AICN got the scoop earlier this week: Sam Raimi has been tapped to helm a World of Warcraft movie, which he’ll start filming after completing Spider-Man 4. Not that I have confidence in the film being any good, but today at Comic Con, WoW’s VP of Creative Development confirmed my preliminary fears with the following hype-talk: “[Sam Raimi] is gonna rock it out,” and “”we’re prepping all engines to rock.” Rockin’.
Since this one’s too easy, I’ll leave the expected smarminess up to chance. Let’s roll the ol’ “stupid jokes about WoW” wheel and see what we land on…
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To appease the game’s target fanbase, a game of Bejeweled will flash on the screen during the dialogue scenes.
ZING. Man, you guys were this close to a joke about Chinese gold farmers being used as extras. I’ll make up for it by presenting the best “movie” about WoW ever made:
‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’
It’s a shame this will be live action and not produced by Blizzards talented animation team.
But I guess they are busy producing video game cut scenes that will actually be fun to watch.
Is Athene going to be in this?
http://athene.movielol.org/record.php
Just sayin’…
If I actually get annoyed when World of Warcraft is referred to as just Warcraft, does that make me a worthless waste of flesh?
Move over Uwe Boll!
That onion clip’s quick joke about pitbull attacks was quite funny too.
Woah, woah.
No one’s claiming it’ll be Uwe Boll bad.
The announcement of the WoW movie and the Smurfs movie so close together has got to be more than just a coincidence. Just think: if they film on adjacent soundstages, they can save a lot of prep time if the Night Elf extras shoot their scenes, then take off their ears and go next door to be fitted with white caps and footie pants.
Why is everyone freaking over Warcraft being live-action AND Sam Raimi?
When Peter Jackson was announced to do LORD OF THE FUCKING RINGS, his film resume was:
Bad Taste; Meet the Feebles; Dead Alive; Heavenly Creatures; Forgotten Silver; and The Frighteners.
I remember thinking: “WTF really?? The Hobbit Feebles???!”
…and look what we got out of THAT.
I’m doing the voiceovers for some of the gold farmers, actually.
Sadly, they won’t let me play Kehrbehr, the Taurean druid …
@8: It’s not the director that bothers me; it’s the lore, which is a shameless hodgepodge of all fantasy archetypes that’ve come before it. A lot of fans adore the writing in the game, but I skip it.
I’d love to comment on this, but I have a raid to get to and I have to run my dailies first.