Comment Re:... Film from a game... (Score 2, Informative) 298
Not sure why there is so much speculation on the basics of the story line when blizzard has already been talking about this for some time.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6176224.html?tag=top_stories;title;0
It will cover part of the lore before the timeline for WoW began. All the comments about the movie trying to replicate a repeatative gameplay mechanic have obviously never paid one bit of attention to the game or read any of the quest logs etc. There is plenty of story there. The game must remain static so people can take part over and over again but the STORY is not static. They tried to remedy some of this in the last xpac by using phased zones where different players see different things depending on what quests they have completed.