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I have always enjoyed gaming movies, I am one that is extremely easy to please when it comes to them too. I even enjoyed the latest Resident Evil that Scott here at Slashgear will start ranting about if you ever bring it up. Now, that being said, I never ever want to see the likes of Uwe Boll snagging the rights to create a World of Warcraft movie, frankly I think I’d go on a gaming strike. Thankfully Blizzard is smart enough to recognize Uwe Boll’s lack of talent and turn him down flat.
If you are unfamiliar with the works of Uwe Boll, some of the gaming atrocities he has created are Postal, House of the Dead and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale. He has been requested by many many gamers to please stop creating these awful movies, however, he has said that no amount of petitions will stop him.
He apparently got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard and Paul then stated. “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”
[via kotaku]
4 Responses to “Uwe Boll attempts to acquire rights to create a World of Warcraft movie”
Joe April 22, 2008
Wow…I’m amazed by your fortune telling skills. simply awesome you can judge Postal as a flop without it being in the theatres. Honestly…I really wish people would stop branding Kaiser Douchebag as the root of all evil. There are PLENTY of directors that totally cock-up adaptations (Ang Lee’s Hulk, schumacher’s Batman, etc) but never get as much flack. Honestly, aside from the fact he makes crappy movies and that he’s a dick does anyone really have a VALID reason to demonize him? Man this crap is getting old.
-3Skye April 22, 2008
The fact that he lied to his most vocal online critics so that he could beat them up in a boxing ring during the production of Postal seems like a good enough reason to think he’s a douchebag.
And given his past record, it doesn’t exactly take Nostradamus to predict that Postal will be terrible.
NeutralJoe April 23, 2008
[quote comment="40193"]The fact that he lied to his most vocal online critics so that he could beat them up in a boxing ring during the production of Postal seems like a good enough reason to think he’s a douchebag.
And given his past record, it doesn’t exactly take Nostradamus to predict that Postal will be terrible.[/quote]
I find that he lied in order to beat up some bitchy film geeks hilarious. Hell, Andrew Dice Clay was a douchebag onstage and sold a couple thousand CD’s and lots of people dug that he was a jackass. It sad no one sees through his act. But I know nothing I say will dissuade “the haters” since bashing Uwe is the new internet fad right now. I guess everyone needs a punching bag…
NeutralBruce Darren Acosta May 3, 2008
UWE BOLL SHOULD NOT MAKE WORLD OF WARCRAFT MOVIE.
Uwe Boll should not make the movie based WoW game but he won’t be making movies too much in the future,but he would make the movie based on the video game
NeutralNinja Assault,an campy adventure with ninjas Guren,Gunjo and Aoi team up with Jack Allen to hunt spider warriors and the evil forces of the Shogun clan and to save two girls from been married from the evil Shogun master.
Jillian Sands to play Jack Allen,Brian Tee as Guren and Michael Pare as Shogun Kagai will star in this low budget action flick as the feudal Japan style of Big Trouble In Little China.
I know you guys don’t like Uwe Boll but I won’t say too much about this.
Bye.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.