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You may recall that Spider-Man and Evil Dead director Sam Raimi was once attached to turn
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Warcraft into a feature film. While doing press for his new release Oz the Great and
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Powerful, Raimi recalled why the project didn't happen.
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In a chat with Vulture, Raimi said quote “First, they [Legendary Pictures] asked me if I wanted
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to make it, and I said, 'Yes, I love World of Warcraft, and I think it would make a great
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picture.' So I read a screenplay they had that was written by the guys at [Warcraft
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developer] Blizzard, and it didn't quite work for me.”
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Raimi wanted to make an original movie written by his friend Robert Rodat -- writer of Saving
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Private Ryan. They pitched it to Legendary and it was accepted, so then it was time to
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pitch to Blizzard.
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Blizzard had reservations but apparently gave the pair some sort of a modest thumbs up.
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So Rodat went ahead and wrote the script, but when it was done he and Raimi realized
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that Blizzard had veto power -- and that they had never really officially accepted the offer.
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Raimi continues, quote “Those reservations were their way of saying, 'We don't approve
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this story, and we want to go a different way,' so after we had spent nine months working
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on this thing, we basically had to start over. And Robert did start over, but it was taking
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too long for the people at Blizzard, and their patience ran out. Honestly, I think it was
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mismanagement on their behalf, not to explain to us that the first story was vetoed long
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ago. Why did they let us keep working on it? Were they afraid to tell me?”
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The Warcraft movie is now in the hands of director Duncan Jones, he of Moon fame.
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Raimi says, “I loved his movie Moon, and I think he's a strikingly talented director.
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I bet that if anyone can do a great job with it, it's him."
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As soon as we know more about the Warcraft movie, we’ll let you know right here at
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IGN.
