Uwe Boll=Ed Wood for our generation?

[stevew]

Normally I don't make note of the truly awful directors, as they seem to not get much work after one bomb. But consider this, Uwe Boll, the director of the forthcoming Bloodrayne(based off the video game) has placed his last 3 movies in the bottom 100 on IMDB. The other 2 movies being House of the Dead, and Alone in the Dark. Both based off of video games as well. Bloodrayne has yet to be screened for critics, which almost universally means the film will absolutely suck ass.

Alone in the Dark tracks at 1% fresh on rotten tomatoes, and House of the Dead at just 6%. Meaning that he isnt well regarded in the critical sense. To make matters worse, his next projects include video game to film adaptations of the Dungeon Siege game, Far Cry, Postal and Hunter:The Reckoning.

Shudder.

[jeff061]

Or is he a Hollywood version of The Producers, purposley making crappy movies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll


Whereas most directors would no longer be able to acquire the funding to continue such projects after the immence criticism against them and the small returns, it is rumored Boll is exempt because he funds them under a loophole in German tax law that is supported by contributors and actually rewards movies that perform badly, via a writeoff at the end of the year.That loophole was closed sometime last year, let's see if he's still around after his next flop or two.

[Honolulu_Blue]

I discussed the horrible, offensive MR. Uwe Boll in another thread. Here were my thoughts.

Folks mention horrible movies:

House of the Dead anyone? The only movie I ever walked out of a theater during. i saw alone in the dark and it was terriblehhh Understatement. Huge understatment.
Gentlemen your reactions are completely understandable. Both of these movies and many, many more based off of video games were all directed by the biggest hack in movies today: Uwe Boll. He is by far the worst director currently making widely released films. He is shit. His movies are abominations... All of them. I have no idea how this talentless scrub continues to make movies.

Here are a list of his U.S. movies past/present/and future. See them at your own peril. You have been warned...

Fear Effect (2008) (announced (http://pro.imdb.com/r/legacy-inprod-name/inproduction/))
Postal (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486640/) (2007) (announced (http://pro.imdb.com/r/legacy-inprod-name/inproduction/))
Far Cry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400426/) (2006) (announced (http://pro.imdb.com/r/legacy-inprod-name/inproduction/))
Hunter: The Reckoning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431132/) (2007) (pre-production (http://pro.imdb.com/r/legacy-inprod-name/inproduction/))
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460780/) (2006) (post-production (http://pro.imdb.com/r/legacy-inprod-name/inproduction/))
BloodRayne (2005)
Alone in the Dark (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369226/) (2005)
House of the Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/) (2003)


Don't worry, Flasch. Uwe Boll will suck dry and shit out any potential Postal might have. Trust me. He is horrible.

Watch the trailor of BloodRayne. It's online. Even the trailer makes the movie look like complete and utter shite. The trailer! Even the new Stars Wars movies had awesome trailers! Poor Ben Kingsley... Poor, poor Ben Kingsley... HE WAS FREAKING GANDHI!
Here is one theory, which I hope is true, because if it is it could mean the end of Boll, that talentless skin sack...


http://www.cinematical.com/2005/10/31/maybe-just-maybe-we-are-free-of-uwe-boll/ (http://www.cinematical.com/2005/10/31/maybe-just-maybe-we-are-free-of-uwe-boll/)
Maybe, just maybe, we are free of Uwe Boll

Posted Oct 31, 2005, 9:31 AM ET by Martha Fischer
Filed under: Newsstand (http://www.cinematical.com/category/newsstand/), RumorMonger (http://www.cinematical.com/category/rumormonger/)

http://www.cinematical.com/images/2005/10/boll.jpgYou know how Uwe Boll (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9dXdlIGJvbGx8ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=21) is incapable of making a good movie, and yet somehow always manages to get funding for his next project? And how we've all been wondering how or earth he can still find suckers willing to give him money? Well, it turns out that Uwe is the sucker - you see, German tax law is such that people who see fit to invest in movies receive "a hefty tax write off on funds invested [in] failed films." So basically, Germans with knowledge of obscure tax law have been lining up to invest in Boll's films - I mean, the chances of them being succesful is basically nil, right? Hell, tax consultants have probably been sending their clients to the guy! There's something very Mel Brooks (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9dGhlIHByb2R1Y2Vyc3xmdD0xfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1) about all of this, isn't there?

