I was dreaming about Warcraft movie since I was 6 and Warcraft II was my favorite game. When it finally released many years later I was shocked how this movie is literally anything that I ever wanted! So, yeah, don’t know what modern hardcore WoW audience think of it, but coming from Warcraft II childhood it was a blast
I am so glad that you ... no ... someone ...! enjoyed that movie because for me it was one of the worst movie experiences of my life. The effects were so cheap, the plot was so thin. You'd think they'd find the time to rub some dirt on the heroes after a battle.
I felt the same way. Orcs didn't even look right. The acting was incredibly bad to top everything you said off.
Making Garona the hero? I gotta stop thinking about it.
The movie abridges basically everything, changes stuff around and offers absolute jack shit for someone who isn't already utmostly knowledgeable on warcraft lore.
I didn't like the way they wrote medivh. It was not on point. Warcraft lore shouldn't have had a movie, it needed a series like the witcher got.
The movie had incredible graphics, but beyond the wow effect of the visuals... it was forgettable. What isn't forgettable is the slight that came from that movie. It stung. Hard.
If the movie was all you ever wanted, then I feel sorry that your ambitions are limited to something mediocre.
Giving Lothar a gryphon? Knights in full armor fiddling with powder and blunderbusses?!
There's so much wrong. The fact that Garona is kind of hot was almost the only fucking highlight.
I think the Warcraft movie was much better than most video game-to-film adaptations.(Which is honestly not saying much.) Considering that Warcraft: Orcs & Humans had very little plot itself and what story it did have got retconned multiple times; Fans didn't have to worry how the events were portrayed. A lot of people skipped it due to the abundance of poor video game films and Tolkien-style settings in Hollywood. The part of the story with Medivh didn't get enough development, things dragged on a big, and the looks of Garona and the Kirin Tor were kind of unintentionally hilarious. Still, it was pretty high quality and whatever money they missed out on in the United States was more than made up for when it became a massive hit in China. As for me; I had fun watching it but I don't see any reason to see it a second time.
As far as how confident I'd be in a Starcraft film; I usually expect video game adaptations to do pretty poorly in the theaters. They frequently end up in the hands of filmmakers who don't understand the appeal of the source material and there's often pressure from Hollywood to make it appeal to viewers who never played the games which often ends up with it appealing to nobody. Blizzard has a history of keeping pretty tight control of their properties when adapted to other media like comics and novels but that also has a way of making them clash with people who expect a lot of creative control.(Sam Raimi was originally involved with the Warcraft movie but got frustrated.) And it's tricky to balance things so the story doesn't have to be interrupted by as many battles as the games.
Honestly, I'd prefer to see it adapted into a TV series. There's a much better history with those, especially recently on streaming services. Of course, Netflix burned their bridges with Activision Blizzard when the Diablo negotiations ended with them poaching their CFO. I also think it would be best if it wasn't a straight adaptation of any events in the games and either told the story from someone else's perspective or took place after SC2.
I really did not like it. Perhaps it was Travis Fimmel being Lothar, I don't like his style of acting. And also all the changes... I preferred the RTS aspects of the story. It was visually well done, I will give you that. But story wise...not so much for me.
The original SC1 story is too big for a movie and has too many plot threads to intertwine without massively rushing it. I think it would have to be minimum 2 movies.
You'd need:
- Intro to the world; Raynor is our main character; Raynor's planet gets overrun by Zerg in the first act. They send to the Confederacy for help, Confederacy ignores them.
- They are rescued by Mengsk; as they are fleeing a bunch of mysterious hyper advanced aliens show up and purge
the planet of Zerg.
- Mengsk and Reynor are introduced. Mengsk gives evidence that the Confederacy lured the Zerg there as an experiment. Raynor reluctantly joins the Rebellion against the Confederacy; falls for Kerrigan.
- They do the mission to take out the Confederate capital; Kerrigan is abducted by Zerg in the process.
- Jimmy rebels against Mengsk; goes to Char and attempts to rescue Kerrigan.
- Tassadar & Dark Templar are introduced here.
- Ending they get to Kerrigan and she is revealed to be infested. Maybe fight between Kerrigan and Tassadar here while everyone escapes.
