Blizzard: No WoW for you, Uwe!
Category: Industry, Posted: 04/21/2008 at 10:26AM CDT by Eddie Inzauto, Associate Editor
We, as gamers, all know and love the charismatic film director Uwe Boll (ok, maybe by "love" I really mean "can't friggin' stand"). The man has an affinity for making videogame-based movies, but somehow they all come out looking, smelling, sounding, and tasting (tasting? sure, why not?) like crap.
He has slain many-a-franchise with deplorable big screen adaptations, and most recently set his sights on the heroin of the videogame industry, World of Warcraft. Could the biggest thing since the microchip be the the next victim of Boll's evil pen of DOOM?
No. Luckily, Blizzard is familiar with Boll's past work, and pretty much bitch slapped him when he approached them with the idea. Boll describes the exchange:
I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, 'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you. Because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."
Thank you, Blizzard. The world can rest easy tonight.
[via MTV]
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Hahaaaa!!! Well said! DOOM was a visual alternative to burning your own testes. I say video games stay where they are meant to stay so that they can't be ruined but can be enjoyed. The way they were meant to be.
He he he. Unlucky Boll. I hope more game dev's will refuse him rights.
A WoW movie would have been good though...
Suck it Boll.
i thought they were already planning a movie based on wow...
not that i know anything about it or how far along it is... but i thought i heard that they were certainly thinking about it...
YES!!! GO BLIZZARD!!!
As much as I despise WoW, I love Blizzard. This only reaffirms my love for them.
Am I the only one who liked "In The Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale?
Ewe Boll?
No You Bowl...