Feb 23 2010
The Warcraft Movie
So, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that there’s going to be a big-screen World of Warcraft movie. There’s no sense fighting it. It’s not in developmental hell, Sam Raimi is producing it as we speak, and Robert “Saving Private Ryan” Rodat is hard at work on the script. Just accept it; this thing is going to happen because they’ve already pumped a bunch of money into it.
Fortunately, we’re not so far into production that I can’t offer my suggestions to all involved. Here are the 10 things I want from the World of Warcraft movie. Why 10? Because people love lists of things in nice, round numbers, and there’s nothing rounder than 10, except maybe 8.
That’s a nice list. I think even if you tell them not to listen to you with everything else, they should listen to you with #8, because the game is rated T for teen, and I feel it will just be one big draw to try and get new players.
Not even sure if I’m going to watch it. Movies from games always seem kind of meh.
A lot of people have mentioned how meh game movies are, but have you ever seen anyone with actual directing or writing skill do one? No. When the shining light of video game movies is Milla Jojovich and Paul W.S. Anderson, you know the genre was never even given a chance to be successful. I mean, most of your video game adaptations are directed by Uwe Boll! UWE BOLL!
I don’t plan on watching it, if that helps to ease your pain about its release and its existence.