9. Warcraft
Making a great movie out of a videogame has proven a nearly impossible task for Hollywood, and little progress has been made since the original Mortal Kombat. They keep trying, bless them, yet the results are always the same. The latest swing of the bat is Warcraft, which will take the expanse world of the online multiplayer game and condense its dense mythology into a stodgy looking Lord Of The Rings clone. The game obviously has a large inbuilt fanbase and a great director in the form of Duncan Jones, but the first trailer looked like an uneasy mix of Avatar and every other fantasy movie ever, and nobody was impressed. The characters and relationships dont look captivating in the least, and the mix of real and CG characters isnt the seamless join the filmmakers would like; even the battle sequences scenes look dull. Anticipation for it has cooled considerably since people got a proper look at it, and unless the marketing turns that around the odds of Warcraft being a franchise launcher (it's optimistically subtitled "The Beginning") are a little bleak.