Sam Raimi to Direct World of Warcraft Movie

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on July 21, 2009

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The folks over at AICN have confirmed this evening that Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead) has signed on to direct the long gestating World of Warcraft movie. According to Headgeek Harry Knowles, this is one story that can be taken to the metaphorical bank.

The last time anyone was talking about a World of Warcraft movie, it was late 2007. The folks at Blizzard and Legendary Pictures were looking for a director to make the movie by 2009, for a budget of just under $100 million. And while details are still sketchy on the Raimi signing, we can only imagine that the budget will be north of $100 million. This is what happens when you sign a powerful director with some big budget cred.

World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth. There is no word yet on what sort of a plot this film will have, but anticipate more information when and if the signing of Sam Raimi is confirmed by the Hollywood trades later this week. As always, we’ll keep you updated.

How do you feel about Sam Raimi directing World of Warcraft?


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  • nicky_cavella
    a warcraft film? or a WORLD OF WARCRAFT FILM? they should base it off of WARCRAFT 3
  • It is based off the Warcraft universe, not necessarily within the scope of WoW. They could go all the way back to the War of the Ancients if they wanted. I, for one, am pretty damn amped with this announcement. Blizzard has always been a leader in the gaming world, and I think they are poised to seriously shake things up with the first good movie based on a game or game franchise.
  • Arthas is a wellspring of angst. Expect Raimi to pump that well dry.
  • Aleric
    Well being a Warcraft player since the first one came out and now a guild leader in WoW since 2004 I can say that I would rather they take the story from the lore before the MMO. WoW has muddled and messed up a lot of the lore to make it fit the expansions and Raid instances.

    The story with Arthas is a classic and would be well worth the price of admission, not to mention Thrall and the Orc exodus.

    My question is where are they going to find all the 6 foot tall buxom strippers to play the female Night Elves, who can actually act of course.
  • According to some quotes from Blizz, the story will take place between the end of WCIII and the beginning of WoW and be set from an Alliance perspective.
  • littlemovieman
    Sweeeeet, i cant wait for this to come out
  • chille
    Damn, it looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer for Evil Dead 4.
  • teknokracy
    If it's two and a half hours of a WoW character running through a field it'll still make a billion dollars.... WoW freaks will buy anything!
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