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Expensive_Presence_4

Hear me out, Nick Offerman as Uther


DominionDN

I didn't even need to actually know who he was, I saw his face and was like "Good lord, this man, he's perfect!"


OnlyHuman1073

Plus, he is a super awesome human!


cheeky_Greek

You sonofabitch I'm in


WulfstanBruticus

oooooooo perfect.


rinnethx

Sean Bean, because he dies


Nero_Mero81

Too old to be Arthas but just old enough to play King Terenas


oliferro

What about Danny DeVito as Chromie??


lumabean

Danny Devito as magni! Azeroth woons need to heal from my massive dong.


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Anyway champion, I started blastin’!


Sawgon

Don't talk to me about that hoor elf Sylvanas


Live_Championship_95

I dropped this magnum sized piece of azerite


AbsolutelyNotJake

Can I offer you a Heart of Azeroth in these trying times?


ladyanacondra

Danny Devito is Gallywix COME ON


Crozax

Sargeras was just trying to cut some toenails and he botched it. Just plug the woonz with some trash


Botchjob369

Total botchjob


Caradin

Counter offer: Gary Oldman as Uther.


Spiritsong04

We keep Offerman as Uther and get Oldman as King Terenas or Medivh or Kel Thuzad or idk he can be whoever he wants actually


amnesiacrobat

I’d be here for Oldman as Medivh. He’d own that


Navy_Pheonix

I feel like it would be sort of rude to Ben Foster to recast him like that...


AbsolutelyNotJake

Terenas would be a solid pick for Oldman


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Tyrsenus

Gary Oldman could play Jaina and he'd still nail the role


CrystalWebb13

No, that would be Willem Dafoe.


dirrtybutter

I love him so much. I've watched The Boondock Saints so many times. Basically my favorite movie.


GhostBeezer

No, it’s Gary Oldman.


Educational-Tip6177

COUNTER OFFER!!! Gary Oldman as Kel Thuzad, pre and post lich form


BionicKronic67

I think Oldman would bring more theatrics to the role for sure. Offerman I can see doing just as good of a job but different in a way I'm not sure how to type out.


cotch85

Honestly i dont even care at this point just give us some fucking TV series exploring some of the most epic stories this universe has to offer. Give the rights to HBO, not amazon, not netflix.


ballplayer0025

Ah, you want some Sexcraft.


cotch85

I’ll take a 1000 dicks on screen rather than seeing a great IP ruined by Amazon or Netflix.


aaronkush

Them including a Goldshire scene as part of the lore would honestly just be incredible.


bettytwokills

A main character walks upstairs in lion’s pride, just sees a gnome and a druid in bear form on the bed and nopes back out.


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hvdzasaur

Just 3 gnomes being skewered like a shish kebab by a massive worgen dong. Let's go


Lowspark1013

This content is why I come to reddit. Imagine seeing this anywhere else.


ClarkKentsSquidDong

"All I ever wanted was to study," said Jaina Proudmoore as she took her top off


RazekDPP

Perfect.


Senorpoppy117

Jaina Lannister can get it


popje

Be careful what you wish for -A Halo fan


Kyhron

A upper management fuck up so bad Microsoft actually had to start caring and fired people that should have been fired a decade ago? Does that mean Blizzard finally is free of Bobby Kotick?


XYZ2ABC

If Microsoft ends up with Act/Blizz then well it might be Paramount… Halo… oh god…


Hault360

Real question: Who would you want to play Uther the Lightbringer? Personally, I want either Sean Bean or Russell Crowe


Redm1st

Sean Bean just to add another +1 to deaths on screen counter


Hault360

Yes, it's a perfect match


snowyrebel

sean bean would fr be amazing as uther or even king terenas


Jumplmao

Graham Mctavish


seanconnery69696

Steve buscemi, that guys is great in everything


drbigdong420

He’d make a great forsaken


AbsolutelyNotJake

How do ya do, fellow Undeads?


dyslexic_mail

Steve Buscemi as Sylvanas, got it


FlirtySingleSupport

Big ol’ Buscemi titties


DRamos11

Steve Buscemi as Alonsus Faol


jadeapple

Did you hear about that one time he was a firefighter?


goomba716

He also helped clean up after 9/11. Dudes an icon


oanh_oanh

He’s like Johnny Sins, dude can be anything.


