Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures are producing Warcraft. this is expected to be a live-action film based on the popular MMORPG video game, World of Warcraft. Sam Raimi is set to Direct this action adventure which is rumored to be following closely along World of Warcraft MMORPG plot lines. There is no movie trailer yet, but it will be added once on is available. October 13, 2009 it was announced that the screenplay is being written by Robert Rodat known for his work in Saving Private Ryan. the screen play is expected to take place 1 year before the World Of Warcraft and will be told from the Alliance perspective.
Release date is expected to be 2013.
Crew Named Thus Far
This is a fluid list as they make announcements it will be updated and reflect the new information. At this current time the information on this page is accurate.
- Executive Producer - Robert Tapert
- Producer - Charles Roven
- Co-Producer - Chris Metzen
- Producer - Alex Gartner
- Producer - Sam Raimi
- Producer - Thomas Tull
- Producer - Jon Jashni
- Producer - Joshua Donen
- Director - Sam Raimi
- Writer - Robert Rodat
- Writer - Chris Metzen
- Studio Legendary Pictures
- Distributed by Warner Brothers
- Character designer - Aaron Sims
- Visual Effects - The Aaron Sims Company
- Production executive - Dennis Bakriges
- Release Date expected 2013
Story To Date
The first story was started then scrapped as it was appearing to resemble Lord of the Rings. The plan for the script now is that the story is set one year before "World of Warcraft" and is said to be going to be told from the Alliance perspective. http://www.wowwiki.com/Warcraft_(film)#cite_note-Blizzard-4 Concept art of Teldrassil has been released which makes people speculate that Darnassus may be one of the settings. http://www.wowwiki.com/Warcraft_(film)#cite_note-Blizzard-4