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Warcraft Movie Gains Writer
Sam Raimi, the acclaimed director who is helming the Warcraft motion picture, has found himself a writer.
By Samuel 'DarthBotto' Horton
Oct 13, 2009 07:11
Sam Raimi, the acclaimed director who is helming the Warcraft motion picture, has found himself a writer.The amazing and painfully accurate World War II film by Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan had a literate writer behind it. The film was graphic, human, heartwrenching and breath-taking. This is a foreshadow of what director Sam Raimi may be aiming for when he hired Saving Private Ryan's writer, Robert Rodat. His position has been a looming question since the project began, considering how on November 21st, 2008, Blizzard said they were looking for a visionary writer.
Blizzard Entertainment has not released an official statement about this revelation, but Sam Raimi shared light on the subject.
"We want to be really faithful to the game...to the Horde and the Alliance and the mythology that takes place in the game, and the archetypes that the game presents. I think we would try and find touchstones within the game to make it accurate and true and choose one or some of the lands that are portrayed in the game with as much accuracy and authenticity as possible.
"But we would have our writer, Robert Rodat, really craft an original story within that world that feels like a 'World of WarCraft' adventure. Only obviously it's very different 'cause it's expanded and translated into the world of a motion picture."
The overall goal of the film is to bring the whole Warcraft vision into only an only couple-hour time slot. Otherwise, the story would seem ever more confusing to non-Warcraft fans who are not familiar with the story. This is faithfully following the whole vision that Chris Metzen described at BlizzCon 2007, when Legendary Pictures was announced to be the studio and The Dark Knight was gaining momentum a year in advance.
Sam Raimi further expressed his feelings about adapting the mega franchise that Warcraft is. "I've never made a video game movie, but my approach would be to work with the best character writer I can find, which in this case is Robert Rodat, and tell a great character story within the fantastic environment of the world of WarCraft, while staying true to their mythology."
Source: MTV Multiplayer, IGN
Blizzard Entertainment has not released an official statement about this revelation, but Sam Raimi shared light on the subject.
"We want to be really faithful to the game...to the Horde and the Alliance and the mythology that takes place in the game, and the archetypes that the game presents. I think we would try and find touchstones within the game to make it accurate and true and choose one or some of the lands that are portrayed in the game with as much accuracy and authenticity as possible.
"But we would have our writer, Robert Rodat, really craft an original story within that world that feels like a 'World of WarCraft' adventure. Only obviously it's very different 'cause it's expanded and translated into the world of a motion picture."
The overall goal of the film is to bring the whole Warcraft vision into only an only couple-hour time slot. Otherwise, the story would seem ever more confusing to non-Warcraft fans who are not familiar with the story. This is faithfully following the whole vision that Chris Metzen described at BlizzCon 2007, when Legendary Pictures was announced to be the studio and The Dark Knight was gaining momentum a year in advance.
Sam Raimi further expressed his feelings about adapting the mega franchise that Warcraft is. "I've never made a video game movie, but my approach would be to work with the best character writer I can find, which in this case is Robert Rodat, and tell a great character story within the fantastic environment of the world of WarCraft, while staying true to their mythology."
Source: MTV Multiplayer, IGN
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