Sadly, however, Uwe Boll's days as a human tax write-off are over: in January 2006, the Make Money By Investing In Failed Movies loophole will be closed. So, where is the guy going to get his finding now? Are you thinking what I'm thinking? FREEDOM!
Or, to quote a filmmaker friend of mine...

"Uwe Boll is an abomination - a grave and mortal sin against cinema, good story telling, coherent plots, and intelligence in general. Every time he makes one of his horrendous sh!+boxes of a film it's like he's personally taking a dump in the mouth of anyone who's ever made a good movie, tried to make a good movie, thought about making a good movie, watched a good movie, or wondered what a good movie was. The sooner the pestilential flow of filth that he vomits from every pore is stanched the sooner more money will be freed up to make movies that don't make the baby Jesus cry. Three cheers for the German government! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Hooray! Hip hip! Shut up and die Uwe!"

[stevew]

So i managed to find the trailer for the Dungeon Siege movie online. Picture Lord of the Rings, filmed on a porn budget, with utter wretched dialogue, starring disinterested actors that suck(Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Matthew Fuckin Lilliard).

Oh, and there are ninjas, too.

[Fonzie]

Ninjas?

Sweet.

[Julio Riddols]

This shit is hilarious. In ten years, Uwe Boll boxed sets will be collectors items for kids who just don't get any respect.

[gottimd]

The BloodRayne movie trailer looks like a movie that should be on USA or Sci-Fi networks. If it wasn't for some sort of big name actors/actresses, I would expect the end of the trailer to say something like "On USA this Saturday at 8PM".

[cthomer5000]

This guy really is pure genius. The trailer for "In The Name Of The King" looks so, so, so, so, so, so, so bad.

[cthomer5000]

Ok, I was really thinking about this... is there any explanation for this man other than this being a real life "Producers" situation?

According to box office mojo, heres how his last few movies have done:

House Of The Dead: -8 Million
Alone In The Dark: -13 Million (without factoring marketing expenses! we're talking more likely -20 million or more)
BloodRayne: This baby is easily on it's way to losing about 40 million dollars

And he's still on schedule for 3 more video-game adaptations, including the aformentiend abysmal-loooking "In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale"

How is this happeneing?

[Honolulu_Blue]

Ok, I was really thinking about this... is there any explanation for this man other than this being a real life "Producers" situation?

According to box office mojo, heres how his last few movies have done:

House Of The Dead: -8 Million
Alone In The Dark: -13 Million (without factoring marketing expenses! we're talking more likely -20 million or more)
BloodRayne: This baby is easily on it's way to losing about 40 million dollars

And he's still on schedule for 3 more video-game adaptations, including the aformentiend abysmal-loooking "In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale"

How is this happeneing?
This is exactly a "producers" situtation. Read this thread. It's explained.

[cthomer5000]

This is exactly a "producers" situtation. Read this thread. It's explained.
I have read the thread, it's not explained. A "tax write off" is not cash in your hand. Basically, there would need to be some CRAZY laws that would actually make it profitable to intentionally lose 10s of millions of a movie.

Is it worth losing 40 million dollars so you don't have to pay the tax on 40 million dollars? you tell me.

[stevew]

This guy really is pure genius. The trailer for "In The Name Of The King" looks so, so, so, so, so, so, so bad.

Yeah, its really hard to explain how awful it truly looks unless the other person actually sees it.

