Verleden jaar werd bekend dat Sam Raimi (eerste Spider-Man trilogie) de regie op zich nam voor de verfilming van de bekende game World of Warcraft. Daarna kwam de film echter niet zo vaak meer in het nieuws. De website Collider heeft daarom contact opgenomen met Raimi, die graag meer prijs gaf waarom hij zo geïnteresseerd is in de gameverfilming.
Sam Raimi: "I love the visual world that the guys over at Blizzard have created. It's incredibly, engrossingly terrifying and exciting. And I like the use of scale, the giant monsters they have, I love the different landscapes your character can move through. I like the first person interaction you have with other players online. There's so many aspects about the game I really enjoy, like the battles, like performing spells and learning new spells and getting to the next level like everyone else."
Over de voortgang van het script, geschreven door Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan) zegt Raimi: "we're still working on the story right now. "There's no real angle on it, we're just trying to create realistic characters that can live in the World of Warcraft as though you were in the game itself, in one or two or three of those environments, and see the interaction with those great mythical, iconic characters."
De film komt vermoedelijk ergens in 2012 of 2013 uit.
