Sam Raimi and Charles Roven to make Warcraft movie

[ProudNissanFreak]

http://movies.ign.com/articles/100/1006097p1.html

Enjoy.

[USsil80]

bet you they will make it a ally movie...

FOR THE HORDE

[Crazyirish]

bet you they will make it a stupid movie...

fixed...

[ProudNissanFreak]

bet you they will make it a ally movie...

FOR THE HORDE

For the Alliance...bring it

[Hijacker]

I like Raimi a lot, but a film adaptation of warcraft is less than desirable. The D&D movie comes to mind

[USsil80]

I like Raimi a lot, but a film adaptation of warcraft is less than desirable. The D&D movie comes to mind

ohh so true.... depends on who writes the script.. hope it is a world pvp server..

[MinisterofDOOM]

I like Raimi a lot, but a film adaptation of warcraft is less than desirable. The D&D movie comes to mind

Honestly, I think if any game franchise has the potential to work as a movie, it's a Blizzard franchise. I can see Chris Metzen standing behind Raimi with a 20 lb sledgehammer growling "Screw this up and I'll smash your balls into jelly."

Last time I heard anything about the Warcraft movie, it was supposed to take place some time between WCIII and WoW. Which I think is an excellent setting with lots of opportunities and some of my favorite WC characters at their most awesome.

FOR THE HORDE

For the Alliance...bring it

BOTH can suck my balls. I hate both factions and most of their leaders. King Wrynn is a moron and an ***hole. The horde harbors too many scummy, questionable races with unscrupulous pasts (Trolls, Forsaken, and those $@#$ @#$% whiny blood elves). And the Alliance is too busy hating the old horde to realize that enemy died a long time ago.

It's too bad Thrall is so needed by the Orcs, because if he were free to cast off his mantle he could fight alongside Jaina again and make a real difference. The two of them are the only mortals in Azeroth I have any respect for (and Bronzebeard, of course). I'd love to see them tell both factions to go to hell and take their war with them, and then begin gathering their own warriors to fight a war against the ENEMY instead of playing political games.

No...if I were really a person living in Azeroth, I'd give both factions the finger and take a knee before the real leader of Azeroth: Alexstrazsa.

[BusyBadger]

^^^ ^^^ And I thought *I* was a geek.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I've been a Warcraft fan since the original game, so yeah...I'm a bit of a geek about it. Blizzard have always been masters of weaving superb worlds to back their games, so it's easy to get invested in them. Wait until Diablo III comes out...THEN I'll go into geek mode.

[Hijacker]

Honestly, I think if any game franchise has the potential to work as a movie, it's a Blizzard franchise. I can see Chris Metzen standing behind Raimi with a 20 lb sledgehammer growling "Screw this up and I'll smash your balls into jelly."

I lost most of my faith in Metzen when he started screwing story up in WoW with TBC. Plus he's got this bono/holier than thou thing going on, which really irks me. At least with WotLK, they have actual story to pull from and and whatnot. And none of it just ends stupidly like the Defias story, or The Missing Diplomat.

It's too bad Thrall is so needed by the Orcs, because if he were free to cast off his mantle he could fight alongside Jaina again and make a real difference. The two of them are the only mortals in Azeroth I have any respect for (and Bronzebeard, of course). I'd love to see them tell both factions to go to hell and take their war with them, and then begin gathering their own warriors to fight a war against the ENEMY instead of playing political games.

I think I saw it on the blizz forums after the 3.1 trailer came out that Brann has has more manhood in his pinky finger than any of the man-children in charge of the factions (minus Thrall. Thrall is the only decent leader in the damned world).

Personally, I would love to see the story be about the fall of Tirion. In game, you help him come to terms with his son, and then see him form the Argent Crusade and take the fight to Northrend. But we've never seen his fall from the Order in its final days. I think if they're gonna set it in that 4 year gap, focusing on the plague in Lordaeron and watching the madness consume the Scarlet Crusade would make for a good 2 hour plot. But knowing Metzen, he'll probably add some stupid retconned bullsh1t into it.

[BusyBadger]

Wait until Diablo III comes out...THEN I'll go into geek mode.

Save me a seat.

I load the original up every couple of years and play it, just because.

And it still holds up.

[ProudNissanFreak]

I like Raimi a lot, but a film adaptation of warcraft is less than desirable. The D&D movie comes to mind

There was a D&D movie? Never heard of it. Do you play by chance?

[Hijacker]

I used to play a long time ago.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190374/

[MinisterofDOOM]

I lost most of my faith in Metzen when he started screwing story up in WoW with TBC.

