Warcraft

 

Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Duncan Jones
Written by	Charles Leavitt Duncan Jones
Based on	Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment
Produced by	Charles Roven Alex Gartner Thomas Tull Jon Jashni Stuart Fenegan
Starring	Travis Fimmel Paula Patton Ben Foster Dominic Cooper Toby Kebbell Ben Schnetzer Robert Kazinsky Clancy Brown Daniel Wu
Cinematography	Simon Duggan
Edited by	Paul Hirsch
Music by	Ramin Djawadi
Production companies	Legendary Pictures Blizzard Entertainment Atlas Entertainment Tencent Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	May 24, 2016 (Le Grand Rex) June 10, 2016 (United States)
Running time	123 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$160 million[2]
Box office	$439 million[3]

Warcraft (alternatively known as Warcraft: The Beginning)^[4] is a 2016 American action fantasy film based on the video game series of the same name. Directed by Duncan Jones and written by Charles Leavitt and Jones, it stars Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, and Daniel Wu. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war, as the warlock Gul'dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace.

The film was first announced in 2006 as a project partnership between Legendary Pictures and the game's developer, Blizzard Entertainment.^[5] Warcraft premiered in Paris on May 24, 2016, and was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 10, 2016.^[6] Though it underperformed at the domestic box office^[7] and received generally negative reviews from critics, the film managed to gross $439 million worldwide, surpassing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time.