For any of you video game fans who aren’t convinced to view the picture, perhaps you had rather see the Warcraft preview recreated in the recognizable video game universe you love. Jones additionally indicates the film will focus more on the introduction of new and storyline characters unlike Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings” which focused more on the conflict between orcs and humans. He bleeds pure love for his character as Orgrim Doomhammer, and Robert Kazinsky was interviewed by Arclight and you can see his passion as a World of Warcraft gamer come forth in this interview. At the conclusion of the panel, the PAX East-exclusive Warcraft Film trailer was played, showing 3 scenes of Iron Forge not seen in previous previews.
The yearly Blizzcon was held down in Anaheim, California these past few days, and during a presentation about the coming Warcraft movie (via SlashFilm ), it was shown who the excellent actors in the movie’s cast will be playing. Some have complained that it appears too cartoony and that we could be headed for a film which will end up being a catastrophe like the Dungeons & Dragons film, but at exactly the same time many are holding out in hopes that with Blizzard being involved that we are going to actually end up getting great show. A movie that is solidly average, well hey means it is better than 75% of the game movies out there. The two have similar components and the picture clearly greatly borrows from the game universe — but it’s its own development that is distinct, with its principle and its own timeline.
I’d expected Jones could do something fairly interesting with it, but given how tight the reins must have been, I can not blame him for delivering the reheated pizza bagel of a movie the five hundred people outside Blizzard’s walls who sincerely and deeply care about Warcraft lore have always desired. The larger prize is the free copy of World of Warcraft that Blizzard is handing out to anyone who purchases tickets for the picture. As for the other names, they might be incidental, they might be genuinely important — until we view the picture we don’t understand, and likely will not understand. As among the stars of Vikings, Travis Fimmel is no stranger to getting dirty and bloody and wielding weapons that are huge on a battle field – which should allow him to fit into Warcraft quite readily.
And there are other folks randomly scattered in, like disgraced young wizard Khadgar (Ben Schnetzer), whose function early in the film would be to insist on waiting to locate Medivh before giving vital explanations; Durotan’s second in command Orgrim (Rob Kazinsky); Durotan’s pregnant wife Draka (Anna Galvin); and a very mad Clancy Brown as the orc leader Blackhand. Two sweet brands that are strong join forces to bring NEW Warcraft Battle Blend – the fruity cherry flavor of MIKE AND IKE® to create one distinctively tasty chewy cherry cinnamon flavored candies and blending the fierce cinnamon flavor of HOT TAMALES®. I believe the main difficulty is that I guess most of the film is incomprehensible gibberish if you’ven’t played a group of Warcraft games.
There are responses for all these questions, but if you are not a devotee of Warcraft it is painfully hard to draw these details out of the movie. Having said that, I didn’t think this one gave too much away – having come to the post essentially clueless about Warcraft lore, I’m still pretty much so. Only less keen than I was to view the film, having appreciated Duncan Jones’s previous films a lot. With a colorful cast of interesting, albeit occasionally melodramatic, characters and a visual fiesta of special effects, it’s no surprise that Warcraft continues to be dominating the international box office. The lengthy trailer of the film is set to be released this Friday on Nov.