Uwe Boll listed as possible Metal Gear film director

48 Comments by Ross Miller Jan 12th 2006 4:00PM

Guess who's thumbing through the official Metal Gear Solid script? According to 1up, it is none other than Uwe Boll himself. 1up has been in contact with Mr. Boll via e-mail (remember the crazy interview from a few days back?) and has learned that Konami has sent the famed German director a copy of the script.

The (debatably) good news is that Konami is moving forward on plans to make a Metal Gear Solid movie. The bad news is that Kojima does not seem to be involved (he did not write the script and would likely not direct) and Uwe Boll may be the director. No other details are currently available. Though Mr. Boll is reading the film's script, he is set to be pretty busy with other upcoming game-to-film adaptations and probably will not have time in the next few years to commit to such a project.

[Thanks, CapAmerica and Ned Fetterhoff]

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Paul: Jan 12th 2006; 4:08PM

Have ANY of this man's movies made money? Why do people keep hiring this guy?

Samuel McConnell: Jan 12th 2006; 4:14PM

Holy god, I'm a better director than Uwe Boll. I'd actually, you know, have respect for the source material, too. If he directs, I will be a sad bunny.

Pseudogrey: Jan 12th 2006; 4:16PM

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sean: Jan 12th 2006; 4:16PM

FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE...NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

NeedleLies: Jan 12th 2006; 4:21PM

Can someone please make a petition to ban this guy from making another movie?

JaSoN!: Jan 12th 2006; 4:21PM

no no no no no no no.

i'd do a better job. send me the script, viggo mortenson and elisha cuthbert.

seriously.

Andrew: Jan 12th 2006; 4:22PM

With Ew at the helm, might the plot revolve around a nude Raiden doing cartwheels?

Drei: Jan 12th 2006; 4:22PM

OMG!!! Don't let this guy touch this movie. Somehow this guy has the abilty to make gold useless.

AoE: Jan 12th 2006; 4:22PM

Why does Uwe Boll hate us so much? What did gamers ever do to him?

Martin: Jan 12th 2006; 4:23PM

Great another craptastic video game from this guy, hes also made/making the following films:

Postal

FarCry

Dungeon Siege

BloodRayne

Hes made one decent film and that was house of dead. All his other non video game movies are crap

crashedpc: Jan 12th 2006; 4:27PM

I have now almost completely lost faith in the movie industry when someone like Boll is allowed near a camera. Perhaps we should arrange an intervention? "Uwe... we need to talk to you..."

2Kings: Jan 12th 2006; 4:28PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

anyone but Uwe!!

we dont need another house of the dead & we dont need him butuchering all the is mgs!

jc: Jan 12th 2006; 4:29PM

hahaha, no really tho...

recklessgemini: Jan 12th 2006; 4:34PM

ROLMFAO!!!!!!! This is ridiculous, in-game cutscene's are going to look better then what this guy would do with the film. Isn't Bloodrayne flopping?

RocketPunch: Jan 12th 2006; 4:36PM

If he actully became the guy who's going to direct it, we all need to do something about it. I propose all the gamers of the world to chip in and hire an assassin to "take care" of the problem.

variablesunknown: Jan 12th 2006; 4:39PM

WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have long been hoping that the wachowski brothers or christopher nolan would direct the MGS film. It has such great source material that any director that could bring some gravitas to the film translation would make a great movie that could rival xmen as the definitive comic/game film, but Uwe Boll!! Konami needs to have higher standards then this hack! By the way, Viggo Mortensen needs to play snake, what do you guys think?

Remus: Jan 12th 2006; 4:42PM

# 10 "Hes made one decent film and that was house of dead"

ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Martin you just made my day, thats the best joke ever.

jc: Jan 12th 2006; 4:44PM

I have an idea, Rocket... let's send Jack Thompson after him.

