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Chris Metzen talks World of Warcraft Movie

1. Chris Met­zen, Blizzard's VP of Cre­ative Devel­op­ment, has spo­ken with Game­Spy about the lat­est WOW Movie devel­op­ments — mainly Sam Raimi as direc­tor of the big screen adap­ta­tion. He dis­cusses Raimi's ded­i­ca­tion to cre­at­ing faith­ful adap­ta­tions (he didn't have full cre­ative con­trol in Spider-man 3) and his excite­ment at see­ing famil­iar places and char­ac­ters brought to the big screen.
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3. Game­Spy: You've just made the big announce­ment that Sam Raimi will be direct­ing the War­craft movie. You're co-producing, so what are your thoughts on the announcement?
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Chris Met­zen: We're all very,wow gold very excited about the announce­ment. We waited a long time to announce a direc­tor. We've been with Leg­endary for a num­ber of years and we've jammed a lot of ideas, and we've waited for the right per­son­al­i­ties, the right chem­istry to come together. We're really, really stoked that it finally has. It's pretty sur­real that we've finally made the announce­ment. It's finally like, "It's on, it's offi­cial, here we go." We're just stoked to get it going and see this thing start­ing to take shape.Game­Spy: Was Sam Raimi one of the orig­i­nally tar­geted directors?wow goldChris Met­zen: We talked about a lot of dif­fer­ent peo­ple, and cer­tainly his name was one of the first we had talked about. We're all huge "Spider-Man" fans, and all of his hor­ror con­tent, like "Army of Dark­ness" is one of my per­sonal favorites. Sam's one of those guys who came out swing­ing with "Spider-Man," in terms of han­dling the licensed prod­uct and all the geeky fan­fare. The pas­sion of fan­dom, he really trans­lated that into some­thing that every­one could love,and had a lot of heart. And those were really impor­tant com­po­nents for us, in terms of trans­lat­ing a license, in build­ing a cin­e­matic expe­ri­ence that speaks to the license, but really sings to every­body. That was really, really impor­tant to us, so he was the per­fect partner.www.ffxigil-us.comGame­Spy: The fan base is rely­ing on you to ensure that the movie stays true to War­craft. Are you pre­pared to say that it will be?Chris Met­zen: Absolutely! Absolutely.Game­Spy: What most excites you about co-producing the movie?Chris Met­zen: The thing that would excite me most is just that it trans­lates boldly. That it feels like a fan expe­ri­ence, and that a cou­ple years from now, you sit down in a the­ater and you're like, "They did it. They got it.cheap wow gold That feels gen­uine." It may not be about your Level 12 Night Elf Hunter, specif­i­cally, but all the famil­iar­ity — the locales, the places, the char­ac­ters, the sto­ry­lines — it all feels con­tigu­ous and one-to-one with your expec­ta­tions That's my great hope.

2.Sam Raimi will direct World of Warcraft Movie

1. The World of War­craft movie is offi­cially on the move, after many months of stag­na­tion we thought the project may have died a quiet death. How­ever, behind the scenes it seems there were some excit­ing dis­cus­sions and today, two years since the ini­tial announce­ment, Bliz­zard and Leg­endary pic­tures have named their direc­tor, one Sam Raimi.
2. Raimi has directed both the Spider-man and Evil Dead series, and may be a per­fect choice, as some­one that can take a huge wealth of core mate­r­ial (with a strong fan fol­low­ing) and deliver some­thing phenomenal.
3. Raimi is cur­rently set to direct Spider-man 4 which is due for release in 2011, pro­duc­tion hasn't yet started on the fourth movie, which gives the World of War­craft movie a release date, at the ear­li­est, some­time in 2012 (Assum­ing Spider-man 4 begins early next year, takes one year to com­plete and meets its release date, and that the WOW movie has a sim­i­lar schedule).

4. Press release

   1. LOS ANGELES, Calif. – July 22, 2009 — Bliz­zard Enter­tain­ment, Inc. and Leg­endary Pic­tures announced today that Sam Raimi has signed on to direct the eagerly-anticipated major motion pic­ture based on Bliz­zard Entertainment®'s award-winning War­craft® uni­verse. Raimi has, in the course of his career, clearly demon­strated a genius for devel­op­ing and adapt­ing exist­ing fic­tional uni­verses for main­stream audi­ences while stay­ing true to the spirit of the orig­i­nal con­tent.
      Raimi directed the Spider-Man tril­ogy, which has bro­ken box-office records around the world and gar­nered five Acad­emy Award® nom­i­na­tions. Known for his imag­i­na­tive film­mak­ing style, richly drawn char­ac­ters and off­beat humor, Raimi wrote and directed the cult clas­sic, The Evil Dead and pro­duced 30 Days Of Night. He most recently wrote and directed the super­nat­ural thriller, Drag Me To Hell.
   2. "At its core, War­craft is a fan­tas­tic, action-packed story," said Raimi. "I am thrilled to work with such a dyna­mite pro­duc­tion team to bring this project to the big screen."
   3. Charles Roven's pro­duc­ing tal­ents were recently seen with last summer's block­buster The Dark Knight, which grossed in excess of $1 bil­lion, was nom­i­nated for eight Acad­emy Awards® and won two. His body of work also includes the widely acclaimed Bat­man Begins and the sci-fi clas­sic 12 Mon­keys. Roven, with Atlas pro­duc­ing part­ner Alex Gart­ner, will be pro­duc­ing with Leg­endary Pic­tures CEO Thomas Tull, Legendary's Chief Cre­ative Offi­cer Jon Jashni, Raimi and Raimi's pro­duc­ing part­ner Joshua Donen. Raimi's part­ner, Robert Tapert, will be an Exec­u­tive Pro­ducer and Bliz­zard Entertainment's Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of Cre­ative Devel­op­ment, Chris Met­zen, a Co-Producer.
   4. "Part­ner­ing with Sam Raimi exem­pli­fies Legendary's man­date of mar­ry­ing the high­est qual­ity intel­lec­tual prop­erty to world-class film­mak­ers" said Legendary's Tull. "Sam's pas­sion for ‘War­craft' is unde­ni­able and we know that he will cre­ate an incred­i­ble film wor­thy of Blizzard's phe­nom­e­nal fran­chise. We look for­ward to col­lab­o­rat­ing with our part­ners at Warner Bros. and con­tin­u­ing our suc­cess­ful rela­tion­ship with Chuck in bring­ing this rich new world to the screen."
   5. "Bliz­zard Enter­tain­ment and Leg­endary Pic­tures have a shared vision for this film and we searched at length to find the very best direc­tor to bring that vision to life," said Paul Sams, chief oper­at­ing offi­cer of Bliz­zard Enter­tain­ment. "From our first con­ver­sa­tion with Sam, we could tell he was the per­fect choice. Sam knows how to simul­ta­ne­ously sat­isfy the enthu­si­asts and the main­stream audi­ence that might be expe­ri­enc­ing that con­tent for the first time. We're look­ing for­ward to work­ing with him to achieve that here."

 

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