Blizzard said no.
Infamous movie director Uwe Boll has revealed to MTV Movies Blog that he approached Blizzard to buy the movie rights for a World of Warcraft movie. Thankfully he was unsuccessful.
"I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, 'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you,'" Boll told MTV. "Because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."
Back in 2006 it was announced that Blizzard had stuck a deal with Warner Bros.' Legendary Pictures to turn the massively multiplayer online role-playing game into a major motion picture. Blizzard CEO Paul Sams said the goal was to make "one of the best films in the world".
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Iain McC wrote at 12:41 on 21 April 2008
What I want to know is, who keeps giving Uwe Boll the money to make movies? Do they think if he makes enough of them, eventually one of them WON'T suck like a black hole?
wyp100 wrote at 17:50 on 21 April 2008
Ever see the HypnoToad from Futurama? He must have one as a pet.