I don't think the movie should have covered the Lich King. It already had too much story to tell, and whoever wrote it also decided that the actual lore was too complicated for general audiences, so they changed it, thereby making it confusing to general audiences still, but also annoying already established fans of the lore.They would probably have made changes to his story that would have annoyed a lot of us. As an aside, I also don't think Cavill is good for this particular role, if only because he's now so obviously Geralt to a lot of people.If there ever was a movie that included Arthas, he would need to be the focus, and he'd need to be played by someone who more closely resembles Arthas. Arthas has a particular look that makes him handsome as a Paladin, and terrifying as a Death Knight.
sigh, the celeb worship over Cavill is just insane now, only cause he plays some PC games and was Geralt -_- especially the witcher 3 fans who are all over him, even if the witcher show wasn't all that good and a terrible adaptation of the witcher books just cause he played Geralt and Supes, doesn't mean every role should be him... why this is an article I have no idea :/as for WoTLK for a movie, it could work but it would honestly need the wc3 story for arthas and that already presents issue of how you adapt the wc3 when there is a lot of story there. While those of us who have played wc3/wrath would be into an arthas trilogy or such, gotta keep the general audience in mind since that's where the $$$ is for movies. maybe a tv show for wc3's story, but then the issue of lower budget + high fantasy world of warcraft = dunno if that'd work
I really liked Warcraft and feel bad that the first one was kinda... problematic to trying to tell two different narratives in one movie. The only way I think the movie could have been solved... Was to make two movies and release them at the same time like it is a Pokemon game. Thus, you get people to watch one movie and then go back to buy the ticket for the second movie.So, you can pick which side interests you the most and have people argue which movie they felt was stronger. You can also basically show a message how people can see only one side to the narrative and not bother to see both sides of the coin. The only reason no one would go through with it would be that it would be seen as awkward for moments where the two sides meet and you are basically watching the same movie from a different angle for 20% of the film with different context depending on if you saw the other movie first or this is your first look at it. Along with the fact it would be competing against ITSELF in the box office at the same time which is unheard of.
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While I think Henry would make an awesome Arthas, I think he could very easily pull of Varian Wrynn as well, and I think he would look so awesome as either character! I recall seeing an Interview with him where is was asked if he would do a WoW movie and he said that if it was the right script and right director, he totally would.
let's be honest here. There is no better company at doing trailers and short films, animated or not. If Blizzard works on a movie, I would definitely watch it. If its about Arthas, you can take my money now
Most likely if they give it to Netflix...But yeah, Lichking Movie or Series would be freaking dope AF
Hmm could see him more as Varian... feels a bit off for Arthas...
He'd look good, yes, but gimme some Michael Fassbender for that perfect Arthas/LK vibe. Come on, you can't tell me dude wouldn't rock that role!
I went to a showing of the movie where the audiance had a chance to ask questions of the director Duncan Jones. I asked if his plotted sequels would embrace the more fantastical elements of the Warcraft universe such as the dragons and he seemed to find the idea of his fantasy movie having these kinds of things to be ridiculous. He seemed very intent on making a grounded and "human" movie out of Warcraft, which I found very dissapointing.Anyone tackling fantasy should never be afraid of the actual fantasy of the world.
The Warcraft movie topic seems to keep coming up, and even Blizzard wants it to just die. The movie made no money for a reason. The film was bad. It was disastrously amazingly bad. Horrible script. Horrible directing. Horrible acting (yes, by absolutely everyone on the screen... compare to just about any other fantasy film made today and it's cringeworthy at best). Only the Warcraft die-hards can find anything positive to say about the film because not a soul outside the game could follow a single thing that was going on, and even then, most of us have our reservations. Talk to ANYONE outside our player-base and you start getting weird looks that make you embarrassed to be alive, or at least embarrassed to having voluntarily and willingly brought up the subject, a subject that's quickly shot down. The target audience was the roughly 15-20 million worldwide who've ever played, and even then, only the real die hards paid to see it. I get it, I'm posting on a die hard fan board and I'm going to get annihilated for my comment, but take a step back, look at the bigger picture, and it's not tough to say "yep, I get why it bombed." Even the Lich King couldn't have saved this film from certain failure. Me personally, I'm content with just the games from this point forward... I think there are more origin stories and less of a mainstream story line which wouldn't follow well for moviegoers.The last Tomb Raider film was epicly bad too, but that had a decent script which was unfortunately overshadowed by an inexperienced director and ultimately could not be saved by Alicia Vikander's monotone, bland acting... she's ruined everything she's been in... she ruined Borne and The Seventh Son too (I still can't figure out why they didn't cast Emilia Clarke as Lara Croft, who's even from the UK, not Sweden).Lets face it, every film ever made based on a video game has been terrible. The closest its ever been to being good for me is Hitman: Agent 47, which even the bulk of audiences also dislike. I have high hopes for the next Mortal Kombat film to change this trend.
We need more Warcraft in television or movie format - whether they hire actors and a director or use a new or the current cinematic team to build more amazing content in the form of a tv series.