World of Warcraft coming to the big screen

Posted by David Lee in Entertainment, Interesting News | 1 comment

Blizzard Entertainment announced that they have tagged “Drag me to Hell” , “The Grudge” and “30 Days of Night” director Sam Raimi, to direct the World of Warcraft movie based on the insanely popular game.

According to Paul Sams of Blizzard  “Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures have a shared vision for this film and we searched at length to find the very best director to bring that vision to life,” he says. “From our first conversation with Sam, we could tell he was the perfect choice.”

As a W.O.W. fan myself i am on the fence about the proposal of a movie. Just as with Stephen King books, most game movies just don’t gel when exported to the big screen. Resident Evil might be a small exception, but then again, the R.E. movie team didn’t even use a main character from the game as the main character in the movie. I will wait to pass judgment until i start seeing trailers and eventual see the movie itself. You never know, Sam might just be the guy to take the bull by the horns and make this work.

About World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing gameBlizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, two years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard’s previous Warcraft , Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001. The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.