Sam Raimi will direct a World of Warcraft movie

Does the video game movie curse apply to MMORPGs? [Link]

Variety announced Sam Raimi will direct a WoW movie after he's done with Spider-Man 4, and I think that could work out spectacularly.

First off, this is the highest profile director a videogame film has ever gotten, right? So that's good. Plus, unless he's bored (as he clearly was during Spidey 3), he directs incredibly kinetic, action-packed films, which should work out well with WoW just as it did with Spidey, if not moreso. Also, WoW has a story framework, but the whole point of it being an MMORPG is that it's open if I'm not mistaken -- so as long as some locations and classes and spells show up in the appropriate context, I imagine the Wow fans will generally be happy.