More Details on The Warcraft Movie

Gamespot had a talk with Paul Sams, Blizzard COO, and dug up some additional details on the Warcraft film. From the article: "We're not trying to take what we've done and...try to make a literal translation to the big screen. What we want to do is to make a great movie that happens to be set in a video game universe. That's a differentiator, and a key differentiator. A lot of it comes down to picking the right people. A lot of the other video game movies that have come out before this haven't had the budgets, the right people, and haven't had the right mindset. We and Legendary want to make a great film, an event picture, big-budget picture, that is a great stand-alone, fantasy-based movie that is good for you regardless of whether you're familiar with the Warcraft universe."

Comments

Of course...

[Admiral Justin]

The movie, we hope, will be more meaningful than 2 hours of blood elf dancing.

Or, of course, at least more meaningful than the Mario Bros. Movie. (if you notice your friend attempting to watch this film, please insert baseball bat into the front of the screen, as this is the only way to protect them)

Re:Hrm...

[sgant]

But he's not directing it. And PJ is working on a MUCH smaller movie now with "The Lovely Bones"...not that being the executive producer on Halo isn't a big job, I don't blame him for taking a smaller film to direct after LOTR and Kong.

But, having said that, they still haven't found a director for Halo so who knows, he may just take it over himself which would be quite interesting.