Inevitably, footage from the Warcraft movie has leaked on the internet (seriously, they do realise that absolutely everyone has some kind of recording device designed to make an expensive movie look blurry and terrible?), giving us a look at the world and culture of the warlike orcs.
The clip, shown to fans at Comic Con this week, sees Toby Kebbell’s Durotan leading his band of warriors from their homeworld through a portal to Azeroth created by Gul’dan the warlock, who is clearly to be trusted because he constantly chants about death and fuels his magic by draining the life-force of thousands of slaves.
It’s not your typical movie trailer, which I guess is because Blizzard wants to make clear that the focus is on the orc horde as much as it is on the humans. In terms of visuals, it looks a lot like a World of Warcraft cutscene - fans of oversized, muscly orcs, fret ye not, this is the over-the-top fantasy world that Blizzard created represented in full.
Obviously it’s hard to tell exactly how all that CGI will hold up when the footage you’re watching consists of about three pixels, but I’m keeping an open mind. Hopefully Blizzard will kowtow to fans, and officially release a proper version of the trailer. Warcraft hits cinemas next June.
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