Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

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MTV Movies Blog Uwe Boll Won’t Ever Be Entering The World Of Warcraft

Uwe Boll Won’t Ever Be Entering The World Of Warcraft

Published by Shawn Adler on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 5:21 pm.

Whatever else negative you can say about Uwe Boll, one thing you can’t criticize him on is his strong love for video games. I mean, there may be over 200,000 signatures on an online petition asking that he stop making movies, but he clearly loves the gamer market, and at least goes into each project hoping to make good films for that fanboy community.

Right? Right?!?

“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,” Boll recently told MTV News. “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.”

That’s the Uwe Boll I know and love – the Uwe Boll who’ll criticize even his most ardent followers. God bless you, sir.

But if you’re not going to make a faithful adaptation, why make an adaptation at all? Apparently, the folks over at Blizzard wonder the same thing, since they practically laughed Boll out of their offices when he approached them about making a World of Warcraft adaptation, the director confessed.

“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,’” Boll revealed. “Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”

A bad movie! He called his hypothetical adaptation bad. Awesome.

What do you think? Could Uwe Boll have made a decent WOW flick? Come to think of it, what would a WOW flick even be about? Sound off below.

[Feba]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

Quite honestly, who the hell cares?

A company doesn't want to give someone rights to screw with their franchise.


Ooooh, exciting.

[Telera]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

:D

My boyfriend gets the biggest kicks out of Uwe Boll's latest ravings and insanities. I'll be sure to point him this way, since neither of us give a fuck about -nor keep up with- MTV or blogs in general.

My opinion: The guy is an asshat, incapable of making a good movie adaptation, and then goes off insulting everyone who criticizes him. If you're in any 'art' profession and can't take constructive, or even non-constructive, criticism without getting all agitated, then you need to quit. The end.

[Whiskey]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

WoW fails in any way shape or form.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

Quite honestly, who the hell cares?

A company doesn't want to give someone rights to screw with their franchise.


Ooooh, exciting.

You clearly haven't seen the line-up of game franchises that he's been allowed to adapt to film. If this guy got his hands on the rights to something of Halo or Metroid's calibur, it would definately be cause for concern.

[DakAttack]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

He killed Bloodrayne. Unforgivable.

[Feba]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

You clearly haven't seen the line-up of game franchises that he's been allowed to adapt to film.

Again, who cares? A crappy artist got his hands on some mildly popular franchises and made horrible films.

If this guy got his hands on the rights to something of Halo or Metroid's calibur, it would definately be cause for concern.

And it's almost certainly never going to happen. Even if it did, there's no reason you have to see a movie just because it's out there, you know.



EDIT: Oh, and SMB. If a game series can survive that and still make excellent titles, films don't matter that much.

[Nandito]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

Gotta love that time he was in E3 giving a speech about his latest project, and not only did people leave right away, they made a ruckus.

I kinda hoped they gave him the right to make a WoW movie. Maybe more people would come to FFXI, ha!

[eticket109]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

You clearly haven't seen the line-up of game franchises that he's been allowed to adapt to film. If this guy got his hands on the rights to something of Halo or Metroid's calibur, it would definately be cause for concern.

Thankfully, most high market IPs will never come anywhere near him now. I just found it funny that Blizzard felt he was bad enough that he could kill the WoW franchise.

Again, who cares?

Over 200,000 people so far.

Even if it did, there's no reason you have to see a movie just because it's out there, you know.

There's no reason you have to post to a thread you don't care about either.

[Feba]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

Over 200,000 people so far.

Yes, I know there's a petition against him making more films. That doesn't mean a company not wanting to give some crappy filmmaker rights to an incredibly huge IP is newsworthy.

There's no reason you have to post to a thread you don't care about either.

And you don't need to reply to a post if you don't like it.

[Murphie]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

Oh come off it, Feba. If you had posted this OP and someone had responded the way you did, you'd be spitting nails. Let it the hell go. You don't have to worry. No one is going to start as many random threads as you do.

I found it amusing.

[Ziero]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

Quite honestly, who the hell cares?

A company doesn't want to give someone rights to screw with their franchise.


Ooooh, exciting.

Because it's funny. They didn't just say no, they practically laughed the guy right out of their office. When someone says "not to you…especially not to you" in regards to wanting to work for you, it's pretty much them calling you a failure and telling you to GTFO. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Oh, apparently Uwe Boll challenged Micheal bay to a boxing match via Youtube recently too.

[Feba]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

If you had posted this OP

Hence the problem. I wouldn't have posted a thread on this.

Because it's funny.

No, it's not. If I went up to MS, and asked for the rights to make a Halo novel, or I asked Nintendo for the rights to a Metroid novel, the same thing would happen.

it's pretty much them calling you a failure and telling you to GTFO.

Ok, so whenever Blizzard does something the rest of the internet already does, they get brownie points?

[Ziero]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

Hence the problem. I wouldn't have posted a thread on this.

So then why do you care so much about this topic to have posted in it no less then four times?

No, it's not. If I went up to MS, and asked for the rights to make a Halo novel, or I asked Nintendo for the rights to a Metroid novel, the same thing would happen.

Are you a big named film maker who's a joke on the internet and only getting more "comical" as time goes on? No? Ok, then you wouldn't fall into the same category as Uwe Boll does. He is a 'professional' in the industry and a failure of that magnitude done in such a way was pretty damn funny.

Though to be fair, I bet you'd have probably gotten a politer rejection from Blizzard then he did.

Ok, so whenever Blizzard does something the rest of the internet already does, they get brownie points?

Pretty much yea

[Feba]

Re: Apparently all it takes to bring down the WoW franchise... is Uwe Boll

So then why do you care so much about this topic to have posted in it no less then four times?

Do you honestly think I have anything better to do?