'Private Ryan' Writer on Board for Warcraft FilmOct 13th, 2009 at 11:36 AM by Togikagi

During an interview with MTV news (via WoW.com), director Sam Raimi announced that Robert Rodat is the writer for the upcoming Warcraft movie. Rodat wrote the screenplays for "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Patriot," as well as "Fly Away Home."

Raimi also had this to say about the Warcraft film: ""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." The director feels Rodat will "tell a great character story within the fantastic environment of the world of Warcraft."

Hopefully the Warcraft script will emulate "Saving Private Ryan" more than "Fly Away Home." If we start seeing in-game quests where players must lead geese to a wildlife refuge, we're in trouble.

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Subjective lore?
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# Oct 13 2009 at 11:14 PM Rating: Decent
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So..no clues yet as to what saga (like say Arthas journey toward becoming the lich king or perhaps the King Wrynn/Ony plot).

Probably something generic to not have to worry about script revisions by blizz to stay within lore.
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# Oct 13 2009 at 8:37 PM Rating: Decent
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I think the part about being faithful to the horde and alliance is especially important. A lot of people like me play both side but I think most of them like me will eventually find themselves having to choose one over the other, purely because of not having enough time to really play both factions.
Now of course there's a lot of faction rivalry in the game, with people on both sides convinced that everyone who plays the other faction is a low down dirty backstabbing ganker who stinks at the game. I personally think that often the whole horde suck/alliance suck mentality goes a bit over the top so the last thing we'd need is a movie fueling that by appearing to show one faction more favourably than the other. Definatly wouldn't be a good idea to alienate half of the wow players.
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# Oct 14 2009 at 2:03 AM Rating: Decent
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soneil wrote:
I think the part about being faithful to the horde and alliance is especially important. A lot of people like me play both side but I think most of them like me will eventually find themselves having to choose one over the other, purely because of not having enough time to really play both factions.
Now of course there's a lot of faction rivalry in the game, with people on both sides convinced that everyone who plays the other faction is a low down dirty backstabbing ganker who stinks at the game. I personally think that often the whole horde suck/alliance suck mentality goes a bit over the top so the last thing we'd need is a movie fueling that by appearing to show one faction more favourably than the other. Definatly wouldn't be a good idea to alienate half of the wow players.

I wouldn't say that it'd alienate the other half of the players that play WoW, but bring a better sense of immersion to the crowd that'd be watching the film itself. I wouldn't go to say I'm actually looking forward to the film, as films of it's kind are normally disappointments, but definitely not something I'd let go a miss.
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