Warcraft movie sequel not confirmed, but Duncan Jones is already planning
The movie's director is thinking about a possible trilogy and offers some specific ideas on what could happen next.
Legendary Pictures has not made a decision on whether it will move forward with a sequel to the Warcraft movie, a film that was a bit of a disappointment in the United States, but still grossed more than $430 million worldwide. The uncertainty, however, has not kept Director Duncan Jones from thinking about what future films could bring.
In a series of tweets responding to fan questions, Jones revealed what he had in mind if given the greenlight for what he hopes could be a Warcraft trilogy. For the first sequel, he said that the Orcs would have discovered armor and started using it. Also, there would be a scene where the Kirin Tor mage city of Dalaran would actually land in the Alterac mountains, with the mages spreading magic and being more open after the death of King Llane.
As for the focus of the movie, the "Main orc focus would have been Go'el's imprisonment & violent bid for freedom," he tweeted. On the human side, he was a bit more nebulous. "Don't want to give too much away, as who knows... but Khadgar unleashing Pandora's Box, Lothar arc, Varian."
Jones, however, did acknowledge the plot problems with the original. "You have to focus. Trying to serve too many threads is exactly the problem that got us in this position."
If Legendary does approve a new film, Jones could be without the main story writer from the original, Chris Metzen, who retired from Blizzard back in September. Metzen is closely associated with the creation of the Warcraft lore, but it is unclear if he would return for the opportunity to further the story.
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Like I said, the characters from the first film, who weren't very good. I'm not sure whose fault that was, if a different script or different actors would fix the problems. Garona could have been interesting, but they made her a damsel instead of the badass she was in the game. The only character I really liked in the film was Durotan, but he dead.
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Maybe the soundtrack can use hits like
https://youtu.be/W9J1DAqxSkE
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I know lots of people would prefer that they just do a movie version of Arthas' story. I think that has a lot of promise, as Arthas has a compelling arc and could carry a whole movie in a way that none of the mess of characters in the first film could. My only question is where do you end the story? Does it end with him defeating Mal'ganis? Do you follow him all the way to becoming the Lich King? Neither of those are particularly heroic endings. Or do you skip all the way to World of Warcraft and end with the defeat of the Lich King? That seems like enough that it could be at least two movies.
I think the most likely story they do, based on how the first one ended, is the story of Thrall. Maybe incorporate some of the story elements that were in the cancelled Warcraft Adventures, or the books based around it. -
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medivh gets corrupted by fel magic and demons, it's hinted at throughout the film and the appearance of fel magic is the central mystery, none of the rest happen yet in the timeline. It literally is a version of the story from first RTS game with some of the additions made over the years to flesh it out
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