MOVIE NEWS – Duncan Jones, the director of the 2016 Warcraft movie, thinks that even with a 443 million dollar lifetime gross revenue, there’s not much of a chance of a sequel happening. (Even though this should have been a profitable film, as its budget was reported to be 160 million!)

Duncan Jones, the son of the recently deceased singer David Bowie, told Collider that he planned two sequels for Warcraft, explaining why he sees no chance of ever getting to make them:

„It really would have been pretty special. It’s unfortunate now, you gotta try and go with your harp on these things. I made the film as best I could on the first film hoping that it would connect with an audience. I genuinely think that in retrospect and as time has moved on, people are starting to appreciate the film than maybe the critics did when it first came out but unfortunately I don’t think we’re going to get to make any more.

[Warcraft] was an absolute… The essence of studio filmmaking. I got a chance to experience multiple studios takes on what a film of this size should be in one movie because it was originally. Originally, we were Warner Brothers, I was working with Atlas, I was working with Universal. It was working with Legendary, I was working with Blizzard and obviously, Blizzard was very passionate about what film should be because they are who had been with the game for so long and they didn’t want to detract from that. So there were more points as to what the film needed to be. And then Legendary was bought by Wanda while we were making the movie. So it was a unique moment in time for experiencing what kind of craziness studio filmmaking could be,” Jones said.

He added that the three-film arc would have included further storytelling for Gul’dan and Thrall, and, on a wider scale, how the orcs left their homeworld to live in Azeroth. And the first Warcraft’s profitability mainly came via China: 213.5 million dollars came from this country. Almost half of the total lifetime gross!

You can read our review of the Warcraft movie here.

Source: GameSpot