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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Galemp on October 24, 2005, 05:08:25 pm
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Part of me says NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Yet part of me says YYEESSSSSSSSS!!!:shaking:
POSTAL, the World's Most Outrageous Videogame to Become Major Motion Picture!
Infamous Film Director Uwe Boll Signs Suicide Pact with Game Developer Running With Scissors
Tucson, AZ Start firing those AK-47s into the air because POSTAL (http://www.gopostal.com/), the game franchise that politicians, parents groups, countless cowardly reviewers and over a dozen sovereign nations don't want you to play has just become the latest game to make the transition to the big screen.
Running with Scissors (RWS), the world's most dangerous software company, has signed an appropriately apocalyptic deal with renegade filmmaker Uwe Boll (http://www.boll-kg.de/) to bring the most controversial franchise in gaming history to the screen in all its blood-drenched, ironic glory.
Despite everyone from Steven Spielberg to Microsoft announcing big money deals involving films based on video games, this new partnership between controversial figures in the game and film industries is destined to become the most incendiary game-to-film deal yet.
"Uwe Boll is the perfect producer-director to make POSTAL," affirmed Running With Scissors' CEO Vince Desi. "He understands the subject matter and has an appreciation and affinity for controversy and political incorrectness. POSTAL has always been about reason and insanity, violence and motivation; producer-director Uwe Boll is simply the right guy to bring that vision to the screen."
The man behind the camera, Hollywood outsider Uwe Boll ranks POSTAL as his personal, all-time favorite video game. "I see it like a mirror for our society -- funny, violent, absurd!" he declared. "So then the movie must be powerful, strange, and so full of the game's political incorrect outrageousness that if we do it correct, we will all probably end up in jail!"
Boll has already produced and directed a series of films inspired by videogames, including "Alone in the Dark", "House of the Dead", and the upcoming "Bloodrayne." Boll is currently on-location in Canada shooting the cinematic version of "Dungeon Siege."
The POSTAL saga extends back to 1997 when the original game was singled out by Sen. Joe Lieberman as the poster child for mindless violence in video games. This, in turn, led to it subsequently being blacklisted at retail outlets across America. Taking a no-holes barred approach the relentless crew at Running With Scissors has built the POSTAL series into a thriving licensing vehicle, from thongs and baby tees to coffee mugs and posters, while selling over a million units worldwide on PC.
In the decade since its original release, the POSTAL series has become a cult classic in America and a major success overseas in countries such as Japan and Russia. It was then followed by the even more successful sequel, POSTAL 2, as well as numerous add-on disks, including the multi-player Share the Pain and the recent Apocalypse Weekend.
POSTAL is scheduled to begin shooting in 2006 for a 2007 release, which will coincide with the 10th anniversary of the original game's debut. "Running With Scissors will be creatively involved in this film," Desi vowed, "from casting to the script."
For information on POSTAL products and gear, visit our site //www.gopostal.com
http://www.gopostal.com/pr/postal57.php
This has to potential to totally blow up the entire video game to movie concept. Uwe Boll (look him up on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/)) is a truly wretched filmmaker and this is a truly wretched game. It could potentially be so godawful, so politically incorrect, so badly acted with such badly done effects, that if they shoot for the NC-17 it would probably go down as the worst movie in history, so long as they're deliberate about it. And from Vince and Uwe's comments, I think they will be.
Anyone else played Postal or Postal 2?
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At least it keeps Boll out the way for a bit.
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If all these video game movies suck so bad, why are they still making them? Are they making money?
Not being sarcas here - I'm actually not sure.
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Because film makers have forgotten that the special effects are supposed to support the story and acting, not vice versa ;)
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:lol:
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That reads a bit like a spoof article.
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I think that's the point. The whole gestalt of the Postal series is to be as intentionally controversial and self-parodying as possible.
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Somebody hand me my "WTF" stamp, please...
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
If all these video game movies suck so bad, why are they still making them? Are they making money?
Not being sarcas here - I'm actually not sure.
This (http://www.cinemablend.com/feature.php?id=209) is why.
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Noooo!
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/postal2apocalypseweekend/news.html?sid=6136367
Uwe Boll put another notch in his gamepad today, as developer Running With Scissors announced that the game-centric director-producer has signed on to help bring its controversial Postal series of games to the big screen.
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http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,36005.0.html
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*keeps Uwe Boll away from FS movie license*
*locks Uwe Boll in a cage with Derek Smart*
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Originally posted by nuclear1
*keeps Uwe Boll away from FS movie license*
*locks Uwe Boll in a cage with Derek Smart*
:nod: :yes:
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What's with the rash of double-threads in the forum this month? Are people not actually browsing, only making new threads? :blah:
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Threads merged.
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"On the left corner of the ring, Dr. Uwe Boll. On the right corner, Dr. Derek Smart!"
"Brought to you by Bealistock and Bloom!"
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One brutalizes anticipated games, one violates anticipated movies.
SMART AND BOLL TAG-TEAM!
Derek Smart makes the horrendously buggy games, and Uwe Boll makes the horrendously stupid movies based off of them! It's the perfect(ly diabolical) duo!
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great game :)
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thankfully, i've never played anything programmed by Smart (unless FS1, ST, and FS2 apply)
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Originally posted by Cobra
thankfully, i've never played anything programmed by Smart (unless FS1, ST, and FS2 apply)
Why would Freespace apply??:wtf:
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Because Cobra's not thinking. Even if he were to acquire the rights (unlikely), he still wouldn't have worked on FS1 or FS2.
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At this rate, I may live to see the day when a Mario movie is made.
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Originally posted by Dark RevenantX
At this rate, I may live to see the day when a Mario movie is made.
Already been done like back in the early 90's http://www.classicgaming.com/tmk/mania/smbmovie.shtml
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
If all these video game movies suck so bad, why are they still making them? Are they making money?
Not being sarcas here - I'm actually not sure.
I read somewhere that the Doom movie is the number one at the box office in the US.
EDIT: On the subject of Boll, according to IMDB he is going to work on the movie Far Cry.
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Originally posted by Kosh
I read somewhere that the Doom movie is the number one at the box office in the US.
EDIT: On the subject of Boll, according to IMDB he is going to work on the movie Far Cry.
That was just from the initial hype. Lots of Doom game fans going to see movies = big bucks initially.
Boll's also got BloodRayne and Dungeon Siege in the works. :ick:
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*sings* "It's springtime...for Hitler...and Germany!"
This has potential :lol: