Wow: The movie.

Fraz

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We are all well and truly doomed.

A director has selected for the project: Sam Raimi.

For those who aren't familiar with Raimi; he directed the Spiderman series and the Evil Dead series. His most recent release was the under-appreciated Drag Me to Hell.

Now...for me it doesn't matter who is directing this film. Overall the project just seem like a really bad idea.

Sources:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/16884...wow_film.html/

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/movies/22raimi.html
meh, LOTR was a huge hit. this could be too.

note: im not a WOW player.
 

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I'm skeptical of the movie, but not the man. Evil Dead is obviously a stroke of genius. And Spiderman is one of the few comic-to-movie stories that wasn't butchered. To be fair, Warcraft has a great deal of history behind it. The RTS games had a stupid amount of story, and a very addictive one at that. I'll reserve judgment until I've seen a trailer or two.
 

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Oh god oh man oh god oh man oh god
 

Azgar

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Well actually I think they've been planning for the movie before LOTR, but they had a hard time finding an studio, people told them "fantasy movies didn't work", but after LOTR the answer changed to "oh the bar is set too high now".

(this is what I remember for a panel about it at least)

As for the director announcement, I think Spider-Man was fairly well translated to the big screen

EDIT:

found a 2007 Blizzcon panel about the movie [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSG2DiejFJ8"]Legendary Pictures Panel[/ame]
 
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I can see it now.. it will be called "WoW: Mirrored effect!!!11""

It will be 10 classes against...the same 10 classes just different skin changes.
I've hated wow.. then i played wow... then i hated it more.

The movie will get amazing $$ though, as all these people still play it now they will go crazy for the movie.. and furries.
 

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You know who should be the lich king? Shaq
 

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i wasnt big into WCIII, it was good however WCII was my sweetspot
 

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I agree that Warcraft had an awesome story behind (though it still had its odd loopholes) prior to WoW. Some of the books are even damn good (I read the Well of Eternity trilogy), but if this movie is like WoW, which it will probably be since they want to make money instead of a quality product, then I'm quite worried.
 

SiniStarR

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so the plot is going to be some random guy gets a quest and starts lfg? Then starts using other WoW talk?

Or are we just gonna watch some guy just press number keys....

Screw that i want a Monster Hunter Movie, at least you could do some awesome crap with that.
 

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I'm gonna think it will be based on the Warcraft Lore instead of World of Warcraft.

Warcraft has a really good storyline! Honest!
 

Warchamp7

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and furries.

You're the kind of person I plot to punch in the dick if I ever meet them


Anyway, I've always wanted a Warcraft movie but I was hoping it'd be by Blizzard just because their cut scenes are so beautiful
 
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Caliostro

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meh, LOTR was a huge hit. this could be too.

note: im not a WOW player.

Except one of these is an epic novel and the other is an epic piece of shit.

... If you're wondering which is which, Tolkien only wrote one of them... In fact, as far as I can tell, only of those had the benefit of having an actual writer...


... In other words, here's a WoW movie: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq-jT0p3up0"]YouTube - Longest Rail Grind?... Maybe[/ame]


...I take that back, that clip is vastly more impressive than everything in WoW, and requires actual skill to do.