The MOVIE WarCraft

I think Lord of the Rings is quite close. Orcs, elves, humans, etc... I could be wrong but I think this game might be based slightly around Tolkien's mythology.

"The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the shadow!"

Good idea. But you think they wouldn't have enough money to make 5 movies. I dunno.And it's Elune not Allune if that's what you were trying to spell.


May the serene light of the Mother Moon illuminate you're paths

I would only get behind a Warcraft film(s) if the crew that did the CG cinematics for the games did the movie too. Frankly I think this franchise would be best realized in full-CG. A LotR-esque mix of CG with live actors and conventional effects would be ok too, but it's much more expensive to do it that way and if they don't do it right, it looks horrible. Blizzard has shown that they're on top of the game when it comes to CG cinematics, I think they're fully capable of creating a feature-length CG film.

It'd be great if the glimpse we caught in the cinematic videos of Warcraft was brought in a movie, and I'd certainly go and see that one.

If there's a chance for this to happen, I'd place my bets on Blizzard Entertainment taking a leading role in the making of this film. Any other attempt at it, would be a waste in my opinion.

So the way I see it, there could be a (fairly large) group of people that finally produce a 2-hour long movie in the same way Blizzard's made their stunning videos. And I believe Blizzard can do that, I think the budget wouldn't be extraordinarily high (I doubt they'd need all the equipment involved in the making of Final Fantasy SW, or pay immense amounts of money to some super-star to duplicate them in 3D), and I also believe most (if not all) of the fans would definitely go see that movie, and it'd draw even more lovers of the fantasy genre to it. So my bet is it'd work best as a new kind of animation genre...

Now as to a movie with actors in the same way as LoTR, it has immense chances of failure IMO, because, it would need two or three times the LoTR budget to make it (so many fantastic creatures involved, and other stuff), it'd need a challenging script, and many things would change from what we were used in WarCraft imagery.

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Most fantasy is based more or less on LOTR

Sides, a movie IS coming up..

Or well, a fantasy movie named Warcraft..
I assume that it's based on the game.

Yes I would see it, and buy it on DVD. Because I am a dedicated Blizzard fan and I play Warcraft 3 ROC, and Warcraft 3 FT, and Starcraft.

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