Sam Raimi Talks World of Warcraft Movie

[Maxor127]

Why is it called a World of Warcraft movie? Why not just Warcraft? Rhetorical. I know the answer... because people are stupid sheep. Warcraft 3 in particular had a good story. They'd probably have the best result crafting something based on that. The rise and fall of Arthas and Illidan.

 

[nekoangel]

in other words don't expect the movie for another five years.

 

[r0ck3tm@n]

Get Spielberg or J.J. Abrams to produce it, or both, and make it a masterpiece or don't do it at all IMO. Such a film should capture the spirit of WoW as intended by Blizzard. I'm talking about Vanilla WoW, let's start there, no need to get into the expansion packs just yet.

 

[Little Lost Linden]

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[zaam]

Ugh. Every time I hear the words "all new story" and "movie of game" in the same sentence it brings a frown to my face.

The mistake of all movies of games is the fact that they invent lame new characters and plots that aren't part of the official cannon and think it's going to be fantastic.

Resident Evil movies are mediocre at best. They introduced a new main character (Alice), an "all new" plot, and all of the official characters are relegated to supporting character or cameo duty. Lame.

Final Fantasy had an "all new story" and we all know how terrible that movie was.

What's wrong with presenting a game's official story on the big screen? I mean like, whenever movies of books are released they try as hard as possible to be true to the source material. But whenever a movie about a game comes out, they're all over the "we made an all new plot" thing. I'm pretty sure that if the millions of players that played that game enjoyed the story, the people who will watch the movie and never played the game might enjoy it too.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]ct1615[/nom]i got a sneak peak to the script for this movie, its going to awesome!!!the protagonist is a rogue named "noobkiller" played by Frankie Munizthe love interest is a female Night Elf named "diamondlilly", shes played by Robert DeNero in drag, they have a hot cybersex scene in goldshire the antagonist is an undead warlock named "gnomepwnr" played by the geeky kid from wonder years[/citation]
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I'll give you props for trying.

 

[leonardo01]

[citation][nom]zaam[/nom]Ugh. Every time I hear the words "all new story" and "movie of game" in the same sentence it brings a frown to my face.The mistake of all movies of games is the fact that they invent lame new characters and plots that aren't part of the official cannon and think it's going to be fantastic.Resident Evil movies are mediocre at best. They introduced a new main character (Alice), an "all new" plot, and all of the official characters are relegated to supporting character or cameo duty. Lame.Final Fantasy had an "all new story" and we all know how terrible that movie was.What's wrong with presenting a game's official story on the big screen? I mean like, whenever movies of books are released they try as hard as possible to be true to the source material. But whenever a movie about a game comes out, they're all over the "we made an all new plot" thing. I'm pretty sure that if the millions of players that played that game enjoyed the story, the people who will watch the movie and never played the game might enjoy it too.[/citation]

Agreed...MOvies like the godfather and "LOTR" were splendid cause the makers stayed true to the source material.

 

[mhughes81]

I remember when I first heard about this movie years back, it was going to based around the Alliance. I know things have changed since then but I'd like it to be at least 50/50. I've been a Horde fan from Warcraft 1 to WoW and they have a crazy backstory story. In short, they have gone from being possessed by demons, corrupt and bloodthirsty to "normal". Kind of like a weird version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I'll see it regardless though.

 

[schmich]

I wonder if they will take note of gamer made movies like Tales of the Past.

 

[Guest]

I'm a fan of the story and I have to say blizzard spared no expensive in creating an in depth story full of love, hate, corruption, despair, etc. There is a creative background around every character they've portrayed to the public. I just hope that the Sam Raimi is up for doing it because who likes when a director can't live up to the expectations of over ten million subscribers to WOW. That'll be alot of disappointed people. A while ago I read that the director of 300 was suppose to take on the torch, but I guess that was either a rumor or maybe he just backed down.