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Video Game Movie Update

by Chris Remo, Jan 02, 2006 11:30am PST
Related Topics – Games: PC

A few details have surfaced about various video game-based film adaptations currently in the works, and most of it is somewhat odd. First off, you really can't have video game movie news without Uwe Boll, so here's an extraordinarily casual email interview with him done by Creature Corner. A few excerpts:

In Bloodrayne, you've got your highest-profiled cast to date. How did you get all these great actors interested? they loved the script
What was it like working with Meat Loaf? he had a lot of fun with all the prostitudes Do you ever want to do an original movie? (ie, not a video game adaptation) i do SEED, a horror movie
Do you anticipate the change in German tax law next year to effect your ability to continue to get films financed? the next three are financed
Regarding his upcoming projects, Dr. Boll confirmed that he is currently writing the script to the Postal movie and that Gary Coleman will appear in the film, reprising his babe-carrying role from Postal 2. He noted that Far Cry is fully financed and he is hoping for The Rock or Jason Stham (Statham) to play the lead. He also hopes to get the directing rights to the upcoming Hitman adaptation, which is currently set to star Vin Diesel. However, IMDb currently lists the film as being written and directed by Skip Woods, whose only prior projects are writing Swordfish and writing/directing Thursday. It also seems that Paul W.S. Anderson will be writing and directing the third Resident Evil film. Anderson previously directed Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, and Aliens vs. Predator and wrote Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Aliens vs. Predator. The next RE flick will be entitled Resident Evil: Afterlife, and will apparently include the game series' Leon Kennedy and Albert Wesker. Anderson will also write and direct the upcoming Castlevania film, though no new details are available. From the same production company as Castlevania come a couple other game adaptations. We've got Tekken, which is being directed by Mr. 3000 director Charles Stone III and written by Michael Colleary and Mike Werb, who collaborated on Face/Off and Tomb Raider. However, for sheer lunacy, nothing beats the mention of a Pac-Man film. As if it even makes any difference, the writers are listed as Hal Haberman and Gil Kenan, who are apparently polishing up the final screenplay. What?




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  • Poor Gary Coleman
    He’s had things hard
    A short black man in a tall white world
    A security guard

    The laughter’s gone now
    But the joke remains
    Everything is different
    But Gary’s the same

    Sometimes I feel like Gary Coleman
    Sad and stout
    Out of place with that look on my face
    “Whatchu talkin’ about?”

    Sometimes I feel like Gary Coleman
    But I don’t mind
    We all feel like Gary Coleman sometimes
    Everybody feels like Gary Coleman sometimes
    Except the actual Gary Coleman who finds
    He almost always feels like Gary Coleman

    He says, “Why couldn’t I just have died?
    Another midget suicide
    Or I may just fade away
    Just quietly dissolve away into nothingness
    Just like Emmanuel Lewis did”

    Gary’s good but it’s a drag
    Beating kids at Laser Tag
    News flash:
    He’s not fooling anyone with that moustache


    - ookla the mok