Warcraft: The Beginning (June 10, 2016)

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-07-20 17:37

Is it CGI or real people?

**BadKarma** · 2013-07-20 18:16

Kind of hoping they cover Warcraft II.

**BadKarma** · 2013-07-20 19:05

Here's the transcript:

11:39

Silas Lesnick: A strange, alien desert with a growing green sky... 11:39

Silas Lesnick: A storm is coming in. 11:39

EDouglasCS: They probably won't name the non-Godzilla kaizu 11:39

Silas Lesnick: A knight is standing there. He draws his sword... 11:39

ComingSoon.net: Warcraft? 11:39

Silas Lesnick: There's a discarded suit of armor. He takes the shield from a skeleton... 11:39

Silas Lesnick: It's World of Warcraft! 11:40

EDouglasCS: Directed by Duncan Jones! 11:40

Silas Lesnick: He's gearing up. Creatures are coming over the hills. We follow a camera on an Orc as it moves to take, moving faster and faster.... 11:41

Silas Lesnick: Just as the Orc's blade comes down, it cuts to the logo! 11:41

Silas Lesnick: World of Warcraft is live action, btw, for those asking. 11:41

Silas Lesnick: It looks GREAT. Very gritty and realistic.

Hope we can have footage soon!

More transcript:

11:41

Silas Lesnick: Duncan Jones is here! 11:41

EDouglasCS: Sweet! 11:42

Silas Lesnick: "Can I just get this out of my system?" he says, screaming as a fanboy. 11:42

Silas Lesnick: "I know how lucky I am and I'm so, so excited to do it." 11:43

Silas Lesnick: The footage is a "mood piece" but official shooting will start early next year.

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-07-20 21:12

leet

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-10-01 18:35

Release date is announced for December 18, 2015

**6souls** · 2013-11-10 18:42

Story will revolve around first contact between Orcs & Humans, going for PG-13 rating

The upcoming Warcraft movie was discussed in a panel during BlizzCon 2013, with director Duncan Jones, visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer and a team from Blizzard giving first plot and character details.

<redacted> reports the film tells an origin story of first contact between orcs and humans.

Jones said the original plot was focused on humans and the Alliance, but has since expanded to embrace both sides of the factional divide to be about “being a hero no matter what side you’re on”. That way, Horde players won’t feel left out of the experience.

“To tell a story where you’re really, honestly telling it from both sides – especially a war film – is unusual. The fact that we’re able to get an opportunity to do that is, on a story level, breaking a few barriers. I don’t think you’re going to see a lot of films with this structure,” the director said.

Lothar and Durotan from Warcraft 2 will make an appearance. Durotan will represent the nobility of Orcs who are not corrupt, Blizzard’s Chris Metzen said.

Live-action and CGI will be blended; orcs will be played by human actors, then transformed by the wizards at Industrial Light & Magic. Details will be as close to the game’s as possible without being stupidly unrealistic, so swords will be as enormous as is feasible, for example.

As for locations, concept art was shown of Draenor, Dalaran, Stormwind and Ironforge.

The director apparently suggested he’s aiming for a PG-13 rating, but highlighted recent Batman films as lower-rated movies that still satisfied adults.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/11/10/warc...cs-and-humans/

**6souls** · 2013-11-27 19:23

Delayed to March 2016

The Warcraft movie has been pushed back a couple of months from December 18, 2015 to March 11, 2016, according to a Variety report. It’s one of a couple of changes Universal and Legendary have made to their release schedule, and no explanation was given – but speculation blames the new Star Wars movie, which opens on Warcraft’s original release date.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/11/27/warc...yed-into-2016/
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/un...on-1200892615/

**Qalbert** · 2013-12-04 18:32

http://www.slashfilm.com/warcraft-cast-revealed/

Universal Pictures has revealed they have closed deals with Ben Foster, Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, and Rob Kazinsky and are in final stages of negotiation with Dominic Cooper to star in Warcraft, based on Blizzard Entertainment’s award-winning video game series.

**Skai** · 2013-12-04 18:37

Even if it turns out a flop, will watch for Paula Patton.

**Abandon** · 2013-12-04 19:36

paula.

**BadKarma** · 2013-12-04 19:38

Paula Patton and Dominic Cooper? Sweet.

