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
I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters-I think that shows the mood of the movie.
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.
We're working on Dungeon Siege right now, and we have a great script for Far Cry done already and we're hoping to go into production next year.
Today, I looked out at the word of mouth on Alone in the Dark and there seems to be a lot of medium, okay and good reviews coming out.
If they invest in film funds they have zero on their account, so every movie must recoup money otherwise the investment didn't made sense.
My funds have grown every year and this is because my movies got the investors most of their money back, more than all the other funds.
Yes, Tron is an interesting choice because it created a universe that sucks you in - like if you were playing a video game while watching the film.
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.
Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
I do think Hostel will be a good movie.