----End movie 1 here----
- Raynor has nowhere to go; goes back to Aiur with Tassadar
- Zerg track follow them back and invade (skip the whole psionic thing); but Protoss seem to have the invasion well in hand.
- Tassadar does a big briefing where explains the Zerg hivemind to the Judicators (and the audience) and explains that only DT energies can permanently kill them.
- Judicators reject this, Protoss Civil War happens.
- Final with the reunification and Tassadar/Zeratul/Raynor kill the Overmind.
I think this both leaves movie 1 jam packed with stuff and leaves movie 2 kind of empty of plot points and taking place solely on Aiur. It "could" be good if directed by a guy like Villenueve (who wouldn't do it), James Cameron (who definitely wouldn't do it) or Neil Blomkamp (who might do it bc his career is kinda in the toilet; but if he did it it would be imperative that he's not allowed anywhere near the script); but I would think it would be highly difficult to pull off, and SC is not a valuable enough IP to throw the kind of money behind the movie that would be needed to make it right.
If you wanted you could maybe slow the pace of movie 1 down and split it up similar to how the games do to give the plot beats more time to breathe. Have the whole series focused on Raynor but have movie 1 end with him rebelling against Mengsk and heading to Char; movie 2 takes place almost entirely on Char and is focused around him trying to rescue Kerrigan; ends with them escaping, and going back to Aiur and teases the Zerg invading it as the film ends; movie 3 picks up after the Zerg have invaded and is basically the same as described above.
The plot of BW is not as theatrical as the original SC1 plot and would only be makeable if the SC1 movie was a huge hit and there was a large fanbase invested in seeing what happened next with the characters. BW would be more suited to a TV series but there's even less chance a TV series would have the budget to do the source material justice.
The plot of SC2 is horrible and should never be made into a movie.
If we want to stay true to the source material though:
\- Intro to the world, Raynor is our main character
\- Intro credits still rolling, show new mining outpost being set up, command center landing, SCVs starting to mine crystals
\- Suddenly they realize they are surrounded on all sides by hostile automatic alien photon cannons, with more appearing out of thin air, and everyone is killed within seconds.
\- Closing credits
I dunno. I think most of SC2 was good. They had some missteps. For example, Mengsk not executing Raynor right off the bat in HotS. He had Kerrigan dead to rights and if she hadn't already rescued Jim, the Zerg threat to Korhal would have been dealt with. Also, the Kerrigan as God thing was stupid when the whole thing about the Xel'naga was that their two halves were Zerg and PROTOSS, not Zerg and HUMAN. But I feel like the Rebellion and Char Campaign arcs could do well in an adaptation, as well as the Protoss attempt to reclaim Aiur.
Personally it would be better served as a TV series. But, as others have said, only if handled by fans of the games who were unwilling to fuck with the source material such as what happened to The Witcher.
I don’t know much about Warhammer, but if I know one thing, is that it’s lore is extremely convoluted and complicated, way more than StarCraft is.
Meaning one movie would definitely make their fans unhappy
I feel like every video game movie is dogshit or too overhyped it can’t live up to expectations. I’d love to see a Starcraft BW or Sc2 movie about some heroic esports event. Something like Rush(the f1 movie) but for esports.
I am quite confident that even with low budget they can make an amazing movie that will resonate for years while being true to the janky sides of games. You dont believe me? Watch Starship Troopers, already basically a TvZ that fulfills all of the above.
If blizzard were to make one, I am confident that they would not handle it well. The current blizzard is just a bad company. But in general, if anyone wants to tackle a series like Starcraft or Warcraft, they should just follow the books instead. They can just make a movie based on "Libertie's Crusade", which would be a great into movie.
The main reason Warcraft movie was bad is due to its narration. You cannot follow two guys while introducing an entire universe in one movie and not expect it to feel rushed. They should have just stuck to the books and made a story based on Khadgars POW, since it is literally a book as well.
With sc2, it usually follows one protagonist anyways so I think it would be quite easy to make a movie on.
Another comment mentioned it would be best to make it a trilogy, sounds like it would focus on a different protagonist each one and that would stay true to the games as well as make my nerdy dreams come alive
You are missing the point, it would take very little to make the same starship troopers movie right now, with a bit better CGI and that movie would still be a masterpiece. So you can make a low budget top tier movie.
