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"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."
So what did Whitta have in mind for the film? "I thought I did a good job that people who love the game would get a good account of the world. All the major races, all the major places, and some of the lesser known ones were in there. There were some cool Easter eggs if you really knew the game back to front." Whitta compared his "Easter eggs" to the scene in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film mimicking a classic element of the ride, where men in a cell try to lure the dog with the keys in its mouth -- little such touches and details that fans would pick up on.
"I felt that it was true to the world of the game," Whitta summed up. He explained that the biggest challenge was telling a story that would be true to what fans expect from a WoW movie, but also accessible for those who've never played WoW (if any such people still exist). "I felt we did a good job of that, and I'm sure Sam's version will do the same," he said.
You'll still be able to hear Whitta's words in a movie theater next year, though: He wrote the screenplay for the upcoming post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington.
So what did Whitta have in mind for the film? "I thought I did a good job that people who love the game would get a good account of the world. All the major races, all the major places, and some of the lesser known ones were in there. There were some cool Easter eggs if you really knew the game back to front." Whitta compared his "Easter eggs" to the scene in the first Pirates of the Caribbean film mimicking a classic element of the ride, where men in a cell try to lure the dog with the keys in its mouth -- little such touches and details that fans would pick up on.
"I felt that it was true to the world of the game," Whitta summed up. He explained that the biggest challenge was telling a story that would be true to what fans expect from a WoW movie, but also accessible for those who've never played WoW (if any such people still exist). "I felt we did a good job of that, and I'm sure Sam's version will do the same," he said.
You'll still be able to hear Whitta's words in a movie theater next year, though: He wrote the screenplay for the upcoming post-apocalyptic sci-fi flick The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington.
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