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Fear Effect, Hunter The Reckoning Movies Optioned
Thanks to GameGossip for pointing to a Hollywood Reporter article revealing that German uber-producer Uwe Boll has optioned the rights to movies based on Fear Effect and Hunter: The Reckoning. Boll, who had previously claimed his planned Dungeon Siege film had "major crossover potential because of its unique blend of action and fantasy, on the order of Lord of the Rings", and is behind the House Of The Dead and Alone In The Dark movies, says Hunter: The Reckoning (originally from the White Wolf pen-and-paper RPG) will be a "hard, brutal, fast-paced ensemble film in the tradition of 'X-Men.'" Hunter will "shoot this summer in downtown Vancouver", with budgets for the 2 movies "ranging from $15 million-$25 million", but it's not known why Eidos' Fear Effect was optioned.
Uwe Boll makes Paul W.S. Anderson (director of Resident Evil) look like a John McTiernana (Die Hard). How does this guy continue to get films made? Actually, how do either Uwe Boll or Paul W.S. Anderson continue to make films? Terrible. We can only hope, however, that future Uwe Boll films will continue to dig the grave of Jurgen Prochnow's career. A once proud actor reduced to "House of the Dead."
God Bless America. Why? Did it sneeze?
15-25 mil is pretty cheap for a film, really.
All you need to do, is cast an attractive young European actress, get her to flash some mammary and you will turn a profit when all is said and done. Do these films ever make the top 10? No. But they don't need to, they just need a modest run in theaters and then a modest batch of sales in the video and DVD markets and profit is yours.
Think of all the terrible slasher films of the 70s and beyond. Why do they still get made? Because they make a lot of money when you look at the big picture.
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
Am I the only one who's sick of hunters of the undead? We've already got Buffy, Blade, Van Helsing, etc. Enough is enough, already. If they want to adapt something from White Wolf, why not make a script based on Vampire: The Masquerade? There's a lot of great storytelling potential in the way the whole vampire government is set up, though if the Dungeons and Dragons movie is any indication, Hollywood would just really screw it up.