After a long wait, Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment are finally ready to show the world a glimpse of the upcoming Warcraft movie.
While the live-action movie, directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) actually finished filming back in May 2014, it's a very CG-heavy flick. All the time between then and the film's release day on June 10, 2016 has gone into making the world of Azeroth -- and its orcs -- look good.
We've seen a few still images, but you can see the first tangible fruits of all that animation labor in the trailer below.
The story goes back to the plot of the original game, which pitted orcs and humans against each other in a war for a place to call home.
If you ask me, it looks OK! I don't know if its technical spectacle will win over audiences the same way Avatar did, but I've got a lot of room in my heart for a good fantasy movie, and this could fit that bill.
Part of me is surprised that it's taken this long for a Warcraft movie to be made. Millions of people have played the best-selling online game World of Warcraft, and the series' lore extends far beyond that with the original strategy games, not to mention novels set in the universe.
