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Posted on July 22, 2009 by Scott Jennings| 22 Comments

Sam Raimi to direct World of Warcraft movie, thus ensuring that World of Warcraft will maintain a lead over Duke Nukem for pop reference non-sequitors in the near future.

Edit: Variety’s posted a story with (very slightly more) details.

The plan is for Raimi to supervise development of “Warcraft” and shoot the picture after he completes work on “Spider-Man 4,” which gets under way early next year for Columbia Pictures.

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  • Gx1080

    Cool. At least theres hope that it wont suck and it wont be vaporware.

  • http://www,damnedvulpine.com/ J.

    But where is he going to put the old yellow Delta 88?

  • Vetarnias

    And I will still avoid it.

  • Paks

    I swear if the trailer for this movie shows a bunch of half naked female night elves dancing on mailboxes I’ll puke!

  • http://www,damnedvulpine.com/ J.

    Bruce Campbell as Arthas.

  • http://weblog.probablynot.com Jason

    My understanding, despite how all these places choose to report it, is that its a Warcraft movie, not specifically a World of Warcraft movie. It could possibly be a good film if they go back and use the original games as the source and do their best to avoid WoW.

  • Thomas

    So Kevin Sorbo will be the warrior and Bruce Campbell will be the rogue.

    EPIC.

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    With that many players, I’m surprised they haven’t garnered a TV series yet.

  • sinij

    MMORPG-themed movies? How are they going to deal with fast-changing medium like that? Why do they even assume that WoW going to be relevant in 2+-ish years it will take to get movie out?

  • chabuhi

    So, presumably, it will be at least 2011 before development starts, right? The film bows in 2012? What are the chances that WoW’s popularity could wane by then to the point that interest in a mp adaptation drops so low that it’s not worth producing?

    I mean, right now, I tell myself I’ll go see this movie even if it doesn’t bow til 2015. So, who am I kidding?

    Instead of live-action, I think they should take footage from a closed server and voice dialog with big-name talent.

  • chabuhi

    Oops – read further … I suppose if it’s in the Warcraft universe and not specific to WoW, then it probably has a longer shelf-life.

  • Ashendarei

    Sadly it’s going to be live action. Blizzard COMPLETELY fails here for not showcasing their glorious CG movie talent :-(

    Seriously. Who the hell would want to watch a non CG movie, based on the alliance PoV, about a video game?

    /sigh

    I won’t be watching this just on general principle.

  • http://dsob.wordpress.com geldonyetich

    Instead of live-action, I think they should take footage from a closed server and voice dialog with big-name talent.

    I wouldn’t quite go this far, but computer animation would probably be a better choice. Some kind of fairly-high quality rendering would connect better with WoW players than just dressing up beefcake and cheesecake in rags and having them feign Azaroth.

  • Freakazoid

    If they use the warcraft 2 timeline, I might give it a shot, but they won’t. So instead I hope it goes a quiet death when 2011 rolls around.

  • Din A3

    Am I the only one who thinks Warcraft’s lore is a POS? It’s a Warhammer rip-off at best, which in turn is pretty weak… So we get a weak material rip-off based movie. Yay!

  • http://www.damnedvulpine.com J.

    “Sadly it’s going to be live action. Blizzard COMPLETELY fails here for not showcasing their glorious CG movie talent”

    They outsource those.

  • Sullee

    Purple hubris.

  • wayld

    It’s not going to be directed by Uwe Boll, so it is not lost yet ;)

    The Warcraft universe has a lot of stories which could be used for a decent movie. Let’s just hope they don’t create some strange “parallel Warcraft”.

  • Steve

    South Park did it.

  • Vajarra

    “Seriously. Who the hell would want to watch a non CG movie, based on the alliance PoV, about a video game?”

    Considerably more than would watch one about talking giant furry cows, I wager.

  • Arkazon

    “Boll also made a bid to direct the upcoming World of Warcraft movie, but was turned away by the owners of the Warcraft franchise, Blizzard.[4]” From Wikipedia on Uwe Boll.

  • Amp

    Raimi is doing that tv fantasy series Legend of the Seeker. Though mangling the Sword of Truth storyline, it’s a decent fantasy series. The fight scenes are great, none of that blurred camera work in the dark where you can’t see what the hell is going on. Kahlan is hawt as hell.
    It’ll be an entertaining fantasy movie. Wow still suks.