source: (1up.com)
After director Sam Raimi took the reigns of Blizzard's World of Warcraft movie, he announced that Saving Private Ryan writer Robert Rodat would be writing the script. But did you know the original writer of the first draft of the script had a much closer relationship to the gaming industry?
Well you do if you've listened to the latest episode of the 4 Guys 1UP podcast. Former games journalist and current screenwriter Gary Whitta was our guest, and he discussed a few details about the early drafts for the World of Warcraft movie he wrote before Raimi was attached as the director (discussion begins at 23:38).
"I did actually write three different drafts of the script, and I worked very closely with Blizzard over the period of about a year or so," Whitta explained. "I think in the end I came up with a movie that I thought was really cool, but what happened with Sam [Raimi] is that they always wanted a big director, and they landed one of the biggest with Sam. I think he'll make an incredible movie. But he just had a very different vision. He wanted to tell a completely different story, so they went a different way."
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Screenwriter Explains Original Vision for World of Warcraft Film
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