Warcraft (film)

Warcraft

Teaser poster
Directed by Duncan Jones
Produced by Thomas Tull
Jon Jashni
Charles Roven
Alex Gartner
Stuart Fenegan
Screenplay by Charles Leavitt
Duncan Jones
Story by Chris Metzen
Based on Warcraft 
by Blizzard Entertainment
Starring Travis Fimmel
Paula Patton
Ben Foster
Dominic Cooper
Toby Kebbell
Ben Schnetzer
Robert Kazinsky
Daniel Wu
Music by Ramin Djawadi
Cinematography Simon Duggan, ACS[1]
Edited by Paul Hirsch
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
  • June 10, 2016 (2016-06-10)[2]
Running time
 123 minutes[3]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $100 million[4]

Warcraft (to be released internationally as Warcraft: The Beginning)[5] is an upcoming American epic fantasy film directed by Duncan Jones and written by Jones, Charles Leavitt, and Chris Metzen. It is based on the Warcraft video game series and novels set in the world of Azeroth. The film stars Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Daniel Wu, Ruth Negga, Anna Galvin and Clancy Brown. The film portrays the initial encounters between the humans and the orcs and takes place in a variety of locations established in the video game series.[6]

The film was first announced in 2006 as a project partnership between Legendary Pictures and the game's developer, Blizzard Entertainment.[7] The film is set to be released by Universal Pictures on June 10, 2016.[2]

Plot

Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization, led by the humans, faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying world of Draenor to find their place in another. As a gateway known as the Dark Portal opens to connect the two worlds, the humans face destruction while the orcs face extinction. Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel), leader of the humans, and Durotan (Toby Kebbell), leader of the orcs, are then sent on a collision course that will decide the fate of their families, their people and their home.[8]

Cast

For more details on the characters, see Characters of Warcraft.

Production

Development

The project was officially announced in May of 2006 [7] and was originally set in the era of Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. This setting , however, was later dropped, with Blizzard feeling that it would be too similar to The Lord of the Rings [9] Initially set for a 2009 release, the film was later delayed to 2011 ,[10] However by Comicon 2011 the film was announced to still be in the "Treatment stage"".[11]

Uwe Boll made a bid to direct, but was turned away by Blizzard, who he claims to have said, "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."[12] Sam Raimi was initially attached to direct,[13][14] but was replaced by Duncan Jones in January 2013.[15] At San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013, a concept trailer was presented, featuring a battle between a human and an orc.[16]

Casting

On September 23, 2013, it was also reported that actors Paul Dano, Travis Fimmel, Anson Mount, and Anton Yelchin were on the shortlist for the film. In October 2013, Fimmel was announced to be the lead character.[17][18] On December 4, 2013, the main cast of the film, consisting of Fimmel, Ben Foster, Paula Patton, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell and Rob Kazinsky, was announced. On December 14, 2013, Universal added Daniel Wu and Clancy Brown to the cast of the film.[19] In early March 2014, newcomer Burkely Duffield joined the cast.[20] At a panel presentation during BlizzCon 2014, many of the casting announcements were made.

Filming

Principal photography began on January 13, 2014 and lasted for four months, finishing on May 23, 2014.[21][22] Filming took place primarily in Vancouver among other locations.[23] Post-production lasted twenty months.[24] The film's visual effects were provided by Industrial Light & Magic, with over 1,000 visual effects shots taken. The ILM team took photographs and scans of the actors portraying orcs and integrated the images with concept art created by Blizzard's artists.[25] Regarding the use of computer-generated imagery, Duncan said, "It's a tool like any other. It can be done well and it can be done shit. The best CGI has you forgetting [that] it's CGI, and accepting the visual as whatever it is supposed to be—like props. No one has an issue with props in film, do they?"[26]

Music

In October 2014, Jones and Legendary Pictures hired Ramin Djawadi as the composer for the film.[27]

Release

The film was initially scheduled to be released on December 18, 2015, but following the announcement of the coinciding release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the release was pushed back to the following year.[2] It is now scheduled to be released internationally on May 30, 2016,[28] and on June 10, 2016, in North America, ten years after the project was first announced.

