With movies based on branded entertainment and licensed product, it's never about just one movie. When "Warcraft" opens this summer, both Universal and Blizzard Entertainment are hoping the video-game adaptation will become a franchise, and even director Duncan Jones has visions of a trilogy dancing in his brain.
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"When working on this film, we worked incredibly closely with Blizzard, and I personally got the chance to work with Chris Metzen, who does a lot of the storytelling at Blizzard. And we worked out if we did get the chance to do three films to tell a story, this would be the first piece, and we kind of have an idea of what we would do with 2 and 3. I want to be the guy to deliver that," he told press at Comic-Con last summer (via The Verge). "I feel very privileged, uniquely privileged, that I got the chance to start a franchise of films — if we get the opportunity to make more....
