Warcraft, the long-anticipated movie based on Blizzard Entertainment's wildly popular World of Warcraft video game franchise, finally has another release date: Dec. 18, 2015.
Production company Legendary Pictures described the film on Facebook this week as an "epic adventure of world-colliding conflict" — with a reported $100 million budget — that will be directed by Duncan Jones, the man behind sci-fi films Source Code and Moon.
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Blood Diamond screenwriter Charles Leavitt will pen the script, while Universal Pictures will distribute the movie in 2015. All parties have yet to announce any cast members.
A big-screen adaptation of World of Warcraft has been talked about for years without much progress until now. Legendary and Blizzard first teamed up in 2006 and planned for a 2009 release. That movie got postponed, though, as scripts and directors came and went. Sam Raimi, who at the time had directed the original Spider-Man Trilogy, was then tapped to take the helm. That version was supposed to head to theaters in 2011, but a year later Raimi left to instead direct Oz the Great and Powerful. It wasn't until earlier this year that Jones signed on and got the ball rolling once more.
Legendary Pictures has a solid history of bringing fantasy to movie theaters, including 300 and The Dark Knight Trilogy. Production for Warcraft will begin in January.
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If you told every kid this smog monster would come for them if they didn't recycle, the planet would be saved in 10 years.
On one hand, this is a cute little movie that involves lovable, singing dinosaurs and Julia Child's voice.
On the other hand, a small child signs a contact with blood and the villain -- seconds after delivering this rather deep line -- is eaten alive by crows.
It's a toss up between what's more terrifying: the flaming Red Bull, or the eagle dealing with multiple nip slips.
Watching this film gave kids a lot of choices for life-long phobias. Would they be irrationally afraid of bats, wolves or lime green saran wrap?
When children ask for a floor plan of heaven, it's easy for adults to get nervous and tongue tied since they don't know the specifics. If a kid ever asks you what hell is like, however, you can just show them All Dogs Go to Heaven. They really nail it.
Tiny coffins. Tiny, tiny coffins.
Besides the fact that the entire movie is basically Home Alone 2: Lost in New York without the comic relief, the Giant Mouse of Minsk is horrifyingly creepy.
You know a movie is going to be weird when this is a good guy.
The perfect film for budding conspiracy theorists: A large chunk of time is spent showing the army's attempts to destroy the beloved hero.
A singing corpse is hell-bent on killing a girl with tiny florescent gremlins. No amount of quips from the funny bat can balance that.
To be fair, not much could be done to make this movie more kid-friendly given the source material. Still, sickles and babies do not make for a pleasant visual.
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