I think most of the video game companies have come to the realization that selling film adaptation rights to Uwe Boll is a bad idea. Boll, who snapped up the rights for quite a few video game properties years back, has become one of the most hated people (probably only next to Jack Thompson) amongst the video game community. Well apparently some video game companies have yet to learn. Arrow in the Head reports that Boll has acquired rights to an unreleased action roleplaying game, Legend: Hand of God.
“I think Legend will be very successful because of its unique blend of high fantasy and dark atmosphere. The world of Legend contains major crossover potential and was already adapted as novel and audio book” says Boll from the set of Far Cry, which he currently works on in Vancouver with Til Schweiger, Ralf Möller and Udo Kier.
I met with Boll a couple months back for an interview which will run with the release of Postal. I went into the interview looking to play hardball and ask all the questions the online community wanted to know. But I came away from the whole experience feeling bad for the man. He doesn’t seem to understand that his films are bad. He thinks that Hollywood has brainwashed America and that’s why people don’t like his films. Yeah…. that’s why.
Somehow, someway, Boll keeps getting the funding for these releases which usually tank at the box office, and do minimal business on DVD. It seems to me that the man has lost tens of millions for his investors thus far.
Boll expects to shoot Legend with a $40 million budget in 2009. The game will be released in the United States early next year.
December 29th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
UWE BOLL TO MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO GAME MOVIE:NINJA ASSULT.
Uwe Boll is working on the video game movies Sabotage 1943,Legend:God Of Hand and Zombie Massacre,he should make the movie based on the Namco arcade shooting game Ninja Assault,
Ninja Assault the movie is set in feudal Japan 1620 where an evil warlord Shogun Kagai is ambushed by the ninjas.Now Kagai is back from the dead and he has kidnapped Princess Koto and Siann,Kagai wants to marry them for his dark resurrection.
Three ninjas Guren,Gunjo and Aoi join forces with jack Allen to hunt down spider demon ninjas and hunt kagai at all cost.
Boll can make the Ninja Assault movie with that storyline for the film plot.
Thank you.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.
April 7th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Uwe Boll is an all around awesome guy, If you don’t think so maybe you’d like to join him in the boxing ring?
April 7th, 2008 at 4:51 am
sorry, one more thing. He doesn’t need investors because of a German tax loop-hole so the only people he’s pissed off are self-important movie critics.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:07 am
So… If he doesn’t need any investors, where does he get the money for his filmmaking? Somebody has to pay the crew, and I doubt that all the famous actors (Ben Kingsley, Kristanna Loken, Jason Statham, Ray Lliota, etc) would agree to work for peanuts.