Sam Raimi to direct WarCraft Movie!

"Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Legendary Pictures announced today that Sam Raimi has signed on to direct the eagerly-anticipated major motion picture based on Blizzard Entertainment®’s award-winning Warcraft® universe. Raimi has, in the course of his career, clearly demonstrated a genius for developing and adapting existing fictional universes for mainstream audiences while staying true to the spirit of the original content.
Raimi directed the Spider-Man trilogy, which has broken box-office records around the world and garnered five Academy Award® nominations. Known for his imaginative filmmaking style, richly drawn characters and offbeat humor, Raimi wrote and directed the cult classic, The Evil Dead and produced 30 Days Of Night. He most recently wrote and directed the supernatural thriller, Drag Me To Hell.

"At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story," said Raimi. "I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen.""




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I'm really glad they've found such a great director for WarCraft movie(I really didn't like spider-man 3, but the other 2 were pretty good...and army of darkness as well :P). Guess we'll have a lot of Good VFX and hopefully as good story with memorable characters(Chris Metzen is writing the script, so i don't know how that can go wrong).

Its really good to see their taking some game franchises seriously (WarCraft Sam, Bioshock Gore Verbinski) but the best treat in my opinion is Battle Angel Alitia with Cameron