Blizzard quiet on Diablo film

By Robert Purchese Published 19 June, 2007

Legendary Pictures fibbing?

Blizzard has remained tight-lipped over rumours that a Diablo film is in development, telling Eurogamer it had "no comment to make on this".

Yesterday a listing for the project appeared under the "in development" section on the Legendary Pictures website - the same studio responsible for recent Spartan romp 300. However, today all traces of the film have mysteriously disappeared. No reasons for its removal have been given.

Legendary Pictures has been linked with Diablo in the past, and has already revealed it will creating a film based on Blizzard's entire Warcraft franchise - not just the popular online version as suggested by the listing on the movie-maker's website.

However, little else about either project is known. Lets hope Boll doesn't get his hands on it. Or me.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (11) Latest comment 5 years ago

Comments for this article are now closed, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • FWB #1 5 years ago

    All CGI?

  • DB2k #2 5 years ago

    erm.. why? scraping the video game to movie barrel really..
    What's next.. a movie based on Brain Training..

  • Macross #3 5 years ago

    DB2k, why is basing a film on a popular, lore rich, story based franchise like Diablo or Warcraft scraping the barrel?

  • robg #4 5 years ago

    There was an interview done with one of the guys behind the film recently, I'll try and find it, and paste it in here.

    Yeah, here we go:

    Interviewer: Can you tell us a bit about the film, and how it's going to relate to the original game?

    Lead Tech: Well, true to the game, the movie will involve the viewer watching hours of level grinding and clicking. This will occur through three distinct landscapes, each one featuring up to 20 background elements created especially for their landscape.

    Interviewer: O-kay. Is there a lot of CGI work involved?

    Lead Tech: There were some quite specific challenges modelling the enemies that our heroes come across. Modelling the goblins - for example - took a good deal of work, until we finished making the first one. The others all look the same as him, and were much easier.

    Interviewer: I see.
    Edited by robg at 19/06/07 @ 10:59

  • Xerx3s #5 5 years ago

    If it is a full movie length film with DII storyline quality cgi, then I'm all for it. God, that cgi just pissed all over the competition.

  • The-Bodybuilder #6 5 years ago

    DIABLO?

    We shall put that name to the test.

  • The-Bodybuilder #7 5 years ago

    LOL @ robg

  • rudedudejude #8 5 years ago

    Most movies these days are just a copy and paste special when monsters are concerned.

  • WJF #9 5 years ago

    Diablo has the finest plot in gaming history. Well, just after Tetris...

  • ExplodingClown #10 5 years ago

    robg, you are mean and very funny.

    This movie won't happen, unless Uwe Boll does it. After the 'Eragon' movie shat the bed, the gloss has come off fantasy movies again. 'Lord of the Rings' did boffo box office but the non-fanboy public's had enough now, much as swords-and-sandals was the big thing after 'Gladiator' but 'Troy' sucked the big one and 'Alexander' flopped.

    Everything goes in cycles.

  • Verwandlung #11 5 years ago

    -It will suck.-