It's the first movie based on an MMOG! Will it suck or not?

It's official: An EverQuest movie is in the works, and it's going to be written by none other than Michael Gordon, who brought us the beautifully cinematic 300.

IGN has learned that Sony Pictures is teaming with former Marvel Studios honcho Avi Arad to bring Sony Online Entertainment's 3-D massively multiplayer online role-playing fantasy game EverQuest to the big screen.

Reliable sources have informed us that the studio views the project as a tentpole release for either 2009 or 2010. We have been told that Michael Gordon (300) has been tapped to pen the screenplay. Rumblings of an EverQuest movie first surfaced in 2000.

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