Sam Raimi directing Warcraft movie
July 22, 2009 by Angelo Fernandez
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It’s been a while since Blizzard announced that they have a Warcraft movie in the works and not much has been revealed about it since. After such a long time though it’s nice to hear from them again about this project to announce another major development, they finally got a director! Blizzard Entertainment along with legendary Pictures announced that Director Sam Raimi has agreed to sign in for this project which will be a live action movie about World of Warcraft.
Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi is the director most famous for his work on the 3 latest Spiderman movies and is also known for writing and directing The Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell. Raimi will be working with Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment who produced Batman Begins and Dark Knight. That’s just a short list of the people who are going to be involved with this project and already it’s nice to see that the movie should be in good hands.
As of right now, nobody really knows what the movie is going to be about. I mean the World of Warcraft lore is so expansive that already we have the stories of the original game plus two expansions to tell some of it and that’s definitely not all of it yet. My guess is that the movie’s story would revolve more around the tension between the Alliance and Horde rather than something complicated like the Lich King. of course I could be very wrong. Here’s where we do more speculating!
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This makes me very happy! There is plenty of stories and lore that can be told. With the people they have singed on so far the studios should take a leap of faith and plan to make like 3 or so movies back to back to back.
Previous games-movies franchises have either been poor in quality or lacking a real large fanbase/awareness by the general public, perhaps this could be different? Especially if Sam Raimi does a good job on it – interesting to see how this develops that’s for sure!