[stevew]

Hmm, and the shop won't necessarily be up for Boll if the Wikipedia entry is actually right


While Boll has received a lot of negative publicity regarding this funding method, he was actually one of the few directors to use the tax shelter as intended. His films were financed, produced, and directed by a German company, which was the initial intention behind the tax shelter: to provide incentive for German companies to invest in entertainment properties. Regardless of the laws intention, most of these German film funds ended up funneling money to American studios to finance American blockbusters. The law merely required that the movie's copyright be owned by a German company; thus studios would "sell" a movie's rights to a German company, then immediately lease the movie back for a small fee, while the German owners would agree to very limited control. Essentially, the German company would own the movie on paper, but have no say over its production. [4] Because of this, in January of 2006, as had been expected for several months, the German legislature changed the country's tax laws to eliminate the tax shelter. [5] It is not known if this will have any effect on Boll's funding as the new laws only seek to punish investors who are abusing the law for tax purposes; Boll's activities appear to be well within the legitimate usage of the tax shelter.

[Karlifornia]

Uwe Boll is the Zippy Chippy of directors.

[cthomer5000]

Yeah, its really hard to explain how awful it truly looks unless the other person actually sees it.
Any of the shots featuring Ray Liotta or Matthew Lillard are laugh-out-loud funny.

[stevew]

http://www.youtube.com/w/In-the-Name-of-the-King%3A-A-Dungeon-Siege-Tale?v=R8jR_5NiZUs&search=in%20the%20name%20of%20the%20king

I guess this really isnt the "trailer," more or less its the footage used to obtain more investors for this pile of shit. But its absolutely hilarious.

[timmynausea]

Here is a link to a high quality version of the "Trailer." Ray Liotta should get an Oscar for best trailer performance.

http://files.filefront.com/In+the+Name+of+The+King+Trailer/;4403353;/fileinfo.html

[Honolulu_Blue]

Uwe Boll strikes again...

http://videogames.aol.com/canvases/articles?id=20060331100209990001

Uwe Boll Secures Rights to 'StarCraft' Movie Trilogy

The man who inspired gamers to hate film-makers secures one of Blizzard's finest.

<SMALL>BY MICHEAL MULLEN, AOL GAMES</SMALL>


Teutonic movie director Uwe Boll has gathered the rights to more films based on gaming franchises than any other director. Having already produced movies like ‘BloodRayne (http://videogames.aol.com/game_main?gameID=8488)’ and ‘Alone in the Dark (http://videogames.aol.com/game_main?gameID=9084),’ he's also working on five other video-game based movies. You might say Boll is on a roll.


Boll announced that he had secured the rights to create a film trilogy loosely based on the popular sci-fi real-time gaming franchise ‘StarCraft (http://videogames.aol.com/game_main?gameID=546).’ Publisher VU Games and Blizzard, the game’s developer, released a joint statement that said they were "tickled pink" by the Boll’s scripts and said his vision for the trilogy would only make the ‘StarCraft’ brand stronger.


Boll has not announced when filming would begin for the first of three movies but said that the net has been cast for actors like Tara Reid, Eric Roberts and Zeus 'Tiny" Lister to portray characters from the Terran, Zerg and Protoss races.

[Butter]

Burt Reynolds in a helmet = Gold

[stevew]

Apparently Basic Instinct 2 was financed using Uwe Boll type techniques. Makes sense, now that I think about it.

[kurtism]

FWIW, Mr. Boll has inspired Gabe and Tycho on a few occasions. Just punch his name into the search engine at hxxp://www.penny-arcade.com

(here is a good place to start: hxxp://www.penny-arcade.com/2002/12/18#1040258681 )

[kurtism]

dola: hxxp://www.penny-arcade.com/dl/2-25-04.jpg

[Honolulu_Blue]

Uwe Boll Strikes Back!

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62899

Uwe Boll is fed up. He's fed up with people slating
his films on the Internet, mainly. He's also fed up
with Hollywood producers who won't take movies based
on videogames seriously. And perhaps most worryingly,
at least in terms of how the rest of this interview is
likely to pan out, he's fed up with the person who's
interviewing him.

