Sam Raimi talks about WoW movie
Sam Raimi is still working on the World of Warcraft movie, but has yet to settle on a story.
Raimi revealed that he and Robert Rodat, who previously penned Saving Private Ryan, are still very much in the early days of the project, and are currently working on developing the story and characters.
It’s quickly apparent that Raimi is very familiar with the source material and is set upon drawing from Blizzard’s vast, sprawling lore.
"I love the visual world the guys over at Blizzard have created," Raimi said. "It's incredibly, engrossinglyterrifying and exciting. I like the use of scale--the giant monsters they have. I love the different landscapes that your character can move through. I like the first-person interaction you have with other players online. There are so many aspects about the game that I really enjoy."
"We're still working on the story right now, and we've got a 40-page document that needs a lot more work, but every draft that we do with Robert Rodat gets better and better.”
Raimi did clarify that the film won’t be about gamers being sucked into the world of WoW, but will rather be set entirely within the fiction, thankfully.
Raimi didn’t discuss the matter of release or production, but IMDB has World of Warcraft: The Movie listed for a 2013 release.
Whilst many have tried to make the transition from games to films, few have done so successfully. Is the MMO genre appropriate for the cinema, or is this just another game-based movie destined for supermarket bargain bins? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplySo, basically, you going to have the biggest grossing fail of all time, with fanatics screaming "its sux so bad, i watched it like 13 times already)
I smell big stink out of this one
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just about sums it up, yes
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Beats having to risk it on originality, also if you play Wow, chances are you are going to watch this movie and possibly even purchase it on DVD / Blu-ray etc.
Money money money.
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The fanatics, sure, but after the first wave of viewers, then the flaming, I don't think that there will be as many people watching it as everyone thinks.
If its good, i'll buy the DVD, but not go watch at the cinema. If its bad, as it most likely will be, i'm not even going to bother - and prob just stop playing WoW cause every server will explode with rage. ;)
But the movie isnt about love stories and all that crap, like Chris Metzen said in an interview "we want a director who realise this isnt about pillow fights, its about war, action and BLOOOD"
sounds great to me.. :D
Not saying that it will turn into a romantic comedy, i was rather referring to the lore, and just plain fact of the Warcraft universe that they will **** up. I'm sure that it will be bloody and war and killing and stuff as well, but anything further than that will fail
It's a known secret in the industry that most films released today aim for a decent box office return in the first couple days of release, but that DVD sales and foreign releases are where the real money is made.
As has been said, the WoW fanboys will queue up for all the midnight showings, then moan about all the changes to the story/characters/locations/etc. They'll see it 2 more times just to catch all the inacurracies, write on their blogs about how much film sucks because they left out
the Barrow Downs and Tom Bombadilsome Night Elf or Undead of importance, then they'll buy the theatrical version and the extended edition on Blu-ray.Fanboys are very rabid and protective of their particular genre, but they're also very predictable when it comes to movies and merchandise.
Released several years ago and was last seen in a bargain bin with the rest of the game films
agreed, that episode reminds me of why I will never play a pay to play game or just WoW for that matter.
film about a game where you spend months of your real life walking around a huge pretend world aint that interesting tbh.
haha I doubt many people would get the reference tbh and those that would, would be the market for illegally downloading the film!
The Warcraft lore is pretty strong if not somewhat generic. I mean there's plenty of great story lines to call upon. I would be happy if they did a litch king one or something like that. Plus the game has some pretty diverse and interesting locations plus spell animations to call upon.
in fact I'm surprised they are doing a movie like this. I thought it would be a CGI like the opening cutscenes for the game.
If they keep the lore, but create a decent story (without trying to cover the whole of the WoW universe in two hours) then there's hope.
Problem with doom and hitman was that the games where not designed for their story but the action/gameplay. Arguably silent hill and resident evil are the similar but with some attempt at a story. Tho the slow opening doors, music/silence, world changes and most importantly and key, the fact that you where in "control" of the main character unlike a film which your just following creates a real psycological side to things. The story was build around gameplay with cutsenes to progress some element. How many "survival" horror films have you watched knowing that so and so has to survive? Thats one reason I like saw films, its unpredicatable just who will survive.
Metal gear solid might work as a film since most of the game is cutscenes but why remake a game and remove any player influence from it? Your in the dilema of doing that vs making something that ties into which non gamers would understand thus limiting your market.