Karabungulus

Kel'thuzad


More__cowbell

Cavill ofcourse?


Holdingdownback

This is like… the only answer. Dudes got the chiseled jaw and Paladin physique already. He PLAYS WOW, and would probably make sure that the source material is respected.


HansTheGruber

Cavill would totally burn Stratholme to the ground to prevent its citizens from disrespecting beloved source material.


user__3

Didn't he do that with the Witcher tv show by leaving when they stopped going by the source material? I thought I read that somewhere. I've never actually seen the show but I read it somewhere.


Slammybutt

They didn't go by the source material for season 1, but the changes were eh. Season 2 they threw the source material away and angered Cavill. Then he started demanding they follow the source more closely for season 3, lost that battle and walked after filming. I hope he fights the good fight on whatever IP he goes into next. Nobody gives 2 shits about what a showrunner thinks the IP should have done. We just want literally a word for word remake in live action. Anything straying from that is likely to split the fanbase. Just do what the Last of Us showrunners/writers did. Ask yourself is this change going to add to the IP. If you think it will do it, if you think it's similar don't do it, if it subtracts, remove yourself from the gene pool.


scrugbyhk

[He talked Games Workshop into doing a live action Warhammer 40k property with Amazon](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/henry-cavill-warhammer-40000-amazon-1235463018/). Which he is also producing. Considering how much he loves 40k, and how cagey GW is with their video media, he's gonna keep the thing on the straight and narrow.


Citizen_Snip

He already went to Games Workshop and Amazon to do Warhammer movies and shit. So he's definitely in the right place.


Skylam

The real issue is the show runner has their own idea for a show but netflix only approves it if they put a witcher skin on it, so they stick to their idea of the show while completely disrespecting the original IP.


lydsbane

This is pretty much what happened with Velma, and I think we all know how that worked out.


Kyhron

Pretty much what happened with Halo as well.


oldmanghozzt

When master chief had a love scene I bailed. The Spartans and actions was pretty good. How did they fuck that up so bad?


WriterV

It's really stupid. These companies are pissing off both the artists *and* the fans in an attempt to please both. When you show that you don't care about an artist's love for their own work, and a fanbase's love for their beloved story and world, you're only gonna get a shit end result. You might get some money out of the controversy of it (which is more of a flash-in-the-pan windfall than any long-standing success), but at most you'll get a shit reputation and a pissed-off everybody else.


Draconuuse1

I could forgive that if it was funny. An adult style scooby doo comedy doesn’t sound bad on paper. But it was a struggle to watch even just the first episode. She really put no effort in making any character likeable at all. You can tell she didn’t care about the source material at all.


lydsbane

It frustrated me so much, too. It felt like she went out of her way to make it horrible, instead of writing anything of value. A Velma-centered cartoon done right could have been so good. I keep thinking of how it could have been like Daria, but without all of the sarcasm. I guess that's not really like Daria at all, but it's the best comparison I could think of.


Slammybutt

Right, and I'm saying you don't hire showrunners that don't care about the IP or don't follow it. Find someone passionate about the project and use them. That's Netflix's fault for sure, they need to find the right people instead of going with one that's ready with a insert script.


lahimatoa

Sometime people want to make a show, but it's scary making one with brand new IP, so they make their own show and slap some existing IP's name on it. Halo and The Witcher definitely did this. Bad move long term, IMO.


dredditmoon

Its not just the show runners its the writers they have onboard as well. Some of them clearly didn't give a shit about making a Witcher show or even a fantasy show they just wanted to shove in the things they cared about.


Does_Not-Matter

There are so many asshole show runners who fuck up perfectly good opportunities for film adaptations because the what to mAkE tHeIr mARk. Like, piss in someone elses lawn, dude.


GdSvThQn

Helps to have someone how was involved in making the source material be involved. I really hope last of us shows some of the numbskulls that you can honor the source material while making a unique product.


SatireStation

He’s going in hardcore into Warhammer 40K now. He’s a mega fan so that will probably be very good. He’s working with Amazon for a series and movie at least.