References

  1. ↑ "Simon Duggan, ACS". Worldwide Production Agency. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Stedman, Alex (April 23, 2015). "‘Pacific Rim 2′ Pushed Back to Summer 2017". Variety. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Warcraft". Fandango. Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ H. Shaw-Williams (May 5, 2014). "‘Warcraft’ Producer Explains Lengthy Post-Production on the Film". Screen Rant. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ Reynolds, Simon (November 2, 2015). "Warcraft: The Beginning poster revealed ahead of trailer release on Friday". Digital Spy. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ Goldfarb, Andrew (November 9, 2013). "Warcraft Movie Will Include Iconic Game Characters, Locations". IGN.
  7. 1 2 Blizzard Entertainment (May 9, 2006). "BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT® AND LEGENDARY PICTURES TO PRODUCE LIVE-ACTION WARCRAFT® MOVIE". Web.Archive.org. Archived from the original on November 25, 2007.
  8. ↑ "WARCRAFT: THE BEGINNING". Retrieved November 7, 2015.
  9. ↑ Charles Onyett (August 4, 2007). "BlizzCon 2007: New Details of the Warcraft Movie". IGN (PC).
  10. ↑ Michael McWhertor (August 4, 2007). "Warcraft Movie Details Revealed At BlizzCon". Kotaku.com.
  11. ↑ Pete Haas (July 22, 2010). "Comic Con: World Of Warcraft Movie Isn't Dead But It's Nowhere Close To Happening". Cinema Blend.
  12. ↑ "Blizzard laugh away Uwe Boll". Movie Chronicles.com. April 21, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2008.
  13. ↑ Fred Topel (July 13, 2012). "Comic Con 2012 Exclusive: Sam Raimi Won't Direct the World of Warcraft Movie". Crave Online.
  14. ↑ Medievaldragon (March 5, 2013). "Sam Raimi Reveals Why He Departed the Warcraft Film". Blizzplanet.
  15. ↑ Borys Kit (January 30, 2013). "'Warcraft' Movie Lands 'Source Code' Director (Exclusive)". Hollywood Reporter.
  16. ↑ Vejvoda, Jim (July 20, 2013). "Comic-Con: Warcraft Sizzle Reel Shown". IGN.com. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
  17. ↑ "Paul Dano, Travis Fimmel, Anson Mount, Anton Yelchin On ‘Warcraft’ Short List". Deadline.
  18. ↑ "‘Vikings’ Actor Travis Fimmel Game for Legendary’s ‘Warcraft’ (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  19. ↑ Yamato, Jen (December 18, 2013). "Daniel Wu, Clancy Brown Join Big Screen World Of ‘Warcraft’". deadline.com. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  20. ↑ Mendoza, Jon (March 26, 2015). "‘Warcraft’: Duncan Jones, Travis Fimmel Reveal What Fans Will See In Video Game-Based Film". Yibada. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
  21. ↑ Duncan Jones (May 23, 2014). "Twitter / ManMadeMoon: Final day on Warcraft now…".
  22. ↑ Zakarin, Jordan (May 23, 2014). "Duncan Jones’ Big Screen ‘Warcraft’ Adaptation Finally Wraps Production". thewrap.com. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  23. ↑ Germain Lussier (May 23, 2014). "Duncan Jones’ ‘Warcraft’ Has Wrapped Production". /Film. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  24. ↑ "World of Warcraft film post-production will take about 20 months to 'get right'". Polygon.com. May 6, 2014.
  25. ↑ Watercutter, Angela (May 25, 2015). "6 Things We Learned About Warcraft From Its Director". Wired (website). Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  26. ↑ Matt Peckham (May 20, 2016). "Here’s Everything We Know About the Warcraft Movie So Far". Time. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  27. ↑ "Ramin Djawadi to Score Duncan Jones’ ‘Warcraft’ Movie". filmmusicreporter.com. October 17, 2014.
  28. ↑ James White (March 30, 2016). "New Warcraft: The Beginning posters arrive". Empire. Retrieved March 31, 2016.

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