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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Film / Games The Latest World of Warcraft Expansion is a Film

Posted by on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM

AICN got the scoop earlier this week: Sam Raimi has been tapped to helm a World of Warcraft movie, which he'll start filming after completing Spider-Man 4. Not that I have confidence in the film being any good, but today at Comic Con, WoW's VP of Creative Development confirmed my preliminary fears with the following hype-talk: "[Sam Raimi] is gonna rock it out," and ""we're prepping all engines to rock." Rockin'.

Since this one's too easy, I'll leave the expected smarminess up to chance. Let's roll the ol' "stupid jokes about WoW" wheel and see what we land on...

click-click-click-click-click...click...

To appease the game's target fanbase, a game of Bejeweled will flash on the screen during the dialogue scenes.

ZING. Man, you guys were this close to a joke about Chinese gold farmers being used as extras. I'll make up for it by presenting the best "movie" about WoW ever made:


'Warcraft' Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing 'Warcraft'

 

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Arsenic7 1
It's a shame this will be live action and not produced by Blizzards talented animation team.

But I guess they are busy producing video game cut scenes that will actually be fun to watch.
Posted by Arsenic7 on July 23, 2009 at 3:34 PM
ssemekim 2
Is Athene going to be in this?

http://athene.movielol.org/record.php

Just sayin'...
Posted by ssemekim http://www.facebook.com/ssemekim?ref=profile on July 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM
3
If I actually get annoyed when World of Warcraft is referred to as just Warcraft, does that make me a worthless waste of flesh?
Posted by TwentySides on July 23, 2009 at 3:50 PM
The Amazing Jim 4
Move over Uwe Boll!
Posted by The Amazing Jim http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000076496291&ref=profile on July 23, 2009 at 3:56 PM
5
That onion clip's quick joke about pitbull attacks was quite funny too.
Posted by Patr0ck http://patrick.livejournal.com on July 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Arsenic7 6
Woah, woah.

No one's claiming it'll be Uwe Boll bad.
Posted by Arsenic7 on July 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM
7
The announcement of the WoW movie and the Smurfs movie so close together has got to be more than just a coincidence. Just think: if they film on adjacent soundstages, they can save a lot of prep time if the Night Elf extras shoot their scenes, then take off their ears and go next door to be fitted with white caps and footie pants.
Posted by breklor on July 23, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Joe Szilagyi 8
Why is everyone freaking over Warcraft being live-action AND Sam Raimi?

When Peter Jackson was announced to do LORD OF THE FUCKING RINGS, his film resume was:

Bad Taste; Meet the Feebles; Dead Alive; Heavenly Creatures; Forgotten Silver; and The Frighteners.

I remember thinking: "WTF really?? The Hobbit Feebles???!"

...and look what we got out of THAT.
Posted by Joe Szilagyi http://www.joeszilagyi.com on July 23, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Will in Seattle 9
I'm doing the voiceovers for some of the gold farmers, actually.

Sadly, they won't let me play Kehrbehr, the Taurean druid ...
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on July 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Sam Machkovech 10
@8: It's not the director that bothers me; it's the lore, which is a shameless hodgepodge of all fantasy archetypes that've come before it. A lot of fans adore the writing in the game, but I skip it.
Posted by Sam Machkovech http://www.samred.com on July 23, 2009 at 5:46 PM
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I'd love to comment on this, but I have a raid to get to and I have to run my dailies first.
Posted by Bohica on July 23, 2009 at 6:04 PM

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