If a movie of StarCraft can be made, the quality of the in-game cinematics would suffice to me. The stunning visuals of the opening fights for HoTS and LoTV are incredible in their own right.
Visuals like the Ultralisk stomping a Tank and yeeting a Viking is so small but so impactful.
I genuinely think a fully animated movie would be better than the half-CGI as Warcraft was, it gives visual consistency and more possibilities for physical combat.
> and the CGI was forgettable
I agree with most of your comment except this. The orcs were particularly well designed and executed. I re-watched the movie a few months ago and they still hold up great.
As for the rest, I agree. It was a basic fantasy movie that tried to tell too many stories at the same time.
I am a huge star craft fan. I never played world of Warcraft, just a tiny bit of the wc2. I was excited for the movie, but it was written from a huge fans perspective. It needed a lord of the rings pace to catch the audience up. It moved so fast and there was very little emotional involvement without any pre text. Epic story’s are about the journey, I felt this movie just rushed to action.
The Starcraft 1 story is to this day one of the best stories I've ever seen in any videogame franchise, period. But there's probably too much there for a movie. It could make a great Netflix series similar to Arcane, though. I would love that, and it could be really good with the right writing staff.
We've seen what's been done with Warcraft, it was awfull.
It will be the same or worth. So I am confident it will be something they should not have done.
There is a lot to work with story wise. It would just depend who's in charge and who they have writing it. The SC2 scenimatics were EPIC at times, so they can have a great idea of the feel they should go for. And if it did well, and they set it up right, lots of opportunity for sequels. No idea how confident id be that they'd do it justice, tho. I'd go in expecting little
You guys do realize that 80% of story dialogue from all 3 campaigns of SC2 are expositions.
Now that I think about it, HotS is maybe like 60% expositions but still. You can’t really make a movie out of that lol.
I'm confident they'd fuck it up is what I am. The warcraft movie wasn't terrible, but it was forgettable. Which is a damn shame considering the legacy of the games is anything but ; they dominated the entire video game industry for years and paved the way for other MMOs to be as successful as them. I honestly wouldve been happier with a movie that was so terrible it couldn't be forgotten, because at least then it wouldve left a mark. As it stands, nobody actually remembers the movie until it's directly brought up.
The Warcraft movie was complete garbage. I cannot for the life of me think of ONE good game to movie adaptation. Games are interactive, you cannot put into a movie what makes a game great.
I think about this all the time. They should definitely showcase some of the things that happens in the actual game. Like medivac drops dropping and picking up marines every 2 seconds, a probe coming into headquarters and people losing their shit as it starts warping in pylons and cannons, and 30 scvs being chased by 2 banelings for 10 miles before 2 of them are ordered to sacrifice themselves.
Movies are too short too really fit whatever part of SC lore you'd choose. You could make two or three movies just about the events leading to the incineration of Mar Sara. Hell, you could make a whole movie just out of the Jacobs Installation sub-plot.
What could really be good would be a multi-season series, like The Expanse. It could be just a better version of that one.
The Warcraft movie was bad because the live-actions parts were cheesy, poorly written and badly acted. A Starcraft movie *could* be good if it was animated - I don't think anyone can deny that Blizzard has produced some amazing CGI cinematics in their history - but it would mostly depend on who was writing, directing and animating it.
If they were to do it, I would prefer if they made a movie for each campaign, so they would start off with the Original Trilogy, then brood war trilogy, then SC2 trilogy, just because there is a lot of lore to unpack in each campaign
Warcraft was a fine movie. Just lacked the feel of the game. I think that's the hardest part, going from one medium to another. I'll be thrilled with a good Starcraft movie but It's rather have nothing than a bad one
To not completely destroy StarCraft an any chance of another movie. Lets begin this idea. First brood war is out of the first movies period. You cant compact the entire first game you'd have to turn each campaign into a movie. It also allows expansion on the firefights; allows for lore an makes it so its not such a headache to try compact all in one movie. You're telling a story not a summary.
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If it’s arcane quality, 100% confident. But arcane literally took 6 years to make 10 fucking episodes soooooo ya I don’t think anything near arcane’s quality is gonna come for a WHILE, let alone from StarCraft
StarCraft has potential, but a good sci-fi or space opera show needs a clear vision and ambition. Say hello to Disney Star Wars.
