April 21st, 2008, posted by FofR | Digg This
It appears that Uwe Boll applied to Blizzard for the role of director in the World of Warcraft movie. Shock horror I hear you all cry, especially when such an astoundingly bad director has these views about making a faithful adaptation:
“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. 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.”
In the MTV article, Boll goes on to say that he spoke with Blizzard about helming the WoW movie:
“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. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”
Good news all round I say! Here, here, let’s move on to some good potential directors…
May 8th, 2008 at 4:53 am
TAHNK YOU!!!now hopefully there won’t be any close calls like this. A lot of ppl want it good.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
So much obviousness in this update… very conforting nonetheless.
“…especially not to you.”. Paul Sams is now a public hero.
On the other hand, he quoted Paul Sams said “We will not sell the movie rights” and even if the context fits the phrase its rather disturbing after thinking about it for a while.
Perhaps that means no Warcraft movie untill no less than 2012 or 2020?
Fine by me. I would like to see a good movie instead of a rushed one.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Peter Jackson, Michael Bay, Steven Spielberg … get one of these and add 2-3-10 more hours to the movie … please, please, please and someone shoot Uwe Boll FFS !!!!!!
July 6th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I like how he says “I need the normal audience”.I find that very funny.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Thank god. I do NOT want Uwe Boll working on a movie of this popularity.