New 'World of Warcraft' Movie Details
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It was a little over a year ago that a feature film version of the highly successful MMORPG, World of Warcraft was announced. Now, Kotaku is reporting from the Blizzcon 07 that Paul Sams and Chris Metzen from Blizzard Entertainment along with the chief creative officer from Legendary Pictures hosted a panel event to field questions from fans and provide some updates about the film. While details were scarce, there were a few pieces of information for the die-hard fans attending the event.The fantasy game has been around since 1994, and today counts nine million players worldwide, so you can imagine the pressure is on to please fans; nobody wants to be the guy who screws up one of the most popular game franchises in history. No mention was made of a director, but they did confirm that the film was going to be live action but they had yet to decide just how much CGI was going to be involved. Considering the success Legendary had with 300, you couldn't blame them for wanting to give the green screen another go.
Kotaku also reports Metzen confirmed that "Warcraft is still in the scripting process, but that they have something that they're happy with. Further details were kept under wraps but Metzen told the crowd it would take place about a year before the events of World of Warcraft. Metzen was also quoted as saying that the script will be "principally told from the Alliance perspective." Legendary is still aiming for a 2009 release date, so stay tuned for any updates as they come our way.
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8-06-2007 @ 3:37AM
Adam Wright said...
World of Warcraft came out in 2004.
The first game that came out in 1994 was a different kind of game but did feature the same setting that was later used in World of Warcraft.
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8-06-2007 @ 3:52AM
totencough said...
I have several things to add in my write-up of the event:
http://www.crankleft.com/2007/08/legendary-warcraft-film-panel-blizzcon.html
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8-06-2007 @ 9:06AM
Ronan said...
It is a movie in the world of "Warcraft", not a "World of Warcraft" movie.
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8-12-2007 @ 12:56AM
john said...
mainly alliance perspective? thats dumb.....why alliance because its not like more people play alliance....it all depends on your server...
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9-12-2007 @ 9:05PM
Kurizu said...
well i think they would make the movie more with an alliance point of view because one the fact i guess soo more people would watch it i guess lol XD because i don't know if many people want to watch movie with a walking Cow (Tauren)as the main Character soo i guess they would use more human looking characters
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9-20-2007 @ 10:37AM
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10-03-2007 @ 10:41AM
Corvann said...
Well if you are going to make a movie out of the warcraft story there is no better picture company to use than Legendary Pictures I mean look at the movie 300. I also have heard that blizzard will be using the warcraft books more than the game story lines, not sure if that is true or not..... either way I can not wait....
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11-07-2007 @ 12:04AM
steve said...
This movie is being made for a wider audiance than those who play WoW. Taking the ally view point helps this. Its a strategic move. Most people dont want to pull for the orcs.
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