![]() But in the movie Orgrim and Durotan are being shown as brown, not green.īut they aren’t the only Orcs in the movie: Gul’dan and Garona are both green-skinned as are countless unnamed Orcs. This wasn’t because they drank the blood of Mannoroth - this was because the world itself was being slowly corrupted beyond redemption. In Warcraft canon, the exposure to fel magic caused Draenor to wither and die, and the skin of the Orcs turned from brown to green. And the end result should be a movie that everyone is happy with, and everyone can enjoy. Some story arcs are there, some have been altered and changed to suit the medium they’re being written for. That said, what appears in the movie will likely be a different story than the one we’ve always been told, much like the movies that come out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe differ from the comics you pick up every month from the comic shop. Sure, this is a movie for Warcraft fans, but it’s also a movie for fantasy fans that have never really given Warcraft, or maybe even video games, a second glance. Not just one that gamers can enjoy, but one that is widely appealing to catch the attention of everyone that plunks down the cash for a ticket. There’s too much there to work with, so it needs to be pared down into what will make a concentrated, fun, entertaining cinematic experience. However, what makes a game interesting and holds people’s attention for endless hours of gameplay is not something you can just cram into two hours worth of cinema and expect people to enjoy. And by now, it’s been expanded to the point that it is a gigantic, sprawling tale with a million different twists, turns, and things that were written and designed to make the game interesting to the people playing it. That story has since been expanded over the years and with the release of additional games, novels, and other material. When Warcraft: Orcs and Humans was released 20 years ago, it was an RTS game - a game intended to take up a good chunk of time, a game not necessarily as devoted to telling a good story as it was to being fun. This is the story of the First War, but it’s a retelling of that story. While we already have hints into the movieverse with the new Durotan novel - which also gives us a good look at the movie’s all-new Orgrim Doomhammer - there’s still a lot we don’t know. As we gear up for the Warcraft movie - there are just a few short weeks to go for American audiences, and even less time for international viewers - gamers are still wondering just how it fits into the RTS and MMO story we already know. ![]()
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