Blizzard to Boll Thanks, but no thanks

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There is probably no name more reviled in the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] realm of film than Uwe Boll -- he's the world of warcraft gold man behind such horrible games-to-films as House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark (the latter of which, I am somewhat embarrassed to say, I tried to watch). And while it isn't really news that Uwe Boll isn't directing the World of Warcraft movie (we already knew, from back at Blizzcon,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that Legendary Pictures is handling it, and Boll usually uses his own financing and production companies), but this is too great a story to pass up. Apparently when Boll heard that a Warcraft movie was being made, he actually went to Blizzard to try to get it done,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and they told him straight up: no,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], never, not in a million years.
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So there's at least one great thing we can say about the Warcraft movie so far: Blizzard at least cares enough about the quality of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] the flick to not let Uwe Boll make it. This doesn't guarantee us a good movie, of course. But it's nice to know that the higher ups at Blizzard know to keep their property away from this nut.