"The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people
bash me without thinking about the movies. It's
fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I
don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly
from the games press," Boll says.

The problem, he explains, is that "Tons of
journalists, including you, have nothing else to do
than to follow the Internet voices of one or two
thousand people. Only half of those people have seen
my movies, and only two per cent of those people have
seen my movies before House of the Dead."

Boll says the point is that his movies get better as
his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times
better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better
than House of the Dead, and so on.

"If people don't see that, then it's not my problem,
but I think those are the people who hate me or who
want to bash me. Normal people, people who buy movies
or watch TV, they see that absolutely."

Advertisement
Whether you agree with Boll's argument or not, you
can't deny that he's taken a lot of flack since his
first videogame adaptation, House of the Dead,
appeared in cinemas back in 2003. The Alone in the
Dark movie did nothing to bolster his reputation with
the critics, and his latest effort, BloodRayne, was
widely slammed - before the film was even released,
Boll says.

"People say BloodRayne has a very bad IMDB rating -
yes, but how many votes of zero points were made
before the movie was out, by people who hate me but
haven't even seen the movie?

"I've met tons of people who think BloodRayne is way
better than Underworld 2, but they're not going on the
Internet and writing that... I'm a little tired of
only getting questions from journalists like, 'Your
movies were so badly received, blah blah blah.' I know
tons of movies that were way worse than Alone in the
Dark and House of the Dead."

And besides, says Boll, what exactly is it that we are
expecting from him? After all, he is using videogames
as his source material, and they're hardly reknowned
for their complex characterisations and sophisticated
narratives.

"Let's be realistic, what is House of the Dead? House
of the Dead is a brainless shooter, where you shoot
zombies into pieces. So what are you expecting from
the movie, Schindler's List?

"I think I made a perfect House of the Dead movie,
because it really shows how the game is. It's a lot of
fun, it's over-the-top action - it's not 28 Days
Later, because the reality is that House of the Dead
is about how it's a lot of fun to shoot zombies...
It's cheesy entertainment with a lot of gore and a lot
of violence, and it's super-fast."

Hollywood hangups
Christian Slater and Tara Reid talk shop in Alone in
the Dark.
Us games journalists, Boll argues, should be pleased
that videogame-based movies are getting made at all.
"It's tough to convince someone from the studio system
to believe in a videogame-based movie. It's way easier
to have a great book or to have a comic book [as your
source material], because these studio guys, they know
Spider-Man, Batman, that kind of stuff."

Boll believes that part of the problem with convincing
Hollywood that game movies are a good idea is down to
game publishers themselves. He argues that Marvel, for
example, are very good at cross-promoting movies based
on their properties - whereas videogame companies
simply sell off the licence and then forget about it.

According to Boll, he's fallen foul of this on more
than one occasion. "Sega did nothing for House of the
Dead, and Atari did nothing to support Alone in the
Dark. They developed Alone in the Dark part 5,
parallel to my movie, and then they closed the LA
facility and never finished the game. And I was
standing there alone in the rain with my movie...

"The reality is that a lot of the videogame companies
are quite sloppy - they are happy to sell the licence,
but then they don't give a sh** about it, and this is
not the right approach."

So, Boll argues, it's difficult enough to get a
videogame movie made in the first place, and it
doesn't help when that movie is slated before it's
even been released.

"When I try to get videogames turned into movies, and
get videogames accepted as [the equivalent of]
best-selling books for the younger generation, I get
only sh** from the videogames press - what an asshole
I am, what a criminal I am for doing these movies,
whatever, instead of being happy that there's a movie
getting made of a game. This is what's confusing me."

In fact, it's not just confusing Boll - it's putting
him off the whole thing all together. "I won't say
that I won't acquire another videogame licence in the
future. But I'm not so eager to do it any more, to be
honest. After Far Cry, maybe I'll go away from
videogame-based movies. And everybody can be really
happy about it."

