Uwe Boll Makes Video Response To Online Petition
I haven’t seen one single Uwe Boll movie. Not because they are Uwe Boll movies, but because they don’t really appeal to me. But word on the internets is that he isn’t a good director and makes crappy movies, mainly destroying the game-to-movie adaptations such as Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne. The destroying of these game adaptations hasn’t made him the most popular director, resulting in petitions to stop him from making any more movies. One daring fellow made a petition, which got 18,000 online signatures. Uwe then responded in an interview by saying that that amount is no way near enough, and that it would take 1 million for him to stop his work in the movie industry.
Fast forward to the present and there are currently 134,954 signatures. With such a large surge in signatures, it shouldn’t be too long before the petition reaches the big ‘1 mill’, so Uwe Boll has responded via a video. Check it out below, and please remember that he is probably being serious.
If you are interested in stopping this genius from making movies, then click here!
Brett Ratner To Take On The Wolf Man?
Less than a day ago we told you about Mark Romanek’s decision to leave The Wolf Man due to creative differences. We also told you that Universal were hoping to get a director quickly. Well, according to AICN they have got a replacement very quickly! Can anyone remember the year 2005, when Matthew Vaughn dropped out of directing X-Men 3, weeks before filming was to being, and then within weeks FOX got Brett Ratner to direct. Well if AICN speak the truth then history may be repeating itself. It seems Brett Ratner is the guy you get when your director leaves at inconvenient times. I echo Harry Knowles’s thoughts by saying that Ratner can make movies that are entertaining and make money. He has proved that with the Rush Hour movies. But Ratner lacks the drama side of things. X-Men 3 was rushed to an extent that you didn’t actually care about the characters. But then again that could be the script.
When I think of The Wolf Man, I imagine similar settings to the recent Sweeney Todd, set in old London. Everything is a bit dark and murky. It is basically a dark drama with the odd bit of action. But when I imagine Ratners version, the women’s corsets suddenly become much tighter around the waist, thrusting the chest upwards. The films run time drops by 45 minutes and the trailer makes it out to be totally different to what we eventually get.
I’ll keep reminding myself this is a rumour until anything is confirmed. If it does turn out to be true, Ratner may surprise us and I know he is a good director for picking things up from where people left them. Time will tell.
Halle Berry wants MORE Catwoman?
Even though she won a Razzie for Worst Actress, the critics hated it and not that many people liked it, Halle is still considering another whip at Catwoman. While at the premier for her latest film, Things We Lost in the Fire, she spoke about the discussions she had been having with director Susanne Bier.
‘She’d do a lot better job of it than the last time round,’
I probably agree with that statement, I mean Pitof hasn’t done anything to prove he is a good director. The fact that 15 writers all had their input on the script didn’t improve things either. Susanne Bier also had a say.
‘It’s true we would like to work together again and I did suggest Catwoman to her. It would be very different, more feminist, but I think we could pull it off, so don’t count it out.’
I don’t really know what to make of this because on one hand people are saying Halle Berry is finally returning to ‘real acting’ after winning her Oscar in 2002. After the win she has been doing highly paid ‘popcorn’ movies like X-Men, Die Another Day and Catwoman. Shouldn’t she be looking forward to bigger and better projects, rather than going back to one of her worst movies? Maybe she doesn’t like mistakes and wants to go back and try to amend things? Who knows? But Bier is a great director, award winning in fact, so if things were to work out the movie might not be so bad. Well in all honesty it wouldn’t take much to improve on the 2002 effort.
If Christopher Nolan isn’t planning on having Catwoman in the Batman Trilogy then Berry having a second attempt probably wont do any harm, if things were done properly. However, I do think Nolan would do the character justice she deserves.
