Diablo Movie Now in the Works?

To go along with the still fairly-mysterious World of Warcraft movie, via CVG comes the word at Blizzplanet that a movie based on Blizzard's Diablo games may be in the works. "Few weeks ago, a rumor circulated the net that Gary Whitta would be working with Legendary Pictures to develop a Diablo film. The participation of Gary Whitta hasn't been confirmed, but surprise-surprise. Legendary Pictures website is listing DIABLO under the 'In Development' section. No press release has been made available. The news section has been replaced by a 'Legendary 2.0 is coming soon' notice. A week ago, the news section over at Legendary Pictures website had not been updated since Q3 2006. Stay tuned for any updates. A press release could be posted by them in a few days. Diablo is coming to the big screen!"

Excited?

[Fozzyuw]

Diablo is coming to the big screen!

I cannot say that I'm excited. But it begs to ask, will we see "Diablo 3: the Movie" game?

MY script for the movie:

[spocksbrain]

*clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "inventory is full" x 1,000,000 The End. BTW... they are fun and addicting games, and I still love them. However, I would rather have movies based on the stories from warcraft or starcraft universes, much more depth)

Re:Why?

[Supurcell]

Sure they generate a few bucks...

I think you just stumbled upon the secret motivation behind these mysterious thing we have called "companies".

Re:Why?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

Hey! Super Mario Bros. was awesome.

Re:MY script for the movie:

[iknownuttin]

*clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "cha-ching" *clang* *clang* *clang* "inventory is full" x 1,000,000 The End.

On the DVD extras of Star Wars III, there's a segment on the pre-production of the movie. Lucas walks in with the script and one of his employees says something like, "That was fast!"
Lucas then says something like, "It wasn't hard. It's line of dialog and then several pages of 'then they fight'."

cha-ching! indeed!

Re:MY script for the movie:

[kkohlbacher]

I can see it now...
Sitting in movie theatre, on screen a Paladin emerges from the shadows slowly reaching for the treasure chest below him:

Paladin: "Here it is. The Brainhew. +14 to Minimum Damage, +4 Light Radius, 10-14% Mana stolen per hit, and 15-35 fire damage. The legends were true..."

*Movie theatre crowd erupts into cheers, hoots and hollers*

Re:MY script for the movie:

[everphilski]

no, no, full Isenharts!

Details

[Dachannien]

Maybe they'll finally explain how tiny little Rakanishu can hide two magical halberds and a pile of gold coins under his loincloth.

A movie, eh?

[PhetusPolice]

I can see the title now: "Diablo: The Quest for an SoJ"

Spoiler warning

[roystgnr]

click click click click click click click click click click click click

Hmm... Slashdot thinks that my description of a typical Diablo game violates their "lameness filter". I agree, but why should my post be punished for that? It's Blizzard's fault.

Been there done that

[aarku]

It's a musical and it goes something like this:

*Sung to the tune of Badger badger badger [badgerbadgerbadger.com]*

Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky

UNIQUE! UNIQUE!

CaClicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky Clicky

UNIQUE! UNIQUE!

Oooooooh, a rare, ooooh it's a rare.

(Repeat ad infinitum.)