Legendary Pictures Talks <cite>WoW</cite> Film

During his keynote at the recent Hollywood & Games Summit, Legendary Pictures chairman Thomas Tull talked big about the upcoming World of Warcraft film. Apparently, the game's eight million global subscribers can't alone guarantee the film's success. According to Tull, Legendary would "be screwed" if the film's appeal could not extend beyond the already-enfranchised. He isn't convinced that a game's commercial success will necessarily translate into big box office numbers for film adaptations:

I have very strong feelings -- from the movie side -- that making movies based on games just because they sold well is a really bad idea. There’ve been some like that that weren’t up to snuff just out of the gate.

Still, Tull believes that WoW "...has the right stuff to make it happen." I'm not quite convinced, but one thing that would help me to become a believer would be to cast Michael J. Anderson in a key role--maybe a gnome archmage, or a goblin engineer?

Tull Talks World of Warcraft Film [Gamasutra]