Internal Blizzard Team Won't Be Making CGI For 'World of Warcraft' Movie

At the New York City launch event last week, Blizzard Executive VP of Product Development Frank Pearce gave an update on the "World of Warcraft" movie currently in development.

"Legendary Pictures is currently trying to assign some names to write the screenplay and find someone to direct it, so it's still really early in production," Pearce said. "They want to make sure they get the right talent for those different parts, especially the screenwriting, because that's the foundation for the movie."

MTV also asked if Blizzard considered making a full CGI movie in the vein of their games' cinematics. "[The idea] has come up in discussions but it's not something we've really considered because it takes so long to generate just the brief amount of footage that we create for the game," Pearce explained. "That department's focus is creating the footage for the games to tell the story; it would be a huge undertaking and it's not really something that we're ready to do anytime soon."