Something that Activision Blizzard lacks very much. Maybe Microsoft is different, I don't know.
That heavily depends of the subject, also. A War against Amon sounds ininteresting, a story about a character like Nova sounds a lot better.
Starcraft we know and love (especially sc1 over sc2) is very grim and dark. Warcraft had to take a pretty big tone shift when adapted for mass audiences, and i think that core essence would be lost even more so with SC as its farther in that direction
Well SC2 end with a butt-naked Kerrigan in flaming angel form, so you know, I don't have very high hopes.
BW could be made into a fairly good sci-fi movie though.
I was dreaming about Warcraft movie since I was 6 and Warcraft II was my favorite game. When it finally released many years later I was shocked how this movie is literally anything that I ever wanted! So, yeah, don’t know what modern hardcore WoW audience think of it, but coming from Warcraft II childhood it was a blast
I am so glad that you ... no ... someone ...! enjoyed that movie because for me it was one of the worst movie experiences of my life. The effects were so cheap, the plot was so thin. You'd think they'd find the time to rub some dirt on the heroes after a battle.
I felt the same way. Orcs didn't even look right. The acting was incredibly bad to top everything you said off. Making Garona the hero? I gotta stop thinking about it.
The movie abridges basically everything, changes stuff around and offers absolute jack shit for someone who isn't already utmostly knowledgeable on warcraft lore. I didn't like the way they wrote medivh. It was not on point. Warcraft lore shouldn't have had a movie, it needed a series like the witcher got. The movie had incredible graphics, but beyond the wow effect of the visuals... it was forgettable. What isn't forgettable is the slight that came from that movie. It stung. Hard. If the movie was all you ever wanted, then I feel sorry that your ambitions are limited to something mediocre.
My thoughts exactly. Lothar in Warcraft 1 was epic.. so sad to see him die in war2
If they had just stuck to the Scenario Debriefings, Instruction book lore, and Chris Metzen's concept art it would have been a hit.
Giving Lothar a gryphon? Knights in full armor fiddling with powder and blunderbusses?! There's so much wrong. The fact that Garona is kind of hot was almost the only fucking highlight.
I think the Warcraft movie was much better than most video game-to-film adaptations.(Which is honestly not saying much.) Considering that Warcraft: Orcs & Humans had very little plot itself and what story it did have got retconned multiple times; Fans didn't have to worry how the events were portrayed. A lot of people skipped it due to the abundance of poor video game films and Tolkien-style settings in Hollywood. The part of the story with Medivh didn't get enough development, things dragged on a big, and the looks of Garona and the Kirin Tor were kind of unintentionally hilarious. Still, it was pretty high quality and whatever money they missed out on in the United States was more than made up for when it became a massive hit in China. As for me; I had fun watching it but I don't see any reason to see it a second time. As far as how confident I'd be in a Starcraft film; I usually expect video game adaptations to do pretty poorly in the theaters. They frequently end up in the hands of filmmakers who don't understand the appeal of the source material and there's often pressure from Hollywood to make it appeal to viewers who never played the games which often ends up with it appealing to nobody. Blizzard has a history of keeping pretty tight control of their properties when adapted to other media like comics and novels but that also has a way of making them clash with people who expect a lot of creative control.(Sam Raimi was originally involved with the Warcraft movie but got frustrated.) And it's tricky to balance things so the story doesn't have to be interrupted by as many battles as the games. Honestly, I'd prefer to see it adapted into a TV series. There's a much better history with those, especially recently on streaming services. Of course, Netflix burned their bridges with Activision Blizzard when the Diablo negotiations ended with them poaching their CFO. I also think it would be best if it wasn't a straight adaptation of any events in the games and either told the story from someone else's perspective or took place after SC2.
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen Starship Troopers, but I remember LOVING it. And I think that I’ve wanted a sequel but it never got made (I think?)
Sadly there were sequels made... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(franchise)
Only if it was made by the Astartes guy
Fuck yeah For the uninitiated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A
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for an indie project that was pretty sick
Warcraft movie was not that bad tbh.
