Uwe Boll, a German director known for his scrap production films, will make an unofficial sequel to the film based on the game House of the Dead.
Uwe Boll… eh, we haven’t heard from that guy in a long time. He’s still active as a director – and he’s still making movies based on video games… even if no one gives him the rights to do it anymore.
Boll is a German director who at the beginning of this century massacred gaming franchises such as Far Cry, Alone in the Dark, Postal, BloodRayne, House of the Dead and others. In short, Boll makes trash movies that are barely watchable even by the terms of bad video game adaptations. Fortunately, he retired from adapting video games about 15 years ago, but now comes the news of his “return”.
You see, his 2003 film House of the Dead, otherwise an adaptation of Sega’s zombie-horror games, was a stain that the owners of the franchise want to wash away with a new film directed by Paul WS Anderson. Uwe Boll is not happy with the decision to have House of the Dead touched by anyone other than himself, so he announced his unofficial House of the Dead 2 movie, called 23 Years Later.
As reported by THR, Boll’s zombie film will be set in a castle, and unlike Anderson’s film, it promises us practical effects (because its budget is also smaller).
“When I heard that Paul Anderson was going to make House of the Dead, I knew right away that it was going to be a heartless CGI orgy. And I want to make a completely different zombie movie: bloody, violent and hand-crafted.” – said Boll.
23 Years Later will be Boll’s return to exploiting gaming franchises. After that, Boll intends to devote himself to reviving the Alone in the Dark series, although it is not yet clear whether he will receive official approval for this.