard. There's different expectations, a different business model, different things are acceptable. Namely, they are far less likely to pull a Titan and pour millions of dollars into this movie, then decide in 2014 it's "not working out". Nope. They might get to 2014, realize they're making a terrible stinker, and switch to a March release, but there's <1% chance it gets flat out cancelled at this point.

What I am surprised to see is the level of investment they're putting into this movie. I'll probably catch some flak for this, but I think the one thing that's drastically changed the circumstances of this film is the JJ Abrams Star Trek series. He proved that what was once a "nerd" niche with a loyal but relatively small fan base can, if done properly (in terms of reinventing the image), be turned into a major action franchise. I'd always expected a CGI movie, $75 million budget, unknown actors, Uwe Bowl or some such discount director. At this point (subject to change!) this looks like a far more significant project which, as others have said, may be poised to become a major event, a lynch pin for Legendary Pictures, and an actually decent movie! Now, there's way too many moving parts to get my hopes up, but a December release with a pretty good director and a larger than expected budget and some bigger name actors getting name dropped? Certainly not the lost cause it's seemed like for so, so long.

Originally Posted by Hobb

Pretty certain this movie will go straight to DVD.

I wouldn't spend movie theater prices on it thats for sure.

It will have to hit the Walmart, center-isle bargain bin before I would consider spending cash on it and even then thats a stretch.

dem pessimists....

is this not going to be animated?

I love how there are so many people in this thread saying crap like "this is going straight to dvd" and "I hope this movie fails"

If you hate WoW so much, why are you even here...?

This is as good a place to hate as any other...

It's over two years away, they haven't even started filming yet, and they suddenly have the release date pinned down to the day?
No. You can't predict these things this far in advance. The post production alone leaves so much room for delays.

Originally Posted by Adiemus

It's over two years away, they haven't even started filming yet, and they suddenly have the release date pinned down to the day?
No. You can't predict these things this far in advance. The post production alone leaves so much room for delays.

Thanks for your expert input. Is it your years of experience from movie production or the big amount of internal information from blizzard that
made you come up with this conclusion?

OT: Im saving my judgement for when the movie is releaseed. Thats it