A lot of gamers would know Uwe Boll. He's the guy who directed several movie adaptations for video games such as House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark. He's also the brains behind the new Far Cry movie.

Despite his long history in making movie adaptations of video games though, Boll doesn't seem to be Blizzard's prime choice for making the World of Warcraft movie. In fact, as MTV reports, they practically laughed at him when he offered to do so.

Boll recently got into contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard to make the movie. Boll relates the reply he got was a flat-out denial:

We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.