Quick update for ya on WARCRAFT, Legendary Pictures have just tweeted the principle cast!
Reacting to the news breaking, Robert Kazinsky (Pacific Rim, Red Tails) tweeted out:
“As a career WoW player, 463 days /played, it’s pretty much my ultimate job. proud to be a part of something that is such a major part of me.”
As well as cast Legendary also confirmed production to begin in January 2014 in Vancouver, Canada with a current release date of March 11th 2016.
“Paper Rovers….” sang Marie Osmond once, as if she knew one day you would be able to print off and make your very own Lunar Rover from MOON. No surprise though as she did have the nickname ‘Nostradamus’ within the Osmond family.
Thanks to Martin Sänger for sharing. Get yours from his site and have a look at the other Sci-Fi related paper craft…I said paper… oh suit yerself 
Rachel van der Meer got in touch with MOON Director Duncan Jones and Concept Artist & VFX Supervisor Gavin Rothery recently to let them know that along with fellow students at the NHTV In Breda, Netherlands, she had built a virtual MOON base. A MOON base that can be entered, walked around, and interacted with. Rachel kindly took the time to provide a LOT more detail (and make me jealous that she got to walk around it using an Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset)… Continue reading
The Giant Screen in Birmingham, UK have been holding a poll over the last few days over on Twitter as part of their build up to the release of the highly anticipated science fiction thriller Gravity. The poll asked those who took part to vote for their favourite Sci-Fi classics from a selection of 12, with the top three to be screened the week before Gravity opens.
We are very proud to announce that Duncan Jones’ award winning 2009 feature film debut MOON starring Sam Rockwell topped the vote and will be screened at The Giant Screen on Wednesday the 6th November at 19:30. Full poll results here.
To win a pair of tickets answer this question:
How wide is The Giant Screen?
Answer, name and delivery address for tickets please to unklerupert@manmademovies.co.uk
Competition closes next Friday 25th October at 23:59. Good luck 
COMPETITION CLOSE – Congratulations to Amy Griffiths, see you at the Giant Screen
The posting of Blizzard Entertainment’s schedule for BlizzCon 2013 reveals WARCRAFT Director Duncan Jones will be attending the convention to take part in a one hour presentation along with Chris Metzen (Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development) and Rob Pardo (Chief Creative Officer).
Taking place on Saturday 9th November 13:00 – 14:00 the schedule reveals:
Please join the Warcraft movie director, Duncan Jones, along with key Blizzard developers as they discuss the thrilling collaborative process of translating Azeroth’s game world to the big screen.
The event is a celebration of Blizzard Entertainment‘s gaming goodness featuring World of Warcraft, Diablo & StarCraft, and takes place over two days at the Anaheim Convention Center.
With filming beginning in January 2014 there’s hope that the chaps will begin to reveal more details about the WARCRAFT movie and the world that Duncan and the team are bringing to life for release in December 2015. Maybe we’ll get some casting news as well?
If you are attending BlizzCon 2013 and happen to press record if they show the WARCRAFT teaser footage again…
If you’re unable to attend BlizzCon 2013 and want to get all the info on World of Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft & Hearthstone as well as that one hour WARCRAFT movie panel with Duncan, you can pick up a virtual ticket and watch over 60 hours of convention footage streamed live to your desktop.
The official World Of Warcraft twitter account have just confirmed the release date for Legendary Pictures WARCRAFT film directed by Duncan Jones.
Filming will begin in January 2014, currently rumoured to be taking place in Canada although there is not official confirmation of this yet. As soon as there are further details on location and casting (of which there have been quite a few rumours of in the last week or so) we’ll let you know. In the meantime, you now know how long you have to gather materials and craft your opening night costumes
UPDATE: Official announcement from Legendary Pictures
From Legendary’s Facebook page:
“Legendary Pictures’ WARCRAFT, based upon Blizzard Entertainment’s globally-renowned universe, will be released by Universal Pictures on Friday, December 18, 2015. WARCRAFT marks the first film dated under the recently formed partnership between Universal and Legendary.
The film, an epic adventure of world-colliding conflict, will be directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) and is written by Charles Leavitt and Duncan Jones. The producers are Charles Roven and Alex Gartner for Atlas Entertainment and Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni for Legendary. Stuart Fenegan, Jillian Share and Brent O’Connor will serve as executive producers. Blizzard’s Chris Metzen will co-produce.”
