Not that the production history of any video game to movie adaptation is nice and smooth, but the one for Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft has been a particularly rocky road; it's been years since anyone has heard anything of the project. Since 2009 actually, when it was disclosed that Sam Raimi, of Evil Dead and Spider-Man fame, had just signed off.
Well, Hollywood Reporter states that a new director has finally been chosen to take the helm of the Legendary Pictures produced venture. And that person is Duncan Jones.
Jones is a relative newbie when it comes to the director's chair, and as Hollywood Reporter put it, Warcraft is major change from the stuff that he's previously produced, which has been described as small scale, "thoughtful sci-fi."
There are only two feature length films to his credit thus far; 2009's Moon, which starred Sam Rockwell and which cost only a million to make, plus 2011's Source Code, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and had a budget of thirty five million.
Warcraft is projected to have a budget that will exceed 100 million dollars. And again, instead of science fiction, we're talking fantasy.
Oh, by the way, Duncan Jones is the son of David Bowie. He's otherwise known as Zowie Bowie.
Not much else is known about the movie, other than the screenwriter, Charles Leavitt. He penned Blood Diamond and K-PAX, among other things.
