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I found this great footage from the behind the scenes of Warcraft, which I worked on as a scenic sculptor, between 2013-14.
I’ve edited the footage a little so that the cuts between different shots now have fades and are less abrupt, and have also attributed the majority of the weapons and armour design and construction to my former company, Weta Workshop, who were not mentioned at all in the previous version of the video.
You can see some of the pieces that Weta created on their websitehere.
Below 1: Shooting in the enormous throne room.
2: Weta’s weapons are fit for any royal army.
3: Conceptual design of the energy chamber.
So I saw Warcraft in theater and because it’s getting so many bad reviews I wanted to do a little post on it.
I really liked that movie. It’s not the greatest movie of all time, far from it, but it’s fun, original and beautiful.
I’m not a gamer, I’ve never played Warcraft or WoW, so I was going unaware to see it, I wasn’t 100% convinced by the trailers and I was happily surprised.
It’s a basic plot (it’s the beginning of a war) but we haven’t seen a story like that often in movies. The characteres are witty and fun, the landscape and various places are beautiful, I LOVED the way they showed magic, it’s so cool, and again I had never seen that in a movie before. The fights are really good, the cast does a really good job.
It made me think a lot about Willow (The Ron Howard movie), not that the story is in any way similar, but in the way it tells a simple story of adventure, magic and wonder. I’m absolutely sure that kids are gonna love this movie. Again it’s so much fun. They have a griffin. A GRIFFIN, it’s so cooooool !!!
I really do not understand the backlash this movie is taking, I feel like people forget a movie can just be 2 hour of pure entertainment and joy.
It’s a perfect movie for a summer afternoon or a rainy afternoon (and it’s raining a lot in France lately, great time to watch movies) ans just … enjoy. Enjoy the nifty fights, the wonderful landscapes, the crazy CGI, the beautiful wardrobe, the amazing magic sequences, the fun dialogues, …
I loved the yogs ttt designs that @fandomescapades made and I really wanted to draw Duncan, so here he is :D
Saturday at the BlizzCon gaming convention, the characters for the upcoming movie based on the “World of Warcraft” games were finally announced. Though details were previously being kept under wraps, it was confirmed that the specific characters would be divided between rival armies Alliance and Horde.
Coming Soon has the parts broken down:
- Dominic Cooper will play King Llane Wrynn, head of the Alliance.
- Ruth Negga, from Agents of SHIELD, plays Lady Taria, who is not called the Queen for some reason, but she’s the good queen. Or she’s trying to get into Howard Stark’s head for her own ends. Could go either way.
- Travis Fimmel, from Vikings, plays Anduin Lothar, our hero.
- Ben Schnetzer, mostly known from Happy Town, is playing Khadagar, a young mage newly set loose in the world. Either he’s one of our heroes or he’s a grease stain by the end of the first act.
- Ben Foster, Angel from X-Men: The Last Stand, plays Medivh, essentially the Gandalf of this movie.
- Paula Patton, of the latter Mission: Impossible movies and 2 Guns, plays Garona, a green-skinned woman who is torn between the sides of Thanos and Star-Lo, uh, heh, Alliance and Horde.
- Toby Kebbel, of Dawn of Planet of the Apes fame, is playing Durotan, a good orc.
- Rob Kazinsky, who you last saw in True Blood, is play Ogrim, the orc who will one day wield the Doomhammer, a weapon of orcish legend and we’re assuming is plot-relevant.
- Clancy Brown, The Kurgan to ’80s kids and Mister Krabbs to everyone else, is playing Blackhand, an orc warchief.
- And Daniel Wu, an experienced Asian cinema action star best known over here for Europa Report, plays Gul’dan, a orc chief with black magic he can’t control.
Duncan Jones (“Moon”) is set to direct the film, and released posters indicate it will hit theaters March 2016.
[IGN]
>> I’m not a fan of video game to movie adaptations but I’m here for Ben Foster!
