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" Sam Raimi has revealed that he will no longer direct Legendary Pictures and Blizzard Entertainment&amp;#039;s World of Warcraft movie. The Spider-Man filmmaker said that he stepped aside from the big-budget video game adaptation when he chose to direct Oz: The Great and the Powerful. &amp;quot;They don&amp;#039;t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director,&amp;quot; Crave Online quotes him as saying. &amp;quot;They had to start making it.&amp;quot; Raimi was working on a script for the film with Saving Private Ryan screenwriter Robert Rodat. Warcraft is the world&amp;#039;s biggest MMORPG with more than 10 million subscribers. It takes place in the world of Azeroth and centres around the battles between the Horde and Alliance forces. Pictures gallery - 20 video games that should be movies:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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