Boll Slams Games Industry (Really!) [Feb 15, 2006, 12:06 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Uwe Boll bites
back on Eurogamer is the you can't make this stuff up story of the day, in
which alleged film director Uwe Boll explains where the blame lies for the
failings of his game-related cinematic offerings. The problem lies not in the
movies themselves, but with the critical gaming press and unsupportive game
companies:
Us games journalists, Boll argues, should be pleased that videogame-based movies are getting made at all. "It's tough to convince someone from the studio system to believe in a videogame-based movie. It's way easier to have a great book or to have a comic book [as your source material], because these studio guys, they know Spider-Man, Batman, that kind of stuff."
Boll believes that part of the problem with convincing Hollywood that game movies are a good idea is down to game publishers themselves. He argues that Marvel, for example, are very good at cross-promoting movies based on their properties - whereas videogame companies simply sell off the licence and then forget about it.
I just now saw the DOOM movie and I gotta say it wasn't half bad at all. I mean, they took the portal to hell out and put in an extra chromosone, but it was pretty smartly done, the action was awesome and they did one series of scenes from first person view that was clearly aimed at gamers and it made my heart warm.
So it can be done. It's still a neat idea I think.
So it can be done. It's still a neat idea I think.
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