First trailer for 'Warcraft: The Beginning' is wall-to-wall fantasy

 By 
Adam Rosenberg
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For more than a decade, we've only seen the world of Azeroth as it is realized in Blizzard's carefully constructed World of Warcraft sandboxes.

That changes today, as the debut trailer for Warcraft: The Beginning is here.

And hey, look at that: it's all right. The story shows humans and orcs being forced to put aside their differences when a new arrival threatens all of Azeroth. Expect epic battles and heaping piles of CG beasts of legend and myth, if this two-minute peek is any indication.

Video game adaptations haven't traditionally fared well at the box office, but director Duncan Jones seems to have a very firm grasp on both filmmaking (see also: Moon) and video games (see also: Jones' daily Twitter feed).

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