Ex-Activision CEO slams Blizzard’s Warcraft film as “one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen” that caused delayed game expansions

Earlier than the Sonic the Hedgehog film sequence and The Final of Us on HBO, online game motion pictures had been largely horrible. Alongside the rough-but-fun Resident Evil movies, we needed to take care of sludge like Uwe Boll’s total filmography and atrocious flicks like Max Payne. In 2016, there was Warcraft, a film adaptation of Blizzard’s iconic RTS-turned-MMO franchsie.

Talking on the Grit Podcast, by way of Eurogamer, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick spoke on the film adaptation’s adaptation, revealing he additionally despises the live-action flick that was not solely “horrible” however “one of many worst motion pictures” the ex-CEO has ever seen.

Bobby Kotick on Warcraft 2016

Within the interview, Kotick revealed that he had little involvement with the creation of the Warcraft film, a movie that was imagined to be the beginning of a whole film trilogy. Whereas there are some followers of the movie (me, sadly, go away me alone), the movie has largely been lambasted as a fairly terrible piece of filmaking.

“World of Warcraft, the film… I believed was a horrible thought,” Kotick defined. “They’d signed the deal earlier than we owned the corporate. It took a great deal of assets and distracted them.”

Kotick defined that Blizzard’s involvement within the movie took away an excessive amount of from what they had been creating on the online game facet. As creatives took over the movie, recreation growth slowed and content material wasn’t being launched.

“Take into consideration all of the individuals who make video video games for a residing, and now have an opportunity to make a film,” he stated. “They had been, like, serving to with the casting, they usually’re on the set… it’s simply an enormous distraction. Our expansions had been late, patches weren’t getting completed on time.”

As for his ideas on the movie itself: “”And the film was horrible,” he stated. “It was one of many worst motion pictures I’ve ever seen.”

Warcraft could also be a foul film, nevertheless it was made with coronary heart, and there are some moments of greatness for followers of the franchise. Nonetheless, it’s universally panned so I’m in all probability simply filled with it, however I’m glad it exists.

For extra Blizzard information, learn Diablo creator David Brevik’s ideas on why Diablo 4 doesn’t match up to the originals. Or examine the original Diablo 3 that was truly similar to Diablo 4.