I'm telling you if this movie is anything like tha show that used to be on G4[It was EverQuest I beleive], i'm going to blow up every theater this side of the Pacific.

I'm still O_O over it.

As long the movie isn't made as a machinima using WoW, it's all good.

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As long as Warlocks finally get the nerf they deserve, and Preists lose the ability to Dispel a Paladins sheild, it's all good.

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Fix'd that for ya buddy.

This has been on the drawing board for at least a year. This is a cut and paste from a discussion on the subject that I was having elsewhere in May '06 (my own comments're the responses, not the original quotes):

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Whatever you say about movies based on video games (I still want to see Tetris, the soap opera - this week Blue Cube (Ross Kemp) gets shunted to the left, while Long Yellow (Anna Friel) slots up close to Orange T-shape (Martin Kemp).) they beat the pants off adaps of RPGs.

Dungeons and Dragons. Grr.

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Indeed. Although as much as it could have been a LotR-style epic, there's part of me which still has grudging respect for a perfectly capable, Oscar-winning actor like Jeremy Irons to make quite such a deliberate [ham? Pig's ear? Insert your own porcine metaphor here] as to be using the entire sow.

And Richard O'Brien deserves a nod for sheer self-referential cheek.

Doesn't stop it from being a truly awful movie, but at least sends it down gracefully (nothing, however, can redeem the Wayans).

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I think the problem is that in any game, computer, tabletop or live, you are an active participant. In a movie, you are a passive spectator. Therefore the thrill of being able to guide the action (albeit within the confines of the gameworld and its parameters) can never be replaced if you are simply watching 90 minutes of other people doing stuff.

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True - especially with the attention spans of some of today's target demographic for these video games (generally about 5-10 years lower than the age limit on the box, after all :Oo:). But I think that a good script - whether adapted or original - should still be able to pull you in for those ninety minutes on its own merits, or else the entire film and TV industries would be in severe trouble.

RPGs, however, have the additional handicap that they're increasingly non-linear rather than bashing a single, pre-defined character from one end of a dungeon to another.

Whatever storyline you come up with, there's always going to be at least one group of players who wouldn't have completed the game that way or prefer some NPC or other to behave differently or some situation to be more plausibly dealt with in some other way by another character class.

It's not as though, as with a book, you can give people a single "faithful" narrative or a single recognisable hero when everything from character names downwards're down to player choice.

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Especially in the cae of Dungeons and Dragons which was not in any recognisable D&D world (e.g. Greyhawk, Krynn, Mystara, Ravenloft etc)

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Only ever played the one D&D campaign, fled and never went back. When it got as far as FilmSoc, I was watching the film as yet another fantasy movie.

I suppose this goes back to what was being said about drawing new fans in - being able to concentrate on the narrative and limited world-building, rather than crowbarring in a pile of pre-existing source material.

(Although egotistical or otherwise desperate writers using pre-existing licenses as a showcase for their own dubious narrative talents - which they'd never get aired elsewhere on their own strength - is another rant entirely. :))

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and seemed simply to be the product of some mad execs meeting and thinking "OK, New Line have this Rings thing coming out, Fox have Harry Potter - we need a fantasy movie too!" and then rushing out to buy the first available script they can find. Don't laugh. More movies get made this way than you might realise.

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I, Robot is the prime example jumping up and down at me at the moment: a classic documented case of a known title being glued onto a script that'd been lying around being ignored in the first instance. :Oo:

Adaptations're like sequels in the respect that filmmakers might feel that they can get lazy, on the grounds that there's already a fanbase who'll take a look on the strength of the title alone.

And if it's a big enough fanbase for a movie to be made, even if the advocates (bearing in mind the inevitable camp who won't want a movie or're otherwise apathetic) all see the movie once and flee the cinema screaming, the revenue's still enough to make the movie worthwhile.

I keep being told to check out Silent Hill precisely because people I know're viewing it as a decent movie on its own merits, rather than just something churned out.

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Coming to theatres: World of Warcraft

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When I saw the thread title I thought, "WTD, Warcraft west-end show?!" then I remembered that you meant cinema.

EDIT by Sam: Site ads go in the SPA, please.

NERF PALADINS!

~Tobe

Silence you. Paladins aren't powerful enough. We need mooooar!

Also, I see this movie going for total of about 30 minutes. Enough time to get to Goldshire, think that you can take on that Level ?? Undead Rogue wandering around, and get ganked. Yay for sticking to the source material.

Silent Hill's... interesting rather than decent, but I have a soft spot for it. Sort of a crossblend of Hellraiser and Jacob's Ladder.

Anyway, this is a pretty dreaful idea. The Warcraft universe isn't bad by gaming standards, but it's a very, very derivative fantasy universe in any other light, and that's ignoring the shameless plagiarism from a certain British property.
I'd be amazed if it turns out much better than Dungeons & Dragons or Eragon, to be honest.

Anything would be much better than Eragon.