Warner Bros.-based Legendary Pictures has picked up film rights to adapt the popular fantasy video game franchise World of Warcraft and will develop the project with game publisher Blizzard Entertainment, which is owned by Vivendi.

While the "Warcraft" franchise has been around for more than a decade, the most recent iteration, the megahit online title "World of Warcraft," has transformed the video game industry.

Unlike most games, where players pay $50 once and play until they're done, more than 6 million people around the world pay $14.99 per month to participate in the multiplayer game.

that makes no sense.

but thats what i don't understand. So it will be based on the warcraft universe but not warcraft 3 itself? that sounds rather stupid because warcraft 3 actually has a decent storyline and the entire thing spawns from there. its main characters (iladdin, arthas, stormrage,warchief) were characters with extreme depth.

adapting anything that is blizzard scares me. Blizzard is a company thats more thourough and careful about its products than any gaming company i've come across. I guess i'm glad that the adaptation is warcraft. if the movie studios were up, blizzard would be smart enough to keep starcraft away from them. screwing up starcraft is a no no.

Someone tell bABA that World of Warcraft and Warcraft are two very different things.

I agree with Baba. Why not just call it Warcraft instead of World of Warcraft. WOW is just an online game, it would be like calling a Final Fantasy movie , Final Fantasy XI based on the online game. Unless the premise for World Of Warcraft movie is if characters try to argue with each other about campin spots but cant attack each other because its a no fighting zone, so they only way around this is if the orcs lure some critters into the humans spawn area and have them do the dirty work for them without engaging in battle then the title makes sense

also if they talk to some side characters, the speech should be repeated again and again.

some of the possible WoW dialogue

A/S/L
lol!!!!1111!
ttyl
i need to leave at 10. my mom wants me to take out the garbage.
hey champion112lo are you a girl?

How could you forget

BOOM! HEADSHOT!
IM THE JUGGERNAUGHT BITCH!
more dots more dots more dots
THAT'S A 50 DKP MINUS!!

didn't know the wow specific phrases. never played it. but i do know how multiplayer works : )

Does WOW has some story actually? If not, they could easily just use the settings, characters in the movie, with completly different story.

Or just Legendary Pictures don't know the difference between WOW and Warcraft.

They are using WoW because the story is more undefined. Instead it is just a world, with races and heros.

They can craft and tell whatever story they want. If it was simply Warcraft they would be restrained in some ways by the existing storyline. This storyline will be totally new and unique, and will likely be a launching point for a new game.

WoW > Warcraft

once again, your statements make no sense.

WOW is part of the warcraft legacy

What story in WOW? Warcraft by itself would of been better

Heres how WOW would go
"May I get a str buff from?"
"no. go away newbie"
"HAHAHA you think you are so elite. At least I got a life and I dont sit around playing the game for 24hrs a day"
"Just go away newbie"