Robert Rodat. That's your man. He's the guy who will write up the World of Warcraft film adaptation. Director Sam Raimi says that the movie script will be a wholly original work based in the universe of the popular online role-playing game, and not a reworking of an existing novel, as previously thought.
"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."
Whatever. Do you think Rodat will do a good job? Will they cast Tom Hanks?
[via MTV Movie blog]
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6:20 PM on 10.12.2009
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If he brings out his big guns from two-three decades ago it might be good tho :)
Let me get this straight:
The studio behind this movie is the studio behind 300.
The director is the director of the Spider-Man movies.
The producer is the producer of The Dark Knight.
The writer is now the writer of Saving Private Ryan?
Oh yeah, and Bruce Campbell will likely be in the movie.
Could this movie possibly be made of any more win?
(blatantly stolen from a user on kotaku)
/lolol WoW bashing lololol /joke
Regardless, this is gonna be huge, and I choose to completely ignore it form this point forward.
Could be interesting, I think. I just hope it doesn't feel like they're cramming too many things in. There's bunch of talented and invested people on this project (Metzen and team are supposed to be heavily, from the ground up involved). We'll just have to watch them execute
Now I'm cautious. It sounds like it should be astronomically awesome, but that little fact has me worried. What's wrong with the WC3 lore?