Going Postal
It's one thing being vertically challenged, it's
another when all your girly mates have bigger guns
than you.
But before that, he's still got to make the Postal
movie, based on Running With Scissors' controversial
PC title. And just to show he's still got a sense of
humour, he's going to take the opportunity to have a
little fun with his critics.

"I'm in the movie - Uwe Boll will play a minor part. I
get killed by my 'Boll haters'," he explains. So will
he be getting real, er, Boll haters to play
themselves?

"Absolutely! I don't have a problem with that," Boll
says. "I think I'd get thousands of extras doing that,
coming to the set to track me down and lynch me!"

When asked if he's worried that the Postal movie will
attract a flood of negative publicity, just as the
games have, Boll replies: "I don't care, to be
honest."

"The movie will be so politically incorrect and harsh,
it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't
think the movie will be well received by everybody.
For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead
characters - I think that shows the mood of the
movie."

So what will Bin Laden's role be, exactly? Well, Boll
explains, the idea is that he's holed up in Tucson,
Arizona, running a Taliban camp. "That shows a little
bit how politically incorrect Postal will be - it's
really an underground, alternative point of view.
Let's wait and see; I think we will suprise a lot of
people."

Boll confirms that Diff'rent Strokes and Postal star
Gary Coleman is already signed up to play himself in
the film, but he's yet to find a leading man to take
on the role of the Postal Dude. One thing's for sure -
he'll be going for a comedic actor, "Like a Matthew
Lillard, for example, or Ron Perlman," rather than a
serious type.

Taxing questions
Reid asks Boll for some directorial advice. Boll
wonders if it's too late to get Shannon Elizabeth in.
Talking about Postal seems to have cheered Boll up a
bit, so let's throw in a tricky question while the
going's good. Is there any truth in those rumours that
Boll has been exploiting a tax loophole in German law
to fund his films, and to provide a dodgy tax break
for investors?

"There is no loophole," Boll says - at least not any
more, it seems. He explains the situation used to be
that if you invested, say, $100,000 in a movie, you
could reduce the income you pay tax on by $100,000. As
a result of this, German investors funded around 30
per cent of Hollywood movies, but all that's changed
since the law was amended in December.

Things are still looking good for Boll, however. He
says he's got full financing for his next three
movies, "And all my movies, no matter what reviewers
are saying, are getting sold."

Apparently Boll is "number one in the market" as far
as paying investors back goes, and that's "Not because
I make the best movies on earth, but I make movies for
a minimal amount of budget compared to what major
companies are spending, and the movies look good, and
they go out theatrically, and they make a lot of money
on DVD or Pay TV.

"This is the main point - if the movie is really,
really bad, why are a hundred territories buying it?"

Boll says it's tough to get his movies on screens in
the UK and France, to give a couple of examples, but
they do very well in cinemas in Spain, Italy, Russia,
Thailand and the Middle East, generally spending a few
weeks in the top ten of the box office charts.

"I can live with that situation. The average Hollywood
movie last year had $65 million production costs, and
$40 million promotions and advertising costs. My
movies have $15 million to $20 million production
costs, and $10 million P&A."

Reality bites
A House of the Dead character considers he options. We
suspect they're rather limited.
And he's off again. "So if people are writing on the
Internet about how my movies were big failures, it's
because these people are amateurs and they have no
idea of the reality of film-making and film selling.

"I get bashed as the worldwide enemy number one in
film-making by people who are working at Starbucks and
who also want to make movies. It's ridiculous - it's
completely idiotic because they're hitting on a guy
who actually made it happen, but I started my career
in the same position as anybody else," Boll argues.

This seems to be a particularly sore point. Boll says
it was a long, hard slog to get where he is today -
his parents couldn't afford to finance his first
ventures into film-making, and he didn't have any
contacts in the industry. "I started with $50,000 to
make my first movie. I travelled with my f***ing print
for my first movie to 150 movie theatres in Germany,
theatre by theatre, and was sitting there talking with
the audience to get my movie played. So I did it the
hard way.

