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Exciting news as the big wigs of Blizzard and movie exec's talk of making a World of Warcraft Movie. Here's the latest talk about the possibility of a movie being made!

Recently Speaking at a Hollywood & Games Summit keynote (Legendary Pictures chairman Mr Thomas Tull discussed the possibility of a World of Warcraft film, saying the game has "all the right stuff" to make a big hit movie appealing beyond subscribers.

Mr Tull made the exciting comments at the 'Driving Mythology Forward' keynote he shared with all the film license-specific game publishers and Brash Entertainment CEO Mitch Davis, in which the two men discussed the parallels between the film and game industries.

“We’re now doing World of Warcraft, and making it into a movie," said Mr Tull, but then noted, "I have strong feelings -- from the movie side of things -- that making movies just based on games just because they sold well is a really bad idea. There has been some like that and just weren’t up to snuff just out of the gate."

He then continued, "It doesn’t matter to us if it’s based on a very graphic novel like [Frank Miller's] 300, or a good TV show – if there’s a great universe and a good story, that’s what’s interesting to us."

Speaking about the relative size of a game adaptation's potential audience, he noted, "Sure, there are now over 8 million people playing WoW, but even if all of those people saw the new movie multiple times, we’d still be screwed badly."

"It’s a jumping off point," he then concluded of the game's subscription base, "and we see it as larger than that. World of Warcraft has the right stuff to make it happen.”

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