Details about the Warcraft movie were released at Blizzcon 2007. It is interesting to hear that Blizzard will team up with Legendary Pictures, a company known for Paradise Lost, 300 and Batman Begins. The movie would likely be distributed by Warner Bros.

GameSpot reports that “Legendary is targeting a roughly $100 million budget for a film it hopes to release in 2009, and confirmed emphatically that the movie will be live-action rather than animated.”

Blizzard opts to set the movie firmly within the World of Warcraft timeline, about one year before the game begins. Chief creative officer Chris Metzen says this will not be a journey film like The Lord of the Rings. Instead, he claims that Warcraft the movie “”is absolutely a war movie” that will focus on the conflict between the alliance and horde.