By all accounts so far
the Warcraft movie is an absolute shitstain (Legendary Pictures has sadly been losing their stellar reputation over the last decade), so this is kind of the Hail Mary for gaming films in general. If this flops and/or cannot be overly true to the source material, I'm just gonna say that 2016 is the year gaming movies shoudl stop being made at all.
I mean honestly, we have a
horrific track record here with the only decent ones being Resident Evil, Prince of Persia, Advent Children Complete, and Ratchet and Clank. One being direct to home video and one being made with heavy oversight by the original creators. Prince of Persia was actually pretty good, and Resident Evil stands out as the first decent gaming movie that didn't go straight to DVD or involve the original creators in a major capacity, and the sequels to it failed to impress many (I love them more than the games though). So in a long history of game films, we have... 4 watchable ones.
In a way, the entire future of video game films is gonna hinge on this movie.
No pressure, Fassbender and Co.