Warcraft Movie Cast Revealed

Last week we had the sad news that Warcraft, the World of Warcraft movie, was pushed from a December 2015 release to a ‘sometime in 2016’ release (probably to avoid going up directly against Star Wars), but  today Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment gave us all something to celebrate. Or at least, gossip wildly over.

That’s right, some of the cast for Warcraft has been announced (note, there’s no character designation as of yet, so we know who’s in the movie but not who they’re playing) and they are (drum roll): Ben Foster (The Messenger, 3:10 to Yuma, X-Men: The Last Stand), Travis Fimmel (Vikings), Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Precious), Toby Kebbell (Wrath of Titans, War Horse), and Rob Kazinsky (True Blood, Pacific Rim). Dominic Cooper (Captain America, An Education) is expected to finalize his deal with Legendary soon.

Details on the movie have been scarce, but we do know that production is slated to start early next year, and the movie will have two iconic characters from Warcraft lore: Lothar and Durotan. Which means the movie (or some parts of it, at any rate) will take place a generation prior to the events in World of Warcraft and, nicely, tie in to the WoW expansion set to come out next year, Warlords of Draenor.