Actually, that movie is selling more tickets right now out of all the movies that are in theaters.
I feel like if they get a director who really understands the lore of WoW, and has experience with shounen (Madhouse has a bunch of talent, and Bones too), they could create something decent.
A nonlinear story Ă la Pulp Fiction focusing on characters that arenât big players in the worldâs overarching lore, something with more personal stakes, questionable moral decisions, uncomfortable outcomes, and a balance between bloody strife and every day placidity.
Iâve come to enjoy stories like that.
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High res would take forever and be mega expensive. I already dread what the heck the render time is for all those shorts.
The Castlevania anime was great. So much better than expected. Animation, voices, unpredictableâŚjust great.
That said, the Arthas story, with an updated âHeavy Metalâ animation style, would be AMAZING, and I think capture the feel of the story better than an anime style. I would start off with a cold open of KelâThuzad murdering his way out of Dalaran with some forbidden tomes, and making his way to Northrend, leaving the audience hanging as he reaches the foot of ICC and is surrounded by undead, and we hear the LK voice talking to him, then cut to handsome Prince Arthas being giggled at by maidens in Lordaron, and go from there, telling basically the Human and Undead WC3 story. Save Horde and Night Elf and Demons for Season 2
Animation like this:
Basically an update to the 1981 this:
Seems a better representation of the âSamwiseâ feel than anime.
If not that, then how about capitalize on the popularity of DnD, and tell a good old fashioned âparty meets in a tavern and dungeon crawlsâ with some all new characters. Give us the feel of levelling up in Vanilla, without being slavish to the same stories from the quests. Basically, show what it felt like to adventure through duskwood, or the first time through Scarlet Monastary, or exploring Troll ruins in Stranglethorn. That would get me tuning in for sure.
In a perfect world, we would get âold soldierâ quality CGI, but I think hoping for that is just setting myself up for disappointment.
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Iâm not sure where youâre going with this but isnât The Expanse the most realistic sci-fi ever made? In terms of details and physics.
By âfrom Amazonâ do you mean only the latest season? I couldnât see much difference between the first few seasons and the season four tbh.
I think a warcraft series would look best as a CGI animated show, with a cartoony look, so it looks like the game.
Trilogy of the first 3 games (Vanilla, TBC & Wrath) with the same animation style they used for the Harbingers series.
Give me a draenei space opera!
I meant the story structure and graphics. The characters have there own stories until the eventually tie in together. The warcraft movie was sort of like this but I imagine the warcraft movie would be like this but with many more characters to have to juggle.
Graphical the most cost effective to get most characters in though would probably be a simple animation. But Id like to see something good like the cinematics 
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Hearthstone Chronicles? Of course, itâs not DnD, but I feel Hearthstone is literally the perfect environment to start this type of story.
They could also go the âHalo: Legendsâ route, and tell storystories of major moments in lore through different art styles. Then, each story story gets fleshed out (2 studios working on different arcs). So long as they have a few lore experts to edit the directorsâ scripts, they could pump out a couple 13 episode arcs every year. As their stories coalesce, we can end on WCIII:TFT. Then it can be 13-26 episodes per expansion after that.
This would end up being a 6 year project, or about 2 years if just up to TFT. The source material is there, and the story is good enough (Itâs not as good as sayâŚVinland Saga (manga)), but Warcraft (and Diablo) are popular enough that it might rival AOT or MHA in any market.
The problem is a lot of these Hollywood writers are horrible with their copy-and-paste scripts.
Almost all of these shows are the same, just different characters.
Now add that in with the obsession Blizzard has with controlling their IP and needing to âconsultââŚ
Just going to be another Warcraft movie disaster.
i feel like the warcraft movie should have been a series.
they compacted like 3-5 books basicly into 1 movie. Insanity.
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yeah ask for Blizzards opinion over the phone or email DONT let them anywhere near the studio during the actual production I mean you see how badly WoW is suffering with the accounting gremlins and shareholders are hanging around their dev dept for the love of all things holy donât let them near the Netflix creative teams during production
Thereâs already a Warcraft series online.
Hereâs season 1 compiled together into a video:
or the original series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHkhE0hJro0&list=PLTB6MWlF7zxDTgcMgTQvdVLi2qj4Lh_HB
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I would watch it. A series would be a much better way to tell the story than the movie.
They tried to cram too much into the movie and made the story hard to understand.
I think Iâm not the target audience for any Blizzard show. Itâs getting pretty clear that Iâm not who they want playing their games, either.
But I hope they make shows you guys enjoy.
A show could definitely work, if they put the right attention into it and didnât try anything weird with it. Stick with the quality cinematics that weâre used to for the expac trailers, and tell the story. No need to rush like the movie because itâs episodic.
Well, if it were animated rather than live action, they have shown they can do that with the Overwatch shorts. While the style would need to be different - more classically magical, perhaps similar to the style of Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV - and with Blizzardâs expert touch as seen in its excellent cinematics.
That would certainly be worth watching for the look of it. But the important thing would be the story. Without a great story it would be just empty pixels.
As in another thread, Iâd want it like âDead Pixelsâ (Brit show, about players of a fictional MMORPG, with in game âmock upâ scenes); Iâd have far more fun watching a scripted, tongue in cheek show, where different kinds of people played Wow.
It could mock casuals, basement dwellers, serious raiders, etc.