Whatever else negative you can say about Uwe Boll, one thing you can’t criticize him on is his strong love for video games. I mean, there may be over 200,000 signatures on an online petition asking that he stop making movies, but he clearly loves the gamer market, and at least goes into each project hoping to make good films for that fanboy community.
Right? Right?!?
“You go for it, to please the game fans, but on the other hand if you have the hard core gamers, they live in their own world. And you cannot fulfill their ideas from a video game based movie, it’s impossible,” Boll recently told MTV News. “And to be honest, the real gamers are the typical download guys, right? They don’t pay anything for movies, because they illegally download the movies. So why I should please these guys? I need the normal audience.”
That’s the Uwe Boll I know and love – the Uwe Boll who’ll criticize even his most ardent followers. God bless you, sir.
But if you’re not going to make a faithful adaptation, why make an adaptation at all? Apparently, the folks over at Blizzard wonder the same thing, since they practically laughed Boll out of their offices when he approached them about making a World of Warcraft adaptation, the director confessed.
“I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, ‘We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you,’” Boll revealed. “Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”
A bad movie! He called his hypothetical adaptation bad. Awesome.
What do you think? Could Uwe Boll have made a decent WOW flick? Come to think of it, what would a WOW flick even be about? Sound off below.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:40 am
What I want to say is, as a Chinese WoWer, I have to say some of Chinese “WoW Like” games should be adapted into movies. And I’m in favour of inviting Uwe to do this job.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
A 3 movie adaptation of the War of the Ancients book series… I would buy the collector’s edition box set, after buying all three movie when they were released.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:35 am
感谢暴雪拒绝了uwe Boll，不然我们又要见到一部杰出的游戏被他毁灭了！
April 30th, 2008 at 10:50 am
i have only seen one of his film’s blood rayne it was s h i t e i’m glad he’s not diong this. someone with the derecting skill like peter jackson or anyone who has acces to cameras would do better than that p r i c k. even i would do better than him and i don’t know the first thing about making films who else thinks they can do better than this idiot?
May 1st, 2008 at 12:48 am
I’ve watched Alone in th Dark and I have to say…. IT SUCKED! As for WoW adaption? no, Good that Blizzard taught this shameful being a lesson.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:53 am
very goooooooooood!!!!
May 8th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I feel sorry for this guy for all the crap he gets, haven’t seen his movie but sounds like their craptastic, still I feel sorry for him.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Postal is in fact a pretty cool movie
June 9th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
hello all,
i’m a guy from desert, i look after nomads and help them to better life.
now i have an idea to make a film about nomads and thier traditions in desert, but problem i don’t have enough cameras to realize this dream, so if some one interesting to be help can contact me in my email saharassine@hotmail.com, 0021263591375
June 17th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Uwe Boll. And I always thought that Paris Hilton was an egotistic whore, but this fuck?.
Uwe, here’s some advice and I truly hope you take it.
Step 1: Buy a gun
Step 2: Put in a full cartridge
Step 3: Put it in your mouth with the end facing your brain
Step 4: Pull the trigger
Step 5: Die
Seriously, no one gives a $#%% about you. The only reason I can tell that people will arrive at your funeral is to spit on your grave.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
for the love of god…
someone stop him…
I’m just happy he couldnt ruin wow for me… go bliz
June 28th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Well when/if a WoW movies comes out i would think that ALOT of ppl would go and c it insted of DL it ofc some ppl will i know i will “if the movie is good” but if he made the movie i don’t think alot of ppl would go and c it
July 4th, 2008 at 3:21 am
The perfect WoW movie would begin with the protagonist starting weak, as normal, and gathering to him a party of heroes. He would traverse the world of Azeroth on a quest for the powers and items necessary to defeat the antagonist of the movie. There would be short arcs dedicated to mastering different skills, some Horde fights (it would be an Alliance-centric movie, they’re the pretty ones, remember), and even a training montage.
When he finally got to the antagonist’s lair and fought his way in, he and his faithful companions would fight with all their might and spirit to defeat the antagonist and save the world…
…and ultimately be defeated.
As he alone is backed into a corner and asked if he has any last words, the antagonists Fel-charged blade raised high above his head, the protagonist lifts his weary, wounded head and rasps out only a few words:
“Yeah. F**k this s**t, I’m gonna get on my seventy and own you.”
The protagonist would then disappear, reappear as an appropriately high level character and lay down a smackdown while game-related memes and other things like that are referenced.
The closing credits would be a techno remix comprised of the clip of “LEEROOOOOY JEEEENKIIIINS” mixed with the “50 DKP Minus” guy’s antics.
July 5th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Fan boy candy ass,
World of warcrap
Metal Gear solid
—->lame.
I mean you yell about a guy who works out of the system. And yet you have done nothing but beat off to Anime. Uwe get’s my support, fan boys get bashed.