Universal Pictures has announced the cast for the upcoming fantasy film Warcraft. The movie is based on the hugely successful massively-multiplayer roleplaying PC game. The cast will feature Ben Foster, Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Toby Kebbell, Rob Kazinsky and Dominic Cooper. Production on the film will begin in January. The story will center on the first conflicts between the Orcs and humans. Warcraft is being directed by Duncan Jones (Source Code, Moon) with aƂĀ script written by ...

News comes today that Duncan Jones, who has directed the well received sci-fi films Source Code and Moon, is now taking over the project based on the fantasy video game World of Warcraft. Going with the title of Warcraft the movie is expected to begin shooting by the end of the year with a targeted release date in 2015. The script has been written by Charles Leavitt (K-PAX, Blood Diamond) and is expected to have a hefty budget of over $100 million. So the gauntlet was thrown down ages ago...