In a new interview, Warcraft director Duncan Jones describes the film’s messy behind-the-scenes situation, revealing that the movie simply wasn’t very high up on Blizzard Entertainment’s priority list. Expectations weren’t exactly high heading into the film’s June 2016 release. Nearly ten years had passed since the project was first announced, and early buzz indicated that the adaptation hadn’t exactly been faithful to its source material, the hyper-popular MMORPG World of Warcraft.
Unfortunately, Warcraft ended up falling short of its already low bar, drawing scathing reviews that criticized its overly formulaic story and bland character work. The film did manage to pull in over $430 million worldwide, over 2.5x its reported $160 million ...
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