You have all probably heard for Warcraft series of video games, if not for 3 genre defining strategy games, then at least for mega popular "World of Warcraft". They are iconic pieces of entertainment software with millions of fans around the world. The company that created it, Blizzard Entertainment created a big immersive universe and lore that was also expanded through novels, comic, tabletop games etc. I am sure that I'm not the only one on this forum that put hours into those games and has a certain emotional connection to the source material.
So, Blizzard revealed the plans for live action movie as far back as 2008. but it got postponed, until finally it was filmed during first half of 2014 and was slated for release this November actually, but it got postponed for June next year so as not to clash with new Star Wars movie.
On Friday, first full trailer premiered:
Immediately I will draw your attention to the :38 seconds and the ominous words "Our world is dying". If you would judge only by the information from the trailer, it seems that the gentle giants Orcs are fleeing their dying world in search for their future and venture through the portal into the world of Azeroth, the world of humans (there are other races on this world as well, trolls, elves, dwarfs, gnomes, etc. but the clash between the humans and orcs is a central theme for both the strategy games as well as the movie). No need to draw obvious parallels between this scenario and the current invasion that the Western world is experiencing.
This is the time to make it clear that the original storyline is NOTHING LIKE THIS. In the original universe, the homeworld of orcs was Draenor, and it was a lush, big world full of life, with jungles, mountains, swamps, and nowhere near dying. The orcs invaded Azeroth because their leaders accepted the demonic corruption for the promise of war and plunder and although their world did got destroyed in the end, it was their own undoing as they tried to open other portals to more worlds they can conquer.
Another great franchise subverted. Blizzard is one of the best if not THE best development studios in the video games industry (and probably the most successful), and the fact that they allowed this kind of perversion of their source material (it is a known fact that they did have veto power over the script) is very disappointing although not surprising if you have been following the studio and their games closely in the last 8-10 years (basically after their merging with Activision).
So, Blizzard revealed the plans for live action movie as far back as 2008. but it got postponed, until finally it was filmed during first half of 2014 and was slated for release this November actually, but it got postponed for June next year so as not to clash with new Star Wars movie.
On Friday, first full trailer premiered:
Immediately I will draw your attention to the :38 seconds and the ominous words "Our world is dying". If you would judge only by the information from the trailer, it seems that the gentle giants Orcs are fleeing their dying world in search for their future and venture through the portal into the world of Azeroth, the world of humans (there are other races on this world as well, trolls, elves, dwarfs, gnomes, etc. but the clash between the humans and orcs is a central theme for both the strategy games as well as the movie). No need to draw obvious parallels between this scenario and the current invasion that the Western world is experiencing.
This is the time to make it clear that the original storyline is NOTHING LIKE THIS. In the original universe, the homeworld of orcs was Draenor, and it was a lush, big world full of life, with jungles, mountains, swamps, and nowhere near dying. The orcs invaded Azeroth because their leaders accepted the demonic corruption for the promise of war and plunder and although their world did got destroyed in the end, it was their own undoing as they tried to open other portals to more worlds they can conquer.
Another great franchise subverted. Blizzard is one of the best if not THE best development studios in the video games industry (and probably the most successful), and the fact that they allowed this kind of perversion of their source material (it is a known fact that they did have veto power over the script) is very disappointing although not surprising if you have been following the studio and their games closely in the last 8-10 years (basically after their merging with Activision).