Screenwriter Talks About Original Vision for WoW Movie
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I'm so glad they've thrown away the do-it-all script. A lot of game or comic movies suffer when a director decides to have the whole world with all it's heroes in one movie. There's just not enough time to develop so many characters. At the end you feel detached from the personalities and don't really care for the support crew. And it feels even irritating when they are included only for completeness without adding anything to the main story.
What I would like to see in the Warcraft movie is one story. How hard it is to make one band of heroes with one quest. Make the villains of the opposing faction if you like, but keep their personalities in the shadow. Preferably no cameos from important lore figures (like that's gonna happen). Just make involving story, action and cut.
What I would like to see in the Warcraft movie is one story. How hard it is to make one band of heroes with one quest. Make the villains of the opposing faction if you like, but keep their personalities in the shadow. Preferably no cameos from important lore figures (like that's gonna happen). Just make involving story, action and cut.
Let's take a moment to look at the expectations for this film:
a) Game films are rarely (read: almost never) good. Possibly the only game film that could stand on its own as a solid production was Resident Evil (the first one). Now I want to be clear: When I say it's a good game film, I don't mean true to the story; not necessarily. What I want to say is that you can enjoy it as a film whether you're a fan of the game or not. Max Payne was a game that looked like a film to begin with and they managed to turn it into... that!
b) Raimi is a douche. Seriously. Look at his work.
Oh yeah and another thing. Why does everyone keep calling this the WoW movie. Warcraft as a franchise and the latest game in that franchise are two different things. This is a film based on the former, the franchise, NOT THE MMO. I expect this kind of thing from the lame news sites that deal mostly with celebrity gossip, but I never expected this from the escapist.
a) Game films are rarely (read: almost never) good. Possibly the only game film that could stand on its own as a solid production was Resident Evil (the first one). Now I want to be clear: When I say it's a good game film, I don't mean true to the story; not necessarily. What I want to say is that you can enjoy it as a film whether you're a fan of the game or not. Max Payne was a game that looked like a film to begin with and they managed to turn it into... that!
b) Raimi is a douche. Seriously. Look at his work.
Oh yeah and another thing. Why does everyone keep calling this the WoW movie. Warcraft as a franchise and the latest game in that franchise are two different things. This is a film based on the former, the franchise, NOT THE MMO. I expect this kind of thing from the lame news sites that deal mostly with celebrity gossip, but I never expected this from the escapist.
Yeah....okay. It would seem to me that the experience in an mmo is built around a personal and social experience that is tailored by the player to better represent how they want to experience the game world. You can't do that in a movie because the director and writers have a vision of their own and specific things they want to explore.Chipperz said:
Now if you're talking about a story set in the world of warcraft world using the canon, I guess that makes sense, but I still don't think it's going to be making anyone's day.
To be fair, I know nothing about that stuff you talked about at the end of your post having not played any world of warcraft except for one RTS (3 I think). FWI, I'm 20 and in college, very much past my "thirteenth birthday"...
