Sam Raimi Not Necessarily Doing 'Warcraft' Next

Last week, Sam Raimi and Sony parted company on Spider-Man 4, bringing to an end one of the most lucrative studio-director partnerships in the most lucrative decade for such things. They couldn't agree on what to do next, to make a long story short, so Sony is starting over and Raimi's moving on to other stuff. Many observers believe his next film will be Warcraft, and we wrote a bit about that scuttlebutt a few days back. However, Warcraft producer Robert Tapert isn't so sure. "It's in development," he tell iF Magazine about the long-awaited video game adaptation. "We're in the outline/story/script phase." "Outline" is not a promising word if you were looking for this to be in theaters in maybe two years and it also conflicts with information that Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan) was pretty far along with the script. Perhaps Tapert is just using language to keep the project a safer distance from even more idle speculation, but he's a little more concrete about Raimi possibly choosing another project first while Warcraft comes together. "I don't want to speak on Sam's behalf, because the Spider-Man thing happened so recently," says Tapert. "I think he's getting his feet under him and trying to decide. He might want to do a teeny, tiny small film, but I don’t know what he wants to do. I know he had a great time doing Drag Me to Hell." Do we take that to infer Raimi might be doing another low budget horror movie - say, something in an Evil Dead - or just that Warcraft isn't definitely the next item on his to-do list? I vote option B, although if you've got to do something between now and Warcraft, I'd think Evil Dead would be the best way to go.

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[nick soapdish]

Evil Dead is the first thing I thought of when I saw this post's title.

I hope he does it.

[Orinn]

Evil dead plz.
That being said they announced the Warcraft movie how many years ago and they still have not figured out the script? I dont blame them, I know the story and when they announced the movie I said "how could they possible begin to tell that story in the limited time frame of a movie" Apparently know one has solved that problem yet.