Blizzard would be on board with a StarCraft movie. Who wouldn't be? But they have some pretty specific conditions. One is that James Cameron would direct this film.
Rob Pardo of Blizzard spoke with MTV Multiplayer and said that he'd do the flick if Cameron was on board.
We've always had an interest in seeing our stuff on film or TV. It's just tricky to find the right partners. We probably could have made a ['StarCraft'] movie or something on TV years and years ago, but it's really important to us that we find creative people that are really talented but also really excited about our properties. That's always been the challenge for us. I think if Jim Cameron came to us tomorrow and said, 'You want to make a 'StarCraft' movie?' we'd probably sign that.
He didn't say 'only Cameron,' but I get where he's coming from. If they're going to do a movie, it has got to be big, just like their game. Big and flashy and blue and 3D, with sinking ships and marginal t*ts and music that makes you want to stick sharp things in your ears.
I can't wait. Not that this is ever going to happen or anything.
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1:40 PM on 08.30.2010 | 
Would be interesting though.
Neill Blomkamp would be my first choice.
Starcraft 2's story sucked harder than a black hole.
Neil Blomkamp, Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson to name a few, would be better choices.
Then again, Sam "Shitty Spiderman" Raimi is doing Warcraft. Ugh Hollywood.
Maybe if they get Duncan Jones? I'd love to see what that guy could do with a budget. I wouldn't mind Cameron, he's great in terms of visual direction and acting for the most parts. Maybe I'm just Cameron'd out. Actually, I think it'd be best if they got a WESTERN director. Starcraft is like the most high tech Western ever made. It's funny to hear these people talk all Southern-like.
But maybe if there was a suitable Disney film he could riff on...
Of course, given Cameron's negative views towards games, I don't think he would be interested.
Sigh, I'd probably see it anyway. I'm a sucker for big theatrical spectacles.
Seriously though. He said Alien 3 was bad but praised Alien Resurrection. That says a great deal about his thought process.
It tells me it time for him to stop making movies.
the material he has to work with.
Starcraft's story does not stand alone. The game is an RTS take on popular themes. Science fiction, space aliens, truckers, marines, fraggle rock. You subsititute those themes with something different and it is even possible for you to have Warcraft. If you were asked to tell Starcraft as a bedtime story, you'd realize that there are way better material elsewhere than this which a fifth grade kid can make up.
If you really really wanted to make a movie with marines with big guns going to war in a distant planet against alien creatures then at least go to the source of Starcraft's inspiration like Warhammer 20k.
I'm glad they didn't do a Halo movie. Another B movie that can hide behind a good production.
Have Michael Bay direct Starcraft. Let's see him do his Transformers treatment on it.
Cameron would certainly be able to make it *look* right, but he can't tell a story for @#$%.
Hmm, putting it like that, he's perfect for video game movies :D
(pst, guys, none of them are gonna' happen)