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As promised, Blizzard Entertainment released the first official trailer for the upcoming Warcraft movie today during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2015. The fantasy adventure movie based on Blizzard's gaming series looks quite grand. Take a look at the trailer below.

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Warcraft is directed by Duncan Jones, who previously made the acclaimed sci-fi movies Moon and Source Code. It stars Dominic Cooper, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Toby Kebbel, and Clancy Brown. The film has had a lengthy production process--the 123 day shoot wrapped in May 2014, and the original release date of December 2015 has shifted twice, to the current date of June 10, 2016.

Warcraft is one of more than a dozen movies based on video games currently in development. Check out GameSpot's roundup to see some of the others.

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Everyone is wayyyy too clean in that trailer..

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I can't wait to rent this from red box.

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Uuuhhgg.... that story. Is Blizzard even involved in this film in any way? Was expecting a bit more. It just looks all over the place.

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@blackace: What is so over the place? It's the story of when the humans and orcs for met...

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@blackace: It's based on the original Warcraft games. Anyone who knows the lore, knows whats going to happen.

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gamespot users are incredibly negative it doesn't matter what it is...all there is a warm blast of hate from us...makes me wonder what happened to this site anyway eddie always deletes my post so I'm pissing in the wind

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I just want to see a game based movie that will prove that, when done right, these movies won't be a steaming pile of crap. I have hopes for this one more than any other similar movies I had hopes for in the past, but we will have to wait and see.

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Well like my wife said, if you're into the Lord of the rings movies, you are probably into this regardless of what you think about the games.

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Ok i had zero interest in this movie because its a video game movie which usually suck... but then I saw Ragnar Lothbrok.... Im sure his presence will at least make this "watchable" probably not "good" but "watchable".

But umm if i recall the original warcraft was about orcs vs human... but this movie is about orcs and humans vs what exactly?

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@DuoMaxwell007: It's humans and Orcs VS Orcs.

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@DuoMaxwell007: I know nothing about this movie or warcraft but that trailer told us the whole plot...

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The first war I feel like is some of the least covered material in the series, so I'm really excited that we're essentially getting a movie covering the first game. The movie looks pretty, as well. Here's hoping it doesn't end up being a major disappointment.

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Wow, these comments really show who has been with the series since the beginning, and who has only been with it since World of Warcraft. lol

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Can't wait for Aba'dar II.

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Gamespot you wanna fix your bullshit video player? shit doesn't work for jack.

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Not really a warcraft fan never played them and no nothing about them ,but I am intrigued and will probably go see this. It looks like it may be good, but I don't know if it is actually following a warcraft plot or anything.

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Not made by Blizzard, that's the problem.

Also, needs more Sean Bean.

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@siarhei: how many times does that man have to die before he can survive a movie?

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@West123: LOL. To be fair, he did survive National treasure :)

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Congratulations all involved. That looks a right mess.

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That looks like one expensive turd, right there.

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It looks the part, but at the same time it gives a the vibe that is just "one more adventure in Azeroth", and not really a movie about the Warcraft universe.

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I hope you all love greenscreens!

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@elheber: I just heard Tarkus from Dawn of War II sneering, "Xenos" through the whole trailer.

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Looks awesome, definitely can't wait to see this movie.

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they are might be on to something here ... Baby Orc Moses ^^ ...

but this looks really well made, like I would do it ...

not as generic as that smurf movie from James cameron and not as cheap as these disney films with cars or meatballs are usaly are ...

go Blizzard !

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@omotih: it's green jesus not orc moses

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the green baby looked really really really (x 100) CGI.

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No Arthas? WTF

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@finalkain: The film is based around the events of the first war.

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Its obviously still in production, hence the delays. No one will know for sure till the release date, so at least something not Marvel to look forward to. All opinions, at this stage, are only moot.

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I have only played warcraft 3 and frozen throne. Is this movie going to be about warcraft 1. The story of ner'zhul and thralls father?

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@habeasdata: Yeah, it's about Warcraft 1, the orcs' first arrival on Azeroth, the first war, and all that jazz.

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@habeasdata: my understanding was yes but I'm not positive.

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I say this as a declared Blizzard fanboy.

That looked absolutely terrible.

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i'm listening

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It's ok. i would have preferred it if it was "darker" and more mature. Will the undead, elfs.. etc be in the movie or just orcs and humans?

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@harharhar69: high elves maybe, but not the undead

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@harharhar69: This shows the orcs first invasion, long before WC3. No elves or undead.

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@harharhar69: I hope they're saving some races and classes for the next movies.
It might be a bad idea to pack all cultures in warcraft into one movie

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Looks forgettable, just like most game to movie conversions.

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Warcraft = Cartoon

Pixar = Perfect

= Make it live action

Is Hollywood stupid?

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@uninspiredcup: Pixar while technically independent is still almost completely in control of Disney, this means they would probably not be able to maintain all of the various rights associated with it or at best they would have to split a good portions of the income from toys etc.

So yeah sucks but that's the way it is. I honestly don't know why they didn't just do an in house CGI movie as they've always excelled at it.

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Another one bites the dust. ..

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Looks ok ... I would love to say awesome but something didnt fell epic enough to say so. And i was waiting for far more close to reality CGIs from one of the best CGI companies out there.

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All I have heard is how bad people have wanted a World of Warcraft/Warcraft movie. It's finally here. Now all we will hear is how terrible it's going to be... #TheInternet

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@triplebullet: Don't be fooled. Many people are still looking forward to the film. Go to any YouTube vid and look at the ratio of likes to dislikes. It's just your typical vocal minority who can't stand it when something is popular that they don't care for.

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Great trailer overall, but live-action sequences feel so out of place. They should've done full CGI for this one.

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@igorphoenix: I liked Advent Children

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Looks promising

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