Sam Raimi directing Warcraft movie @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on July 22, 2009

News: A nerd god gets tapped to bring the ultimate nerd universe to life.

After what seems like years in development hell, Legendary Pictures and Blizzard are ready to move forward with the World of Warcraft movie. Now simply titled Warcraft, the two companies have used the 2009 Comic-Con to announce that Sam Raimi will be directing the movie adaptation of one of the biggest games of all time.

Raimi is something of a hero to the geek set, having previously directed The Evil Dead trilogy, the Spider-Man trilogy and this year's Drag Me To Hell. He is currently doing pre-production work on Spider-Man 4, which is scheduled to start filming next year. As such, Warcraft is still quite a ways away.

"At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story," said Raimi. "I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen."

There is currently no word on who will star in the movie or even what story in the Warcraft universe it will tell. But I think the more important question is, how will Ted Raimi and Bruce Campbell be involved?

We'll have more soon.