Sam Raimi, regissören bakom filmer som Evil Dead och Spider-Man, fick en gång i tiden uppdraget att regissera filmen baserad på World of Warcraft. Men sen gick åren, Raimi lämnade projektet, och sedan dess har Duncan Jones (Source Code) tagit hans plats. Nu menar Raimi att det är Blizzards fel att filmen dröjt så länge och att hans planer föll ihop. Följande har han att säga:
"First, they asked me if I wanted to make it, and I said, "Yes, I love World of Warcraft, and I think it would make a great picture." So I read a screenplay they had that was written by the guys at Blizzard, and it didn't quite work for me. I told them I wanted to make my own original story with Robert, so we pitched it to Legendary and they accepted it, and then we pitched it to Blizzard, and they had reservations, but they accepted it.
Then Robert wrote the screenplay, and only once he was done did we realize that Blizzard had veto power, and we didn't know that. And they had never quite approved the original story we pitched them. Those reservations were their way of saying, "We don't approve this story, and we want to go a different way," so after we had spent nine months working on this thing, we basically had to start over."
Nu återstår det att se om Blizzard accepterar det nya manuset som skrivs av Charles Leavitt, så att filmen kan bli klar till 2015 då den är tänkt att släppas.