Line #12 Trivia/WarCraft2016


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2	* ActingForTwo: Creator/TobyKebbell plays both Durotan and Antonidas.
3	* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/DuncanJones has [[http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/warcraft/ explained]] that Lothar loses his boots in his fight with [[spoiler:the clay golem]] because Travis Fimmel PrefersGoingBarefoot, prompting Jones to come up with a reason for him to go barefoot on set.
4	* AwesomeDearBoy: One of the reasons Creator/DanielWu took the role as Gul'dan [[http://warcraftmovie.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/sdcc-2015-warcraft-movie-panel is because his wife]] plays ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
5	-->'''Daniel Wu:''' Yeah, Gul’dan is an iconic character of the game[[note]]Gul'dan was reintroduced in grand fashion via an {{alternate\|Self}} version as a major antagonist in the ExpansionPack ''[[Recap/WorldOfWarcraftWarlordsOfDraenor Warlords of Draenor]]'' back then[[/note]] and it’s a daunting task because there are so many people who have their own version of who these characters are from playing the game and I know that because (and I also have to thank my wife because she plays the game and she played for many, many years and she’s actually the reason why I did the film). Of course I did it for Duncan, this amazing cast and all that — but really it’s to get into my wife’s good grace because she’s been playing the game for many, many years.
6	* BoxOfficeBomb: The film tanked in the United States (Budget: $160 million - Domestic box office: $47 million). However, it made a whopping [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff $156 million during its Chinese opening weekend]], and grossed over $433 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing movie to be based on a video game worlwide at the time. Given that Legendary Pictures is now co-owned by a Chinese company, they get to keep a bigger share of the Chinese ticket sales than typical "foreign-made" movies.
7	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Many critics and bloggers without much knowledge of the ''Warcraft'' franchise were quick to say the film is "an adaptation of the MMORPG ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''". While the film ''does'' borrow to ''[=WoW=]'' for aesthetic and WorldBuilding purposes, it adapts the storyline of the 1994 RTS that started the franchise and not any storyline from ''[=WoW=]'', ''Warcraft: Orcs & Humans''.
8	* ExecutiveMeddling: Creator/DuncanJones revealed in interviews that the theatrical cut is a full 40 minutes shorter than his original cut.
9	* FakeAmerican: Travis Fimmell is Australian and uses an American accent to play Lothar. Everyone else however keeps their natural accents, Dominic Cooper and Ruth Negga remaining British and Irish respectively.
10	* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: Many of the characters count as this, as long as we're only comparing to ''Warcraft: Orcs and Humans'' (the specific game that is being adapted). Garona, Blackhand, Lothar, Llane, and Medivh, are the only characters that had appeared and were actually named in the original game. Most of the other characters used in the movie only appeared in the second game or its expansion at the earliest. The likes of Moroes didn't appear until ''[[Literature/WarcraftTheLastGuardian The Last Guardian]]'', meanwhile.
11	* InMemoriam: The film is dedicated to the memory of Music/DavidBowie, who was the father of director Creator/DuncanJones.
12	* ReleaseDateChange: The film was going to be released in December 2015 but was pushed back to June 2016 to avoid facing the release of ''[[Film/TheForceAwakens Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens]]''.
13	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Talk of an adaptation started back in 2006, with the release eventually happening a decade later. The plot flip-flopped between being about the First War to being set just prior to ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' (the reason cited being that the popularity of the franchise was from the MMO, not the RTS games). Creator/SamRaimi was originally supposed to direct but the project was put off so that Raimi could focus on other films. He eventually left, citing mismanagement on Blizzard's part who had vetoed most of his pre-production work (he pitched an idea whose main character he described as an "anti-Thrall", but Blizzard didn't want such an Alliance-centric story and wanted to maintain [[OurOrcsAreDifferent their own heroic version of the orcs]]). It was not until 2013 that the movie was finally SavedFromDevelopmentHell.
14	* StillbornFranchise: The movie was meant to begin a film franchise, but the poor box office numbers outside China and co-producer Legendary Pictures leaving Universal two years later don't seem to indicate that a sequel is likely to see the light of day.
15	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
16	** Creator/UweBoll tried to get the rights to make a ''Warcraft'' film in the 2000s, but Blizzard thankfully shot him down with prejudice: according to Boll, they told him "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie [[FranchiseKiller would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.]]"
17	** The other director besides Boll who tried to get attached to this film was Creator/SamRaimi, but after being on it for a while, he was finally replaced with Jones after the latter voiced displeasure with Raimi allegedly doing a "humans are the good guys, orcs are the bad guys".
18	** Creator/ColinFarrell was approached to play King Llane, met with the director and read the script. Eventually Creator/DominicCooper was cast instead. At one point, Creator/JohnnyDepp was interested in starring.

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