"Now people are getting hired as directors at 20 years
old, coming from film school and getting 100 million
bucks for their first movie. If people think that this
is a good situation, that I'm the worst enemy in
film-making and a completely talentless idiot, it's
their decision."

The figures speak for themselves, Boll says - for
example, more than 1.4 million copies of the House of
the Dead DVD have been sold in North America. "Maybe
this is bad news for the Boll enemies, but while there
are a few thousand people trying to crush me on the
Internet, there are millions of people who buy the
product."

Blood money
The lovely BloodRayne - remember ladies, never attempt
to apply lipstick whilst driving.
However, he concedes, as far as BloodRayne goes, which
arrived in American cinemas last month, "I cannot say
that it was a big success in the movie theatres. I
tried it with a new theatrical distribution company,
and they were not able to lock in all the theatres -
that was the biggest problem we had. We were scheduled
to go out on 2000 screens, and then we came out on 930
screens, and only sh**** screens, so it didn't work
out.

"Now we are counting on the DVD release - I'm sure
that on DVD it will sell very well."

So if, as Boll argues and as the DVD sales figures
would suggest, the viewing public are a lot keener on
his body of work than you might think after a casual
glance at the Internet, just why does he receive such
a lot of negative criticism?

Boll believes it's because he's too willing to discuss
his movies, and too honest in his responses. "I think
I'm very open, and I talk with everybody and give
interviews to everybody. Over the last few years I've
realised that it's not helping me that I'm open, and
ready to discuss and to learn. Saying that I learned
from my mistakes is maybe the biggest mistake I made."

BloodRayne is due to arrive in UK cinemas later this
year, and after that will come Dungeon Siege - but
this time he "won't do any experiments" as far as
distribution is concerned.

Boll confirms that it will no longer be split into two
films, Kill Bill-style, as previously suggested. "That
was the plan, but now it's only one theatrical movie,
plus a longer DVD and TV version."

Metal Gear sold?
BloodRayne and chum. Yes, it is her out of Lost.
So what about the rumours that Boll was keen to direct
the Metal Gear Solid movie, but that Hideo Kojima
turned him down?

"This is a huge miscommunication in the press," Boll
says.

"What happened is, two French writers wrote a Metal
Gear Solid script, and they approached me because they
wanted me to direct and produce the movie."

Boll asked the writers if they had obtained the
licence, and they said no, but added that they had
good connections with Konami.

"So they contacted Hideo Kojima and I think his
response, because of the press, was like, 'I never
talked to Uwe Boll, I've no idea what he's talking
about.' This is the situation.

"I like Metal Gear Solid, I like that script, but
unless the rights situation is cleared, what can I
say?"

And besides, Boll continues, the movie won't make any
money if the studio throws money at it while the game
publisher ignores it completely. He observes that as a
videogame, Doom is just as popular as MGS - but the
movie "Didn't make half of the f***ing budget back.
People didn't give a sh** about Doom and they won't
give a sh** about Metal Gear Solid if it doesn't get
the kind of promotion it deserves."

Doom and gloom
The stars of Dungeon Siege. Yes, it is her out of Deep
Impact, him out of Snatch, him out of Goodfellas and
him out of Smokey and the Bandit.
Yes, Boll has seen Doom, and he's rather ambivalent
about it - "I liked the movie a little, it wasn't a
really bad movie, but it was not really good."

Would he have done it any differently, then? "I don't
know if I would definitely make the movie very
differently, because I think that Doom remembered me
in a lot of the camera angles, what the creatures were
doing and so on... I think the guy who made Doom
definitely saw Alone in the Dark."

As for Halo, an example of a videogame-based movie
which has a hefty budget behind it, Boll isn't too
optimistic. "I personally think that with the budget
they've planned, Halo will be a failure. I think Halo
will not make the money back in the end."

We've reached the end of the interview, so there's
just time to ask Boll if he has a final message for
those infamous Boll haters.

