--- title: Here's Everything We Know About the Warcraft Movie description: It's been coming for a decade, and now it is almost here canonical: https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/ author: Matt Peckham article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-20T18:34:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:46:35.793Z article:section: Business og:title: Everything We Know About the World of Warcraft Movie So Far og:description: After a decade, it's finally coming out og:url: https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Everything We Know About the World of Warcraft Movie So Far twitter:description: After a decade, it's finally coming out twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Everything We Know About the _Warcraft_ Movie So Far > Sponsored content. 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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. The PMP is for experienced project managers and requires a combination of formal education and years of documented project leadership experience, making it a more advanced and globally recognized certification. #### How does PMI support social impact? PMI supports social impact by helping individuals, nonprofits, NGOs, and communities use project management to turn purpose into measurable outcomes. Through the PMI Educational Foundation, PMI expands access to project management education for youth worldwide, including underserved and underrepresented populations. Through Project Managers Without Borders, PMI connects chapters and volunteers with nonprofits and NGOs that need project management expertise to strengthen the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of social initiatives. This reflects PMI’s broader purpose: maximizing project success to elevate our world. ### Sources * Project Management Institute | [pmi.org](/c/pmi-2026-q3/home?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Earning Power: Project Management Salary Survey—Fourteenth Edition" | [pmi.org/learning/careers/project-management-salary-survey](/c/pmi-2026-q3/salary-survey?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Global Project Management Talent Gap" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/global-project-management-talent-gap](/c/pmi-2026-q3/talent-gap?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, "Maximizing Project Success" | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/project-success?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse Report 2025: Boosting Business Acumen” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/boosting-business-acumen](/c/pmi-2026-q3/business-acumen?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Pulse of the Profession® 2026: Driving Success in Complex Projects” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/driving-success-in-complex-projects](/c/pmi-2026-q3/complex-projects?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI, “Step Up: Redefining the Path to Project Success with M.O.R.E.” | [pmi.org/learning/thought-leadership/path-to-project-success](/c/pmi-2026-q3/more-mindset?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) * PMI Education Foundation, PMIEF 2024 Annual Report, [pmi.org PMIEF 2024 Annual Report (PDF)](/c/pmi-2026-q3/pmief-report?i=718eba6b-e707-43a4-8ef9-c90c43e720f5&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1) ### FAQ structured data (JSON-LD, optional) ## Video: A History of Video Gaming Consoles [Watch (HLS stream): A History of Video Gaming Consoles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/c8bQ37tV.m3u8) (23:45)  _Published 2014-01-08. The full series on gaming consoles packed into one video for you to watch._ by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham May 20, 2015 6:34 PM UTC by [Matt Peckham](https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/) ## Matt Peckham May 20, 2015 6:34 PM UTC The upcoming _Warcraft_ movie—an epic fantasy drawn from one of the most popular video game franchises in history—doesn’t have to be great. It just has to be better than the next biggest action-tastic blockbuster scheduled for June 10, 2016. Think of it as a little like the two campers chased by a bear (the bear, in this case, symbolizing critical presumptions that any film based on a video game must by definition be dreadful): you don’t have to beat the bear, you just have to outrun the next guy. What do we know about the film so far, aside from the fact that its fellow runners-from-bear include an _Angry Birds_ film, a _Ratchet & Clank_ film and an _Uncharted_ film? Here’s the breakdown: ## It’s been in the offing for nearly a decade That’s the nature of projects like these: sometimes they bounce all over creation before coming to fruition. Blizzard announced plans to develop a live-action _Warcraft_ film back in May 2006\. The film resurfaced intermittently, in various stages of development, for years after, but didn’t really move forward until 2013, when Blizzard announced it had brought esteemed filmmaker Duncan Jones onboard. ## Its director’s last two films were solid We can thank _Warcraft_ director Duncan Jones for both 2009’s _Moon_ and 2011’s _Source Code_, two totally different (one introspective, the other a little gonzo) science fiction films that had one thing in common: they didn’t suck. Jones seems a deft hand both behind the camera and in front of a word processor (he wrote the story for _Moon_, and co-wrote the screenplay for _Warcraft_). Jones surfaced on the project after Blizzard parted ways with the film’s former director, _Evil Dead_‘s Sam Raimi. Blizzard’s properties couldn’t be less in his wheelhouse, tonally and historically speaking, but he’s a coup (for Blizzard) by any measure. ## And Jones seems to understand a crucial tenet of contemporary filmmaking “I hear this ‘CGI in film sucks,’ mantra again & again,” [wrote Duncan](https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/568513214297698304) a few months ago on Twitter, rejecting the blanket claim that computer generated imagery wrecks movies. “It doesn’t,” he continued, arguing that “It’s a tool like any other. It can be done well & it can be done shit. The best CGI has you forgetting its CGI, and accepting the visual as whatever it is supposed to be. Like props. No one has an issue with ‘props’ in film, do they?” ## Blizzard’s own Chris Metzen wrote the story Metzen is to Blizzard as George Lucas to the _Star Wars_ saga: the world-builder responsible for Blizzard’s iconic _Warcraft_, _Diablo_ and _StarCraft_ narrative universes. It’s his story vision that Jones and co-screenwriter Charles Leavitt (_Blood Diamond_) distilled into the film’s script. How excited should that make you? If you’re not a _Warcraft_ wonk, it’s impossible to say. And if you are, ask yourself this: How excited have you been about the frame stories (not the gameplay) that Blizzard’s been telling in these games for the past two decades? ## It’s about orcs fighting humans Blizzard’s first _Warcraft_ game was called _Warcraft: Orcs & Humans_. That pretty well sums up the film’s elevator pitch: humans versus orcs! (Or “the alliance” versus “the horde,” in _Warcraft_\-speak.) Okay, so with Jones attached, we’ll hopefully get a bit more storytelling subtlety than the games provide, ideally something more introspective and character-driven that capitalizes on _Warcraft_‘s basic two-sided racism trope. > [](https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/600323288171028480) ## It has a few female actors, but the cast is mostly guys It looks like Paula Patton (_Déjà Vu_, _Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol_) and Ruth Negga (_Breakfast on Pluto_, _Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D._) are the only two women of note. If you want to see a bunch of guys getting their _Gladiator_ on, on the other hand, box presumably checked. ## The guy who scored HBO’s _Game of Thrones_ is doing the music That would be Ramin Djawadi, also known (and respected) for his work on films like _Blade: Trinity_, _Iron Man_ and _Pacific Rim_, as well as TV shows like _Prison Break_ and _Person of Interest_. ## It was originally due this December We can thank _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ for _Warcraft_‘s bump to mid-2016 (not the film’s production—filming itself [ended back in May 2014](https://twitter.com/ManMadeMoon/status/469811946531721217)). Not even an estimated $100 million film based on a video gaming juggernaut (the highest grossing game of all time, with revenue eclipsing [the highest grossing films of all time](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fhighest-grossing%5Ffilms)) could stand against Disney’s upcoming take on a galaxy far, far away. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/"},"headline":"Here's Everything We Know About the Warcraft Movie So Far","datePublished":"2015-05-20T18:34:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:46:35.793Z","description":"After a decade, it's finally coming out","url":"https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/","keywords":["Tech","Video Games","movies","Blizzard"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Peckham","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-peckham/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/","name":"Here's Everything We Know About the Warcraft Movie So Far"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A History of Video Gaming Consoles","description":"The full series on gaming consoles packed into one video for you to watch.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/c8bQ37tV/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-01-08T16:50:03.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/c8bQ37tV.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/","duration":"PT23M45S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3882942/world-of-warcraft-movie/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```