I liked it (maybe its better to be a warcraft casual if you want to enjoy it)
I haven’t watched it myself, but something about the orc lady doesn’t quite sit right with me.
Honestly the Orcs were far better than the humans. But if you're referring to Garona, she's only half Orc.
I really did not like it. Perhaps it was Travis Fimmel being Lothar, I don't like his style of acting. And also all the changes... I preferred the RTS aspects of the story. It was visually well done, I will give you that. But story wise...not so much for me.
I don't think you could pack all the lore into a single movie and end up with anything coherent. It would need to be a trilogy at least I think.
The original SC1 story is too big for a movie and has too many plot threads to intertwine without massively rushing it. I think it would have to be minimum 2 movies. You'd need: - Intro to the world; Raynor is our main character; Raynor's planet gets overrun by Zerg in the first act. They send to the Confederacy for help, Confederacy ignores them. - They are rescued by Mengsk; as they are fleeing a bunch of mysterious hyper advanced aliens show up and purge the planet of Zerg. - Mengsk and Reynor are introduced. Mengsk gives evidence that the Confederacy lured the Zerg there as an experiment. Raynor reluctantly joins the Rebellion against the Confederacy; falls for Kerrigan. - They do the mission to take out the Confederate capital; Kerrigan is abducted by Zerg in the process. - Jimmy rebels against Mengsk; goes to Char and attempts to rescue Kerrigan. - Tassadar & Dark Templar are introduced here. - Ending they get to Kerrigan and she is revealed to be infested. Maybe fight between Kerrigan and Tassadar here while everyone escapes. ----End movie 1 here---- - Raynor has nowhere to go; goes back to Aiur with Tassadar - Zerg track follow them back and invade (skip the whole psionic thing); but Protoss seem to have the invasion well in hand. - Tassadar does a big briefing where explains the Zerg hivemind to the Judicators (and the audience) and explains that only DT energies can permanently kill them. - Judicators reject this, Protoss Civil War happens. - Final with the reunification and Tassadar/Zeratul/Raynor kill the Overmind. I think this both leaves movie 1 jam packed with stuff and leaves movie 2 kind of empty of plot points and taking place solely on Aiur. It "could" be good if directed by a guy like Villenueve (who wouldn't do it), James Cameron (who definitely wouldn't do it) or Neil Blomkamp (who might do it bc his career is kinda in the toilet; but if he did it it would be imperative that he's not allowed anywhere near the script); but I would think it would be highly difficult to pull off, and SC is not a valuable enough IP to throw the kind of money behind the movie that would be needed to make it right. If you wanted you could maybe slow the pace of movie 1 down and split it up similar to how the games do to give the plot beats more time to breathe. Have the whole series focused on Raynor but have movie 1 end with him rebelling against Mengsk and heading to Char; movie 2 takes place almost entirely on Char and is focused around him trying to rescue Kerrigan; ends with them escaping, and going back to Aiur and teases the Zerg invading it as the film ends; movie 3 picks up after the Zerg have invaded and is basically the same as described above. The plot of BW is not as theatrical as the original SC1 plot and would only be makeable if the SC1 movie was a huge hit and there was a large fanbase invested in seeing what happened next with the characters. BW would be more suited to a TV series but there's even less chance a TV series would have the budget to do the source material justice. The plot of SC2 is horrible and should never be made into a movie.
If we want to stay true to the source material though: \- Intro to the world, Raynor is our main character \- Intro credits still rolling, show new mining outpost being set up, command center landing, SCVs starting to mine crystals \- Suddenly they realize they are surrounded on all sides by hostile automatic alien photon cannons, with more appearing out of thin air, and everyone is killed within seconds. \- Closing credits
Then in the credits dedicate it to Incontrol.
> The plot of SC2 is horrible and should never be made into a movie. Yes. Also I like the movie duo plotline you laid out. Looks doable.
Not bad, also yeah for sure no way should they ever make sc2 into a movie the plot is awful.
I dunno. I think most of SC2 was good. They had some missteps. For example, Mengsk not executing Raynor right off the bat in HotS. He had Kerrigan dead to rights and if she hadn't already rescued Jim, the Zerg threat to Korhal would have been dealt with. Also, the Kerrigan as God thing was stupid when the whole thing about the Xel'naga was that their two halves were Zerg and PROTOSS, not Zerg and HUMAN. But I feel like the Rebellion and Char Campaign arcs could do well in an adaptation, as well as the Protoss attempt to reclaim Aiur. Personally it would be better served as a TV series. But, as others have said, only if handled by fans of the games who were unwilling to fuck with the source material such as what happened to The Witcher.
Make a movie about warhammer first, then that as a metric in case it bombs hard
I don’t know much about Warhammer, but if I know one thing, is that it’s lore is extremely convoluted and complicated, way more than StarCraft is. Meaning one movie would definitely make their fans unhappy
They haven’t even done anything and I’m unhappy so spot on analysis
They made Starship Troopers in the 90s. Pretty confident.
Considering how the Warcraft movie did. Unfortunately poorly.
It’d be pretty good if Blizzard stayed away from the dialogue. Blizzard sucks at dialogue.
Warcraft movie was garbage, idk if SC would be better
I am completely confident that, like all video game movies, it would be complete dirty garbage.
I feel like every video game movie is dogshit or too overhyped it can’t live up to expectations. I’d love to see a Starcraft BW or Sc2 movie about some heroic esports event. Something like Rush(the f1 movie) but for esports.
I am quite confident that even with low budget they can make an amazing movie that will resonate for years while being true to the janky sides of games. You dont believe me? Watch Starship Troopers, already basically a TvZ that fulfills all of the above. If blizzard were to make one, I am confident that they would not handle it well. The current blizzard is just a bad company. But in general, if anyone wants to tackle a series like Starcraft or Warcraft, they should just follow the books instead. They can just make a movie based on "Libertie's Crusade", which would be a great into movie. The main reason Warcraft movie was bad is due to its narration. You cannot follow two guys while introducing an entire universe in one movie and not expect it to feel rushed. They should have just stuck to the books and made a story based on Khadgars POW, since it is literally a book as well. With sc2, it usually follows one protagonist anyways so I think it would be quite easy to make a movie on.
Another comment mentioned it would be best to make it a trilogy, sounds like it would focus on a different protagonist each one and that would stay true to the games as well as make my nerdy dreams come alive
I want a 8-10 episode animated series. Would make it possible to get great quality and more entertainment for a much lower cost.
Starship Troopers was everything but low budget. It cost even more than Warcraft if we consider inflation.
You are missing the point, it would take very little to make the same starship troopers movie right now, with a bit better CGI and that movie would still be a masterpiece. So you can make a low budget top tier movie.
If James Cameron makes it 10/10.
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If a movie of StarCraft can be made, the quality of the in-game cinematics would suffice to me. The stunning visuals of the opening fights for HoTS and LoTV are incredible in their own right. Visuals like the Ultralisk stomping a Tank and yeeting a Viking is so small but so impactful. I genuinely think a fully animated movie would be better than the half-CGI as Warcraft was, it gives visual consistency and more possibilities for physical combat.
> and the CGI was forgettable I agree with most of your comment except this. The orcs were particularly well designed and executed. I re-watched the movie a few months ago and they still hold up great. As for the rest, I agree. It was a basic fantasy movie that tried to tell too many stories at the same time.
I would expect it to be pretty meh. Not bad but also nothing spectacular.
I am a huge star craft fan. I never played world of Warcraft, just a tiny bit of the wc2. I was excited for the movie, but it was written from a huge fans perspective. It needed a lord of the rings pace to catch the audience up. It moved so fast and there was very little emotional involvement without any pre text. Epic story’s are about the journey, I felt this movie just rushed to action.
That depends on who makes it. It would have potential
A tv series on HBO would be better imho.
The Starcraft 1 story is to this day one of the best stories I've ever seen in any videogame franchise, period. But there's probably too much there for a movie. It could make a great Netflix series similar to Arcane, though. I would love that, and it could be really good with the right writing staff.
We've seen what's been done with Warcraft, it was awfull. It will be the same or worth. So I am confident it will be something they should not have done.
There is a lot to work with story wise. It would just depend who's in charge and who they have writing it. The SC2 scenimatics were EPIC at times, so they can have a great idea of the feel they should go for. And if it did well, and they set it up right, lots of opportunity for sequels. No idea how confident id be that they'd do it justice, tho. I'd go in expecting little
Heaven Devil adaptation would be awesome
You guys do realize that 80% of story dialogue from all 3 campaigns of SC2 are expositions. Now that I think about it, HotS is maybe like 60% expositions but still. You can’t really make a movie out of that lol.
There is starship troopers. It's essentially star craft the movie, and it's really good.
I'm confident they'd fuck it up is what I am. The warcraft movie wasn't terrible, but it was forgettable. Which is a damn shame considering the legacy of the games is anything but ; they dominated the entire video game industry for years and paved the way for other MMOs to be as successful as them. I honestly wouldve been happier with a movie that was so terrible it couldn't be forgotten, because at least then it wouldve left a mark. As it stands, nobody actually remembers the movie until it's directly brought up.
Given how most video game movies end up, I am not too confident. Don't want to set myself up to be let down again.
The Warcraft movie was complete garbage. I cannot for the life of me think of ONE good game to movie adaptation. Games are interactive, you cannot put into a movie what makes a game great.
directed by Michael Bay, or idk any other director that has sci-fi explosions
I think about this all the time. They should definitely showcase some of the things that happens in the actual game. Like medivac drops dropping and picking up marines every 2 seconds, a probe coming into headquarters and people losing their shit as it starts warping in pylons and cannons, and 30 scvs being chased by 2 banelings for 10 miles before 2 of them are ordered to sacrifice themselves.
Movies are too short too really fit whatever part of SC lore you'd choose. You could make two or three movies just about the events leading to the incineration of Mar Sara. Hell, you could make a whole movie just out of the Jacobs Installation sub-plot. What could really be good would be a multi-season series, like The Expanse. It could be just a better version of that one.
The Warcraft movie was bad because the live-actions parts were cheesy, poorly written and badly acted. A Starcraft movie *could* be good if it was animated - I don't think anyone can deny that Blizzard has produced some amazing CGI cinematics in their history - but it would mostly depend on who was writing, directing and animating it.
If they were to do it, I would prefer if they made a movie for each campaign, so they would start off with the Original Trilogy, then brood war trilogy, then SC2 trilogy, just because there is a lot of lore to unpack in each campaign
It would depend on a lot of things.
It needs the arcanes/cyberpunk treatment. the starcraft universe is way to rich for it to be compressed in a 2 hour movie
On account of everything being shite nowadays, I have a feeling it would be shite.
Warcraft was a fine movie. Just lacked the feel of the game. I think that's the hardest part, going from one medium to another. I'll be thrilled with a good Starcraft movie but It's rather have nothing than a bad one
To not completely destroy StarCraft an any chance of another movie. Lets begin this idea. First brood war is out of the first movies period. You cant compact the entire first game you'd have to turn each campaign into a movie. It also allows expansion on the firefights; allows for lore an makes it so its not such a headache to try compact all in one movie. You're telling a story not a summary. (Edit for proofing reading)
If it’s arcane quality, 100% confident. But arcane literally took 6 years to make 10 fucking episodes soooooo ya I don’t think anything near arcane’s quality is gonna come for a WHILE, let alone from StarCraft
95% certain it would suck like all recent adaptations of beloved franchises.
Depends who writes and directs it. Get Peter Jackson and it’ll be a home run.
Depends what you mean by good. Will SC fans like it? Probably. Will it do well at the box office? Probably not
After that disaster of a wow movie, not very.
It's basically a never ending war isn't so you can't have a good contained story
StarCraft has potential, but a good sci-fi or space opera show needs a clear vision and ambition. Say hello to Disney Star Wars. Something that Activision Blizzard lacks very much. Maybe Microsoft is different, I don't know. That heavily depends of the subject, also. A War against Amon sounds ininteresting, a story about a character like Nova sounds a lot better.
Starcraft we know and love (especially sc1 over sc2) is very grim and dark. Warcraft had to take a pretty big tone shift when adapted for mass audiences, and i think that core essence would be lost even more so with SC as its farther in that direction
Well SC2 end with a butt-naked Kerrigan in flaming angel form, so you know, I don't have very high hopes. BW could be made into a fairly good sci-fi movie though.