Sean: Jan 12th 2006; 4:54PM

Dude, im serious, we as a community of gamers need to stop this from happening. We need to let some sort of message out, be it a comic or something to stop this man. He is worse than Paul Anderson, he is.. horrible... and who ever said house of the dead was a good movie... well im not going to be horrible, but please I implore you to reconsider your opinions.. lets just say that was a typos. I will not let this happen, he will ruin what I have been waiting for the past 6 years!!! Just how Myspace and all that other shit took over the web, we need to do something to spread our opinions about Uwe Boll. I want this to hit the media, death threats, whatever! If YTMND can do it to Ebaumsworld and make press, then so can we (a very larger community).

Franklin: Jan 12th 2006; 4:59PM

This is why Uwe Boll has a career:

http://www.slate.com/id/2117309/

Here's the best scene from Bloodrayne which was cut from the final film:

http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/12/kristanna_loken_is_topless.html#comment

soniCron: Jan 12th 2006; 5:08PM

Who keeps giving this guy money?!

chris: Jan 12th 2006; 5:14PM

*washes hands of entire metal gear franchise*

GuyManDude: Jan 12th 2006; 5:20PM

"5. Can someone please make a petition to ban this guy from making another movie?

Posted at 4:21PM on Jan 12th 2006 by NeedleLies "

Go to IMDB.com and do a search for Uwe Boll, then go to the Message Boards section near the bottom and you'll see someone has already started.

GuyManDude: Jan 12th 2006; 5:26PM

You'll have to register to see the post and comment though.

Me: Jan 12th 2006; 5:39PM

heh...

6. no no no no no no no.

i'd do a better job. send me the script, viggo mortenson and elisha cuthbert.

seriously.

---

Just send me Elisha Cuthbert. I'll do something, fairly similar to that Bloodrayne scene.

Still, just cuz the guy puts boobs in a movie doesn't mean he should be directing movies. I think he just needs to find a new job... Like those ex-crack addicts that go to schools saying how bad their life is. That. He needs to do that for films. "This is why my career failed. Notice this scene in house of the dead where you can see the launch board throwing the zombie."

ronald.raygun: Jan 12th 2006; 5:47PM

i gotta dollar to put in for that "taking care of...uwe"

David Nguyen: Jan 12th 2006; 6:17PM

Just kill me now!!!

I don't know who I hate more...

Jack Thompson

Hillary Clinton

Uwe Boll

Anyways, read my post on www.xanga.com/daveknockwin about Uwe Boll. It's quite interesting!

Jim: Jan 12th 2006; 6:23PM

Recently I watched a video docu-interview of Uwe Boll. I didn't know anything about him - only what I read on the web - mainly "that he is a bad director and search another job".

Well, silly old me got of course interested and the interview was really interesting - it showed a funny, fast-talking excited guy that really really seems to enjoy making movies (BTW: he actually make a lot of money with it - not at the box office but rentals etc.etc...)

Personally Uwe Boll reminded me about Ed Wood - willing but unable... yet extremely confident in his work.

While I don't like movies like "Alone in the Dark", which would get a 4/10 IMHO, I really have to say the guy seems to be nice - and maybe in 40 years everybody will remember Plan 9 From Outer Space and Alone in the Dark as masterpieces of pop-trash.

Embassy: Jan 12th 2006; 6:27PM

in some sad , twisted and disturbing way...i wud actually love how ferociously boll manages to rape this film...i bet it wud be the blockbuster comedy of the eyar..hands down...

Einhanderkiller: Jan 12th 2006; 6:34PM

# 10 "Hes made one decent film and that was house of dead"

House of the Dead decent?

No. That movie was absolutely terrible.

It's quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen.

deafie: Jan 12th 2006; 6:48PM

*sigh* we live in such dark times death, terror, disease, and uwe boll. this guy reminds me of blight from batman beyond.. not the whole badass villian thing but the concept of whatever he touches(the franchises)wither and die a crappy horrible death. or you could call him a reverse king midas.. instead of turning crap into gold he turns gold into a steaming pile of crap.

nymph3tamine: Jan 12th 2006; 6:49PM

if it was done all in cgi(like ninja turtles movie) and they got the voice actors for the game, then i would go see it. but that kinda stuff only happens in every gamers dreams. oh well:(

renaldo: Jan 12th 2006; 6:49PM

Viggo Mortenson would NOT make a good Snake. At all.

