Raimi is the master of 'Warcraft'

[MarcusAurelius]

Well...safe to say, this I was NOT expecting. Apparently, Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spiderman, Drag Me To Hell) has signed on to develop the 'Warcraft' franchise for Warner Bros, with 'Dark Knight' producer Charles Roven also on board. Legendary Pictures are mounting the project, so the film has all its major production players in place.



Good lord. Truthfully, I was skeptical about Warcraft even finding some kind of film potential, but Sam Raimi is, essentially, the man. he is truly awesome as film directors go, and if anyone can make Warcraft special, it's him. Admittedly it's really early days: he won't start work on the film until after he has filmed 'Spiderman 4' for Columbia. So don't expect it for a while, but this will be Raimi's take on the world of fantasy. Despite my issues with another videogame adaptation, the games have a huge amount of mythology to draw on which is what will make it different. Let's wait and see, eh? Raimi could have a world of fun with lopped off Orc heads.


Source: IESB -  http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7159:sam-raimi-put-sights-on-warcraft&catid=41:news&Itemid=71

[dnwilliams]

where's my TETRIS MOVIE?    the trailer was so awesome!!! 

p.s. spider-man has a hyphen. drives me nuts when people leave it out 

p.p.s. i am not actually pissed, i just really like the angry emoticon, i'm doing it for the lulz 

[dalmatianjaws]

Does anyone know if the original Warcraft has a story? WOW is just a world you exist in and you can make stories within it ... sort of ...

Um. This will be Dungeons and Dragons with a higher success rate. This guy has so much talent but it's all in his simpler concepts. I like his blockbusters far less than his smaller movies.

[dnwilliams]

i don't think any videogames have stories worth telling in a movie, but yeah, i think there's a basic mythology to work with. they said it's a prequel, so wars that are referenced to in the game but have already happened, stuff like that...sort of like if they did a zelda movie that was a about a plot to kidnap the princess

[dalmatianjaws]

God of War

But other than that, you're right.

[Sheridan Passell]

Here's a bit of World Of Warcraft -