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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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"For years, our world has been at peace... but somthing is coming... I can feel it"

So much originality blew the skin off my face.

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@henry4: "Whatever you plan to do, do it now" Every generic line in one trailer.

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@henry4: If there's one thing Warcraft is not, it's original. So that ****'s just canonical, man.

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@henry4: As the great Zeratul once said 'I bring tidings of dooooooommm'.

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@henry4: Thats usually how war goes mate.

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@mesome713: war...war never changes

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would if the fucking video worked..

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@jessie82: Aw that sucks, it was an awesome Youtube video, Gamespot done replaced it with a cheap arse one.

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@mesome713: yeah because somehow they managed to **** up imbedding a youtube video

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Holly molly.

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Man...this was very underwhelming, looks so generic and kind of meh...was hoping for more, let's see if the movie is way better than this trailer.

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@madsnakehhh: Exactly my thought ... Blizzards CGIs gave me goosebumps when this trailer felt generic ... I really believe Blizzard should have gone with CGI only with this one ... My opinion

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it's looks better than i thought.

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so... only a bunch of Orcs ? you mean there's no Night Elf, Undead, Dwarf, Tauren or Blood Elf in the movie?

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@princeev: There will probably be Dwarfs and High Elf's in the movie. But most of the other races weren't around during the first War.

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@princeev: Thats like putting every character in the Marvel or DC universe on the screen at once for their first movie. Creating a franchise takes time.

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@princeev: It's based on Orcs vs Humans (first Warcraft)

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@princeev: I dont think they can even show everyone at once, would be a big mess and confuse the average movie goer. I think they want to start it slow.

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@princeev: This movie takes place during the Warcraft I era. Those races didn't become involved in the whole Horde-Alliance War until Warcraft 2 and 3.

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look not so good imo.

look's a bit like lotr cosplay at mickeyland.

another 3D oriented flick,

sure far from convincing me...

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Ok, this is somewhat based in the first Warcraft; so we will see just orcs and humans, probably; If they keep making movies then the rest of the races will appear. The CG is pretty obvious but is good nonetheless, It is definitely a must watch for me.

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@adsparky: the trailer kind of shows who the next film is going to be based on

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looks pretty good, CGI can only go so far so im fine with it looking a little fake, as long as its a good movie.

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I spy a baby green jesus

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Sorry, but this looks awful. The effects look great, but so what. The entire Warcraft 'story' is derivative crap.

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Story sounds pretty cliché, gonna pass on this for sure.

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ouch :/

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My fetus.

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Not bad, some of the scenes are directly out of the cutscenes of the original Warcraft. Think it will be a little confusing for modern World of Warcraft players as this seems to be directly from the original game which was just orcs vs humans. Kind of an odd choice considering the menagerie of races they have now, nice throw back to old school game players though.

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It looks good, but it seems like a near complete re-write of the incredible story that is so much of what makes Warcraft Warcraft.

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It seems like they are skipping every race but Orc's and Humans, which is a total violation of the world and will likely make the movie feel almost unrelated to the game. I saw warriors represented, perhaps paladins, but no warlocks, rogues, or anything else....

Unfortunate, the graphics for the Orc's where fantastic though, but some very fake looking animations otherwise.

Definitely not as excited as I was before.

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@dlaney34: It's because First game warcraft orc's and humans was about war between orcish horde and humans of stormwind.

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@dlaney34: Bad troll is a bad troll...no one is that dumb to not know the roots of the Warcraft story.

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@dlaney34: you mean this "Warcraft" trailer? of a film based on the orcs and humans game? I wonder why it features mainly orcs and humans...

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@dlaney34: I got the impression it's a Warcraft movie, not a World of Warcraft movie.

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@Mogan: Really? So the movie is taking an isometric view from the sky looking down at the world the entire time? No? It's taking place in the WORLD of Warcraft? Oh.

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@dlaney34: "So the movie is taking an isometric view from the sky looking down at the world the entire time?"

is the movie about killing bosses for loot? can they hearthstone to an inn? do they level up? is the entire film done from a 3rd person perspective? if your gonna use silly logic to try and be right make sure it can't be used against you to point out you're wrong

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@Mogan: Those are the same exact things, dummy! I'm hoping maybe there's a secret ending clip after the credits, showing more of World of Warcraft's different races and characters.

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@wilson_diabetes: No, they aren't. A Star Wars movie doesn't need to include every character and race from all Star Wars canon, but a Knights of the Old Republic movie would be expected to include specific characters and themes from the game it's based on.

This isn't a World of Warcraft movie, it's just a Warcraft movie.

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@wilson_diabetes You're simply wrong, World of Warcraft is entirely an alternate timeline of the original RTS games, simple as that.:

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@wilson_diabetes: no they aren't

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@normanislost: Are you high? This game takes place in the WORLD of warcraft. Stop being stupid.

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@dlaney34: No, he's just played PC games longer than you have.

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@dlaney34: and the film is being shown on earth but that's not in the title and neither is "world" the film is based on Warcraft: orcs and humans an RTS game set before "world"

and it's also not on the "world of Warcraft" it takes place on azeroth

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@normanislost: The film is on Earth, but in Azeroth. Right! This is all so logical now.

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@normanislost: finally somebody said it

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Eh. I love the main guy, but I just can't imagine this being good. CGI is solid, but something just feels off about the whole tone. Pass for me.

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