WoW Movie Scores Robert Rodat to Write

According to MTV Movie Blogs, World of Warcraft movie director Sam Raimi let loose that Robert Rodat will be writing the screenplay. Rodat is best known for the screenplay for the Oscar winning Saving Private Ryan. Read more!

Raimi confirmed that the story, which had previously been believed to be an adaptation of the book "Arthas: Rise of the Lich King" after the IMDB listing changed (it has since changed back), will actually be an original effort based in the universe of the popular online role-playing game. "We would choose... something that encompasses lands and characters and storylines, and we would be true to it. But our story may or may not be about one of those central characters."

The aim is to adapt the game, rather than a previously conceived story written within that world. "We want to be really faithful to the game," Raimi said. "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."

Read the rest at the MTV site linked above.

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I am slowly, hesitantly building hope that this movie won't suck on a black-hole level. Very hesitantly.

After what they did to Eragon, I do not trust film adaptions of media that I have enjoyed.