Avid Warcraft fans especially World of Warcraft players probably all know that there’s a Warcraft Movie on works(Shame on you WoW players if you don’t). Question is, where is it? I checked IMDB.com earlier and it’s slated for a 2011 release… yeah right. A lot of rumors are circling around saying that the movie will be based on the Arthas: Rise of the Lich King novel but all of these are false and just rumors. According to the projected Director of the film, Sam Raimi:

“We would choose… something that encompasses lands and characters and storylines, and we would be true to it. But our story may or may not be about one of those central characters.”
“We would have our writer, Robert Rodat, really craft an original story within that world that feels like a ‘World of WarCraft’ adventure”

I will still watch it even if it is the worst movie ever made

So here is a compilation of facts about the people behind the this movie, which of course will subject to change:

Director: Sam Raimi. Notable films as director: Spiderman 1,2 & 3, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead

Writers: Chris Metzen for Story. Notable Works: Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo, the greatest games ever to be made, period. Robert Rodat for Screenplay. Notable Works: Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot, all top rated war movies.

Budget: 100 Million USD, But Blizzard Entertainment announced that the film’s budget would be “Not less than $220 million” according to Wikipedia.com

Probable plot: In August 2007, at BlizzCon, it was unveiled that the film will aim for a projected 2009 release, which of course didn’t happened. It was also revealed that the movie will take place from an Alliance perspective,with a storyline set one year before the beginning of the World of Warcraft storyline. Well, not bad story-wise either.

I just hope they deliver with this one. IMHO, I would really love if the movie has a unique story away from the World of Warcraft storyline but true to Warcraft history, I wouldn’t want to see Arthas in both game and movie. Check out this blog for some updates to the Warcraft Movie.