Warcraft Film Begins Shooting Next Year

[chozo_hybrid]

WELP. I can't help but be excited. One of my favorite lores is being put to film.

Haven't played since Frozen Throne for Warcraft 3. Nothing against WoW, just not an MMO person. So I kinda wish they could continue the single player aspect too, this films start point will be the first ever games story, or what? I wonder... Is there any way someone can read up the story past Frozen Throne? Like books or anything, do you know of any that don't require knowledge from the MMO to read or anything yet allow you to follow the plot. Or is it kind of a jumbled mess.

In any case, cautiously optimistic.

I've been playing WoW off and on for awhile now. Although, I stopped playing seriously around when Cataclysm came out. I've been crossing my fingers for a single player warcract game for awhile now.

If you're looking for novels that take place during the mmo...

Spoiler: Quoted from the WoW forums. Much better than I could have done.

Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy (Comic) - This is just before WoW vanilla since some Horde holdings (Tauren Mill) are still Alliance held. Sets up Kalygos and his motivations mostly.

Warcraft Legends Vol. 1-5 (Comic) - These are all over the place, but primarily just before WoW Vanilla with some flashback stuff.

The Dragons of Outland (Comic) - Trilogy set between Vanilla and TBC.

World of Warcraft Books 1-4 (comics) - Set between TBC and WotLK, covers a lot of plot spillover.

Death Knight (comic) - Set before and during WotLK. Sets up Thassarian.

Mage (comic) - Set before WotLK. Sets up why Dalaran is a floating city over Northrend.

Night of the Dragon (book) - Set before WotLK, deals with some stuff spilling out of TBC, especially dealing with Kalygos and the two new dragonflights in Outland.

Stormrage (book) Set after WotLK. Sets up Malfurian Stormrage and Tyrande and the status of the Emerald Dream corruption.

Shaman (comic) - Set between WotLK and Cata.

The Shattering (book) - Covers all the details between WotLK and Cata that were going on while we were doing the pre-launch events.

Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects (book) -follows the former War Chief of the Horde as he struggles with the ongoing repercussions of the Cataclysm

From the few I've read, you don't need to know much about what takes place during the mmo to read the books.

Thanks for the info, will look into these

 

[Flying Pilgrim]

I was only interested in it because it was going to be a Sam Raimi film. I really like his work.

I'm actually a bit more interested in it, now that Duncan Jones is attached to the project. Even when Sam Raimi was attached to it, I still felt a bit antipathetic towards it... I mean, I felt as if the movie was going to bomb -- even with him at the helm; don't get me wrong, I still feel as if this movie is probably going to bomb. I'm actually kind of worried it might kill Jones' career. But still, there's a chance it might be good -- with Jones and all.