@mudcrabsafari: not to create too much a fuss, but building a case on vague references comparing movie franchises was a waste of words and my time. I got a little dumber because I'm responding, but that's my fault. Comments like Blizzard being Street Fighter lunchtime playing geeks is ridiculous. One expound on such a generalization about anyone or anything to make themselves seem profound on any subject.

Any fantasy story line can be compared to the LOTR franchise simply because it's the same genre and LOTR is the current standard bearer. Why make any more of it than necessary. Obviously Tolkien's a master fantasy writer whose work we all enjoy. It doesn't require your over analytical assistance to validate its place, so why put down Warcraft for such a vain reason, actual critiques exists?

I never played the game, but love sci-fi fantasy and can't get enough of it and there's precious little of it by writers who can immerse you into their world as did the greats such as Tolkien, Donaldson, & the God father himself Asimov. I'm also a huge fan of David Durham and his Accacia trilogy but have not found anything to come since. I enjoyed the movie except the ending when lead characters were killed off one by one so unceremoniously. I was like wtf, the bad guy's going to win? To me, it wasn't the story-lines introduced during the movie (as I didn't see it as too much to track), but what was left open by the death of these main characters... now you have to develop a whole new set for a sequel. King Llane, Durotan, his wife, Medivh (although he really foreshadowed that a millions times... I mean how many times you going to tell Khadgar was not the guardian, "not yet"... ok, we got it, somehow the torch will get passed... THAT was shoved down our throats). Then to end the movie with a Moses type scene of the baby in the Nile to be found by chance for someone to raise it creates another story-line that has to be developed from the beginning when you're trying to reduce the others.

IMHO, deviation from any Warcraft story-line in the game is the best option and hiring the services of a master fantasy writer to pick this up and move into a new story-line from within the WOW, is the best option going forward. The game creates limitless story possibilities why shackle yourself to the one that's in the game and simply use the world to write an intriguing new story?

Resolve the issue between Anduin and Garona quickly to eliminate that bull from haunting us the entire moving and taking away that soap opera drama... let us enjoy the story at hand. End any issue with the baby Moses by settling him into a family and letting him be... that's for another time... then settle quickly into the fight between the Orcs and Humans so we can focus on the plot to rid the world of the evil magics that makes Gul'dan so powerful... you can even bring the child back into the story towards the end to see Gul'dan's comeuppance

I think they've got something and somewhat of a cult following brewing. You can use that and create a more cost effect sequel... plus, why waste the software used to create the first set of characters. Enhance it, and let's do this again... uh, this time with better marketing because I vaguely remember this film coming to market. But then again, cost and profits, not our entertainment is the driving force behind any movie, so what can we expect from a corporation with limited foresight. I mean, how do you waste the lessons learned and the technology to just end this so quickly... but since they ended the lives of the main characters... how could we expect anything different from the movie itself.