Warcraft: The Game: The Movie

Posted by Nelson Williams | July 23, 2009

So I hear they’re going to make a Warcraft movie now? Gee. How many billions does a game have to make these days before it’s despoiled and curb-stomped by Hollywood? I mean, we got how many Resident Evil flicks? Granted, I think those were merely the sins of an unjust world taking corporeal shape…

So here’s what we know, which, in the way of these things, could change at any moment. Sam Raimi is set to direct, which is perfect, really. Any man who can pull off the Evil Dead series can probably handle a fantasy world where half the characters wear horrible puns as names. He also seems to have a talent for “getting it” as the kids say, so maybe his version of Warcraft won’t be two hours of explosions set to a Linkin’ Park screamtrack.

Legendary Pictures are developing the …

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