Also Warlow

**Rhyis.** · 2013-12-04 19:52

Cool, the dude from Vikings is in.

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-12-04 19:53

WoW pretty impressive lineup

**BadKarma** · 2013-12-05 00:41

Originally Posted by SamanosukeShiva

WoW pretty impressive lineup

I see what you did there

**arus2001** · 2013-12-05 06:16

I had to follow the link just to recognize any of those names. :/

**chazzyphizzle** · 2013-12-05 06:43

who cares

**SamanosukeShiva** · 2013-12-05 09:46

They're not too famous but not unknown either, which is a good thing.

**Rhyis.** · 2013-12-05 10:00

Clearly this movie needs more Tom Cruise.

**6souls** · 2014-05-24 19:52

Filming is done

https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/stat...11946531721217

**6souls** · 2014-05-31 19:07

Ben Foster is Medivh

Director Duncan Jones’ 2009 indie sci-fi Moon was a fascinating debut film and an impressive achievement on a low budget. Jones’ follow-up Source Codehad a much larger budget and a considerably broader scope, and now he has moved into a truly epic universe with his upcoming video game adaptation Warcraft.

The film, which wrapped principal photography just over a week ago, is based on the video game which spawned the wildly popular and immensely lucrative World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), the various iterations and expansions of which are still being developed. This first film is said to draw its storyline from the first installments of the series, which followed a war between orcs and humans.

Plot details have trickled down in the past few months, with Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger) stating that despite the high fantasy trappings, the film will actually tell a very human and relatable story. Now, Cooper’s castmate Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma) backs up Cooper’s assertion about the relatively serious themes of Warcraft, while speaking about the character he’s playing.

Foster recently spoke to <redacted> about his role, which is straight out of the game’s universe. According to Foster:

The character in ‘Warcraft’ that I play is named Medivh. He’s a mage, which is essentially a sorcerer. He came up in a time protecting an area, and the way he protected this area was through magic. As peace returned to this land he took a break. He hung up his staff, so to speak, or let his guns get dusty. We meet him as his friends are returning asking for his help in a battle.

Medivh first appeared in Warcraft III, and from Foster’s comments it sounds like the film’s plot could be quite close to that of the first few games, given that Foster’s character’s involvement was predicted in a report by Bleeding Cool. Still, in the game universe, Medivh was a guardian against the forces of the Burning Legion, but was possessed by a demonlord and used in an attempt to conquer the land of Azeroth. This version of the character appears to adhere to his morally complex nature.

Foster went on the praise his director’s vision for the film, echoing previous sentiments from Cooper as well as Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull. Foster stated:

What’s exciting about Duncan Jones’ take on this video game is that it shows both sides of the war. It shows both sides of a conflict, which is exciting to me. It’s not just a video game turned into a movie. It’s asking, hopefully, an important question of, where do we limit our compassion for what we consider to be the bad guys?

Foster also had some glowing comments in regard to the effects work by Industrial Light & Magic, specifically the motion-capture work. Foster remarked:

The way that they’re pushing motion-capture – I just saw some of the test footage – it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It’s performance-capture. It pushes it to the next level. It’s going to be one helluva 3D event.

While Foster’s character will not be digitally rendered, he said that some of the other characters who he interacts with will be.

While we do not yet have any confirmation of who the rest of the cast will be playing, it may be safe to assume at this point that Vikings star Travis Fimmel is taking the role of warrior Anduin Lothar, but what of co-stars Clancy Brown (Sleepy Hollow) and Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol)? Brown may well be taking the role of Khadgar, a powerful wizard who is also Medivh’s mentor.

With a highly praised director and a cast of talented character actors, Warcraft is poised to be one of the slate of upcoming video game adaptations (like Assassin’s Creed) that are striving to push the genre into the realm of commercial and critical success. With HBO’s Game of Thrones seeming to prove that a fantasy setting with mature themes can pull in a crossover audience, will Warcraft echo that success on the big screen?

As the film is now wrapped and entering its lengthy post-production period, expect more plot details as well as some early looks at the character design to surface soon.

http://screenrant.com/warcraft-movie...racter-midivh/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/05/...medium=twitter

Thread: Warcraft: The Beginning (June 10, 2016)

Thread Tools

Latest Threads

Up & Coming Threads

Hottest Threads