As well further confirmation of release date, another point to note there “…written by Charles Leavitt and Duncan Jones” Which is nice
Duncan Jones served a double whammy after sneaking into San Diego Comic-Con last month dressed as a luchador. Presenting not only a surprise teaser for his next film WARCRAFT, but also announcing a graphic novel of the long anticipated MUTE in collaboration with award winning British comic artist Glenn Fabry and Dark Horse Comics.
Those attending SDCC were not only present to hear the news, but were also able to pick up a print of two pages from MUTE at a signing session with Duncan. We all gazed on enviously, I pleaded with Duncan to slip a few down his kecks (trousers for you lot not from around these parts) and…he bloody well did!
I’d be happy to hoard them away, but Duncan has gone and squiggled all over them, so I’m going to give some to…maybe YOU!
Email to unklerupert@manmademovies.co.uk with subject line MUTE PRINT COMP1:
Your name
Your postal address
Your answers to the following questions
You have until next Friday 16th August 2013.
Each winner will receive 1 MUTE print, signed by Duncan Jones.
Winners will be drawn at random.
There are 5 copies of the MUTE print in the draw.
One entry per person, please.
Draw open to anyone in the whole wide world.
There will be other chances to get hold of one of these beautiful MUTE prints, including an auction to raise funds towards cancer research. Please check out Mr & Mrs Jones fund raising page for details on why. Will post again when auction goes live.
UPDATE: Competition Closed.
Congratulations to winners
As you may be aware Duncan Jones made a surprise appearance at this years San Diego Comic-Con, along with a tease for the forthcoming WARCRAFT film. Nobody outside of Hall H that day has seen it, until now..
Top work from Ian Beckman. Maybe we’ll get to see the real thing some day…
As hinted at earlier in the day at the surprise WARCRAFT appearance at San Diego Comic-Con, Duncan Jones had another surprise for us. The announcement of a graphic novel:
“Happy to say I’m doing TWO signings tomorrow… One for Warcraft, & one with my mates at Dark Horse Comics for, wait for it… MUTE!!
MUTE graphic novel being published by Dark Horse Comics and pumped full of the arty goodness of the master, Glenn Frickin’ Fabry!!! And as a very special gift & thank you to all my mates twitter… all 150,000+ of you, lay your eyes on this.
Duncan also confirmed:
“Mute graphic novel is not finished yet, but Ill be signing this page of Glenn’s art from it. So excited that Mute will finally exist!”
MUTE will be set in the same ”Moon-iverse” as…MOON and is based in a near future Berlin. For those lucky enough to be at Comic-Con at the moment, Duncan will be signing copies of the image above at booth 2615 at 15:00 today (Sunday 21st July)
MUTE will be available…when it’s ready
Duncan Jones just caused mild palpitations (to say the least) in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2013 during the Legendary presentation by appearing on stage along with a specially filmed teaser to set the tone for what has just been confirmed as the WARCRAFT feature film to begin shooting in early 2014.
Following along online via Twitter and live blogs earlier, Duncan took the room by surprise with his appearance at the annual convention for all things comic, game, film & TV causing comments such as this from Empire Magazine:
“They just showed a teaser for World Of Warcraft! People are losing their freakin’ minds!”
“That sound you heard was 6,000 nerds orgasming at Legendary’s Hall H announcement of a WARCRAFT movie.”
On stage with @nerdist Chris Hardwick Duncan was just as enthusiastic as everyone else:
“The opportunity to do something like ‘Warcraft’ is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You hope that when you get the chance to make films, you really get the chance to create fantasy, and in ‘WARCRAFT, I actually get to create a world.”
What those people in Hall H saw this morning stays in their heads for the moment until an official release, or it somehow *coughs* finds it’s way out (please make it find it’s way out…NOW!)
For now though you can head over to Ain’t It Cool for a full run down from Eric Vespe.
This may not be the end of news from Duncan this weekend though. As you may know if you follow Duncan on Twitter, he has been teasing a treat for all as soon as he cracked 150,000 followers on the social network. It may have been assumed that the WARCRAFT tease was that treat, until Duncan just tweeted:
150,000 tweeters gift coming soon… It’s not what you think…
Stay tuned…