Hello everyone, your friendly neighborhood Professor Hulk, here. I’m about to drop some knowledge of some exciting stuff in the film and TV world. Last week we shared with you details on Pokemon. This week, we’re talking about Warcraft.
We’ve exclusively learned that a reboot of the Warcraft movie is in development over at Universal Pictures.
A Long And Storied History
Warcraft was released in 2016. Despite poor critic reviews and a lackluster domestic box office, it did well enough in international markets to keep conversations between Blizzard and Universal going.
In 2019 development started on a sequel, Warcraft 2. It would’ve brought back characters and introduced a ton more. The issue was that the pandemic began shortly as early development began. Stars were attached and dropped out of the project, and filmmakers were eyed but ultimately unavailable.
Horde Vs. Alliance Vs. Staying Relevant
As Warcraft 2 fell apart, discussions began internally about whether the studio and Blizzard wanted to reboot the franchise or continue with the established characters, actors, and lore from the first movie.
Our sources have indicated that, indeed, the studio has elected to go with a soft reboot. The soft reboot will focus on a new set of characters, not entirely ignoring the continuity of the first film but not being completely beholden to it either.
There may be older versions of characters seen in the original movie as per sources. For instance, I was told that we saw a baby version of Go’El, but he will be of adult age and go by Thrall in the planned reboot.
Story details are under tight security, but knowing that the film will move past some of the lore of the first film, expect that some characters that did not appear in that could appear in this new film.
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incredible i hope it does happen
I’m hoping this is true. I have been waiting since the first one.
Warcraft became one of my all time favourite films… all the characters played better than I could have hoped and the story was well done, literally watching it right now cause I’d only just noticed its on amazon, i do not understand why it didn’t do as well… I wasn’t a huge follower of the game as the pc I had was trash but I knew a bit of it and they include most of it? genuinely wish/prey they would have just followed on from it not slightly more into the future :/
If they’re having an adult Thrall character, that seems possible that they are skipping Warcraft 2 and going straight to Warcraft 3. Would be cool to see Arthas, Uther and Jaina
I never understood why the first one was such a flop everyone claims it was. I enjoyed the movie very much and have always been a WOW fanatic. Yes there were some things that could have been better but over all I thought it an excellent movie.
Same here. I’ve enjoyed the movie for what it is. Any adaption of a game or anime is always going to bring the toxic fans out of the woodwork with their harsh analysis and mass downvotes. They could have done some things better alright, but it was a really good movie, imo.
I believe part of the problem is they made it seem like a World of Warcraft movie. And not a Warcraft 1 movie. So it disappointed fans that may only know the lore from the MMO. From there it gets harder for people to get into it like the Hobbit so not as much wider appeal.
As a movie it was fine. And as the story of the first Horde war it did well.
I agree with everyone Warcraft was a great movie and idk why it didn’t get the attention it deserves I hope they can turn it around because movie wise I think it would be a great franchise
I enjoyed Movie One. I always wish for part 2 and bringing in Sylvannas and The Blood elf / Dearni . Movie 1 was mainly Humans and Orcs. so top have all of the races to Lich King would be awesome. playing since Burning Crusades before Wolk or just after Wolk release. I liked Warcraft 1. it was good. i have it saved on my DVR . i watch it every once in awhile.