Today we woke up with the news that Sam Raimi will be the director of the Warcraft movie, so we are going to dedicate this article to talk about the entire movie, apart from its director.
Article content:
- Introduction and general information about the film
- Legendary Pictures
- Sam Raimi, the (director) chosen
- Speculating on the release date
1 - Introduction and general information about the film:
The action film, which will be presented from the Alliance's point of view and with a budget of $ 100 million, was announced at BlizzCon 2007, where Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Legendary Pictures announced that they were reaching an agreement. to develop an action movie based on the Universe of Warcraft. Now both companies are focused on translating Warcraft entertainment to the Big Screen, with real actors, who intend to achieve a film of the caliber of "The Lord of The Rings", where Thrall or Jaina Proudmore, great heroes (for their respective factions) of history.
In addition to all this, we can enjoy a new story, since it will be a new script, and not a mere repetition (as far as story is concerned) of the current one. They intend to create more history to continue the saga that they have been working on for years.
Blizzard said some time ago that it would have liked to be able to make the film like the cinematics that we can enjoy in Warcraft, Warcraft III and WoW, with that spectacular animation quality, but that this will not be possible due to the monetary cost and effort involved making these cinematics was too high to take them on again in a whole movie.
For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, I leave you one of the many cinematics, specifically, with the Tree of Eternity, that we can see at the end of the Warcraft III game.
What Legendary Pictures replied:
“Our goal at Legendary Pictures has been to bring heroic stories to life in a powerful way, and it is amazing to work with Blizzard who has achieved this with 8 of their products. -said Legendary Pictures director Thomas Tull.- “The Warcraft Universe has a rich mythology and, therefore, it works as an ideal platform to translate that universe into what we intend to be a great movie.
Blizzard games have developed a faithful sequence since the series debuted in 1994. Warcraft II: Tide of Darkness came out in 1995, winning multiple Game of the Year awards and is still considered one of the best games ever developed, and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos broke several sales records when it was released in 2002. World of Warcraft, Blizzard's latest outing, has quickly become one of the world's most popular online games with over 6 million players (as of 20 / 11/08, more than 11 million players)
"It is not always the case that the interactive features of a game allow for a suitable adaptation to a film", - said Jon Jashni, Chief Creative Officer of Legenday Films. - "We intend to obtain this adaptation as if we were adapting a novel: Respecting the essence of everything it has but also building on a fertile base while we move on to a new element: the film."
2 - LegendaryPictures:
Legendary Pictures, founded in 2004 in California, is famous for producing large films with success such as 300, The Dark Knight, and the last one, Watchmen, the three oriented to the world of American comics. But not long ago, specifically about May of this year (2009) Legendary Pictures let the world know that their new bet would be to move video games to the big screen.
For this I sign the one who was, for years, the president of Activision Publishing and EA Casual (Activision division to promote casual commerce, that is to say, the occasional public that does not play in a "professional" or "hardcore" way) Kathy vrabeck, who is now in charge of the digital division of Legendary Pictures and making the game have more place in the video game sector.
His initial projects in the field of video games will be to adapt to the big screen World of Warcraft and Gears of War.
Here I leave you a traler of The Dark Knight y 300 so you know what quality we are talking about:
In November 2008, IGN Movies took advantage of an event in New York to ask Frank Pearce the Blizzard (Vice President of Production) about the status from the Warcraft movie:
Legendary Pictures he's trying to assign some people to write the script and find someone to direct it, it's early in production.
They want to make sure they get the best actors for the different domains, especially the script, because that's the basis for the film. "
On whether it would be possible to make the film with CGI, he replied:
“[The idea] was debated, but it's not something we've really considered as it took a long time to generate only a small number of images that we created for the game.
The truth is that it is great, there is no doubt about it, only that the amount of work that it would need is more than we are willing to take on at this time.
3 - Sam Raimi, the chosen (director):
As you have already read many out there, Sam Raimi is the director chosen to direct (forgive the redundancy) the Warcraft movie. Let's talk a little about him:
A bit of his life:
Sam Raimi is an American film director born in Franklin, Michigan on October 23, 1959. Brother of actor Ted Raimi, he began his directing career with low-budget horror films such as The Evil Dead trilogy. He also likes to act in films made by his peers, such as the Coen brothers, for whom he has also been an assistant director. Raimi is a cult star who didn't abandon that genre until 1999 with Between Love and Game. In 1990, Raimi also worked for television, producing series such as Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Xena: The Warrior Princess. Currently best known for being the director of the Spider-Man saga.
A bit of his most outstanding filmography:
- Boogeyman 2 (2007)
- Rise (2007)
- The Messengers (2007)
- "Xena: The Warrior Princess" (134 episodes, 1995-2001)
- "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (111 episodes, 1995-1999)
- Spider-Man 3 (2007)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- Spider-Man (2002)
And this is how Blizzard presents them to us:
4 - Speculating on the release date: