Duncan Jones' ‘Warcraft’ Has Wrapped Production
In a few years, we’re going to look back at May 2014 as a truly amazing time in geek movie making. Right now,Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Wars Episode VII, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Terminator 5, Jurassic World & Fantastic Fourare all filming. Most of those are movies fans never in a million years thought they’d see made. To have them all shooting simultaneously is pretty remarkable.
Another film that certainly belongs on that list isWarcraft,Duncan Jones' adaptation of the ultra popular video game series. The difference betweenWarcraftand the rest though are most of those other sequels and adaptations are just starting their filming.Warcrafthas now completed production after a substantial four-month shoot. It’s scheduled for release July 07, 2025, which means a mountain of post production can now begin.
Director Duncan Jones revealed theWarcraftmovie filming finished via his Twitter account:
The Wrapreports the shoot was 123 days long.
Besides the length of the shoot, what’s truly impressive is that we know so very little about this film Jones has been shooting this movie for so long. Onlyone photo from the setmade it into the world. We don’t know the overall story (save for the fact it’s obviously influenced by theWarcraftgames), we don’t know the rolesmembers of the cast are playing, andwhile we saw something at Comic-Con, we don’t know the full vision of the movie.
And maybe that’s because, unlike some of the other movies mentioned earlier,Warcraftis less under the microscope. Jones is creating a whole new live-action world. A world that isn’t based on another filmmaker’s vision. Which is good becauseWarcraftcomes out after every single movie mentioned about (save forBatman v Superman). That’s a lot of time to hone and perfect the project and the more time, the better. Jones will not be rushed, unlike some others.
Warcraftwas filming primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The film has a cast which includesBen Foster, Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, Rob Kazinsky, Dominic Cooper, Daniel WuandClancy Brown. The script was written byCharles Leavittand rewritten byDuncan Jones.Warcraftis set to be released in 2D and 3D on March 11th, 2016.
