Uwe Boll Signs Three-Picture Deal With Freestyle Releasing

Andy Chalk

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Uwe Boll Signs Three-Picture Deal With Freestyle Releasing


According to the Freestyle Releasing [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ic26ecb1cf2ac2ac6ecbd5946defe0fe6].

The deal covers Boll's adaptations of videogames Seed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_%28computer_game%29]is expected to arrive sometime in early 2008.

According to Freestyle co-president Marke Borde, A Dungeon Siege Tale will be the company's "tentpole" movie, with an initial prints and advertising (P&A) budget of $20 million. Boll is providing P&A financing for all three movies through private funding. "Freestyle is really getting behind this picture," Borde said. "We've hired support staff just to market this picture, and we plan on reaching out to both traditional media as well as video game media to take full advantage of the Microsoft 'Dungeon Siege' video game."

"It's a pretty big picture and it plays great," he added. "I don't chase movies based on video games and any pre-awareness that those franchises might have with an audience. I chase movies that are good."

Boll, a German director, producer and screenwriter, has often adapted videogames to films. Along with Postal and Dungeon Siege, his past work includes Bloodrayne and Alone in the Dark, while Far Cry and Alone in the Dark 2 are both in pre-production. His first movie was the German drama Boll KG [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306519/]production company, which allows him to continue making movies despite his disastrous inability to do so.

For some reason, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale features a fairly high-profile cast, including Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies and Burt Reynolds.


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Andy Chalk

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Honestly, I'd love to know how he put together that cast for Dungeon Siege. Not A-listers, maybe, but come on, this is Uwe Boll we're talking about.
 

Russ Pitts

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Burt Reynolds? Wow. Varney's article on the German Tax code [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/81/4] is coming back to me big time with this one.
 

Blaxton

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I like the picture you have of him best. It really captures that under his hard, unfeeling exoskeleton there is a blood sucking parasite.
 

Bongo Bill

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What I want to know is how the game publishers keep going along with these schemes. They can't be anything but damaging to the brand; are they getting a cut of the tax sheltry?
 

Andy Chalk

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Is Burt Reynolds tax-deductible?

Also, from Wikipedia:

Thought to be native to Central America, it migrated into the US from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all US cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry. During the late 20th century it became a serious pest in South America as well. Since 1978, the Uwe Boll Weevil Eradication Program in the US has allowed full-scale cultivation to resume in many regions.

(that may not be a direct and unmodified quote)