Warcraft Movie Director Details What Potential Trilogy Could Have Been

While fans of Warcraft may never get a follow up to 2016's origin story film, director Duncan Jones has opened up about his cancelled plans for a trilogy. In a response to a fan on Twitter, Jones discussed the potential plots for the remaining two movies. The overall arc for the trilogy would have seen "the fulfilling of Durotan’s promise to give his people a new home," according to Jones. The second film would center around the young Go'el, who was picked up by the humans at the end of Warcraft. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-18-best-cgi-characters-in-live-action-movies&captions=true"] Go'el (who would grow up to become Thrall, leader of the Horde faction) would've been a young orc slave in Blackmoore's gladiator camp where he befriends a Tauren warrior who tells him of a new area where he and his allies could settle. The third film would've focused on freeing the orcs around the Eastern Kingdom and gathering an army before sailing across the sea to Kalimdor and founding the legendary city of Orgrimmar, the future capital city of the orcs.

three, the gathering horde army and freeing of orcs around the Eastern kingdom before a dangerous trip across the sea to Kalimdor, & the founding of the 1st Azerothian city of Orgrimmar.

Basically the trilogy was the fulfilling of Durotan’s promise to give his people a new home. — Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) June 21, 2020

While Warcraft underperformed in North America, grossing a measly $47M domestically, it is still the most successful video game adaptation of all-time internationally largely due to its popularity in China. Overall, Warcraft brought in $439M for Legendary Pictures who largely deemed it a failure after not breaking even on its massive budget. The last we heard of a sequel to Warcraft was in 2017 when Jones was "waiting to hear from Legendary" about their plans, which eventually fell through. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2016/05/31/warcraft-review"] It was definitely a treat to see such iconic characters on the silver screen, but fans can still get their fix in World of Warcraft. The long-running MMORPG has been going strong for more than fifteen years and is set to showcase more of its next expansion, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, on July 8. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matthew Adler is a Features and News writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @MatthewAdler and watch him stream a variety of games on Twitch.