Sam Raimi’s Warcraft Movie Production Diary. I gotta say, I’m pretty happy with that cartoon. There are still various perspective and anatomy issues with it, but I feel like I’m starting to get my drawings to look like I want them too.

Anyway, here’s the original intro to the piece, which I cut for reasons of space (spaaaace reasons!)

Video games and movies get along like cats made of oil and dogs made of water. The only thing worse than a video game based on a movie is a movie based on a video game. Maybe there’s some clandestine mutual destruction pact, with movie directors and game producers meeting in some evil underground entertainment temple and vowing to prevent audience cross-over.

“Our Bloodrayne movie ensured that nobody who watches it will have the slightest inclination to pick up the video game!”

“Very well, but you realize that no one who played the Speed Racer game wanted to see the movie!”

“Nobody wanted to see Speed Racer anyway!”

“It is decided then. To the death!”

If so, video games seem to be wavering in their dedication to producing only crap. There have been some good video games based on movies, but the best you can say about movies based on video games is that they haven’t actually killed anyone yet.

However, the movie industry may have just blinked. By giving respected director Sam Raimi the reins to the Warcraft movie, Hollywood is giving us hope that finally we’ll have a video game movie at least as good as Darkman.

Dare we hope? Dare we dream? Dare we stand in line for weeks dressed as a Night Elf druid? Luckily, Wired has a device that’s able to grab random objects from the near future, and after some fiddling we were able to get ahold of Sam Raimi’s production diary for the Warcraft movie. We’ve reprinted some of the highlights below.