Sam Raimi is no longer directing the World of Warcraft movie that is in production at Legendary Pictures. Who the director is going to take over, is not known, but according to Raimi is Legendary Pictures now with the production started.
Raimi gave in to the display by him directed Oz: The Great and Powerful an interview with CraveOnline, in which he announced is no longer the director about the movie that World of Warcraft is made. “They let me the World of Warcraft movie is no longer directing”, said Raimi. “They had to switch to a different director when I took the Oz job accepted it. They had to start with the production.” That would mean that film production company Legendary Pictues started with the production of the film, though it is not known who is now the director of the film.
Legendary closed in 2006, a deal with Blizzard, making it a movie should make World of Warcraft, the mmog that Blizzard in 2004, put on the market. The film was originally planned for 2009, but the latest estimate is that the film in 2013 on the market. In 2009, Legendary that Sam Raimi, known for The Evil Dead and Spider-Man movies, the director would enter. He worked with Robert Rodat on a script. Rodat wrote the earlier scripts for movies like Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot. Blizzard hinted that the film takes place in the same time period as the game, and a human character the lead role. The story in the film is told from the perspective of the Alliance, one of the two warring camps in the game.