Evildrider
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So the big news is that Sam Raimi has signed on as Director of the WoW movie. It's both  and  for me though. As I love Sam Raimi but, omg a WoW movie? |
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ahoythematey
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The only way I'd be interested is if he promises to attempt to translate to film the amount of hubris that Blizzard displays. That would probably require foam costumes on a level not seen since Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
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« Last Edit: July 22, 2009, 09:33:48 AM by ahoythematey »
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Lakov_Sanite
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Dude...sam raimi.....that is all.
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ahoythematey
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Sam Raimi is awesome, and I still say The Gift never got the love it deserves. But dude...come on, a World of Warcraft movie? The game is bad enough as it is.
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Evildrider
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Sam Raimi is awesome, and I still say The Gift never got the love it deserves. But dude...come on, a World of Warcraft movie? The game is bad enough as it is.
You know what, if they let Raimi go balls out and let him use his campy style that made the Evil Dead and Army of Darkness movies great, then this could be great. No matter what though, there's no way this movie won't make a truckload of money. |
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No matter what though, there's no way this movie won't make a truckload of money. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If every single active WoW player in the United States goes to see it, and brings a non-WoW friend to boot, it'll do like $30m domestic on a $100m budget and be remembered as a horrible flop. It needs to reach out in a big way to people with no idea what the hell Warcraft is, or it's fucked. Being able to do so is far from a given. |
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Khaldun
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How do you hold hubris toward customers?
Anyway, this surprises me, because I never thought a WoW movie could be anything but ass, and so I figured they'd get some kind of Uwe-Bollish scrub to do it. Raimi either needs the money or there's an actual screenplay that isn't completely awful.
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« Last Edit: July 22, 2009, 04:57:45 AM by Trippy »
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Oban
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I hear Mila Kunis is going to play the part of the Warrior Worgen.
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I'd rather have a WOW tv-series produced by Sam Raimi (in the same campy spirit as Cleopatra 2525, Jack of All Trades, Hercules and Xena).
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WindupAtheist
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Don't get me wrong. They appear to be taking this project very seriously, and I know they're aware of the "WoW subs x ticket prices = not enough" math. This COULD work out. But by the time this comes out WoW will be a 6 year old game, and the penciled-in 2011 blockbuster season already includes Captain America, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, James Cameron's Battle Angel, and the final Harry Potter among other things. It'll need to both be a good movie and receive a serious hype push.
EDIT: Since no one has said it, I will. I hope Bruce Campbell falls out of a magic portal and takes on the entire Scourge with a shotgun and chainsaw hand. That would make this the greatest movie ever made.
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« Last Edit: July 22, 2009, 08:06:08 AM by WindupAtheist »
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AutomaticZen
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I look forward to the obviously too strong heroes getting nerfed halfway through the film.
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Nevermore
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Sam Raimi doing a movie that involves an army of undead. What's not to like? As long as the end result isn't cringe-worthy like that Mt. Dew commercial, then it should be fine. Well, fine unless the story is about the secret, forbidden love affair between Varian Wrynn (Brad Pitt) and Sylvanas Windrunner (Angelina Jolie), with special guest star Arthas the Lich King (Vin Diesel). That would just be  . |
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Man, if they get Vin Diesel to play Saurfang...
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ahoythematey
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How do you hold hubris toward customers?
I was being glib, mostly. I changed the wording, though. |
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nurtsi
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The press release doesn't mention WoW anywhere, just Warcraft. Maybe it's only about orcs and humans. |
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You know, something that was a kind of metatextual goof-off film about fantasy heroes who are constantly being interfered with by invisible developers and constantly being forced to do weird things by invisible players could almost work if it was done with the right degree of whimsy. I just can't see any more-or-less serious treatment of Warcraft lore being anything but shitastic.
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It'll be worth it just to see what sort of cameo Bruce Campbell gets.
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Yeah, I think they're just marketing this as a fantasy war film. BIG BATTLES BETWEEN ARMIES OF ORCS AND HUMANS.
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They will take everything Everquest Lord of the Rings did and make it better and more casual.
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The press release doesn't mention WoW anywhere, just Warcraft. Maybe it's only about orcs and humans. There Will Be Elves. |
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They will take everything Everquest Lord of the Rings did and make it better and more casual.
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It'll be worth it just to see what sort of cameo Bruce Campbell gets.
I think Raimi's given him enough cameos of late. He should get a full-size role this time. |
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How long they gonna hang out in Molten Core? And how many sequels will there be?
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It'll be worth it just to see what sort of cameo Bruce Campbell gets.
I think Raimi's given him enough cameos of late. He should get a full-size role this time. A-friggin-gree. He's a reliable and fun actor who can maintain a leading role (e.g. Burn Notice). |
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Lakov_Sanite
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I doubt there are a 100million transformers 'fans' out there but plenty of people know about them, even if they don't own the toys or know wtf the matrix of leadership is. You can't base the success of a movie on it's core audience because that is never an accurate representation of who will go to see it.
Besides, with the money that's gonna be thrown at this? I just hope they don't go full CGI for everything and give it a shitty star wars look.
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Man, if they get Vin Diesel to play Saurfang...
Suddenly, Chuck Norris' phone rings... |
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Man, if they get Vin Diesel to play Saurfang...
Suddenly, Chuck Norris' phone rings... I was just thinking. A Chuck Norris cameo would be so fucking . |
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There absolutely must be a character based on Leroy Jenkins who gets killed by dragon whelps.
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DraconianOne
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I doubt there are a 100 million transformers 'fans' out there but plenty of people know about them...
What about Watchmen? Can't be more than a couple of million people who'd read it in the 20 years prior to the film finally getting greenlit. WoW has already pervaded the public consciousness far more than Watchmen ever did and a hell of a lot of people have heard of it even if they haven't played it. Especially gamers. All it needs is a good marketing campaign and people will (probably) flock to it. I'm not sure about Raimi being a good choice for this. He can do humour and can handle action fairly well but I'd see this as having an epic feel (no pun intended). |
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From what I read it will be a Warcraft movie and probably center on the RTS verisions. Normally I don't pay attention to reddit stuff, but the comments on this page are WoW comedy gold. I laughed at this one. "The movie is going to end half way through when the resto druids parents pull his internet for the night and everyone dies." |
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Slyfeind
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I'm not sure about Raimi being a good choice for this. He can do humour and can handle action fairly well but I'd see this as having an epic feel (no pun intended).
If you mean LotR kind of epic, I heartily disagree. I've always seen the entire Warcraft franchise being very tounge-in-cheek, campy (but not cheesy) and occasionally cute and smarmy. This movie better be loaded with tons of Arnold-style one-liners or I will be very sad. |
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Its kind of disappointing in a way that it won't be done by the Blizzard CGI movie people (whoever does that, not sure if it is in house or what.) I'd like to have seen what they could do with it.
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I hope Horde are the good guys. I want a movie about the Horde. |
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