It's been a while since we've heard anything about the Warcraft movie, not since it was confirmed that at least Uwe Boll wouldn't be getting anywhere near the director's chair.

Today, in the lead-up to this weekend's Comic-con even in the U.S., film site Variety have confirmed that Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spidermand, Drag Me To Hell) is now attached to direct Warcraft, a film based on the ridiculously popular online role playing game and Blizzard fantasy series.

The plan is for Raimi to supervise development of "Warcraft" and shoot the picture after he completes work on "Spider-Man 4," which gets under way early next year for Columbia Pictures.

"Warcraft" is "emblematic of the kind of branded, event films for which our studio is best known," said Warner Bros. Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov. The deal revives a long-dormant pact made by Legendary and Blizzard for a film adaptation of the game.

"At its core, 'Warcraft' is a fantastic, action-packed story," Raimi said in a statement.

Warcraft now joins Prince of Persia as another videogame property actually getting some serious big budget Hollywood treatment, let's hope at least one of them works out and breaks the (crappy) mold for game to movie conversions.

God I hope they don't f*** it up

Sam, Sam, Sam...
Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Shame on you

Nothing wrong with the WarCraft franchise from a creative perspective, although Blizzard likes to butcher it on a whim sometimes. Should hopefully make a decent flick.

God I hope they don't f*** it up

haha seriously?

you have that much of a hard-on for the warcraft storyline?


does it even have a storyline?

i would think that in order not to make a pisspoor boring moofie, they will have to make it absolutely nothing like the game

Well if they're gonna be making a movie of a game I play I'd like to see it done well. Not like most of the game to movie conversions that turn out like s***.

i hope the movie has lots of dings n purples n mezz n buff n grats... whatever the f*** they are.

I hope the movie is about farming

Isnt it a movie about Warcraft, not world of warcraft, so it realy could be following any storyline, they could even be doing the story from warcraft 1

Grom better make an appearance

Step 1. Remake Army of Darkness with Warcraft characters
Step 2. Insert Warcraft title
Step 3. Profit

Step 2. Insert Warcraft title

Tide of Darkness!

Step 1. Remake Army of Darkness with Warcraft characters
Step 2. Insert Warcraft title
Step 3. Profit

This would be epic.

i hope the movie is about gaming turned real-life romance.

I hope this means we get some Bruce Campbell in our Warcraft

Grom better make an appearance

Hell yes, Grom owns

Is this a live action movie or an animated one?

Bruce better stay teh f*** away from this or I'm kick some ass an chew some bubblegum an I'm all outta gum...

It's likely to be based upon the main comic, meaning Varian's story in Kalimdor.

does it even have a storyline?

Probably 100x more back story and 'storyline' then FPS's and other such things.

Yeah Grom is awesome. Why don't they get Peter Jackson to do it, That would be epic of course. Him and his studio could easily make something like this. Although you might find it could turn into a B Grade movie if not handled carefully.

does it even have a storyline?

Warcraft has a ridiculous amount of lore and backstory. Whether or not it's any good is debatable, but there's certainly enough there to write a movie.

I doubt I could take this seriously if it's live action rather than CG.

I'm sooo looking forward to this. I don't play the games but the poster looks awesome:
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/3788/warcraft.jpg

Always been a fan of the warcraft back story!
So definately looking forward to this! :D Good to hear it's still in progress!

But the question is, which Sam Raimi will be directing?

The awesome, cool, made-the-Evil-Dead-movies Sam Raimi?

Or the I-made-The-Gift-and-Spider-Man-3-movies Sam Raimi?

Well, it also has the dude who produced The Dark Knight, so hopefully it's the good Sam Raimi that shines through. It'll be interesting to see what the story ends up being and if it's animated or real life.

I can see this movie doing quite well after reading through the official Blizzard press release.

First off is Sam Raimi. Sure he's done a few crappy movies but he's also done a lot of good ones as well. Second, it's being done thru Legendary Pictures. They've done Batman Begins, Dark Knight, 300, Watchmen, The Hangover and a heap of other hits. And lastly Chris Metzen, Blizzard Entertainment’s Senior Vice President of Creative Development will be onboard doing the story. And he's had a major influence on story and artwork with Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo.

If there's one thing I know about Blizzard, they hold their company in the highest regard and they're not about to pump out some lame-ass script to rush a movie out. Whatever they end up doing will be worth going to see.

The movie will go for 5 hours and you'll come out still, wearing the same clothes as you entered. Maybe 1 or 2 people might have new t-shirts on.

Last time I read anything about it it sounded very alliance driven. I hope it's not.

Well, its a warcraft movie, not a WoW movie, so it could be starting right back at the start before there even is an Alliance.

do you think that sometime in the movie you'll get

"[Trade]: LFG - Hogger"

what's really annoying is he's only upto page 9 for the evil dead 4 script..

rather see ED4 than a warcraft or spiderman 4..

The movie will go for 5 hours and you'll come out still, wearing the same clothes as you entered. Maybe 1 or 2 people might have new t-shirts on.

I normally wear the same clothes after coming out of all movies.....1-2 hours.

oh wait...raids! lol