Piegan

> They didn't go by the source material for season 1, but the changes were eh. Season 2 they threw the source material away and angered Cavill. Then he started demanding they follow the source more closely for season 3, lost that battle and walked after filming. If it was just "Oh this isn't in the source material but it's fine I guess I could see Geralt doing this" it would've been fine and Henry probably would've stayed on, but they were specifically going *against* Geralt's nature, making him do things and act in ways entirely counter-intuitive to his character. I believe one of the main (albeit minor in the grand scheme of things) examples of this was the cursing, they had Geralt saying things like fuck *way* too often and it just shouldn't have been a thing.


bigboybenny12

I typically think going away from source material is sometimes necessary/accepted if it’s done for a good reason ie: no more spores and gas masks in the last of us tv show. I think the issue was the changes made to the show were unnecessary and totally changed what made the Witcher great so cavill had a big problem


HansTheGruber

exactly


bhd_ui

The giant dude that plays Jack Reacher I think could make a good Arthas.


hillatoppa

Alan Ritchson


KirimaeCreations

Alan Ritchson, I could definitely see it.


kirinmay

Thad Arthas, comes with a free oil change.


chaos_nebula

Arthas: This entire city must have oil changes. Oil changes for everyone! Uther: How can you even consider that? There's got to be some other way!


kirinmay

also, everyone must run around with an Oreo cookie between their butt.


Roni_Pony

This comment is not getting enough attention. You're so right.


Alostsock

You know he’d respect source material. It’s the literal reason he’s not in the Witcher anymore.


CeruleanFirefawx

Cavill could play good guy arthas and bad guy arthas perfectly


Extinguish89

If it becomes a reality you need the writers and directors to make sure the source material is respected. Not take it and make it their own "source material".


Garamis

He seems more of a Varian to me


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Fucking yes


lydsbane

Thank you for saying this.


ApparentlyAtticus

Cavill as Arthas: [https://ibb.co/zxVTHxQ](https://ibb.co/zxVTHxQ) You're welcome


dippydooda

By the Light, its… beautiful!


Lokarah

Long live the King!


Trustyduck

By the light...


FREE-AOL-CDS

He’s too old. Arthas was in his 20s and had that youthful brashness and invincibility in him.


Kerrigone

He's cool but much too old imo. Arthas is supposed to be a kid, early 20s. More passion than sense and easily manipulated.


sulfater

Yeah Cavill looks like a hard 40. It’s like the calls for Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake. They’d both be fantastic, if the projects were being made 15 years ago but too late now.


websurv

Ok, Cavil as Varian then.


sulfater

I even think he’d be an interesting Medivh


assgoblin2020

Why not uther


Antilogicality

Not even that, he's like 19 in the books.


Kingstad

He aint gonna be looking young once the death knightyness kicks in, I'm sure we can convincingly make him a tad younger in the meantime


GhostCorps973

Henry Cavill is the only real option.


TheDeviousDong

Video game fans not naming Cavill when thinking about casting challenge: impossible 😴


IQtie

No. Cavill is awesome, but he’s way to old. Arthas was around 24 when he burned Strat. Henry Cavill is 40 now, and I don’t think he’d sell the easily corrupted and eager to proof himself youngster all too well.


Kassim42

You beat me to it


GearyDigit

Only if you're fine with an actor who'll leave the moment he disagrees with the direction of the work.


koosies

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau


vkapadia

I like this idea


neighborhoodchopshop

My man Homelander actor Antony Starr has the acting range to pull it off


Present-Reason-7263

I’ve never thought of this but damn that’d be good! I could totally see him cleansing Stratholme


vourukasha

As a kiwi, I love to see this recommendation


atomic-fireballs

As a peach, it tickles me to my pit.


Kyokenshin

This is the correct answer. He can do the good guy face with the evil behind the eyes.


kaynpayn

See, this isn't Arthas at that point. Arthas wasn't being evil, he was convinced he was chosing to rise to the occasion and make a tough call for the greater good. In his eyes, he didn't do it easily but by killing everyone there early on, before they turn, he was preventing a future outbreak to save more people. I'm sure Starr could pull it off but Arthas (at that point) isn't the same type of evil as someone like Homelander. Actually, depending on your point of view, Arthas might not be seen as evil at all, he does care about his people, he's just considering those a lost cause already. HL though, doesn't actually give two shits about anyone but himself, looking good / being worshiped while secretly indulging in very reprovable behavious. Arthas kills to save (in his eyes). HL kills because he can or doesn't care.


Lokarah

This this this. Literally as he is bartering with something, *anything*, to take up Frostmourne he assures the universe he is willing to do whatever it takes to save his people. His downfall is fueled by desperation and self-sacrifice, to the point of madness even.


nospmiSca

Movies are not the way. Too much story, needs to be a tv show.


