5/27/2023 0 Comments Monsters of the 21st century![]() ![]() But with the film breaking records in China (where the video game is huge), it may yet unleash another big multi-episode franchise. The adaptation of the wildly popular video game franchise, which sees the battling of men and orcs, opens tomorrow having culled mostly poor reviews ( here’s our middling one) and little likelihood of domestic box office success. The latest exponent is “ Warcraft,” from director Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie. Fantasy’s predominance has continued apace, with the distinctly adult “ Game Of Thrones” becoming the most popular and critically acclaimed TV show worldwide. ![]() But that changed at the start of this century, as the “Harry Potter” and “ Lord Of The Rings” films more or less took over Hollywood. ![]() Aside from the brief craze in the 1980s when “ Krull” and “ Conan” and the like roamed theaters, fantasy had never been a particularly popular genre for filmmakers to tackle -principally because it was too expensive, and also because too few filmmakers took it seriously. ![]()
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