Duncan Jones's Live-Action Film 'World Of Warcraft' In 2015

Legendary Pictures will begin production on "Warcraft," based on Activision Blizzard’s hit videogame franchise "World of Warcraft," which will be directed by Moon and Source Code's Duncan Jones. The company made the announcement at Comic-Con on Saturday. The project has long been a passion project of Legendary chief Thomas Tull. The footage showed off footage of a warrior wielding a sword and shield who faces down an orc. "Like if someone thought, 'What if Leone made a sword and sorcery movie on a blasted alien planet?" tweeted Russ Fischer. Here's how Eric describes what he saw from inside Hall H: via cinemablend.

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"Warrior roaming an empty desert with a shield on his back. Greenish sky is covered by dark clouds and lightning. He sees a pile of armor on the ground and lands down to pick up a shield. He then takes his sword and beats it against the shield, as though calling someone out. We then see a green beast from behind holding a giant hammer. The two circle each other and then both charge. As they are about to collide the title appears: Warcraft."

"To me what makes WoW interesting is the lore, is the history. If you're not going to really utilize that in a movie adaptation, I don't see the point. Christ, I've been playing Warcraft games since fifth grade, so that's what—twenty years? I don't know how you encompass this expansive world in a single film. But there's a lot of different time periods within the span of these games. Maybe it'd work if they set it during one of the first wars. I just don't know. Tolkien also had a whole world that he established with his works, but again it had a clean story with established good guys and bad guys. Wow doesn't necessarily work that way."

Hollywood has been trying to make a Warcraft movie since 2006. The project has been through stops and starts, passed on from one director to another, at one point Steven Spielberg was even rumored to be directing it. Later Sam Raimi took over only to drop the project back in 2012. This time, though, it's the real deal. It's been officially confirmed that Duncan Jones (directed two critically acclaimed sci-fi movies, thus far, in the independently produced "Moon" and the 2011 blockbuster "Source Code.") will be directing the live-action film. He's an up and coming director of obvious talent.

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