Posted yesterday to the OCC:
Famed filmmaker Sam Raimi will be lending his multibillion-dollar experience to another multibillion-dollar empire, Blizzard Entertainment. More than three years ago, Blizzard announced that a World of Warcraft (WoW) movie was in the works, and although we later learned that it would be live-action, little else has been revealed. Late yesterday, Blizzard, Legendary Pictures, and Warner Bros. announced that Sam Raimi would be directing the “major motion picture based on Blizzard Entertainment’s award-winning Warcraft universe.” To today’s youth, Raimi is probably best known for directing the Spider-Man movies, but he’s also responsible for cult classics Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, as well as this year’s horror flick, Drag Me to Hell. Of course, the mere fact that Uwe Boll will not be directing this movie is enough to please most fans as it is.
This is obviously something the nearly 12 million World of Warcraft subscribers will be eagerly waiting for, but it’ll be interesting to see if a Warcraft movie will appeal to non-WoW players. It’ll also be interesting to see how fans take to a live-action movie, since Blizzard’s cinematic trailers are always extremely good, and many gamers have clamored for a CGI Warcraft movie instead. We’ll have to wait awhile though, as Raimi won’t begin shooting Warcraft until he completes work on Spider-Man 4, which gets under way early next year. As such, don’t expect Warcraft until at least 2011.
A list of some of the actors and characters they will be portraying:
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