'Warcraft' movie casting news

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Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures have closed deals for Daniel Wu and Clancy Brown to join the cast of Warcraft, based on Blizzard Entertainment's award-winning Warcraft universe. Charles Roven, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Alex Gartner will produce. Stuart Fenegan, Jillian Share, Brent O'Connor and Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime and Paul Sams will serve as executive producers. Chris Metzen, Rob Pardo and Nick Carpenter from Blizzard will co-produce.
The script was written by Charles Leavitt and rewritten by Duncan Jones, who will direct. Production is set to begin as planned in Vancouver this January.

World of Warcraft latest Movie News

Director Duncan Jones is  a very busy man of late...so busy in fact that he decided to drop out of one his projects. Jones had signed on to direct Legendary Pictures' Warcraft, which will be released  on December 18, 2015,  the problem is that he had been attached to numerous other projects including an Ian Fleming biopic (the man behind James Bond). Jones had no choice but to drop out of the Flemming biopic to focus on Warcraft,
Due to scheduling and in an effort to begin production on Warcraft,  Jones has had to put other projects behind him. Since the film is slated to be released late 2015, Jones wanted to start production as early as this coming January.

News on upcoming Batman vs. Superman and Warcraft

An Article from Variety with producer Charles Roven, taking about Batman Vs Superman as well as the upcoming Warcraft movie.

On Batman vs. Superman, we started soft prep in June, and we�ll be shooting eight months later....We felt that we accomplished our goals with Man of Steel, our intention was to bring Superman into the 21st century with a contemporary character and a different kind of superhero than what�s out there right now...We knew we had created a world and we had left Easter eggs in the movie that let people know that in the universe that Zack was creating, there was the possibility of other DC characters besides Clark Kent."

Regarding the upcoming sequel, Roven says the idea has been around for some time.

"We had a sketch of an idea, the beats of a story that David Goyer worked on with Zack. We have a first draft, and we're continuing to work with it. Those scripts are never fully finished until the movie is in the theaters. We love the characters we think that Ben (Affleck) is going to be a really great and interesting Batman.

If you think your "Fire Ben Affleck as Batman" petition is going to work, think again. Roven says he's the guy.

We wanted a guy who had a certain age and a certain gravitas to what he had done in terms of his recent work. If you take a look at The Town and Argo, he plays a couple of serious guys in those movies. He's a big man. He's also a mature man. As you see him and Henry together, one definitely has much more experience just by looking at him. That's what we wanted, particularly juxtaposed against our Superman.

Roven also briefly mentioned the upcoming Warcraft film, which he says will begin production this January.

I have a great partner in Alex Gartner, who's in Vancouver with our director Duncan Jones, Roven says. I was there last week. I'm in an editing room on American Hustle and in the production office in Pasadena on Batman and flying up to Vancouver for Warcraft  which will start in early January.

Batman vs. Superman is set to debut in theaters July 17, 2015, while Warcraft will open on December 18, 2015.


  

WARCRAFT movie news and casting rumor confirmed!

Warcraft movie news has been sporadic, and even casting rumors never seem to ever quite confirm 100% an actors involvement, HOWEVER, the casting rumor of Colin Farrell is resilient and now, an interview with Farrell pretty much confirms that their is truth to the rumor.
In an interview with IGN  Farrell discusses the film and gives us reason to believe he is involved

"Don't know what's happening, man. I read the script, if that's any use to you, and it's amazing....Duncan was cool. I sat with Duncan for awhile and read the script, loved the script, and we was as cool as can be. I don't know what's happening with the film. I don't know where they are in the process...It's just a world that I never explored  and it's a really big and fantastical world. I can't imagine what he, being as visually gifted as he is, Duncan, and what he did on Moon with, like, a dime, I can't imagine what he'd do with this Warcraft."
When asked what character he might be play

"Can I? I probably shouldn't. I don't even know, actually, I'll just say that! I don't even know. We were just talking, and Duncan just said, There might be something in it for you! And I said, Catering? [Laughs]"

The Warcraft film is to open in theaters in December 2015

Officially announced WORLD OF WARCRAFT MOVIE release date w/ teaser concept

Officially announced World of Warcraft movie to be made
Release date is set for December 18th 2015

It had been sorta, kinda announced a few years ago, but now, there is finally an official description of the plot. The story will focus on humans and orcs heroes from the original game. Warcraft could have gone in so many directions, and still could if future films are made, but this film will take from the storyline of the story surrounding the Eastern Kingdom of Azeroth.
Although no actors have yet been signed on for the project, it has been rumored that Colin Farrell, Paula Patton (Mission Impossible), and Travis  Fimmel (Vikings TV series) have been approached for some title roles.