Before a movie, there is a trailer. And before a trailer, there is often a teaser. In the case of Warcraft the movie, the first trailer comes out Friday, Nov. 6, but a teaser was released Tuesday to sate our hunger for all things Orcish. It's just how Hollywood works these days; when teasers start getting their own teasers, that's when we need to start worrying.
The 15-second teaser for Warcraft, a fantasy action flick based on Blizzard Entertainment's massively popular gaming franchise, brings a lot of fighting between the franchise's perpetual enemies, Orcs and humans, but very little in the way of dialogue or plot.
We won't complain much: There's a flying eagle, an army of humans preparing for war, axe-swinging Orcs and yes, even a blunderbuss -- exactly what you'd expect from a Warcraft movie.
Directed and co-written by Duncan Jones, the movie has been a long time coming: It was originally announced in 2006, and had at some point had Sam Raimi attached as director. The Jones-directed version was announced in 2013 and scheduled to arrive in December of this year, but was later pushed to June 10, 2016.
War is coming. See the exclusive trailer debut this Friday. #WarcraftMoviehttps://t.co/c2sSLAWU4N— #WarcraftMovie (@warcraftmovie) November 3, 2015
In other Duncan Jones news, the director has announced he would manage to find time to finish his 12-years-in-the-making pet project, the sci-fi film Mute. According to The Wrap, the movie, starring Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard, is about a mute bartender who's searching for a missing friend, and is "unlike any other science fiction being made today," according to Jones.
Have been wanting to make this for so, so long. You guys are going to get something really special. :) pic.twitter.com/RnDHjW5OaX— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) November 4, 2015
Jones has two full-length films under his belt, both in the sci-fi genre: the 2009 solipsistic drama Moon, starring Sam Rockwell, and the 2011 time-travel mindbender Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.