Spider-man director Sam Raimi is making a World of Warcraft movie, and MTV recently broke the news that Robert Rodat will be writing the script  — if this project doesn’t eventually go through at least three different writers, I’ll eat my top hat and poop some spats.  Rodat is best known for writing Saving Private Ryan (he wasn’t involved with the spinoff, Shaving Ryan’s Privates), and he also wrote The Patriot, but his family doesn’t talk about that.

“We want to be really faithful to the game,” Raimi says. “We would have our writer, Robert Rodat, really craft an original story within that world that feels like a ‘World of WarCraft’ adventure. Only obviously it’s very different ’cause it’s expanded and translated into the world of a motion picture.”

Video game movies are never good because the games rarely have a storyline, so the screenwriter basically has to write an entirely original script, all while his bosses say things like “We want to be really faithful to the game,” — you know, that thing that doesn’t have a story.  But I don’t know much about World of Warcraft, probably because I’ve had sex with women.  What I do know is that when I used to work in an office, I remember vividly some guys from IT standing around one time and one of them said, “Hey, did you guys hear about Bill?  Bill reached 20,000 nerd points (I’m paraphrasing here) over the weekend.”  Then the guys all slapped Bill on the back and shook his hand as if it were the birth of his child.  Anyway, I’m gonna have to plead ignorance on this one.  But if you wanna write up a detailed report, I can grab it when I pick up your sister in my IROC and maybe I’ll give it a look. (*pops collar on letterman jacket*)

[Thanks to Trey for the tip]