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Wednesday 22nd July 2009, 22:31
Sam Raimi directing World of Warcraft
I'm not sure if this has been brewing for a while, but the news that Sam Raimi's directing a film version of World of Warcraft has come completely out of left field for me - thoroughly appreciated nonetheless! Having been a fan of his from Evil Dead through to Spider-Man 2 (let's forget 3 for the moment), via of course Darkman and many others, I'm hoping having a big-name director onboard will elevate this above usual game to film fare.
In its favour is the fact that WoW is more of an overall universe rather than a typical game, so rather than having to try and follow the sort of half-arsed game plot such films often do, they can take the world and build something interesting into it. The only downside is that Sam Raimi's Oldsmobile, which has featured in every film he's made except The Quick and the Dead, for obvious reasons, probably won't fit into this either. Provided he gets Bruce Campbell in there somewhere I'll be happy.
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