uwe-boll posts

If you ever wanted to do something awful to film director Uwe Boll, you may get your chance. According to Eurogamer, Boll actually paid for the privilage to have his likeness put into Postal 3, the upcoming next game in Running With Scissors' action game series.

Boll, of course, directed the Postal movie that was released in 2008 and according to Running With Scissors head Vince Desi, "Uwe will be presented as himself and of course you can have fun with him, it's Postal!" Postal 3, which is being co-developed by Akella and uses the Source engine, does not yet have a release date.

Uwe Boll. Even his name can cause the skin to crawl among film and game fans. As a director, he's responsible for some of the worst game-to-movie adaptations of all time (and that's saying something). However, Boll decided to do something a little different for Tunnel Rats. He not only directed the movie (about US soldiers in the Vietnam War) but supervised the making of the game version.

The movie Tunnel Rats hasn't been released stateside yet but this week the Steam service has the game version available for download for $19.99. The first person shooter from developer Replay Studios (creators of the recent WWII stealth action game Velvet Assassin) has you as a US soldier working with a squad to go through tunnels made by the Vietcong. Look for traps, snakes and a crazy German trying to tell you to stand on your mark (ok, we made that last one up but that would actually be pretty cool.

Have you got your 2009 resolutions already set up? If not perhaps you need a little help in deciding what you need to improve in the new year. GameDaily has two such resolution lists it has provided for us today.

One of them is for gamers themselves to consider taking up in 2009. Gamers are asked to embrace creativity and innovation in games while at the same time asked not to pirate those PC games it likes. Maybe you can even play a game in a genre that you are normally not a fan of. Yet another 2009 resolution list is aimed at game developers. If you help to make games for a living perhaps you can do things in the new year like make mod tools available to gamers or mix up the usual settings of game locations. But whatever you do, please don't sell your game's movie rights to Uwe Boll...that's a one way ticket to oblivion right there.

Hey, who ordered another Uwe Boll story? We did? Oh...sorry. However this is somewhat newsworthy. Boll's adaptation of Gas Powered Games' Dungeon Siege franchise, In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, came out and quickly left theaters in January. The DVD came out this summber but the release of the Blu-Ray version on December 1 will have some extras that the DVD version didn't have.

High-Def Digest reports that the Blu-Ray port will contain an unrated "Director's Cut" of the movie that is not contained in the standard DVD version. This new cut will have a whopping 35 minutes of additional footage. The Blu-Ray version will also have a new commentary from Boll that also isn't in the DVD cut. Presumably he will tell us how great this movie is and how dumb the rest of us are for hating it. Both Blu-Ray and DVD versions will share a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes and trailers.

We mentioned Thursday that super duper film director Uwe Boll will have his latest film, the adaptation of Crytek's FPS Far Cry, debut in German theaters on October 2. However, he has a ton of upcoming projects in the works, including one that's been known for some time now. 1968 Tunnel Rats is being developed as both a movie and as a game at the same time and Gametrailers has the first video footage of the game portion of this project (Boll is reportedly heavily involved in the game's development.

Both the game and the upcoming movie are Vietnam War themed projects as US Army troops attempt to get the enemy out of their man-made tunnel bases. The game was developed by Replay Studios (the same folks behind 2009's Velvet Assassin) but Replay doesn't seem to want to be associated with this game; their recently relaunched web site has no mention at all of 1968 Tunnel Rats. The trailer states the game is coming out this fall but we suspect that's for Europe; there's no word on a US release for either the game or movie.

Oh, Uwe Boll. We do love you. Well not in that kind of way but you know what we mean. You make movies that are really crappy and most of them are based on video game franchises like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne, Dungeon Siege and most recently Postal. We can't help but love them and you anyway. But now we are upset, man. Why? You are ditching your US detractors and premiering your latest video game adaptation, Far Cry, in Germany on October 2.

Ok, we know that's your home country but we still need our fill of crappy video game movies and your version of the terrific Crytek-Ubisoft Far Cry FPS looks like it has just enough Uwe Boll-ness for us. B-list actors, poor production values, filming in Vancouver to substitute for a tropical island....and that's just in the PDF press kit we read on your site. Hopefully you can get a direct-to-DVD or maybe a Saturday Sci-Fi Channel movie deal for Far Cry's US release. We don't want Germany to have all the fun.

The Uwe Boll directed adaptation of Running With Scissors'sPostal game franchise may have been kept from being released in most movie theaters last May but on August 26 everyone will be able to see the movie in either DVD or Blu-Ray format. The DVD Active web site has posted up the box cover for the release which reveals extras like commentaries, deleted scenes and more.

The release will also come with the full version of the Postal 2 game, the Unreal Engine 2 powered open world shooter that Running With Scissors released several years ago. Running With Scissors and Russian based Akella are currently working on Postal III which should be released in 2009.

We can say with the utmost certainty that hell has frozen over. Postal, the movie adaptation of the game of the same name, has won some awards. Actual awards, even. Instead of receiving or being nominated for a Golden Raspberry, Postal has been awarded Best of Festival at the Hoboken Film Festival. Furthermore, Uwe Boll, our favorite mutilator of gaming intellectual properties, has received the Best Director award. One could argue that this was because of Uwe Boll being a festival sponsor, but shhhh. Don't spoil the moment.

When asked about the award, producer Vince Desi had this to say:

When the fans speak, we win. We know this from our experience in the game industry and now the film business just confirms it. The continued success of the POSTAL franchise in all its forms is proof that democracy works; you cannot stop what's in the hearts of the people. Freedom will always triumph over tyranny.

Because everyone knows that the panning of Uwe Boll's films and Vince Desi's games by critics is tyranny.

It's the Memorial Day weekend here in the US and while many of you may be going to go see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a brave few will be heading to a few movie theaters to see Postal, the latest game-to-movie adaptation from infamous director Uwe Boll. The Postal PC game series, which has generated its own controversies over the years, has continued to be successful for its developer Running With Scissors. Their mix of violence and dark humor have gotten politicians and others to attack the games (mostly without actually playing them of course). Still, there are a number of gamers and reviewers who appreciate what Running With Scissors are attempting to do with the Postal titles; namely the fact that they try to satire all aspects of pop culture and politics.

With the movie now in theaters, Big Download decided to contact Running with Scissors head Vince Desi to get his thoughts on the film, what the experience was like working with Uwe Boll and some hints on the next game in the series, Postal III..

First, there's no doubt that the journey to have Postal transformed into a movie has been an interesting one. Can you give us a little history on how you guys pitched a movie version and how Uwe Boll game on board?

After Postal 2 was released I was contacted by several folks in Hollywood, I had a few meetings but decided against it. Then about 2 years ago I got a call from someone representing Uwe, I didn't know who he was, so I flew up to Vancouver to meet him. We got along, and like they say in Hollywood the rest is history.

A few days ago it looked like the planned movie version of Postal was going to appear in just four theaters for its May 23 opening date. Now a new press release from Postal developers Running With Scissors seems to indicate a slightly bigger opening for the Uwe Boll-directed dark satire. According to the official Postal web site the movie will actually be in 14 theaters on May 23.

The web site indicates theaters like the famous Alamo Draft House in Austin, Texas along with locations in Denver, Santa Monica, Chicago and others will screen the movie on the opening weekend. A San Fransisco theater will screen the movie on May 30. Of course if you aren't located near one of the listed theaters don't fret; the movie is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on August 26.