Oh re-rolls aplenty, oh rerolls aplenty
Again with this idea? Been hearing people say it since the plot of the film was announced. It wouldn't make sense to start in the middle of the story as your first film. The amount of exposition needed would give us 1 second of Arthas and then the end credits do their thing.I kind of hope there aren't any more films, because there's so much lore that it'd be better for a tv series, preferably animated.
I could go for a Count of Monte Cristo reunion for this. Henry Cavill as Arthas and Jim Caviezel as Uther. Objective Morality meets Moral Relativity. MR "wins" the day and the future we get as a result is post LK WoW instead of the kingdom that could have been. Premise the movie as a Tragedy with an epic music score- underplay the fantasy elements of it and focus in on the personal relationship between teacher and student and the true tragedy of when the student becomes deaf to the ways of their teacher in favor of their own misguided sense of justice and "what is the right thing to do." Our hero falls from grace and, I would re-write this part, instead of Uther claiming short sighted revenge instead shoulders the burden of Arthas' failure as his own and vows to redeem the boy in this life or the next. (This would have been a much more satisfying Shadowlands story arc then the one we have from the video in my opinion.)
No, absolutely not. The Arthas story is pretty boring and very much over-used. Generally, I feel like the movie would have worked better as an animated series. The original story material is pretty thin, so a running series would have had the chance to bring in writers to flesh out the story. It would have also given much more aesthetic freedom. The live-action film looked silly and even though Cavill can make pretty much anything look good - no. Just simply no. Make animated series and you have a instant hit, but forget live action.
Way they handled the first warcraft movie I don't want another one unless they do it properly.
can you mark this "news" as "fanfiction" and give us the option to disable them?
No. If Arthas had been included, the movie would have been any or all of the following:
I don't think there's ever been a zombie outbreak plot in a live-action fantasy setting (there's Kingdom on Netflix, though that's less fantasy and more ancient history but with zombies), so I would have liked to see it. It's really one of the biggest reasons I hoped the Warcraft movie would be successful because then we might have gotten a movie about the Lich King storyline at some point.As the article states, Arthas' story would probably work best as a series. Hell, the Witcher Netflix series just might have opened the doors to that kind of stuff.
I don't dislike him, I actually like a lot about him, but he's too wooden of an actor for that role. Chris Hemsworth would be better.
I doubt I'm the first person to mention this, but can we just get a Netflix or any other streaming service to make a show. I feel like this is the kind of game that is better suited for a tv show than a movie. Way too much to cover and the movie kinda suffered from it.
Henry Cavill is a huge wow nerd too and he recently build a new gaming pc himself, a cool dude in my books!
Rather than movies they should make a Warcraft series. There's just too much lore and build up to cram all the cool stuff into a movie the way Blizzard intended it and to do it justice without feeling just super corny.
To me, the Warcraft movie was beautiful, it reminded me of the cinematics we get to see in WoW...but other than that, the only part i really liked was Travis Fimmel as Lothar. He is an amazing actor, i absolutely love his work since i've seen what he is capable of in Vikings as Ragnar. That guy was born to be an actor. In the other hand, i would give anything for a Lich King movie or series just to see locations, elements, characters that i love for years on the big screen.
We need another Warcraft movie, everyone praised the prequel trilogy for its use of green screen and that exact reason is why the Warcraft movie looked so stunning and was so well received.
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The first movie imo covered the right events. The execution was wrong but imo they shouldn't give up because the first movie flopped. There are so many good story lines. While lorewise we cared about the first war, game wise we couldn't give a damn about most of the characters. And even while knowing thrall I don't care about him and his cowardly running away and messing things up. On that note it was just orc vs humans, humans who had no prior concept before the movie. And it felt blander then it should be cuz it was just dealing with orcs and humans. Imagine when the other races join in. Races that have concepts and models to go off of, Tyrande, Velen, Magni, Illidan, Varian, Anduin, Bolvar, Uther, Arthas, Jaina etc. They can focus the next one in the formation of the Alliance, followed by a story about velen joining the alliance and blood elves being discriminated leading to their joining to the horde while Illidans threat lingers. Then they are set with moment after moment of epic in gamelore and events...Despite the retcon diminishing some of its value, the Wrathgate is still a badass even I would love to see pan out eventually. All in all, I believe they should follow the timeliness.Introduce Varian and Arthas as kids, their friendship and Arthas' obsession and consequent decent towards his dark fate. (If they make a fully animated movie, it may fair better but I'm still curious what they can do for Varian and Anduin with real actors
They started the original movie in the right place but there was too many stories going on at the same time. They ended up jumping back and forth between many events that needed exposition told to us, which is a cinematic no-no. A story focused more on Durotan or Lothar would have been much better. As important as Medivh is to Warcraft Lore, he made the whole film so much more messy. Even in the games that is a convoluted bit of story. I do sincerely hope they move forward from where they were with a Thrall movie. If they follow the novel as a guide, the filmmakers will be able to fix many of the chief issues of the Warcraft movie. It will also benefit from some of the best parts, such as the cg orcs. It is so difficult to make CG characters believable but at moments I had more feelings for the orcs than the humans. Additionally, by doing a Thrall movie, they can set up Arthas as a young boy leading to a movie focused on Arthas' journey to becoming the Lich King. For me though, I want a War of the Ancients film more than any of the others. If Blizzard wants help making movies, my phone is always available to them. lol
Geralt: Hmmm.
People confusing the Warcraft fantasy race of mini-vrykul humanoids for real-life human beings again, which was one of the reasons the first movie sucked.