Did you know it takes about 1.3 Petabytes (1,300,000 gigabytes) of data storage to maintain World of Warcraft.
That’s because the multiplayer game is one of the most popular that has ever existed. The franchise has been tossed around as a developing studio film for years and years, with Sam Raimi the director to go the farthest with it before ditching for the upcoming Oz. Today we learn that a new director has been chosen by Legendary and Blizzard, and it’s none other than Duncan Jones, director of the genre gem Moon and he solid studio scifi film Source Code.
Jones’ stepping up to the $100m+ bluckbuster big leagues presumably follows the new momentum on the project after Charles Leavitt pitched a new screenplay late last year. No details on how the massive and tonally-scattered universe of Azeroth is being narrowed into a feature film as of yet, but one must assume somebody has figured something out if Jones is signing on.
Jones has been on a clear studio trajectory since his low-budget first effort, so it’s no surprise to hear his name finally jump from shortlists to a full deal. I wish him the best of luck. I’ve never logged a single click in WoW, so it will be up to him to provide shits for me to give.
Here’s looking to a trailer in a couple years! Till then, congratulate the guy on twitter!
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You son of a bitch. I thought that this article was announcing the long-awaited return of Milos Forman with a very, very unusual project.
I hope Duncan Jones gets a lot of creative control or this will probably suck. The plot of WoW is all over the place and tries too hard to be too much of everything. If they’re smart they’ll stick with the story of Arthas from WC3: Reign of Chaos, as that was the last plot conceived by Blizzard that had any cinematic coherence.
Okay, now I’m actually interested in a WoW movie.
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