Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll is a German director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor based in Canada, whose work includes several films adapted from video games. He finances his own films through his Boll KG and Event Film Productions production companies. Many of his films are produced on low budgets and have received highly negative reviews from critics, with Alone in the Dark being considered one of the worst films ever made. However, Boll's Rampage film series, Tunnel Rats, Stoic, Assault on Wall...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 June 1965
CityWermelskirchen, Germany
CountryGermany
Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.
Actors don't have real value.
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.