Warcraft movie gets Saving Private Ryan scribe

I still don't want anybody to make a movie out of the Warcraft Universe. And I still don't want Raimi doing it, since they've decided to make one.

Dumb. More sell out corporate garbage.

i would love for starcraft to be a movie too, because its more original compared to the lore of warcraft which is rougly based on warhammer universe.

My hopes arent too high... but at least there will be the possibility of undead.

This is going to be terrible, hopefully a hilarious kind of terrible though, like Street Fighter with JCVD.

Oh dear...maybe Activision blizzard will actually use some money for this...

@ColdfireTrilogy Your looking at what a movie makes in its first week out, that means nothing. Look at what the movies total theater gross was and the spiderman movies all made over 300million, the first one made over 400million.

Jason Isaacs for Arthas, guy looks like he was the model for the character.

Wasn't Arthas corrupted by the Lich King spirit and then driven mad before he got the Frostmourne? I thought the sword only sealed away his soul and turned him into a DK. Pretty sure he went crazy before he got the sword.

What is with all these movies lately? Plus they should know that half there fan base is addicted to the game and don't have time to watch a movie! and anyone else wouldn't have a clue as to what is going on!

Oh Gee Golly! A Warcraft movie. I hope its as good as the Final Fantasy movies! Those are my fav! I am totally dressing up for this event! Hail Warcraft!

I hope this'll turn out good, I don't have my hopes up much though. Hollywood have screwed Dragonball, screwed Doom and made Tomb Raider meh... Silent Hill was pretty good though, so was Resident Evil 1 & 2.

After the last 3 spider man movies I have no confidence in Raimis ability to make a movie that isn't Emo trash. We will see.

Lol it's blizzard, if they make more than one movie we all know they'll turn the entire movies / trilogy into garbage due to their unending ability to ruin their own game of WoW over time. I now ask blizzard to revert the game back to the original content before burning crusade and for them to let the fans do the whole additions to their game. it'd cost less and oh... it'd be free to them.

What kind of story can they possibly come up with for a movie about the WoW universe?

the first mortal kombat movie was epic, ktulu

blizzard's smart. i bet they're going to give away access to in-game items that you can only get if you watched the movie. thus, every warcraft dork, including myself, will go see the movie just to get the item. sales, sales, sales.

Yet another movie based on a video game. Because it worked so well in cases like The Super Mario Brothers, Street Fighter, Mortal kombat, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Double Dragon, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within, Bloodrayne, and Hitman.

im not going to even bother hoping this will be a good movie

I hope it's good but I wouldn't bet a dime on it

No offense GS, but the captions on the pictures make me want to stab myself in the lungs.

"The subject of much speculation, the movie was, ironically, once linked to Saving Private Ryan director Steven Spielberg." It's not ironic, it's a coincidence.

this is bad..i mean the screenwriter is awesome...but Raimi just can't pull this of...he can't and he wont. period. they need to drop his ass fast! and the story is not that of the game as he repeated like 5 times in the interview..it is original lore created by Chris Metzen what we see in the game is but a tiny part of the awesomeness that is the story of Warcraft.

"Raimi was all too happy to talk to MTV News about his vision for the film's plot, which he says will be true to the game franchise's spirit." Not a good sign when someone in Hollywood says this.......

why are they making a movie!

lame

@fattass21 I hope that's true, because I'd have better memories of my WOW playing days if I knew I was once ganked by the guy who wrote 'Saving Private Ryan.' Of course, he's also the guy who "wrote" the mega-turd "10,000 B.C.", so maybe all of that grinding fried his brain.

Its not necessarily the WoW movie, they are calling it that as not to confuse people who are far too easily confused over such simple things. Its a movie based on the lore (or whats left of it after Cataclysm comes out) that inspired the games. I just hope they do it justice as the original Warcraft games had a really good back story to them.

Since when did WoW even have a storyline nevermind something that could be a screenplay. Two solid hours of Orlando Bloom killing Bristlebacks in order to collect 50 blood shards

a good director and a good writer ?! this movie might be good after all

@rottenwood maybe hr just love wow to much, lawl

Ouch. Guy went from writing an acclaimed Oscar-winning film that was also a box-office success... to writing the World of WarCraft movie. I'd ask what could possibly motivate him to do such a thing, but I suspect it involves a large check and an on-set trailer with flexible Swedish twins in it. I dig the feisty old lady in the photo, though, playing... hell, what was her name? She was in the Monastery and casters would spend hours farming for her funny hat.

If this movie has the production scale of LOTR, this could be interesting...but otherwise, I'm staying away from WOW

wow, i will be impressed if htey can pull this off. there is such a hardcore fan base that if they mess up a single detail, there will be a huge backlash. but ill probably go see it

I think im going to be sick.

one question. WHY?

Wow that Blood Elf character looked passable. I would be surprised if they can pull this off.

@Sevey13 Ok, so from your comment I can assume that you are actually familiar with the story and lore from warcraft. Now reread what I wrote, and notice I'm just saying hes crazy for saying WoW is not known for storyline. As far as destroying lore with the upcoming expansion, sure, you could say that, but to completely dismiss the story that's already there is just crazy.

Good, at least one person who has won oscar! the problem here is that blizzard only wants to make a blockbuster from Warcraft universe,it doesn't care about how artistic this movie is going to be(as far as it appears: choosing sam raimi as director) but I personally think warcraft's story and lore is just too rich and artistic that it can win oscar or even oscars!of course if it is done well...

@devotedgmr17 Right, the reason that Blizz is completely destroying the lore of the game with the upcoming expansion, including subverting some of the longest standing 'traditions' of the game, is story. I get it now!

@gardneed holy sh!t, what on earth are you smoking??? WoW and the whole Warcraft universe is mainly based on lore and story. If you even knew how much story and history there is regarding Warcraft it would probably blow your mind. Saying that WoW is not about story is probably one of THE biggest ignorant statements I saw on this website. Sure you may play it for the gameplay, and totally disregard the story, but ever since the first one came out, as well as the expansions, and even the content updates, they are there to further along the already rich warcraft story.

and we thought the mario movie was bad. this will take the crown as the worst game to movie ever!!

@ gardneed wow known for gameplay not story? you are kidding right? the movie isnt based on wow, it's based on the warcraft universe which is one of the longest standing fantasy universes around.

Can't wait

If I don't see a night elf say Groovy or Hail to the King Baby in this movie, I'm gonna feel ripped off.

I'm hoping that this breaks the curse of the bad game movies...but...I mean come on,what are the chances of that, lollol. It's a bad idea (economically) to try to battle that curse.What if you lose to it just like ALL the other dozens of game movies ever made?

WOW is known for gameplay, not story. I see this movie as being a big pile of suck.

I want 'minesweeper' the movie... now that would rock ! :)

games and movies dont mix well...im suprised Sam wants to even attempt this

SD Skarface did you even see Drag Me to Hell? An R rating wasn't even necessary because he didn't have to tone anything down. And the mainstream didn't love it that much because it didn't gross that much compared to the other summer films.