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dark forces are upon us we went to the beginning many many years ago 20 years ago the first warcraft game came out orcs and humans and it was all and that was really the story of the first contact between the orcs which were these giant massive creatures and that left their homeworld because it was dying and they had to find a new place to live and they invaded this world of Azeroth which is where our film takes place and it's really about the conflict of those two of those two cultures sort of finding themselves in the same place hey I mean I've played these games for a long time so I thought if there was any way that in places where hopefully it doesn't pull the audience out I could I could reference sort of reference those things I thought it would be a fun thing to do so whether it's sort of Sergio Leone shots during some of the jewels sort of one-on-one jewels in there in the film or the oh yeah there's they're sort of more the RTS sort of isometric view camera yeah we try to put them in there yes there was absolutely something I wanted to show but even I knew that it wasn't appropriate because of the specific time frame in the Warcraft story that we were looking at but there are these creatures called Turin which you may know about which are basically mine at all they're just giant all men and women bull men and bull women I would have loved to have put those characters into the film but you know I think if we get the chance to make one or two more I know how I can sneak them into a sequel they'd be a lot of fun to bring a movie well not to get too spoilery but at the end of our movie we have you know we still have a few characters we can we lose a few characters along the way but we still have a few characters that we bring through with us but then there's also kind of an upcoming generation and I would certainly want to have a an amount of focus on those on those youngsters as they get older what I certainly thinking on a genre level yeah I mean you just have to look at how incredibly successful comic book movies have become and and the fact that Star Wars is having this amazing resurgence as they're kind of bringing in all of these mutant all this new blood to her to work on their movies and I think the transition of games into movies is something that's had kind of a rough a rough a rough history but but maybe you know maybe we're starting to get there with with hopefully films like Warcraft I don't know assassin's creed's coming out later on as well I think in the past it has been a tricky thing to do I think it's become much easier now because they're able to do it within the environments that you're shooting in so I think you know Planet of the Apes was one of the ones that first kind of cracked that technology and fortunately we were able to build on top of that so we were actually physically building all of these beautiful beautiful film sets so that we had all of this stuff in camera and then we would have Toby in his sofa pajamas with his balls on and his funny helmet we would have him in all of the other Orca characters in those live-action environments so we would be moving the camera and capturing the live-action elements in the background and then knowing that we were going to be able to replace him with our all characters after the fact I mean it's been fantastic I mean I think you know it's weird for me because I I'm you know I'm so UK and u.s. centric as far as the movies I see and where I see them and with this film we've been opening it we opened up in France first and then in the Philippines in Belgium and I think Russia is now open Indonesia and it's kind of slowly sort of patchwork moving its way across the world so every day new countries are getting it and I'm getting a southern barrage of different languages as people say that they love the film but there are Warcraft fans everywhere I think that's one of the things that I've learned from this