Warcraft - June 10
The cinematic graveyard is littered with the corpses of game-to-film adaptations gone wrong, but Warcraft has some very important things working in its favor—not the least of which being a reported $100 million budget that, as the trailers proved, was put to good use bringing the game’s epic fantasy landscape thrillingly to life. Of course, visuals only go so far, and that’s where Warcraft‘s other ace in the hole comes in: director Duncan Jones has been involved in some of the smartest, most satisfying sci-fi efforts to come down the pike in recent years. Toss in a storyline that finds humans and orcs on the brink of war, and you’ve got a movie that might very well lead to a Lord of the Rings-style franchise.