Course he does. "Before they judge, they should see
the film, that's the first thing. Second, they should
really try to compare it fairly, and not based on my
name.

"If people really think I'm completely talentless, and
this is to journalists, they should at least rent one
of my earlier movies, like Heart of America, which is
a really, really good movie.

"And then they should say, 'Okay, this is the history
of this director, we should judge him based on this.'
They shouldn't say, 'This guy cannot make movies,'
because this is unfair. I think it's very arrogant
that a lot of journalists are not even willing see
that movie before they judge my directing ability."

Best get off down Blockbusters, then...

[Pumpy Tudors]

I can't believe the Mavericks drafted this guy right after they drafted Bill Wennington.

[Karlifornia]

Man what a long friggin article devoted to Uwe Boll. He really does sound off his rocker, though.

[stevew]

Metal Gear Solid might actually make a good movie. Obviously not in Boll's hands.

[SirFozzie]

Uwe Boll strikes again...

http://videogames.aol.com/canvases/articles?id=20060331100209990001

Uwe Boll Secures Rights to 'StarCraft' Movie Trilogy

The man who inspired gamers to hate film-makers secures one of Blizzard's finest.

<SMALL>BY MICHEAL MULLEN, AOL GAMES</SMALL>


Teutonic movie director Uwe Boll has gathered the rights to more films based on gaming franchises than any other director. Having already produced movies like ‘BloodRayne (http://videogames.aol.com/game_main?gameID=8488)’ and ‘Alone in the Dark (http://videogames.aol.com/game_main?gameID=9084),’ he's also working on five other video-game based movies. You might say Boll is on a roll.


Boll announced that he had secured the rights to create a film trilogy loosely based on the popular sci-fi real-time gaming franchise ‘StarCraft (http://videogames.aol.com/game_main?gameID=546).’ Publisher VU Games and Blizzard, the game’s developer, released a joint statement that said they were "tickled pink" by the Boll’s scripts and said his vision for the trilogy would only make the ‘StarCraft’ brand stronger.


Boll has not announced when filming would begin for the first of three movies but said that the net has been cast for actors like Tara Reid, Eric Roberts and Zeus 'Tiny" Lister to portray characters from the Terran, Zerg and Protoss races.

This is an april fools prank. I hope and pray, at least

[stevew]

In the Name of the King comes out on friday.

Just in case any of you were looking for something to see this weekend.

[Greyroofoo]

not a fan of his movies, but I gotta love a director who stands up to his movie critics<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tqbVb-W7GqI&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tqbVb-W7GqI&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

[Calis]

not a fan of his movies, but I gotta love a director who stands up to his movie critics

I'm not sure a trained boxer beating up on some guy who looks to weigh about 30 pounds and have absolutely no idea what he's doing is "standing up".

[stevew]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/postal/trailer/

God, the postal trailer looks even more horrid than i would imagine.

[kurtism]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=52031&type=0

Sign the petition. Stop the badness.

[Subby]

Name Comments
176365. Chris Shue Die.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Is this guy the love child of Uwe Krupp and Manute Bol?

[Pumpy Tudors]

Is this guy the love child of Uwe Krupp and Manute Bol?
Yes. He scores a series-clinching goal and then complains that his skates are too small for his enormous feet.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Yes. He scores a series-clinching goal and then complains that his skates are too small for his enormous feet.

Sounds like someone the Devils could use

[Honolulu_Blue]

I signed this. It's a worthy cause.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Sounds like someone the Devils could use
welp guess i'm done here

[MikeVic]

Sounds like someone the Devils could use

Don't they have Scott Gomez? Oh no wait sorry. Brian Rafalski? Naw shit, sorry again. Bill Guerin? Hmm nevermind.

[Karlifornia]

petitions really bring out the class in people

141867. C�dric Raspoetin I hate movies made of games, espcially games made out of movies.. Anyway.. I don't like Germans in general.