In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

[Sphexi]

Burt Reynolds
Jason Statham
Leelee Sobieski
Ray Liotta
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli in LOTR)
The ahole who played Shaggy (Matthew Lillard)

How in the hell did Uwe Boll, creator of such trash as House of the Dead and Bloodrayne, manage to get all of these top-notch (except Lillard) actors to agree to be in one of his piece of crap movies? I just watched the two trailers and it was like I was back in the 80s, watching a preview for one of the many Highlander sequels.

Is there anybody out there who thinks this movie will actually be good, or make any money at all? The worst part is that he's still involved in the Farcry movie 🙁


Searched Uwe, Boll, King, and Dungeon.

 

[mwmorph]

hes a mind controlling genius thats how he gets stars and big budgets and big game lisences. He may suck at directing but man he msut be godlike in pitching and marketing even half baked ideas.

 

[weirdichi]

the fanboys are putting his kids through college. Maybe they should put him through film school.

 

[eakers]

they are making a dungeon siege movie?!

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
hes a mind controlling genius thats how he gets stars and big budgets and big game lisences. He may suck at directing but man he msut be godlike in pitching and marketing even half baked ideas.

I'm betting he is simply godlike at sucking a golfball through a garden hose. Nothing more.

Originally posted by: eakers
they are making a dungeon siege movie?!

Correction, they MADE a Dungeon Siege movie. Due out this November.

 

[eakers]

Like based on the video game?

 

[mwmorph]

yes. I believe the main character in the script submitted to the studios was a farmer named farmer. The studios changed it to Farmer Daimon.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: eakers
Like based on the video game?

Very loosely. The main character played by Statham is named Farmer, and wants to get revenge yatta yatta. Pretty much in name only I think.

 

[Sphexi]

God, this guy is a nutjob. Everybody has heard about his boxing match deal, but not even RWS is happy with him after that. I honestly hope someone takes him up on his offer and beats the crap out of him, so he has to put the footage of it into the Postal movie 🙂

 

[neutralizer]

That game is not good enough to make a movie out of.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
That game is not good enough to make a movie out of.

I think some might disagree with that, many of the recent bad video-game-movies have been based on games that were actually pretty good. Unfortunately, with idiots like Boll in charge, they keep getting ruined 🙁

 

[syzygy]

the trailer shows you just how aweful the film is going to be.

i mean they couldn't even edit it to hide the deficiencies. wow.

anyway, here's the best reason i've read explaining how uwe manages tp keep directing :

from the IMDB boards

How in the world did Boll get the reigns to direct a ((($60,000,000.00))movie? Didn't anybody stop to look at the box office take on his last films? The only way any of this is possible is the Boll is a JEDI MASTER.

STUDIO: Sorry Boll your last three movies sucked, we're not going to let you direct the next one.

Boll: Yes you are.

STUDIO: Yes we are...

Boll: I am a misunderstood AUETUER.

STUDIO: Your a MISUNDERSTOOD AUETUER.....

Boll: These aren't the droids your looking for.

STUDIO: These aren't the droids we're looking for....

You get the idea.

 

[fustercluck]

It really amazes me to see him still getting the funds to direct movies, and actors we know are starring in his movies. I really don't get it.

There was no reason to make a Dungeon Siege movie, it's just your run of the mill PC RPG. Knights, Elves, Archers and all that crap. Nothing stands out about it. Then again, i'm glad he's not directing a movie of a good game that has potential to be a good movie.