Top Highlights of the Warcraft Movie Trailer

Familiar characters

Those who have invested countless hours playing the Warcraft games can’t have failed to notice that the movie features some of their favourite characters from the games, such as Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel) of the human Alliance, and Durotan (Toby Kebbell), leader of the orcish Frostwolf clan. Also, King Llane Wrynn and Orgrim the orc also feature in Duncan Jones’ movie.

And while pleasing Warcraft fans and getting them to flock to theaters won’t be that hard (after all, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft video game had more than 10 million subscribers at some point), will casual viewers find a Warcraft movie appealing enough? Casual moviegoers might be tempted given that the movie clearly draws inspiration from HBO’s Game of Thrones, which has been a massive success, so a little Thrones-style drama in the script could add to the movie as much as the special effects…

Epic Battles

Just like in the Warcraft video games, the movie is likely to feature plenty of huge and epic battles between the Alliance and the Horde. And the two sides come into conflict after the orc’s homeland is ravaged by an unknown event, and orcish chief Durotan and his tribe end up settling on Azeroth’s fields of green.

And while the trailer hints at some pretty big and CGI-heavy battles between the humans and the orcs, it remains to be seen whether the action will be convincing, clear-cut and entertaining, whether director Duncan Jones can prevent the battles from being confusing and instead produce an epic and entertaining spectacle worthy of the Warcraft name…