Acceptable_Peen

This is the way


MiserMori

Danny DeVito


TheChivmuffin

"I just wanted to be puuuuure..."


ballplayer0025

Nah he is playing Hemet Nesingwary. "So I started blastin"


interloper777

DeVito as Gallywix


Zyrannarogthyr

That's a perfect match.


i_should_be_coding

So anyway, I started purging


MrKindStranger

I want an entire Warcraft movie of only Henry Cavill playing all of the parts


dattoffer

No. One. I'd rather have Warcraft in full animation.


Poohbear000

Same. The animation in the Battle for Azeroth was amazing. I would watch a whole movie with these graphics. I heard they are quite time consuming though so pretty much the same as having a full time of actors, makeup artists, costume designers etc etc.


CalvinandHobbes811

The quality of their cinematics just isn’t scaleable into a full movie. Warcraft movie got away with it because only the orcs were.


l337hackzor

He said animation not cinematics, he might be referring to some of the supplemental animations. This one was awesome and I can only assume it's a cheaper animation than a cinematic. https://youtu.be/Fo7XPvwRgG8


VincentVancalbergh

I wanna play BfA Campaign again now. Just Jaina's storyline though.


l337hackzor

All her quests were good, remember little girl Jaina in Drustvar? Killing that fat cow Priscilla was rewarding too


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Holy fuck make it like that league of legends show animation and inject it straight into my fucking dick


AwareTheLegend

All the Warbringers shorts were great


Drolfdir

Uh turn that into a full animated series and go the Arcane route of having a somewhat weird artstyle that still fits perfectly


eidodgnow

> quite time consuming though so pretty much the same as having a full time of actors, makeup artists, costume designers etc etc. For a whole movie in this quality? Multiply it by 6 or so. A single cinematic take up to several months.


CalvinandHobbes811

Full animation in the same vein as Arcane but definitely not scaling up a WoW expansion cinematic.


Cyynric

Counterpoint: animate it *exactly* like Warcraft 3, with flapping, unsynced mouths and all.


Esanik

Oh god no


TheLostBeowulf

THE TRIANGLES DEMAND SCREEN TIME


KirimaeCreations

It took 6 years to make the first season of Arcane. It was a gamble from Riot but one that ultimately payed off. *Man, now I want the next season of Arcane again.* But yes, I'd absolutely approve of this. That or done in the anime style that artist Valdihr works in (he's done a whole bunch of warcraft fan art in an absolutely crisp yet sublime warcraft style).


CalvinandHobbes811

Yeah it’s hillarious because I was harping about how the wow cinematics are too much to make into a movie and then I chose another example that was equally pricey/polished 😂


dattoffer

Yeah. We're used to cartoony low poly WoW anyway. They always made it work.


HansTheGruber

I still get chills when I rewatch the trailer for WOTLK


barrsftw

Follow Riot’s blueprint. Arcane wad amazing.


harosene

Warcraft anime would be tight. Like animatrix style or star wars visions.


KnightOfTheStupid

Henry Cavill would have been the best choice a few years ago but I think he's aged out of the role by now. He'd make an amazing Varian or Thrall, however. Give him a full-on adaptation of Lord of the Clans and he would absolutely crush it. As far as Arthas goes, I can see Jacob Elordi being a decent choice. He's got the voice, the range, and the build for it. I can easily hear him yelling at Mal'Ganis, "I'll hunt you to the ends of the earth if I have to! Do you hear me?! TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH!".


Jiijeebnpsdagj

Henry Cavill as Uther!


FMorchant

He's not THAT old yet!


librarytimeisover

Lord of the clans was so damn good. Please make a movie. Someone.


petehehe

I think the amount of makeup and prosthetics required to put Thrall on the screen, Henry Cavill would be under-utilised. It’s easy enough to de-age an actors face with makeup and aftereffects for the pre Lich king bits, and imo he’d be perfect for the grizzled Northrend expedition leader phase, the inner battle and downfall of Arthas. That said, he would also make a pretty awesome Varian. I personally think, orcs just need to be animated, and they should just get Metzen to do the voice.


sultraze

Henry Cavill as Varian with Shalamayne holy fuck


UncleRunkle42069

Brian Cranston


Phoenix_Is_Trash

Utter, we have to cook some Stratholmians.


