Duncan Jones Slated to Direct Warcraft Film

[Shawn Zipay]

Duncan Jones, the Director behind Moon and Source Code has just been signed to direct the Warcraft film. A script by Charles Leavitt (Blood Diamond) has already been written and Legendary Pictures has the rights to the film adaptation of the long-running game franchise from Blizzard.

This news comes after word broke that Sam Raimi departed the project for other ventures.

According to reports, Legendary is going all-out here and Warcraft will be a $100 million-plus production.Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing for the company behind Man of Steel and The Dark Knight Rises while Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing for Blizzard and Atlas Entertainment.

$100 million budget for this film? Wow!

(via Slashfilm)