Kurt Russel would be decent, maybe a little too old.

Elisha Cuthbert would not make a good anything. And if anyone says Jessica Alba Ill rape you.

Kevin: Jan 12th 2006; 6:56PM

This Cannot be...However, Hideo Kojima is a master cinematographor(God I spelt That Wrong), and will most certainly not allow such garbage to direct his movie.

Embassy: Jan 12th 2006; 7:03PM

LMAO@ kurt russel..u cant be serious...wonder wat russel wud look like at snake??? just see " escape from L.A. " lol...

Mark In Austin: Jan 12th 2006; 7:21PM

Nah, deafie.. the role of "Fecal King Midas" is currently being played by George W Bush.

As a Metal Gear Solid non-fan, I look forward to seeing what Mr Boll does with it. *snicker*

meme: Jan 12th 2006; 7:36PM

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/japan/kitamura-talks-directing-metal-gear-solid-148124.php

AgntLgn: Jan 12th 2006; 9:26PM

John Woo should do this Movie!!

He would do a great job!

Pretty Obvious: Jan 12th 2006; 10:02PM

Damn, if Konami is stupid enough to let this guy handle a movie version of one of its best videogame franchises they should be banned as well.

BTW best candidate for Snake is this actor that does a soap opera called Bold & the Beautiful, I dont know his name but he is an exact replica of Snake and even has the Snake voice. Damn my girl for getting me into that shit.

Probot: Jan 12th 2006; 10:14PM

Here is a pretty good explanation of why he still makes movies:

http://www.cinemablend.com/feature.php?id=209

The article mentions German tax laws, but they exist in other countries as well. As a matter of fact, Germany recently changed their law. (See Gamespot, Rumor Control: http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=23902576)

Essentially, he's explointing loopholes in tax laws. He's a con-artist, not a director.

He is hurting the gaming industry by ensuring that video game movies are always going to be looked upon as a bad investment. Which means some game francises may never get their chance to be in capable hands on the silver screen.

Heraclio: Jan 13th 2006; 12:09AM

If Uwe Boll makes this film:

"Snake? Snake?! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!"

SNAKKKKKEEE: Jan 13th 2006; 12:21AM

Very bad things will happen to Uwe if he directs this movie. Very very bad things.

bollslayer: Jan 13th 2006; 1:40AM

After reading this I was at a complete loss of words for a long time. FInally one came to mind: FUCK

How is this possible? I know how greedy all the hollywood/gaming execs are and how they will make absolutely any piece of shit if there is any profit in it but this is a new low. This is like MTV remaking Pulp Fiction with tom cruise and will smith in the lead roles, or nick leshay covering layla. The greatest gaming franchise ever is made into a movie by one of the worst directors of all time who has made a living shitting out awful game-adaptations. If this actually happens it will be confirmation that uwe bowel is indeed the antichrist.

tcc3: Jan 13th 2006; 2:40AM

#17, that would make a great movie, I dont care who directs

Jack Thompson vs. Ewe Boll

subtitle: No matter who loses...we win.

zazzawazza: Jan 13th 2006; 6:11AM

Jack Thompson is secretly funding Uwe Boll's cinematic assault on the gaming industry in a clandestine effort to bring the industry to it's knees and boost Jack's political career.

We know what you're up to Jack, don't think we don't know, we know, OK?

And what's with the " i gotta dollar to put in for that "taking care of...uwe" " don't you think some public minded citizen would consider doing the necessary for free?

mike: Jan 21st 2006; 5:49PM

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

this is really bad news
Somebody arrest this criminal.

Wheres the petittion i'll sign it now

Mandy: Jan 23rd 2006; 12:41AM

OH GOD!! Not My Beloved Metal Gear!!
I agree Jack Thompson and Uwe Boll ARE in cahootes, its all a big ploy to RUIN videogames.......and its not working....i just don't go see any of his movies anyway.....house of the dead and five minutes of alone in the dark were enough for me...