“But there’s already been a World of Warcraft movie!”
If you aren’t thinking that than you need to check out /afk, a short film that is arguably better than what Sam Raimi and co. would have thrown our way.
How fitting that on the same day that we debut a new I Play WoW music video, this news hits? It’s no secret we’re skeptical whenever we hear a video game is getting adapted to the big screen, almost certainly because it’s marketable but not always because it has a strong foundation for a good film. World of Warcraft would seem to fit snugly into that stigma.
Now does this mean the film is caput? Actually, no, quite the contrary, Raimi told the fine folks over at Crave Online the reason he was “dropped”:
“…They don’t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director,” Raimi said. “They had to start making it.”
Blizzard is per usual hush hush about a “new director” or regarding talks of the movie itself, but it looks almost certain Raimi is out.
You can now return to your regularly scheduled gaming session that is better than most movies or begin waiting in line to see The Dark Knight Rises.
OR you can check out the latest episode of The Jace Hall Show where we go inside Blizzard headquarters to talk Diablo 3 with one of its lead game designers.
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