Eh, I didn't really take issue with the TBC changes as they were really just replacing placeholder facts with solid canon. The Burning Legion wasn't very clearly realized prior to TBC. I mean...I have my Warcraft (1) manual sitting next to me and the whole Sargeras thing wasn't even really a factor yet...the orcs were just evil for no real reason. So TBC wasn't the first time major storyline changes have happened in WoW...and in the past they've worked well, so I have no problem with changes now if they work well, too.But prior to WoW and WCIII, the legion was just this mythical horror mentioned with just enough detail to give them a vague face. The "retcons" in TBC added more weight and depth to what the burning legion is, and the horrors that Sargeras has perpetrated on countless other worlds...and thus what might be in store for Azeroth. I think giving the Eredar a history with the Draenei gives both a more "real" face and makes the fact that they're now terrible forces in Sargeras army of horrors a much more palpably horrible thing. Now they're not just some random demons...they're another race who, like the Orcs, fell prey to his meddling. It helps tie the UNIVERSE of warcraft together more closely, and gives everything more presence and greater scope. It's not just the future of Azeroth that hinges on the war on Azeroth, now. It's the future of existence.

[ProudNissanFreak]

^ Now I know what the bloody hell is going on lol.

I have WoW and Warcraft 2. Used to dominate at 1A and 2A. Good times.

[USsil80]

a little off topic.. but has anybody read the books... i read alot... just wondering how they are???

[Hijacker]

Eh, I didn't really take issue with the TBC changes as they were really just replacing placeholder facts with solid canon. The Burning Legion wasn't very clearly realized prior to TBC. I mean...I have my Warcraft (1) manual sitting next to me and the whole Sargeras thing wasn't even really a factor yet...the orcs were just evil for no real reason. So TBC wasn't the first time major storyline changes have happened in WoW...and in the past they've worked well, so I have no problem with changes now if they work well, too.But prior to WoW and WCIII, the legion was just this mythical horror mentioned with just enough detail to give them a vague face. The "retcons" in TBC added more weight and depth to what the burning legion is, and the horrors that Sargeras has perpetrated on countless other worlds...and thus what might be in store for Azeroth. I think giving the Eredar a history with the Draenei gives both a more "real" face and makes the fact that they're now terrible forces in Sargeras army of horrors a much more palpably horrible thing. Now they're not just some random demons...they're another race who, like the Orcs, fell prey to his meddling. It helps tie the UNIVERSE of warcraft together more closely, and gives everything more presence and greater scope. It's not just the future of Azeroth that hinges on the war on Azeroth, now. It's the future of existence.

The Legion was fleshed out quite well in The Frozen Throne as well as WC3. My issues are more with interdimensional space ships crash landing somehow. And there is nothing you can say that will sway me from how stupid that story played out.

Warcraft 1 was an excuse to have orcs fighting humans. There really wasn't a story that was done for it. The devs made mention of that in one of the behind the scenes DVDs (I'm pretty sure it was the WoW BTS DVD). WC2 had sort of a story that played out, but the story line didn't hit a sweet spot until WC3. That's why I like WotLK, since it continues the story line from WC3 and expands on it. Heck, I love the parts that have flash backs to WC3 events and have them play back in the WoW engine.

But Metz and his crew have been notorious for dropping the lore ball since WoW launched. The move back to a sweeping story is a good change and I hope they continue that trend with further xpacs.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I definitely agree that going back to continue the WCIII storyline directly is a very good thing. And I also agree that the parts that take you back to old warcraft events in WoW are some of my favorite bits of WoW. All of the caverns of time instances are fantastic for that reason.

I didn't get into WCIII as much as the first two games because Blizzard fouled up the gameplay with their hybrid RPG bulls***, so I'm not totally up-to-specs on the WCIII storyline as presented in the game. But WCII I know really well.

a little off topic.. but has anybody read the books... i read alot... just wondering how they are???

I have not read any of the warcraft books, but I have a collection of Diablo books by Richard A. Knaak who also wrote a lot of the WC books, and they are TERRIBLE. They're so bad that despite my love for the Diablo universe and lore, I couldn't tolerate reading them. They're really generic lifeless mainstream fantasy crap. Something you'd expect to see on a fanfic website or something like that. So thanks to those books, I have no interest in reading the Warcraft War of the Ancients series, which would otherwise be very interesting to me.

[Hijacker]

I definitely agree that going back to continue the WCIII storyline directly is a very good thing. And I also agree that the parts that take you back to old warcraft events in WoW are some of my favorite bits of WoW. All of the caverns of time instances are fantastic for that reason.

I didn't get into WCIII as much as the first two games because Blizzard fouled up the gameplay with their hybrid RPG bulls***, so I'm not totally up-to-specs on the WCIII storyline as presented in the game. But WCII I know really well.

If you ever get the time, go online and look up the story of Arthas on youtube. IT's about 12 parts long in 10 minute chunks and it will give you the full storyline of the game without having to play through it. It'll also include the expac story which focuses more on Illidan and Kil'Jaedon.