Who Keeps Giving Uwe Boll Money?
Seriously? Who out there hates the human race this much?
Uwe Boll continues to bring little known video games to the screen. This time he’s producing a movie version of Zombie Massacre video game.
The film will be directed by Marco Ristori and Luca Boni who made the recent low-budget zombie flick, Eaters, for Boll.
Yes, THAT Uwe Boll. Infamous director and producer of unimaginably awful films, extremely loosely based on videogames.
Uggh. Wow.
Where did he get the ‘idea’ for his latest atrocity? Well:
Zombie Massacre (AKA Gloom 4) is a 1998 computer game for the Amiga computer. It was a clone of the immensely popular first person shooter Doom on the Amiga.
I guess it was inevitable that Boll would run out of original games whose owners were STUPID enough to let him near their intellectual property, but still, adapting last-ditch copycat games from the Amiga?
Wow.
Anyway, Doom was about demons, but I guess for this, ahem, variant they remade them into Zombies? That’s atrocious. I guess all unconventional sentient life looked alike to the development team? For shame.
Looking on the bright side, if I get any really dire medical diagnoses in the next few weeks, I won’t have to review this movie for the ZRC!
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You do know how Uwe gets funded? There’s a loophole in the German tax code that gives tremendous breaks for wealthy people to fund movie projects outside of Germany, so by them giving him money they get a break and they could care less about the crappy movies that he makes. It doesn’t matter that they lose huge amounts of money, his funders have already gotten their tax breaks. I’ve never seen an Uwe movie and never will.
Really? Intriguing. Perhaps one of these wealthy tax-evaders would be interested in funding a Zombie Friendly movie.
First step: I should stop calling them tax evaders.
I found a great article that outlines it here: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_81/460-Uwe-Boll-and-the-German-Tax-Code
In short, investors in an ideal world would want the movie to make money too, but given the enormous size of the tax shelter they’re getting, a straight loss is more than fine. Whoever wrote the German tax code is an idiot.
The amazing thing is the talent that he is sometimes able to get in his films. You’d think that he’d have enough of a rep as a horrible film maker that A-list actors would avoid him in droves, yet In The Name of the King had Ron Perlman, Jason Statham, John Rhy-Davies, Ray Liotta, and Burt Reynolds.
IIRC, Wired had a good article on this back before he announced his retirement, I’m sure it’ll be resurrected soon.
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