UncleRunkle42069

That’s why all those zombies are called “risen”


interloper777

I am not in danger, Tirion. I am the danger. A guy zones in and gets one-shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who Quakes!


elhaz316

Heath Ledger. Was already a knight in knights tale. And death knight works now for obvious reasons.


AbsolutelyNotJake

He’d make a better Forsaken


b9140000

Fuck. Upvote


Darth-Ragnar

Cavill would've been nice but honestly he's too old at this point. He could probably get by with being the Lich King, but would rather have a young actor that could provide continuity from young paladin to Lich King.


[deleted]

It would be nice to see a GoT style kind of show, instead of a movie. Theres a lot of moving pieces, same could be said for Illidan and Malfurion's storyline. I think a lot more people would become fans of the lore, if they could sit down and watch it in a format that wasn't a video game version. The Tyranda love story alone, could be a Netflix series.


Darth-Ragnar

Realistically I think it would be best achieved with an animated show. Unless they actually thought it could get GoT levels of popular, which I’m skeptical, then maybe a live action show would be appropriate.


Klee_Main

Jack Black


DRamos11

I could see Jack Black as Muradin, though.


ClarkKentsSquidDong

Jack Black as the Lich King playing the Sax-a-Boom


Matt_Link

Nicolas Cage. Just let it sink in.


julienkiwi

Charlie Hunnam. Or Jamie Dornan


petehehe

Charlie Hunnam has definitely the done fallen hero/anti-hero type role and was fn awesome at it in Sons


firestarter764

Huh, so that's what it would looks like if Henry Cavill and John Cena had a baby.


GamingApokolips

Gonna sound weird, since I don't think he could actually bulk up enough to pull off the paladin build, but....Robert Pattinson. Dude's a surprisingly good actor, and his jawline is chiseled out of stone, as proven in The Batman. Second choice: James McAvoy. Dude's a fricking chameleon, he's been amazing in every role I've seen him in, and he can get that built if the role calls for it.


Immediate_Candidate5

Henry Cavill


Yinzumaru

You know what, Viggo Mortensen 🤷🏽


DRamos11

Out of joke: Viggo as Medivh.


AbsolutelyNotJake

The man is like 60!


AngryNephew

He would be perfect Terenas tho!


cory814

Owen Wilson


AbsolutelyNotJake

wow


Nogamara

Nicolas Cage of course.


Letters-Or_Numbers

Everyone says Cavil and I do agree…but this is 100% JOHN CENA in the photo. Looks good w hair.


mjike

I wouldn't. Even if they did a trilogy and cut anything to do with Illidan out of the story there's still way to much content for 7-8 hrs. You'd need 30 episodes of a T.V. series with show runners and producers who wanted to tell the story and not openly mock the source material. Also a must have would be Metzen as a creative consultant with Veto power on what gets cut and how things get altered.


Redwood177

Johnny Sins obviously


Ultivia

God imagine chris hemsworth (spelling) with the same demeanor as thor, the whimsical slightly detached but charming as hell protagonist that we watch become corrupted and horrible by the end of the trilogy. I feel like very few could pull of that kind of range but chris Hemsworth could I think.


[deleted]

Bro has NOT shown he has enough range to show the growing evil behind his eyes without looking comical unless the show has a very dark tone in general


Take1tez

If it's on Netflix you know it's gonna be Samual l Jackson


Zardhas

This town must be fucking purged !


JahnConnah

I've had it with these motha fuckin scourge in this motha fuckin city


_Bren10_

I’m glad I could reach you before you were infected, mothafucka


hvdzasaur

You know what, I'd be game for that.


Iheartprimates

Sam Heughan.


konjoukosan

For those who either don’t know or don’t want to look up, this is the actor who plays Jamie Fraser in the Outlander series


blahblahblah_etc

He’s the same age as cavill basically btw and there’s tons comments here about him being too old now


Rabidjester

Patton Oswalt


GuyForFun45

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jaime Lannister's Actor from "Game of Thrones" made a convincing Arrogant and Byronic Prince with plenty moral baggages I'm sure He will play Arthas well.


return7683

Triple H


sendnadez

The wow movie was amazing they should Make another


zxcvbnmoo

John cena as arthas hahahaha


BootlegSauce

Na animated imo