2 hour movie about killing and collecting bear asses
2 hour movie about killing and collecting bear asses
I hope they end up making it more like hellboy (mainly prosthetics and makeup) and less like avatar (ton of cgi).
Duncan Jones is probably last director I'd expect, but Moon is one of my favorite movies, so I'm looking forward to it.
PS. I want Sam Rockwell for Medivh^^
The best approach would be for them to use the same method used to make the Beowulf film;
Used real actors, and had a perfect balance between 'cartoony' and realistic. All in all I think they can do the idea justice. Naturally I think their first and foremost market will be the WoW/Fantasy playerbase, so I doubt it's going to stray far beyond what pleases them. All I can say is that I hope they pick some good lore to base it off; anything before Cataclysm, essentially. Since WOTLK, both questing and lore have left me cringing more often than not, be it regarding the Forsaken or Deathwing; perhaps two of their biggest failures, having utterly ruined those characters in 'developing' them.
Ideal plotlines;
War of the Ancients (Seeing how they pussied out of it in WoW with Well of Eternity)
Alliance vs Horde (Vanilla style)
The general TBC/WOTLK plots
Pre-Vanilla events regarding the Burning Legion/Scourge (Fall of Lordaeron, etc)
Last edited by Austilias; 2013-01-31 at 01:38 AM.
$100 million is a good budget for a normal film, but I'm not sure how far that would go in a cgi and effects heavy movie.
I really hope that's not the case, it was rather awfully done in that movie.The best approach would be for them to use the same method used to make the Beowulf film;
I hope it's more like in Avatar, but their budget might not be big enough for that. Depends on how far the technology has come since then I suppose.
I just hope that:
1.) it doesn't turn into a zombie movie with humans vs. undead
and
2.) there's enough moral ambiguity that it's not just humans = good, orcs = bad
I wouldn't say it was 'awfully' done, but the difference between Beowulf and Avatar was that Avatar didn't want to look animated, whereas Beowulf did. The premise of Avatar's CGI was to look as realistic as possible in its portrayal of an alien world/ecosystem/race, whereas Beowulf's CGI, as Ray Winstone talked about during an episode of The Jonathan Ross show in 2007, discussed how the animation was intended to look noticeably animated and not indiscernible from something 'real'; no finer evidence for this than the portrayal of Grendel.
A recurring theme throughout WoW has been the developer's desire to keep the 'cartoony'/animated look; I think they'll reflect that in the movie.
Last edited by Austilias; 2013-01-31 at 01:47 AM.
Jeez, haven't heard anything about the movie for ages. I thought it was going to be scrapped. I don't mind whether it's live-action or animated. It will be interesting to see how certain races carry on the big screen.
My hunter is the genetic love child of Liam Neeson, the Dos Equis guy and Chuck Norris. You lose.
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I agree. My only issue with live-action is how they'll portray races beyond...well, beyond humans really. That said, films like Narnia portrayed their Minotaurs incredibly well considering the often live-action nature of their film. A Tauren that looked like this for example, would have me satisfied (if they go down that route);
100 mil sounds like a decent gamble. I like potentially starting with a never-before-told adventure and then if the movie is successful having the sequels tell Arthas, Thrall, or Midevh story.
if they bring in or are heavily involving the blizz cinematic team then it wont take much for the player base alone to be enough of a marketing campaign. the studio (legendary right?) should put a lot of effort into bringing the fans of WoW on board, seeing as there are quite a few of us that word of mouth alone should fill seats.
as a side note the fact that they are going with Legendary on this gives me a sliver of hope that it wont be total garbage.
Based on information provided from previous BlizzCon panels (specifically either Lore panels or the Warcraft Movie panels) by our venerable and divine Highlord Warchief Metzen, who is writing the story for the film...
- Live-action
- "not an adventure movie" like Lord of the Rings
- "a war movie" that focuses on the war between the horde and the alliance, but is told primarily from the Alliance perspective
- Takes place in the 4 year gap between Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and Vanilla WoW.
- "going for PG-13 or R" movie, and that they wouldn't lower it to PG-13 if it got the R rating (though I wouldn't be surprised over a PG-13 just for ticket sales)
For anyone skeptical about this, go YouTube the Warcraft movie or lore panels from previous BlizzCons.
Last edited by Anshinritsumai; 2013-01-31 at 02:18 AM.
eh im sure i'm not the only one that wants a blizz cinematic thats two hours or more in length (point being no live actors in site). I am very against using suits or animatronics for the other races, i want to see emotion "acting" from any none human character. and in my book anything less then CGI doesn't cut it.