Blizzard Wants A Starcraft Movie Directed By James Cameron
MTV Multiplayer recently posted a short interview Rob Pardo, the EVP of Game Design over at Blizzard about the progress of the World of WarCraft movie. "We're still super excited about it," he says, "but it's still in that story-development phase."
The World of WarCraft movie is based in the WarCraft universe, the setting of the strategy trilogy and wildly popular MMO. Coming from Legendary Pictures, the movie was first announced in 2006 and Sam Raimi, of Evil Dead and Spider-Man fame, attached to direct last year. Having just released massively critically and financially successful StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, MTV asked if the other Blizzard properties would be coming to the silver screen as well.
"We've always had an interest in seeing our stuff on film or TV," Pardo replied. "It's just tricky to find the right partners. We probably could have made a ['StarCraft'] movie or something on TV years and years ago, but it's really important to us that we find creative people that are really talented but also really excited about our properties. That's always been the challenge for us. I think if Jim Cameron came to us tomorrow and said, 'You want to make a 'StarCraft' movie?' we'd probably sign that ... That's why we did the 'WoW' movie. We were really excited about being involved with Legendary Pictures, who we thought had a really good track record with these sorts of movies that would make sense for our franchises."
It's interesting to note that the WoW film is currently in development hell, with few people actually expecting it to go anywhere. That being said, maybe in a few years people will stop attaching such a stigma to films related to video games. Yes, I'm referring to Scott Pilgrim.
Blizzard readying 1.1 patch for StarCraft 2
And so it begins. Blizzard has released details on the first of what will undoubtedly be many tweak-and-balance patches to the newest horse in its stable, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. The meat and potatoes of this version 1.1 patch are increases to build times for certain infantry units (Protoss zealots and Terran reapers take longer to train) and nerfs to some of the heavier units (Terran battlecruisers and Zerg ultralisks are weakened). Apparently Terran siege tanks and battle cruisers have been wiping the deck with everything they encounter.
If the World of WarCraft community serves as any precedent, expect the StarCraft forums to be awash in the tears of those who feel Blizzard has trampled on the very spirit of justice herself by making even the most modest of changes to unit and faction balance. Other, less politically contentious updates involve new hotkey options for left-handed players, and a tweak to friendly units so they no longer provide vision after they're killed.
From the Game: Jim Raynor’s USB dog tag from Starcraft 2 Collector’s Edition
Jim Raynor is a galactic badass. He fights Zerg, he rebels against tyranny, he drinks bourbon, and he looks and sounds an awful lot like Red Dead Redemption's cowboy-with-a-heart-of-gold John Marston. He plays a big part in Starcraft 2, to the point that the game's $100 collector's edition includes a replica of his old Confederate dog tag. It's not just a neat sci-fi dog tag, though; it's a 2 GB USB key that includes the original Starcraft and the Brood War expansion.
And it's pretty awesome.
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