World of Warcraft, the world’s biggest online role-playing game with more than 11.5m subscribers, looks set to receive a serious treatment by Hollywood.
The record of video games being translated to the big screen is not great, but WoW the movie will be directed by Sam Raimi, director of the Spider-Man trilogy, Blizzard Entertainment announced today.
It will also have a heavyweight producer in Charles Roven, a producer on Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Cast and planned release date have yet to be announced. We’ve also no idea about the plot, but would like to see pitched battles involving Chinese gold farmers.
