Warcraft: The Movie

The total lack of any kind of star-power is what's really sticking out to me: usually when a cast is so relatively unknown, there still tends to be a cameo here and there by someone more famous; someone that'll looks good in posters and trailers anyway, but you don't have to pay them for the full film. I guess the studio are hoping the brand recognition alone will carry the buzz, but the absence of a big-name is curious.

I think the problem with the suggestions that it looks generic is that ... well, it does look generic & there's very little you can do with a High Fantasy setting these days that won't end up looking terribly derivative and blatantly cribbing on Lord of the Rings & its ilk. IIRC, Warcraft came about when a deal with Warhammer fell through and Blizzard went ahead with their own mythology anyway, but both franchises clearly lean heavily on a style and worldbuilding approach that apes Tolkien's vision of a fantasy realm. You'd think with Earth History, we just went from Medieval to Industrial age with nothing in between

Of Blizzard's franchises, personally I'd be more interested in a Starcraft adaptation; sure its own mythology takes heavy inspiration from other sources, but I think they're less played-out and universal than the standard Fantasy setting of Warcraft's.

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Is it not odd that there's no early reviews?

There hasn't really been much buzz, marketing or tattle about this from the get-go; even back when production had started nobody was really talking about the film. Hard to know what to make of the general lack of studio enthusiasm.