Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures have officially announced the release date of the Legendary Pictures Warcraft Film. Legendary Pictures has partnered with Universal Pictures to launch the Warcraft Film on December 18, 2015.
Director Duncan Jones plans to roll cameras on January 13, 2014 in Vancouver. Several actors have been rumored to be in talks to join the crew.
There are contradictory rumors about the plot. Bleeding Cool recently mentioned it is based on Khadgar and Medivh during the First War, while the Production Weekly audition postings describes an early Arthas plot.
Legendary Pictures’ WARCRAFT, based upon Blizzard Entertainment’s globally-renowned universe, will be released by Universal Pictures on Friday, December 18, 2015. WARCRAFT marks the first film dated under the recently formed partnership between Universal and Legendary.
The film, an epic adventure of world-colliding conflict, will be directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) and is written by Charles Leavitt and Duncan Jones. The producers are Charles Roven and Alex Gartner for Atlas Entertainment and Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni for Legendary. Stuart Fenegan, Jillian Share and Brent O’Connor will serve as executive producers. Blizzard’s Chris Metzen will co-produce.
