Much like the undead, Uwe Boll's film directing career shambles on, with the purveyor of schlock announcing a crowdfunding campaign for an unofficial sequel to his maligned 2003 House of the Dead adaptation.
Boll launched an Indiegogo campaign (spotted by GamesRadar) for his new film, 23 Years Later: Return to Zombie Island. As Boll laments, he can't name the movie "House of the Dead" because "they're making a $50 million House of the Dead movie with somebody else," referring to the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed film that recently cast The Last of Us star Isabela Merced.
"It's pissing me so off, that I would say, give us the money, produce the film with us, buy some of the perks," Boll said in his signature unfiltered cadence. "We will really compete with that other movie." Boll characterizes his 2003 movie as "the most hated video game-based movie ever" that turned "into a total cult classic." The film scored 15 on GameSpot's sister site Metacritic, indicating "overwhelming dislike," and sports a "generally unfavorable" 2.2 user score.
The campaign page offers very few details about the proposed film itself, with no mention of a production timeline or even whether a screenplay exists, only promising a production with practical effects and an "unapologetically physical approach to filmmaking." There are, however, several images that appear AI-generated depicting the campaign rewards, which include a 10-second AI cameo as a zombie, the option to "Visit the Set and DIE," and a thank-you video from what looks like an AI-de-aged Uwe Boll.
While the proposed film's title refers to the 23 years since Boll's original House of the Dead, it sounds more like a mockbuster from The Asylum trying to ape off the recently released 28 Years Later. It doesn't help that "Zombie Island" is not only hilariously generic but was also already used for the title of a direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie.
Besides House of the Dead, Boll also adapted Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Postal, and Far Cry as films, all of which were critical duds. The German filmmaker, famous for challenging his critics to boxing matches in 2006, briefly retired from filmmaking in 2016 after a Kickstarter for one of his productions failed to reach its funding goal. As of this writing, 23 Years Later: Return to Zombie Island has reached 22% of its funding goal with 20 days left in the campaign.
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Boll launched an Indiegogo campaign (spotted by GamesRadar) for his new film, 23 Years Later: Return to Zombie Island. As Boll laments, he can't name the movie "House of the Dead" because "they're making a $50 million House of the Dead movie with somebody else," referring to the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed film that recently cast The Last of Us star Isabela Merced.
"It's pissing me so off, that I would say, give us the money, produce the film with us, buy some of the perks," Boll said in his signature unfiltered cadence. "We will really compete with that other movie." Boll characterizes his 2003 movie as "the most hated video game-based movie ever" that turned "into a total cult classic." The film scored 15 on GameSpot's sister site Metacritic, indicating "overwhelming dislike," and sports a "generally unfavorable" 2.2 user score.
The campaign page offers very few details about the proposed film itself, with no mention of a production timeline or even whether a screenplay exists, only promising a production with practical effects and an "unapologetically physical approach to filmmaking." There are, however, several images that appear AI-generated depicting the campaign rewards, which include a 10-second AI cameo as a zombie, the option to "Visit the Set and DIE," and a thank-you video from what looks like an AI-de-aged Uwe Boll.
While the proposed film's title refers to the 23 years since Boll's original House of the Dead, it sounds more like a mockbuster from The Asylum trying to ape off the recently released 28 Years Later. It doesn't help that "Zombie Island" is not only hilariously generic but was also already used for the title of a direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie.
Besides House of the Dead, Boll also adapted Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Postal, and Far Cry as films, all of which were critical duds. The German filmmaker, famous for challenging his critics to boxing matches in 2006, briefly retired from filmmaking in 2016 after a Kickstarter for one of his productions failed to reach its funding goal. As of this writing, 23 Years Later: Return to Zombie Island has reached 22% of its funding goal with 20 days left in the campaign.
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