Arthas is a far more HUMAN element as long as it basically ended with Stratholme.Warcraft (movie) suffers from a lot of jump around and trying to establish a boatload of lore in short time.
Well, if this was a discussion after a film was made that covered WCIII and not just WCI, I'd probably say yes
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Of course. But with Metzen at the helm and his love for orcs it never happend.
While the idea of a Arthas/Lich King themed movie seems great covering it will be as confusing if not more so than what they originally went with. By the time of Warcraft 3 there are so many characters, places and races that if the current movie confused audiences then a movie based off the Lich King would be even worse. Covering the events of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was never the problem but it was how they covered it that created those problems. Let's not forget the events of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans as it was, was a simple story to begin with. 'Evil' Orcs come to Azeroth and take over. All the while 'good guy' humans try and fail to fight them back before Stormwind is razed.This should have been the backdrop.The movie should have focused on Lothar, Khadgar and Mehdivh as protagonists with antagonists, Gul'Dan and Doomhammer, and Garona who could have served a similar role to what she did in the movie.The movie should have been played more smaller and similar to the book The Last Guardian by Jeff Grubb. I know there will be some comments saying 'but there is so much lore missed out by doing this' and yes you are right, but the original game when it came out missed out on so much too and that was because it was all introduced afterwards. Durotan and Draka and Thrall, should have never been in this movie and the orcs been treated as misunderstood shouldn't have been shown in this movie either. That could have come in a follow up movie, lets not forget that the orcs in Warcraft lore were not shown to be shown as sympathetic until the Lord of the Clans book. Which was the first time the orcs were seen as misunderstood. Before this Orcs were shown as a semi-evil less sympathetic race. And that should have been reflected in the movie but they over complicated it too much by weaving in too many subplots.Also the World of Warcraft would have worked so much better as an animated show akin to the Castlevania series than a movie franchise. Especially if they wanted to introduce so many plot lines, then you would have had like 10 episodes with 10 hours to make this happen and not a 2 and a half hour movie to jam it into.
no. stop shoving your literal fabio actor into everything.
Come on, don't be silly. The first and second wars, the rise of the Horde, they're all fantastic stories.The movie didn't work because of vision and time limit. They decided to make a movie that needs to be longer, a short movie. With a buy who has no vision for the game nor story, - if you've seen his more recent tweets you know he has no clue what to do with Warcraft. He's not passionate about it in that way. Furthermore, what warcraft needs is probably high budget series, not movies. Yes, the Lich King is a great story, but not one you should rush toward. There's so much lore to use with Warcraft, why start in the middle.
Honestly, anything would have been better than the second war. In my opinion that was the most boring one. War of the Ancients or the third war would have been way better.
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The only thing that could have helped the Warcraft movie would be calling up Kairozdormu to clear up all the issues and release the thing in 2009/2010 back when the fanbase was far wider.
I think it was a mistake that they set up the first movie as part 1 of a trilogy. Warcraft is popular, but it isn't Lord of the Rings or Harry potter, and even those had entertaining and complete first movies. I'm fairly okay with lore, but even I had to go and read up on some of the things that happened in the movie, so I don't think any of my friends who aren't into WoW got much of the plot. Far too many characters, story wasn't coherent (and too many plotpoints mentioned but left unfinished). Arthas's story, while not chronologically the first, is simple, has relatively few important characters, and it has a clear ending. That would have made it appealing to a wider audience than just those of us that wish there were more lengthy cutscenes.
I think it would have been better if the movie wasn't garbage. That would have helped far more than what WC era it portrayed.
Yes the Lich King should of been the Movie. No this was not worth an article.
They need to do a trilogy. First one showing him being good growing up as a paladin with him falling at the end with the Strathmore purge at the end.Second being his journey to Northrend with the finding of the sword and at the end claiming the crown. Mix in lore with argent crusade going to northrend(forgettting story line)Third starts with Arthas in charge and with heros going to northrend to get him. Basically Wrath of the lich king expansion focus on main story elements that lead to his death and turellion? Taking over the crown at end showing another fall to the crown and Arthas death.A follow up could lead to new expansion stuff about Arthas.
It should have covered Arthus, with Jaina and Sylvanas the Ranger General introduced - they blew it - no hate.
As a fan of the game it would be epic regardless... It would probably feel rushed though with most the cool action stuff limited to small parts with the rest of the movie explaining what we as fans already know. As someone who has no idea about WoW... They will wonder what the hell is going on if this were all to happen in a 2h-3h movie. Most people going will be those with no idea who thought it looked alright. The characters will need dumbing down, lots of building up and explaining whats going on or what has gone on. It will probably seem like a mess and hard to follow. Or they will explain to well and it will just be boring. Better off having the story told in a TV show or a few movies than a single movie. 1 movie for all the lore/story that everyone will understand and filled with cool stuff is a tall order and a big ask in such little time. It would fail. It will probably sit well with super fans, but most viewers of it? Realistically na.. be medicore movie at best.
I am all for this :D
I maintain that development hell delaying it so much and poor critic reviews are what killed the movie, not the movie itself. It came out way past the prime of the audience. I also read reviews from critics whining that it wasn't more like LotR or GoT, like that was bad. Meanwhile, my parents know nothing of Warcraft and loved the movie and had no trouble following it. My kids have been around Warcraft lore all their lives, but certainly don't know first war stuff, and they also loved it and had no trouble following it. I think people were looking for something to hate and latched onto any excuse they could, because if the range of inexperienced people I knew could understand it, I don't think it was actually hard to follow.
The fact is, it doesn't matter whether it was Orcs vs Humans or the Lich King...the movie came out about 8 years too late.
It's a movie about the First War. The Lich King didn't even exist yet.That's like asking if Hitler should appear in a movie about the Crusades