Last week,
Badass News posted
an article detailing an interview with director
Duncan Jones in which the
Warcraft movie was one of the main topics of discussion. Jones is the son of
David Bowie and director of the impressive science fiction flick
Moon, as well as
Source Code, another sci-fi title being released later this year. Though the interview reveals nothing about the production of the
Warcraft movie, Jones thinks that the film is going to break the ongoing trend of terrible film adaptations of video games.
In the article, Jones says he believes it's possible to make a good adaptation -- it just has to be approached properly. "A good game adaptation is where you find the story or the emotional aspect that's at the heart of a computer game and you replicate that on film. It doesn't mean you need to have first person perspective or try and capture the mechanics of a game," he says.
Jones thinks the
Warcraft film will be the film to break the mold because director
Sam Raimi seems to be approaching the film correctly. "From the little I've read of interviews with him, the way he's approaching it makes so much sense. It's what I was talking about - it's not worrying about how the game plays, it's about creating the world of the game and investing the audience in that world."
Jones explains that he's a serious gamer himself and is skeptical about other directors who claim the same. He doesn't think most directors have the time to be both hardcore gamers and filmmakers. Jones, on the other hand, says he stays up all night to accommodate his gaming habit and cites titles like
Starcraft 2 and
Call of Duty: Black Ops. He also says he's looking forward to
Diablo 3.
Jones admits that he's "hugely jealous" of Raimi's getting the chance to direct the
Warcraft film; the writer of the article goes so far as to suggest that Jones have a chance at directing it, since Raimi set it aside to work on
The Great and Mighty Oz. That's not really quite how Hollywood works, though, so unless Raimi steps down from the project himself, I wouldn't count on his losing the project just yet.Filed under:
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