Robert Rodat writer of that classic war movie Saving Private Ryan will tackle the writing duties on Warcraft as mentioned by Sam Raimi in an interview. The movie will be an original tale set on the World of Warcraft rather than the mentioned adaptation of the Book: "Arthas: Rise of the Lich King".
The movie is set to be in theaters 2011 according to IMDB.
Here's an excerpt from MTV's article:
The aim is to adapt the game, rather than a previously conceived story written within that world. "We want to be really faithful to the game," Raimi said. "We would have our writer, Robert Rodat, really craft an original story within that world that feels like a 'World of WarCraft' adventure. Only obviously it's very different 'cause it's expanded and translated into the world of a motion picture."
Raimi understands that there's a massive "Warcraft" fanbase out there, and a need to serve those fans as much as he serves the need to create a mass-marketable event film. The hope is that they'll properly capture "the Horde and the Alliance and the mythology that takes place in the game, and the archetypes that the game presents. I think we would try and find touchstones within the game to make it accurate and true and choose one or some of the lands that are portrayed in the game with as much accuracy and authenticity as possible." |
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World of Warcraft has an ongoing comic series release by Wildstorm.
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