Sam Raimi recently talked to the folks at MTV and had a lot to say about his upcoming big-screen adaptation of the ultra-popular "World of Warcraft" online role-playing game. First up: a new screenwriter.

Raimi said Oscar-nominated writer Robert Rodat ("Saving Private Ryan") would tackle the script for "Warcraft," which the director said will be an original adaptation of the game itself.

"We want to be really faithful to the game," Raimi told MTV. "We would have our writer, Robert Rodat, really craft an original story within that world that feels like a 'World of WarCraft' adventure.

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Like it or not, but Christophe Gans' 2006 horror flick "Silent Hill" is getting a sequel, and screenwriter Roger Avary will return to write the script. Producer Samuel Hadida is also back on board for a follow-up to the big-screen version of the popular video game.

The first film, which I hated by the way, brought in $47 million domestically and starred Radha Mitchell as a woman heading to the desolate town of Silent Hill to find her daughter.

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I've already lost track of how many video game adaptations are currently in development, but here's another one to hit the big screen in the near future: Eidos' action adventure "Just Cause."

Variety reports producer Adrian Askarieh has scored the rights to the game, which Eidos released in 2006. Askarieh has also been involved in the big-screen adaptations of "Hitman" and the upcoming "Kane & Lynch."

In the game, a CIA black ops agent known as the Scorpion must complete a series of missions as he tries to overthrow the ruthless dictator of a fictional Caribbean island.

Eidos' big-screen credits also include two "Tomb Raider" films, and as I recently learned, they're currently trying to develop a reboot. Oh yeah, and a sequel to "Hitman" is also in development.

Filmmaker D.J. Caruso is teaming up with Electronic Arts to develop a big-screen version of the video game "Dead Space." Caruso is currently attached to direct the flick.

Set in space in the 26th century, the game follows an engineer who boards a mining ship infested with an alien virus that turns humans into ruthless creatures called Necromorphs.

No screenwriter has been hired yet, but Caruso and the folks at EA are apparently listening to some writers' ideas and concepts, according to Variety.

Caruso recently helmed the entertaining but over-the-top thriller "Eagle Eye." His credits also include "Disturbia" and "Taking Lives."

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Back in April, Universal decided to delay Gore Verbinski's big-screen adaptation of "Bioshock" because the budget was quite simply too high, and in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" director briefly spoke about his uncertain involvement in the project:

"The bottom line is it has to shoot out of the States for budget reasons and my schedule may be prohibitive. There's a great script and a really interesting cast. It really comes down to the financial model now. Big movies are just not being shot in the States. I'm weighing whether I can physically go the U.K. or Australia or one of those other places with a tax rebate for a year-and-a-half."

So there you have it. "Bioshock" may move ahead without Verbinksi if he's too busy to shoot overseas. If that's the case, then too bad, because I would have enjoyed seeing his vision on the silver screen. Besides the "Pirates" trilogy, Verbinski also directed "The Weather Man" and "The Ring." He's got "Rango" coming up in 2011.