"Warcraft" movie director: Now more and more people are beginning to appreciate it, there will be no second part

The live-action Warcraft movie directed by Duncan Jones (Source Code, Moon) was released in June 2016 and grossed over $433 million worldwide. Although this is a very good result, it seems that the sequel that Duncan Jones wanted to shoot will not happen.

Jones told Collider that he would be willing to do two more sequels to complete the trilogy, but the sequel plan seems to be impossible. Despite this, Jones said in the interview that he believes that the "Warcraft" movie is now being accepted and appreciated by more and more people.

As for his plans for a trilogy, he said: "It would be really special if it happened, but unfortunately now, you have to try to be patient with these things. I did my best with the first movie and hoped that it would move the audience. I really think that, looking back, as time has passed, people have begun to appreciate the movie, perhaps more than the critics appreciated it when it first came out, but unfortunately, I don't think we can continue to make it."

Jones has said his Warcraft trilogy of films was originally going to further the story of Gul'dan and Thrall, and on a broader level, how the orcs left their home world and came to Azeroth.

The box office of Warcraft in North America (the United States and Canada) was only $4.74 million, but the overseas box office reached $386 million, accounting for 89.1% of the total box office. Among them, China contributed $214 million, making it the largest overseas box office for Warcraft.

It is worth mentioning that the budget of the Warcraft movie was $160 million, so the total box office of $433 million sounds very successful. However, foreign media ScreenRant once reported that Hollywood can only get a quarter of the share of the Chinese box office, so the Chinese box office of Warcraft is $214 million, and Legendary Pictures can only get $53.4 million. In the United States, movie studios usually get half of the box office. In this way, foreign media ScreenRant estimates that the Warcraft movie actually only generated $145 million in revenue, which is lower than the budget ($160 million), and this does not include publicity costs. Perhaps this is why the second Warcraft movie will not be filmed.