Then it sucks even more. Why can't they make it canon? Why can't we have an official lore movie? :/

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Metzen: They are one of the ancient races of Northrend that we haven't spoken of before... because we hadn't made them up before. (laughter)

~Main: Expansion theorycrafting, Expansions list, The Age of Nightmare, Empire of the Tides (coming soon)~
~Fan ficton: Anachronos Journey: The Timeless Heir~ ~Geography of continents series: Old Kalimdor (original), Pandaria~
~Locations as zones series: Azjol-Nerub, Barrow Deeps, Zul'Aman, Demon Hunter zone, Caverns of Time~

Official and canon are not the same thing. It's still going to be official and likely very good.

HED's Marvel comparisons are the best way to look at it.

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Obviously I disagree.

I think a totally new development would be best, but that might not work out so well commercially. So a historic event we've never seen would be a close second imo, like the Troll Wars or War of the Three Hammers, First War of Ahn'Quiraj... that kind of stuff.


But if going for a trilogy? I'd take the following:

Movie1: Arthas' story (Human+UD campaigns)
Movie2: Thrall's and Jaina's story with some elves (Orc+Early Night campaigns)
Movie3: Culmination at Mount Hyjal (rest of the NE campaign)

The campaigns wouldn't be followed strictly, we'd avoid the more game mechanicky moments and insert previously unseen events (Jaina's journey, for example).

Perfect.


@Sonne, eh, I'll see what you think when the movie is actually out.

Those movies would be way more complicated plot-wise. For fans they would be fine, but a movie should be easy to understand to even non-fans, and I don't think anyone would understand any piece of Wacraft lore easily, except the first and second wars which are pretty simple and straightforwards.

What if Metzen is wrong? Durotar is an exile. How can he be "the ideal orc"? He is the ideal orc during W3 when orc society is back to pre-corruption, not before, when orc ideals are all about war and Durotan is a weakling who got exiled to Azeroth after the Dark Portal was opened. But well, if you prefer to see an exile wandering around instead of the orc chieftains commanding the war, I guess you'll be fine.

And what does Rise of the Horde have to do with this, or are you just trying to invalidate my arguments through such a shitty excuse as "lol you don't read"? I'm behind pretty much all the novel pages on wowpedia. I do think I've read RotH, thank you.

During the First War orcs are demonic and somewhat evil. Shoehorning Durotan to make them look honorable is utterly shameless.

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Metzen: They are one of the ancient races of Northrend that we haven't spoken of before... because we hadn't made them up before. (laughter)

~Main: Expansion theorycrafting, Expansions list, The Age of Nightmare, Empire of the Tides (coming soon)~
~Fan ficton: Anachronos Journey: The Timeless Heir~ ~Geography of continents series: Old Kalimdor (original), Pandaria~
~Locations as zones series: Azjol-Nerub, Barrow Deeps, Zul'Aman, Demon Hunter zone, Caverns of Time~

Metzen isn't viewing the orcs in compartmentalized eras. He views orcs as a thing, and that the orcs of the First War era were deviations from the ideal, not a different ideal altogether.

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Thanks, someone that gets it.

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Say no to genocide!
Save the Nightborne!

This. Durotan is what remains of the original orcish culture during W1.

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In the midst of the hype I feel obligated to remind you all that the movie is still going to be shit.

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"Noble countrymen, evil is upon us. Darkness has befallen our shores. Rise and slay thy enemies� strike, strike so others shall live. The meek shall not fade into the night� live my brethren, live." - King Terenas Menethil II

I'm overly excited for this film. As I watched the panels I got progressively excited by knowing all the detail and care going on behind scenes, but I remained worried about the plot.

When they dropped the ball about Durotan and Lothar I realized this film will be the next Iron Man, but for fantasy. It will start a series of movies and a massive hype for the genre.

I'm 100% sure they'll do an excellent job and the story will be superb. There's no other way to start telling a Warcraft story than the beggining.

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Yay First War movie!

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Sounds like a lot of confidence.

I'm still a little on the skeptical side, but it looks promising to say the least. Durotan and Lothar are characters that I really like.

Like what I heard. Can't wait to hear more. Still not going to say it will be awesome, but its encouraging.

I know it really sounds like a little bit too much on my side, but I can really see where this is going on the choices they've made. Every single thing discussed today at the panel is positive for the movie, in my opinion.

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Even if it is, it'll at least be pretty-looking shit.

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I'm almost absolutely certain they're going to tweak the release date a little.

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You know me and my love for Lothar, so I was so glad to hear that. That being said, they did also show pictures of a floating Dalaran at the con, which is squarely in the WoW era, so the plot may jump around a bit.

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I'm thinking that will be from a montage in the beginning introducing Azeroth

Or just scrapped entirely like the old Teldrassil concept from a few years ago.

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They probably just retconned Dalaran as always being in the air.

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Yeah, I'm guessing that for the purposes of the film Dalaran will be floating at the time of the First War.

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That works too. We did just get done talking about how adaptations don't need to be 100% accurate, I guess.

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Unless you're Anansi.

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This is assuming Dalaran is in the movie.

Not sure why they'd make this if it wasn't

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That Stormwind concept art looks nice but it has a serious problem in that it makes Stormwind look tiny.

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"Noble countrymen, evil is upon us. Darkness has befallen our shores. Rise and slay thy enemies� strike, strike so others shall live. The meek shall not fade into the night� live my brethren, live." - King Terenas Menethil II

That Dalaran art is so pretty.

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