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6th July 2010 11:46 AM
Darren Allan
Ahh, World of Warcraft. We knew it, we loved it, we were addicted to it, like many, and then we left when high-end raids started to get too time consuming and serious.
The game has a huge player-base, with well over 10 million subscribers worldwide, which is certainly the motive for the upcoming movie to be made based on the MMORPG.
One thing’s for sure, it’ll be nothing like the South Park Warcraft episode, which was a brilliantly executed comedy gem in itself… (“How do you kill that which has no life?”).
Sam Raimi is involved with making Warcraft, and indeed the new Oz film, although in an MTV interview he made it clear that his role as the Director in the latter wasn’t set in stone.
MTV also quizzed him about the Warcraft film, and Raimi revealed that he’s working on the treatment, which is coming along nicely.
Of course, the difficulty in the case of Warcraft is that it doesn’t have an overall story as such, rather a patchwork collection of legends, quests and myths that he has to forge a central narrative from.
Raimi expressed his passion for actually playing the game, and said he wouldn’t have taken on, or be able to understand the project, if he wasn’t well versed in the ins-and-outs of Blizzard’s fantasy universe.
He told MTV: “When you love something, you understand it inside and out – and that way, you know how to direct the picture. When you’re behind the camera, you know why that scene isn’t working and you know what the heart of it is supposed to be about so you know what to communicate to the actors and the cameramen or to the crew.”
So, we can (hopefully) expect the film to be steeped in World of Warcraft atmosphere. Although possibly stopping short of the actors walking round with gold exclamation and question marks over their heads.
Unfortunately Raimi wouldn’t be drawn on estimating when filming might actually begin, saying that it’s still early days.
We’re really not quite sure how a Warcraft movie is going to work, or how well it will translate, but we’ll definitely be in line to see it nonetheless.
Darren Allan
Ahh, World of Warcraft. We knew it, we loved it, we were addicted to it, like many, and then we left when high-end raids started to get too time consuming and serious.
The game has a huge player-base, with well over 10 million subscribers worldwide, which is certainly the motive for the upcoming movie to be made based on the MMORPG.
One thing’s for sure, it’ll be nothing like the South Park Warcraft episode, which was a brilliantly executed comedy gem in itself… (“How do you kill that which has no life?”).
Sam Raimi is involved with making Warcraft, and indeed the new Oz film, although in an MTV interview he made it clear that his role as the Director in the latter wasn’t set in stone.
MTV also quizzed him about the Warcraft film, and Raimi revealed that he’s working on the treatment, which is coming along nicely.
Of course, the difficulty in the case of Warcraft is that it doesn’t have an overall story as such, rather a patchwork collection of legends, quests and myths that he has to forge a central narrative from.
Raimi expressed his passion for actually playing the game, and said he wouldn’t have taken on, or be able to understand the project, if he wasn’t well versed in the ins-and-outs of Blizzard’s fantasy universe.
He told MTV: “When you love something, you understand it inside and out – and that way, you know how to direct the picture. When you’re behind the camera, you know why that scene isn’t working and you know what the heart of it is supposed to be about so you know what to communicate to the actors and the cameramen or to the crew.”
So, we can (hopefully) expect the film to be steeped in World of Warcraft atmosphere. Although possibly stopping short of the actors walking round with gold exclamation and question marks over their heads.
Unfortunately Raimi wouldn’t be drawn on estimating when filming might actually begin, saying that it’s still early days.
We’re really not quite sure how a Warcraft movie is going to work, or how well it will translate, but we’ll definitely be in line to see it nonetheless.
