The New Warcraft Movie – The First 5 Things You Should Know

With the first production Warcraft movie now almost a certainty, we have a look at what this means. What can we expect from our favourite game franchise at it reaches the big screen?

Sam Raimi, the director of Evil Dead and Scream is to direct the movie. He is a keen Warcraft \”follower\” apparently, and is keen for the movie to keep to the lore of Warcraft. This shows how seriously this movie is being taken. Other film game tie-ins often have unknown or niche directors. Warcraft the movie is going to be a major product.

The writer is Robert Rodat. He wrote Saving Private Ryan. Apparently, the story goes that he was \”inspired\” to write the Ryan screenplay when he realised his son\’s birthday was 6th June (D-Day). Let\’s hope nothing of importance happens on Ester Sunday during the writing of Warcraft, or we could have bunnies and chocolate eggs everywhere.

The location for most scenes is likely to be New Zealand. Again, the precedent is set with films like Lord of the Rings showing that this spectacular landscape can certainly become a realistic fantasy backdrop. It\’s not difficult to imagine an \”Azerothian\” feel.

Don\’t hold your breath for this film. Although the people who announce on release dates are pretty tight lipped. We are being told that a film of this type will be at least another two years in the making. However, I would bet that it timed to be released with the expansion AFTER Cataclysm, and that will be at least three years from now. Expect there to be some shared concepts between the two. Perhaps even the re-emergence of \”World of Warcraft 2\” rumours that have been doing the rounds recently.

At this early stage, one thing dopes seem certain. The film will be action based (as opposed to quest based) though whether we have Alliance verses Horde or either verses Scourge – or indeed a mixture of the two – remain to be seen. Of course, we could always have a new entity introduced just for the film.

So far no names have been mooted for the leading role (or roles). It is unlikely that the film\’s producers have even got around to deciding themselves yet

Legendary Pictures (Batman Begins, 300) are behind this movie. Good news in itself. There is no shortage of experience in making top quality action movies there then! Expect this to be a top notch production.

We are back up and running now, and will continue to bring you the news on this movie, and anything else Warcraft as it happens.

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