Firstly I do kind of agree with some of the above comments. A Starcraft approach would possibly be much better. We have just had a massive load of Lord of the Rings shoved down our throats. This film is going to fail, as it will need to compare to such an effort IMO. I neither loved nor hated the LOTR, I have not played WoW, but, it is destined to fail. At least with a new audience, it is just a vehicle for WoW fans, of which I am definitely not.
The problem is Hollywood, loves to turn out trash for money. It is cost effective. Rush stuff, especially with a franchise name and following behind it, it will still make money. Many films have apparently failed in years, when in fact they made profits, just not as big as they predicted, and thus they deem any profit a fail... greedy a holes.
Then on top of rushing it out, you have the dragged it out. How can you drag something out and rush it at the same time. I do not know, but America has proved this over and over. 24 ... a series that got worse and worse. 16 hours of true footage with the massive adverts that filled it. Yet that was still too much. Weak, dragged out plots, side plots that were just "who cares"... Elisha Cuthbert returning to her role continuously for a paycheck while playing out her boring story lines.
Lost, another show that was dragged out. Through a writers strike I believe which ruined it. And then it was murdered in the final season, because although a website from fans had so many ideas and questions, they said, please don't end it with the crap possible ending when you have opened so many doors of possibility. And what did the writers do ? Slammed all the doors and windows of opportunity killing the show off, with everyones respect for it, as it made 6 seasons of a show pointless... pointless.
I just think, that this project would have done better in a Game of Thrones short series format. Where you had time to, build up characters and their attachment to the audience, and yet not dragged it out with too much fluff that people get bored (like I did with this post).
Personally, I will have no attachment to any of the characters, I won't care how it ends. Which is what happened when they did Resident Evil, where MAIN characters from the games, pretty much cameo along side, Milla Jovovich, and you are like, oh yay it's Chris Whatshisface... oh the films over, yeah don't care. Which everyone thinks about my opinion
