Blizzard and Legendary Pictures have confirmed that the Spider-Man trilogy director Sam Raimi, has signed on to direct a film based off the popular Warcraft videogame series. Raimi, who also created the Evil Dead franchise, is expected by both companies to use his talent of developing a already fictitious universe and bringing it to life in a believable way onto film.

“At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story,” said the legendary director Raimi. “I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen.”
The production team behind the soon to be big budget film is none other than Charles Roven’s talents. His team was last seen with the ultra-popular and great all-around movie ‘The Dark Knight,’ which was directed by Christopher Nolan.

According to reports, Raimi will first direct and finish the forth installment of ‘Spider-Man,’ which should start filming early next year. From there, Raimi is expected to start and work on the Warcraft film.

This is overall great news for videogame fans like myself, who hope to see good adaptations of their beloved games onto the silver-screen. Let’s be honest with each other, there has yet to be a truly good videogame-movie (Mortal Kombat does not count as a good movie). However, there seems to be a growing trend lately of movie studios finally taking a videogame and trying to make it into a decent film. My prediction is the Prince of Persia movie is going to be the first real good one, but Raimi signing on to direct Warcraft is the first ‘big name’ director to head a videogame film.