Duncan Jones directing ‘WORLD OF WARCAFT’, I don’t even know.

Eddie and myself were chatting about Duncan Jones a couple of days ago, neither of us certain what he was up to. Whelp, now we know. Instead of doing that awesome-sounding cyberpunk flick Mute, he is wasting his time with a Warcraft movie. Alas. If he can use this flick as leverage for pulling off his own project, I will be stoked. And maybe when it bombs, it won’t really hurt his career.

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Sam Raimi bailed on last summer, but Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures soldiered on, quickly hiring “Blood Diamond” writer Charles Leavitt to punch up the script (presumably the same one that left Raimi disatisfied with the prospect of directing the movie). They vowed to keep “World of Warcraft” afloat and they have done so by hiring “Moon” and “Source Code” filmmaker Duncan Jones to direct the live-adaptation of the popular video game. While “Source Code” was ambitious and bigger in scope then the intimate, small-scale sci-fi film “Moon,” Jones will really be diving in head-first to big budget tentpole status with this one.

As THR, who breaks this news, notes, ‘Warcraft’ is eclectic, “part fantasy, part science fiction and — depending on the game you’re playing — includes elements such as dragons and orcs, zombies and werewolves, and aliens and spaceships.” It will be interesting to see if this world is pared down or not, if only just for budget’s (and logic’s) sake.

Honestly, this writer is somewhat disappointed. Jones had been developing two sci-fi projects for some time. One called “Mute” and another he described as a “Blade Runner“-esque cityscape sci-fi picture.