BlizzCon 2013 Warcraft movie panel liveblog

Welcome back folks We'll be liveblogging the Warcraft movie panel which is set for 4 00 pm EST/1 00 pm PST. We're pretty curious to hear about what's been done so far because there hasn't been a lot of solid information floating around so this promises to be an interesting panel. Join us past the cut.4 54PM A A lot on Blizzard's plate in terms of delivering games.

Q The story's there.

A In 2006 when we decided to do a movie that was before Game of Thrones existed and the fantasy audience not sure it was there.

A We've been doing this for so long that GoT came along and the TV industry changed.

A Would be interested.

A Gotta get this right and you can go anywhere with it.

4 52PM A Next year

A Probably sometime next year. No schedule as such b/c no footage has been shot.

A Next year's BlizzCon panel will have a lot of interesting stuff I think.

4 51PM A (female audience members really like this) If you look at the lore during that era it's pretty much a bunch of young white guys and when you're young and you're making up characters you do what you know and we've been pushing a more diverse cast quite a bit. I think you guys will be pleased.

A Without revealing too much I think any of you who know your lore there are definitely some opportunities for female lead roles in what we're doing.

4 49PM A (look at each other) I would say that uh the majority of the tale does take place in familiar locales (audience laughs) in ... Eastern Kingdoms.

Duncan I just heard someone unholster a gun back there.

4 48PM A It seems to me that we could do a number of trilogies if we put our mind to it.

A I was gonna say go see it a couple times

4 46PM A Yup.

A Sure do Lots of them.

Audience laughs and laughs.

4 44PM A A huge part of the development that we're doing with Nick and Blizzard find that fine line where it's believable and it works in a real world situation but stays true to to the game world.

Nick Yeah biggest swords you'll ever see on a human.

4 40PM Duncan Hell of a thing to be able to tell the story this way it's unusual to tell it from both perspectives in the same film. Feel like we're breaking a few barriers for a big film like this very few films have this kind of structure.

Pardo Especially when you're telling things from the perspective of what the average audience member will think of as the monster side the less sympathetic side.

4 39PM Pardo Games told parallel stories.

Chris Oh yeah they were always very binary you'd do the human campaign you'd do the orc campaign. Well who won Warcraft 1 Welllll the orcs kinda got the better of them that time. Kinda looking at the structure of this film someone's gotta win someone's gotta lose but in a weird way it's kinda like well maybe everyone loses a little bit.

4 38PM Chris Both of these men are going to find themselves at this crux point of history.

Duncan Both of them are protectors of their peoples and in an impending war situation where you can't get out of it they want to do the best thing respectively for their people.

Pardo Games weren't necessarily the way to tell these stories the best so this represents another opportunity.

Chris Yes a bit like Spider man moving to a medium that will allow you to do it tighten some bolts and tell the story in a tighter fashion that we can in a game.

4 36PM Pardo Hopefully everyone can get on the internet and plead for Duncan not to get fired. Chris on lore

Chris Well now I'm worried about getting fired. I would say without saying too much for lore guys out there you're going Huh Did Lothar ever meet Durotan But they feel tailor made for each other they represent the highest ideals for their respective races. Lothar his soldiering his responsibility to his people. For Durotan you didn't see him til later but he really represents the highest ideals of the orcs ... when they are not crazy. Family clan are the highest ideals. This is a guy that believes in his people that believes in its future and is ultimately horrified by the idea of their getting into dark cursed places.

4 34PM Duncan Couple of character names It is Orcs vs. Humans obviously. For us for me the story to tell was between Lothar and Durotan.

Audience cheers.

4 33PM Duncan I could get fired I just want to make sure I'm not going to get fired.

Audience laughs

4 32PM Duncan It's two years away

Pardo But you're on Twitter all the time and you did something special at Comic Con and I think BlizzCon is more important than Comic Con

Audience cheers.

Pardo Comic Con is just a bunch of powers compared to BlizzCon.

4 32PM Pardo Going to turn to the audience for questions but I've been arguing with these guys backstage I assume you want more details

Audience cheers.

4 31PM Pardo What is it like making this jump to a film of this scale

Duncan An interesting puzzle but it doesn't change the size of the film doesn't alter the challenge. What makes it easier or harder is the people you're working with. We've been fortunate and I think smart with the people we've gotten. Working in parallel keeps us honest as to what we're trying to make. We can't detour too far because then we're not addressing the role of the film. We want to make the film that Blizzard wants.

4 28PM Bill Need to capture the essence of Warcraft.

Nick These guys are exactly the same they plugged right in.

4 27PM Duncan Felt like kismet when we first started talking and I pitched things no one would have to fight their way through this.

Chris It was a happy day.

4 26PM Nick Always chasing these little things and Easter Eggs.

Bill Pay close attention to everything.

Duncan We want to strike the balance between something for people who don't know the world and people who do know it and will get more out of it.

4 24PM Nick I can't tell you enough it's absolutely in the right hands they're going to make an amazing film.

Bill The orcs aren't going to be monsters they're going to act they're going to have personality we'll build full size lighting maquettes to get all the details and costumes just right.

Duncan Constantly moving technology on that seen in Planet of the Apes and the Hulk in Avengers. We are working with the same team that did the Hulk.

4 21PM Pardo Can we talk about other people working on the film

Duncan Absolutely Max Rubio working on wardrobe and costume design huge puzzle for us to solve. Obviously half of our cast is real and half of our cast is virtual with motion capture technology so how do you approach costuming them

4 17PM Chris Trying to make these areas feel more cinematic than we can in the game.

GORGEOUS picture of Stormwind concept art.

Bill Had a little geek out moment realizing that we would build sets and I could stand in Stormwind or Ironforge.

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