That sound you just heard? It was over 10 million World of Warcraft subscribers breathing a simultaneous sigh of relief, now that the MTV Movies Blog is reporting that reviled game-film director Uwe Boll won't be getting his hands on the movie version of the popular fantasy franchise.Boll recounted a conversation with Paul Sams in which the Blizzard COO reportedly told the director, "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you ... especially not to you." In a rare moment of self-awareness, Boll seemed to understand Blizzard's reluctance, speculating that "because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income." A bad movie? But how could the self-described "only genius in the whole fucking business" ever make a bad movie? It just doesn't make sense!
Blizzard joins Konami in the exclusive "Smart companies that definitively won't let Uwe Boll near their successful franchises" club.
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-Garnian, the dwarf rogue, sighed in resignation after killing Edwin VanCleef for the 27th time. "No matter how many times we kill this guy, every time we come back he's here again!" he exclaimed. "Also, I can see his fricking armor, cape, and sword - he's wearing them goddamnit - so why can't I take them all, every time!?"
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"Screw this, I'm going back to killing hundreds of animals for their pelts."
Yeah, I don't see that working out. Unless it bears no resemblance to the game.
For the first two movies, you just watch some guy grinding over and over again.Then in the second half of the third movie, he finally hits 70 and the real action starts.Oh and then for the rest of the movie he raids Molten Core over again to grind "epic lootz".
...I'm not kidding. He's the perfect director for this.
Gold Rush a WOW Story.
Meet Lee and Steven 2 of the best gold farmers the world (of warcraft) has ever known doing what they know best, GOLD FARMING!!! Join these 2 intrepid guys in their quest for virtual gold that they will later sell on ebay or use it to lure n00bs into credit card FRAUDS!!!
You I’ll see SUSPENSE!
Lee-Oh I have to pay for another month.
You’ll see DRAMA!
Jimmy-Hey guys stop gold farming I have to finish this quest.
Steven-GTFO newf*g this is our spot.
Jimmy-What the hell guys? I have to finish this quest.
Steven-LOLz no but we allow you to finish this quest if you pay us.
Jimmy-Pay you? You guys are f*cking ghey,I’m playing guildwar.
Lee-Or you could pay us and we also level your character to level 60.
Jimmy-Umm kay.
You’ll see HORROR!!!
Jimmy-WTF? Guyz you stole my other account.
Lee-Yeah lolz,newf*g
Jimmy-You said you’ll level my character to level 60?!
Steven-We did but we never told you will be able to use it.
Jimmy-That’s it I’m going to complain with Blizzard.
Lee-Yeah you do that qu33r.
You’ll se Comedy!
Blizzard-You are calling to Blizzard tech support how can I help you.
AND MORE.
Gold Rush a movie of global proportions!!
Available now in your local torrentz or in sh*tty youtube acounts.
"Rich lore"? From the Warcraft universe? I hope you're joking. Especially if we're only talking about the World of Warcraft lore specifically, which are even more pathetic.
Retconning aside (of which there's plenty), the Warcraft universe's draw lies far more in their concept art than story content. Reading through Warcraft's backstory is boring not to mention confusing. Unless they made a Warcraft II movie I wouldn't be interested at all.
As for Starcraft - that's a movie that if done right might raise a few eyebrows.
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And movies are only made by boll to make a quick buck of the game's well-known name. WoW makes a shitload of money every month, that a worthless movie would be pennies to the amount they're cashing in on the game.
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I laughed at that sentence, since people iron shirts and you said it was full of irony...
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*hi^5s random people*
Wheres the beer!?
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Gatari Me?
_(o_°)/¯
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Two hobits journey into the unknown to deliver a bracelet to an upside down volcano.
Wait a second...
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The WOW movie pitch by Dr Boll was an interstellar crew searching for new life and civilizations, boldly going where no man has gone before... HOWEVER, The actual film will run for 120min and simply have Tara Reid sitting in a chair explaining how her nipples aren't pepperoni slices and that Hollywood and film lovers should take her acting "talent" seriously.
"dude....no"
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Don't know what's worse.
That game,Uwe or his movies?
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personally, i think it could be really good, especially if it was based directly off the story... and done by the same CG people that make blizzards in house clips
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Stop Dr. Uwe Boll Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html
His response to the petition
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/201191.html?playlist=featured
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Blizzard-Haha Oh Wow.
Uwe Boll-Is that a yes?
Blizzard-Security.
Uwe Boll-Well what about Diablo?
Blizzard-Security be sure to punch him in the face...Twice.
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and this pro-nintendo site
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The movie wouldn't be (isn't) drawn from World of Warcraft, it would be drawn from the Warcraft universe. You might as well say that you can't imagine a good movie being made out of Lord of The Rings Online.
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The original Warcraft trilogy, however -- "Orcs & Humans", "Tides of Darkness"/"Beyond the Dark Portal" and "Reign of Chaos"/"The Frozen Throne" -- might make for an interesting movie. I'd see any of those well before a WoW movie.
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As long it has some good fighting, some explosions and magic, hints of Blizzard humor and at least one gnome mage beeing raped by an undead rogue I'll go watch it twice.
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