[aldo_14]

http://eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=64459

Presumably the first half hour will involve the hero running about fighting baby rats.

[an0n]

Aw, ****.

They shoulda done it intro-movie style, not live-action....

[Mefustae]

I totally agree. Blizzard is more than apt at coming up with enthrawlling stories, and their art-style is awesome. A fully CG movie in the style of what they've done in WCIII and the WoW intro would have been ace.

However, they can make up for not doing this by making ganking an intergral part of the storyline...

[Turnsky]

blizz are more than capable of making a CG movie, why they decided to go live action, is beyond me.

[Nuclear1]

Aw, ****.

They shoulda done it intro-movie style, not live-action....

QFT.

Well, at least Mr. Boll doesn't have his hands on it yet...

...does he?

[Col. Fishguts]

Hmm, this hold some potential. But I was always hoping for a WCIII-style CGI movie

[Kosh]

Screw Warcraft, a Starcraft movie would be sssoooo much cooler.

[IPAndrews]

Every video game -> movie crossover with the exception of Silent Hill (and ... maybe ... Mortal Kombat ( which was entertaining in it's own entertainingly **** way)) has been a complete disaster. So how come movie studios have suddenly gotten the impression that you can turn absolutely any game into a movie? Between this and Sailor Moon I'm amazed. I even checked the date so see if somehow I'd lost 11 months and rolled back to April 1.

[Janos]

Screw Warcraft, a Starcraft movie would be sssoooo much cooler.

Warhammer 40K movie would be even cooler than Starcraft movie

"lol blizzards rips off stuff lolololoff"

[IPAndrews]

How about a Hero Quest movie, or a Talisman movie?

[Ford Prefect]

with the exception of Silent Hill

No...

Not with the exception of Silent Hill.

Just.... no.

And I don't understand why everyone wants this to be CG. I would rather it had the feeling of being brought to life, as opposed to being a full-length game cutscene.

[Mefustae]

How about a Hero Quest movie, or a Talisman movie?

Nah. I'd prefer something more like...

Lemmings: The Movie

"The tale of a couragous group of Lemmings striving to overcome adversity, brave the odds, and do their darndest to kill themselves."

[neoterran]

They did it live action because CGI movies don't do well unless they're Disney kids movies and often, even then they don't do well. Look at the financial fiasco of Final Fantasy !

[Grey Wolf]

They should make a Peasant's Quest movie.

[Shadow0000]

Look at the financial fiasco of Final Fantasy !

  I bet they tricked a lot people to see it by using the same title for the movie as they do for games, while the movie was 100% unrelated to games...it was just a big-budget intented movie. Square Pictures was almost ruined, but it was enough to make the Final Flight of the Osiris (a part of the animated Matrix)

However it may be different, as much as I can remember Warcraft has novels (something which FF don't have, unless I am mistaken), that should mean dense plot as the game shows, specially suspense...

[Grey Wolf]

Of course, every single Final Fantasy game is completely unrelated, with the exceptions of the FFVII spinoffs, FFX and FFX-2, and FFT/FFXII.

[Shadow0000]

and FFXIII series which are composed of various games...I was aware that the movie would has nothing to do with the games as the games has nothing to do with them, except that Square made them, but a lot of people, resulting in the bankrupt of Square Pictures...

I wonder if something like this could happen to Warcraft ?. Will Blizzard be in charge of the movie ?, or will they just give the license and say "Go ahead, you have permission to hurt us really bad..."

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Here is the article about the novels:

Besides the aforementioned MMORPG World of Warcraft, there exists the following spin-offs:

* A set of three books (simply titled Warcraft), related only by their placement in the Warcraft Universe
  - Warcraft: Day of the Dragon, Richard Knaak
  - Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, Christie Golden (This book was used for the story of Warcraft Adventures)
  - Warcraft: The Last Guardian, Jeff Grubb

* A trilogy of novels, Warcraft: War of the Ancients, Richard Knaak
  1) The Well of Eternity
  2) The Demon Soul
  3) The Sundering
   
* A new upcoming trilogy of novels, Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy, Richard Knaak (with illustrations by manhwa artist Jae Hwan Kim)

So, about what will be the movie, there are lot of place to take plot and story, I hope it is from the game, but maybe they want to ruin themselves like Square do with Final Fantasy Movie...

[NGTM-1R]

Of course, every single Final Fantasy game is completely unrelated, with the exceptions of the FFVII spinoffs, FFX and FFX-2, and FFT/FFXII.

While I'm usually the one to make this point myself, I have to admit that they're not completely unrelated. There are certain commonalities of world (Chocobos) and they all have Wedge and Biggs. There are a lot of Cids about too, though that's not 100%.

* ngtm1r waits on the release of Intial Reality.

[Shadow0000]

You should point the oldest and most obvious in FF, the summons, specially the legendary Bahamut...(it's there since FF1). In FF Movie there weren't any Chocobo or any Wedge or Biggs cameos, or even a reference (except from names such as the Gaia and a few others).

People would just be pissed enough to go berserker if they would know that a movie with the name of Warcraft is being made by Blizzard, and then at time of seeing the movie they say "I now understand the plot, is about on how to rip the consumer"

[phatosealpha]

On an unrelated note, pirates no longer pirate movies, they now create 'instances'.  Film at 11.