Originally Posted by
anidaen
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.
Uwe Boll Won’t Ever Be Entering The World Of Warcraft
