Director Duncan Jones Up for 'Warcraft' Sequel
Warcraft found its feet when it hit international shores after a poor opening in the U.S. The film grossed $386.3 million overseas but just $47.2 U.S. In a chat with Thrillist, director Duncan Jones has confirmed that, should the opportunity arise, he's ready to do it all again.
“If there were an opportunity for us to make another film in the Warcraft universe, I really feel like we did the hard work in the first movie as far as setting the table. I would love to capitalize on three-and-a-half years of hard work and be able to have some fun in that world now that I’ve done the hard work. [So] who knows? Maybe I’m just being a masochist.”
The director also confirmed that an extended cut exists, but we probably won't be seeing it. “A lot of people ask me, ‘When is the director’s cut coming out?’ There will never be a director’s cut. With a film like this, where there are so many visual effects, every concession that you make you lose those shots. They cease to exist because the effects work never gets done.
"Some of it’s not even at that stage. You go through a writing stage right up to the deadline of shooting the thing. [You lose] ideas in the writing process. Then sets change for whatever reason and notes come in. You’re changing things around a three-and-a-half year process. You get these little changes which are constantly course correcting you. So there is no possibility of ever being a director’s cut. It’s purely in my head.”
The film hits shelves on September 27.
Source: Comingsoon
