Blizzard Entertainment, the guys who made World of Warcraft, possibly one of the largest multiplayer online games in existence, were approached by Uwe Boll for movie rights. In Mr Boll’s own words:
“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 revealed. “Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”
Are we surprised at all that game studios are finally grasping the idea that he’s almost universally reviled by gamers, and that selling him the movie rights for games is not a quick money-making machine? Granted, as was pointed out to me in a prior post, game to movie adaptations are not the best at the most spectacular of times, but maybe game-to-movie adaptations need as much help as they can get. Getting Uwe Boll to direct a game-to-movie translation is about as helpful to the case as, for sheer argument’s sake, giving a serial killer his own butchery, knives, band-saw, and ready line of victims. I’m just glad that studios are finally beginning to realize this fact.
{Link: MTV Movies Blog, via Kotaku]
I still think it would be kind of cool though if they did try to make a movie. If its not live action to at least make an animated one with their cinematic graphics.
Oh agreed…a WoW movie would be awesome–I haven’t played WoW but I HAVE been a huge follower of Warcraft–but the simple fact remains that it’s one movie that NOBODY wants to see butchered, least of all the execs at Blizzard! Well…nobody with but one small, insignificant exception–that being Mr Boll himself.
yeah. i will definetly agree with you on that. i have played wow almost since beta now, and if they did butcher it with a movie i still do not think it would hurt sales but only make things a little more famous from being infamous ya know? like if someone in the movie has a dumb name or saying, people in wow will actually make small talk and jokes about it. who knows…. it could go either way.
There have been successful transitions from games to movies and then there was Doom
But though I am not a fan of this particular one I wish you the “power of greyskull”.