MUMBAI: Sam Raimi, director of Spider-Man, has been signed to make a film on the videogame, World of Warcraft, by Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures.
“Raimi has, in the course of his career, clearly demonstrated himself to be a genius for developing and adapting existing fictional universes for mainstream audiences while staying true to the spirit of the original content,” the companies declared in a joint statement.
In 1994 Warcraft made its debut as a real-time strategy game, based on a conflict between the Horde and the Alliance and was later developed into the multi-player online game, World of Warcraft, in 2004.
The video game now holds the Guiness World Record as the most popular massively multi-player online game with more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers.
The film will be produced by Charles Roven (of The Dark Knight fame).
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