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Uwe Boll snaps up film license for unreleased game: Facepalm ensues photo

Love him or hate him, one can't deny Uwe Boll's determination to make movies in the face of life itself telling him he can't. As if to further prove his dominion over the forces of common sense, Lord Boll has now decided to make movies of games that don't even exist yet. Legend: Hand of God is a PC action RPG that isn't going to see a Stateside release until 2008 but even still, Uwe Duwe Doo has snatched himself the movie rights. Time was, we waited for videogames to become respectable franchises before we wrecked their legacy with awful movie adaptations. I guess Boll's merely cutting out the middle man this time around.

Boll justified his new purchase by talking about the game he couldn't have played yet. "I think Legend will be very successful because of its unique blend of high fantasy and dark atmosphere," Boll explained. "The world of Legend contains major crossover potential and was already adapted as novel and audio book." I have to say I find it sad that I know more about the game than I did before thanks to, of all people, Uwe Boll. That said, I knew nothing of this game before now anyway.

[Three cheers to the Donut boy] 


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Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Avatar
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain at 09/13/2007 17:03
Cowzilla3's Avatar
Cowzilla3 at 09/13/2007 17:04
Re: your first sentence

Who exactly loves him? Shouldn't they be killed or hurt in some way?
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 09/13/2007 17:18
@ Chiefman
Your picture broke my brain.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 09/13/2007 17:18
@ Chiefman
Your picture broke my brain.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Avatar
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain at 09/13/2007 17:26
Good luck grasping Riser's masterpiece, Necros.

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soul3150 at 09/13/2007 17:29
Cheifman, that image is going to stalk me in my dreams moaning mournfully.

And Uwe Boll is a convincing argument for involuntary aesthetic euthanasia.
Professor Pew's Avatar
Professor Pew at 09/13/2007 17:32
German trailer of the game. Looks like perfect Boll material.
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jerrt at 09/13/2007 18:04
hey, if he buys the rights before the game is released he could write something in the contract saying he wouldn't get involved if the game sucked....


who am i kidding, he'll make it anyway.

i had this thought when i saw this story. with all teh boll hate..... what would happen if he made a really good movie?
grrza's Avatar
grrza at 09/13/2007 18:10
Isn't Uwe Boll's legacy at least partly the fault of IP owners selling him rights? Can't they just say no? Why would they want their ideas perverted like this?
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Grimspoon at 09/13/2007 18:15
Fail thread is fai.....er, I mean...as much as I like to haye on the Boll, I still always watch his movies. And if I'm honest, I'm almost always entertained. Maybe not for the inteded reasons, but still.

Boll should become an hero.
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blehman at 09/13/2007 19:13
Chiefman: You are all that is good in man with that pic.

ULTIMATE FACEPALM!!!!!
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DGX Goggles at 09/13/2007 19:33
Well this game has officially tanked, I know I don't want to play something that is going to get raped by Boll's horrible moviemaking abilities shortly afterwards.
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Sharpless at 09/13/2007 19:37
I think I blew my Uwe Hate load back during the Wired/Postal fiasco, last month. I'm spent. There's nothing left to give.
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aborto thefetus at 09/13/2007 19:46
@Cowzilla3

My brother likes him( he doesn't like the movies though). I don't know his exact reason why, but I can assure you the answer would be baffling. I think it has something to do with how he beats up all his critics.
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qo_op at 09/13/2007 19:48
What? Why hasn't anyone taken this guys checkbook yet?
bleep's Avatar
bleep at 09/13/2007 19:48
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Fading Star at 09/13/2007 20:15
Uwe Boll works fast. Jim, you should be happy. Uwe Boll has done some good with his work. He taught you something! Huzzah.
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bleep at 09/13/2007 20:31
@Chieftain:

Those are sw33t PS's!
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Avatar
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain at 09/13/2007 20:39
Not mine. First was made by Anonymous, the second one by Riser.
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Silverback 55 at 09/13/2007 20:42
I heard someone say that they shouldn't be called movies. Anything he does should now be referred to as Boll Movements.
Fading Star's Avatar
Fading Star at 09/13/2007 20:50
Bowell movement?
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Wodkaredbubu at 09/13/2007 21:09
Apparently nobody can stop him shooting movies. Sad, but true. But why for crying out loud is he still able to get those rights in the first place? Can somebody explain that to me? One should think that the creators of games who have the rights would have realized by now that Boll is able to turn basically everything he touches into a giant pile of shit. Why would you want him to turn your game story into a cinematic desaster?
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 09/13/2007 22:40
Won't anyone think of the children?
Oninusar's Avatar
Oninusar at 09/13/2007 22:40
This game is Zelda meets Titans Quest... Cant pick a class cant pick a gender your a guy, kicking ass in armor.. Woo!

oh but all dungeons and anyhting indoors is completly randomly generated.. thats kinda cool...

no class system either
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mispelt at 09/13/2007 23:25
Uwe Boll, huh?

Look on the bright side: Soon, there's going to be a (now) movie-based video game that's going to be better than the movie it's based off of.

p.s. Did you catch the Ebola joke I lead with? I'm so clever...
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c0dek at 09/13/2007 23:32
Has a game ever sold zero copies before? You know the creators of the ET game can't wait for this one to come out, it could erase their "worst game ever" stigma...

Anyone consider that Bolldemort is being funded by Jack Thompson in an attempt to suck the life out of gaming?
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catsithx at 09/14/2007 09:07
There should be a land fill for all the crap movies uwe makes
Jim's Avatar
Jim at 09/14/2007 13:05
Should have been God Hand, would be more funnies, just like this ad.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJikHb0Mtro
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