No, this isn't the latest
World of Warcraft news, but since I think many of you are as much Blizzard fanboys/girls as I am, this tidbit may be of interest. Rumors are starting to circulate about an upcoming
Diablo film in partnership with
Legendary Pictures (yep, the same folks we know are
working on the World of Warcraft film -- though, no, we don't have any recent updates on that project). How did this rumor get started, you ask? Well, if you check
Legendary's home page, you'll see a project called "Diablo" listed under their in development section (in the "Films" section on the lower left, you have to scroll down a bit to see it). And how do we know this is Blizzard's
Diablo and not something else? Blizzard holds the trademark to the name "Diablo" for films and games, and they've taken steps to protect the trademark in the past -- the Vin Diesel movie
A Man Apart was originally to be called
El Diablo. However, Blizzard sued, claiming they
trademarked the title and intended to make a movie based on their game, and the title was changed. And since Blizzard has already partnered with Legendary to bring
World of Warcraft to the big screen, this seems plausible, though I imagine Blizzard is going to be saving any big announcements like this for
BlizzCon.
[Via
BlizzPlanet]
Update: Legendary has removed "Diablo" from their in development section. A mistake, perhaps?
Tags: blizzcon, blizzcon 2007, Blizzcon2007, diablo, legendary, legendary pictures, LegendaryPictures, movie, movies, world of warcraft, WorldOfWarcraft, wow
Filed under: Blizzard, News items, BlizzCon
Jun 18th 2007 at 4:11PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dennis Jun 18th 2007 4:22PM
Isn't there already a Diablo 2 movie? It's called The Mummy Returns.
Ste Jun 18th 2007 6:20PM
Diablo movie would be great eventually, but if they announce a Diablo movie before Diablo 3 then I will be very disappointed.
BenMS Jun 19th 2007 1:56AM
Had a quick look at the Legendary site... apparently they're making a movie out of Paradise Lost, by John Milton. Epic much? With 300 kicking as much arse as it did, they are rapidly becoming my favourite production company.
Eztonic Jun 20th 2007 8:19AM
When will there be a Warcraft movie? I'm sure that if they do it well, it would be a huge succes.
Shevron Jun 20th 2007 1:13PM
Well depends what you mean by success. The way I see it, if you wanna reproduce the amazing Warcraft universe, it can't be done in 1 movie. It had to be a trilogy like LoTR. A 1 movie plot would mess it up. There's way too much stuff.
that's my 2 cents anyways