I admit that I write about Uwe Boll too much, and I couldn’t care less about video games or the movies adapted from them, but on a slow news day such as this, I’d rather ruffle some feathers than resort to writing about something less interesting. Besides, I agree slightly with his comments to New York’s Vulture blog, at least that he’d be better to direct a Grand Theft Auto movie than Michael Bay or Brett Ratner.
Grand Theft Auto would be super interesting for me, and I think I would actually be the right guy to do it, because my movies are all bloody and violent and I don’t have a problem with action scenes. But look, they will go, in the end, with a Michael Bay or a Brett Ratner, and it will be a PG-13 movie made for $150 million. I think it would be better to make a $30 million, very hard, brutal movie without compromising, but I’m not optimistic.
I don’t know if Boll would really be the best to handle the adaptation, if there ever is one, but certainly a PG-13 movie would be utterly ridiculous. Honestly, I can’t think of who would be good to direct such a film. But then, I don’t think any movie of the game would actually work. So why not just let Boll have fun with it?
And speaking of fun, Boll has a really awesome idea for his next film, which would actually involve all his haters:
I think right in the Internet world there is a more interesting strategy I could go with. I have the rights to [Wii game] Zombie Massacre, and maybe we should do that movie with all the gamers and Boll haters, and people who signed that petition anti-Boll, or pro-Boll, we all meet in a big, small city — somewhere in the Midwest. And we all shoot Zombie Massacre together; they all play zombies, and they’re there and can give me advice if they think they can do it better than me. So as long as we keep shooting something and we do that as a big convention type of thing and then they have all the opportunity to show me how they would do it different, and we have maybe 10,000 zombies running around, I think this could be a good idea for 2009 or 2010 — to do something that maybe nobody has done before, and to have all the people coming together and ripping each other apart on the field, like the pro-Boll and anti-Boll zombies.
To think people believe the guy is all bad. Who else is interested in doing such good things for his enemies as letting them collaborate? I almost want to finally sign the petition just so I could be cast as a zombie. By the way, Uwe, here’s another related idea from one of your few supporters: make it so that Stride Gum is what makes you a zombie.
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