Warcraft movie slips three months to June 2016

The long-awaited movie adaptation of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft franchise has slipped again, this time to the summer of 2016.

Until today its latest release had it pegged for March 11th 2016 – which itself was a delay from the originally announced December 2015. Now it won’t arrive until June 10th 2016.

The news was announced by director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), who said: Got good news & bad news. Uni have decided Warcraft deserves to be a summer flick. Yay! Bad news, that means we have to wait till June 2016!”

Legendary pictures has also confirmed the delay.

The film was announced way back on 2006. Sam Raimi was at one stage one directing duties.

Got good news & bad news. Uni have decided Warcraft deserves to be a summer flick. Yay! Bad news, that means we have to wait till June 2016!

— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) April 24, 2015

.@Legendary’s WARCRAFT will be in theaters Friday, June 10, 2016. #Summer2016

— Legendary (@Legendary) April 24, 2015