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Sam Raimi has said Blizzard is at least partially to blame for his decision to give up directing the upcoming Warcraft movie.

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Sam Raimi is no longer on board an upcoming World of Warcraft film, the director has revealed.

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Duncan Jones, the director of movie Moon, says he’s “hugely jealous” of director Sam Raimi being the man in charge of the World of Warcraft movie.

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Did you think we were going to get some crappy tie-in for World of Warcraft with Sam Raimi at the realm? This is Blizzard we’re talking about.

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It’s being reported Sam Raimi has decided to work on the film he has inked with Disney first, before moving on to the World of Warcraft film.

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It’s late in the afternoon and it’s fitting to find the developer known as the Bourbon Cowboy – Chris Metzen – on horseback. Admittedly, it’s a virtual steed; we’ve just walked in on him playing World of Warcraft in his office at Blizzard’s Irvine, CA headquarters. It turns out even the mind behind some of the most distinctive (and lucrative) worlds known in gaming – StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo – is an achievement junkie, with Metzen trying to nail in-game exploration accolades “between meetings”.

Or at least that’s his story.

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MTV’s scooped the writer of the World of Warcraft movie: it’s Robert Rodat, the screenwriter behind Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot.

The info comes from a quote from Sam Raimi, zombie-turned-fantasy super-director:

“We want to be really faithful to the game…to the Horde and the Alliance and the mythology that takes place in the game, and the archetypes that the game presents. I think we would try and find touchstones within the game to make it accurate and true and choose one or some of the lands that are portrayed in the game with as much accuracy and authenticity as possible.

“But 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.”

Baddaboom. The movie’s out in 2011.

The IMDB page for the upcoming World of Warcraft movie’s been updated: apparently, the Sam Raimi movie’s going to be called Warcraft: The Rise of the Lich King.

As MTV points out, the interesting bit’s the fact that a World of Warcraft novel, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, was released in the US earlier this year.

The book follows Arthas Menethil, a once-noble prince who goes mental and becomes the Lich King.

Vrai ou faux? We’ll all know soon enough. The movie’s out in 2011.

According to MTV, Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has said that a World of Warcraft is an excellent choice for yet another film based around videogames.

“There’s World of Warcraft — what an awesome video game!” he said. “It has such great, adventurous characters in it and such fantastic landscapes and rules… You could make a brilliant World of Warcraft movie — as fine as any of the best superhero movies — if you had the right writers and directors.”

You could make anything great if you had that right people working on it, we reckon.

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By Mike Bowden