Blizzard to Boll - DENIED! 289
Drathos writes "From MTV Movies Blog by way of WoW Insider: Everyone's least favorite director, Uwe Boll approached Blizzard about making a World of Warcraft movie. Their response? "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you ... especially not to you.""
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I'd honestly rather see Blizzards people do the majority of the work as I honestly think they could do an as good if not better than job than Hollywood could. If it was animated I doubt they'd need much outside help, if not then primarily they'd just need actors and costumes people - certainly I don't believe they'd need any effects people or writers.
There are differences between film and game storyline creation certainly, but I think they could probably do it, certainly as you say with the help of a "game-friendly" director such as Jackson rather than someone whose about as good with the difference between films and games as Boll.
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These aren't weapons. They're Nerf products!
Envision Frodo's spider scene. Now imagine the spider doesn't actually try to wrap him in webs, but just kind of barks at him. I've yet to see a game that actually has spiders fight the way a spider would, wrapping people up.
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Of course, WoW has come up with a lot of great original material. New villains/factions/etc. But we usually end up killing them also.
I can see WoW going on for a few more expansions, but after a certain point it'll get silly. Didn't Blizzard originally say that they wanted to stop at level 100? After that, they need to reboot the fictional universe somehow and start fresh.
A movie, set a number of years "after" WoW, would be a great way of doing that.
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I certainly don't dislike the movies, hell, I have the Boxed Set of the Extended Edition DVDs. I really enjoy the movies. I also agree that it's definitely one of the best adaptions of a book (or books) that I've ever seen. However, I still don't think it was the best way to do it. Rather than just cut out un-necessary parts and make slight alterations to account for them, he went and straight-out changed things that were completely contrary to what actually happened.
So, while I do like the movies and I enjoy watching them, I still think that it could have been better. Jackson certainly didn't change a lot of the story, but those few niggling points grind on my soul like nails on a chalkboard whenever I see them in the movies. So, I'm sticking with my original idea of him doing a decent job overall.
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I'd love to see a WoW movie that is up to Blizzard standards. I like the trailers they've made.
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Now do proceed marking me Troll, I don't care. I'll stand by my opinion that from a literary point of view, Tolkien's written garbage. While the guy did a fabulous job 'inventing' whole races and languages and so forth, the writing still remains atrocious.
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In the book he was useful, somewhat noble, and not terribly amusing.