‘Warcraft’ TV Spot Teases A Mano-A-Mano Showdown Between Human And Orc
As we inch toward summer blockbuster season, one of the biggest question marks on the calendar is the video game adaptationWarcraft. The source material is one millions of fans around the globe are deeply familiar with, but how will it play as a movie? WillWarcraftbe the one to break the so-called “video game curse”? Can it draw in the non-gamer audience? And what about that director,Duncan Jones? There’s no doubt he’s a talented and creative director — just check out his earlier films,MoonandSource Code— butWarcraftis a far bigger, more fantastical movie than anything we’ve seen from him before. Can he still deliver the goods on such a gigantic scale?
We’ve got our fingers crossed for the best, and theearlier trailerandTV spothave suggested that this movie won’t lack in scope or painstaking detail. Now a newWarcraftTV spot has arrived with still more footage for you to ooh and ahh over and eagerly (or perhaps anxiously) pick apart.
Not a single word is uttered in the latestWarcraftTV spot, unless you count battle cries or bird calls or the narrator saying “Warcraft: rated PG-13.” Instead, we get an extended peek at a mano-a-mano showdown between human and Orc, followed by a smattering of exciting imagery from the rest of the movie. But as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and what these pictures are telling us is thatWarcraftis going to be epic in scope and beautiful to behold. If you’re missing big, cinematic, high fantasy spectacles now that theLord of the RingsandHobbittrilogies have come to an end,Warcraftlooks like it could scratch that itch.
Jones hasgone out of his wayto show prospective audiences thatWarcraftisn’tallCG – more of those sets are practical than you might think, especially if you remember the wall-to-wall green screen of, say, theHobbitsets. Still, CG is a huge part of what’s bringing this world to life, and it has the potential to break this film if it’s not up to snuff. Fortunately, it’s looking pretty damn good from here. That opening duel looks utterly convincing, utterly gorgeous, and utterly dramatic.
Warcraftarrives in theatersJune 10, 2016.
So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.
