WoW movie still needs a writer, Blizzard's CGI team won't be involved

by Samuel Axon Nov 21st 2008 at 11:00AM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Culture, News items

When you've just released an expansion pack that sold more copies than most major stand-alone releases, all in less than 24 hours, you know you're sitting on a goldmine of a franchise. Blizzard, of course, is aware of this, what with World of Warcraft getting a licensed miniature game and a coming feature film adaptation.

And speaking of the feature film adaptation, we have some elusive news about that. MTV's Multiplayer blog had a chat with Blizzard's Frank Pearce about the project. The scoop is that the studio, Legendary Pictures, is still looking for a screenwriter and director. Obviously, that means the movie is very early in development.

MTV also asked Pearce if Blizzard's own world-renowned CGI animators would be involved in producing the special effects for the movie. Pearce said that the suggestion has "come up in discussions but it's not something we've really considered because it takes so long to generate just the brief amount of footage that we create for the game."

Tags: animation, blizzard, cgi, computer-animation, director, film, frank-pearce, interview, legendary-pictures, movie, screenwriter, world-of-warcraft, world-of-warcraft-movie, wow, wow-movie

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nerolus said on 4:43PM 11-21-2008

I don't really want to see it turned into a movie in the first place but *sigh* if they HAVE to....

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

NOT

UWE

BOLL.

*pukeeeeeeee*

Henry said on 4:47PM 11-21-2008

I thought Gary Whitta was writing this? What happened?

Tasogare said on 6:41PM 11-21-2008

I think a WoW movie would have fail written all over it regardless of who does it. Only the most truly stellar writers/directors in the business could make this not a horrible idea...and I doubt any of them want anything to do with it.

Iconic said on 11:03PM 11-21-2008

If they don't even have a writer yet, then they have no movie.

Which means that when it does come out, it will be crap, because they're making it backwards (marketing and then story).

ThIrD-EyE said on 4:27AM 11-22-2008

Why do people keep referring to the Warcraft movie as the WoW movie when if I remember correctly it was originally only planned to be based on the Warcraft IP, and not any of the Warcraft games specifically. I'm all for a movie based on the Warcraft IP, but not so much if based on just on WoW.

Nobody said on 1:11PM 1-17-2009

The only way, I can see a WoW movie actually turn out great... is if it was pure CGI, just like the Final Fantasy Movies. Using live action for this just sounds full of fail.