From Scifi.com Not sure if this is the right forum but here it is. Someone shoot this man!!!
Director Uwe Boll, whose new movie In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Adventure will be his fourth in a string of video-game adaptations, told SCI FI Wire that it will be the first to have a PG-13 rating. "This movie is way too big to risk not having a PG-13," Boll said in an interview on the set in Vancouver, B.C. "If a guy gets stabbed, we don't show the impact. We don't have a prosthetic with blood coming out. What we do is the guy is on the ground and he has some blood on his body. There are so many battles that if we featured the blood in a major way, with blood effects, we would have no chance to get a PG-13 at all. It will be, in total, not easy to get a PG-13. We will get the PG-13, but we will have maybe an R-rated DVD version."
Although Boll's directorial instincts have earned his films an R rating in the past, In the Name of the King's $60 million budget, easily the biggest of any film he's directed so far, led him to aim for a more inclusive PG-13 rating. 2003's House of the Dead had a budget of about $7 million, while this year's Alone in the Dark and the forthcoming Bloodrayne were made for around $20 million each. In the Name of the King has a much longer script, but another reason for the larger budget is that nearly everything had to be created from scratch.
"In Bloodrayne it's Transylvania in 1700," Boll said. "So we found original castles and original streets in Romania where you could just shoot for nothing. But for Dungeon Siege you need CGI castles. It's too big. You don't find that kind of fantasy stuff in the real world, so that drives the budget up."
Boll, who funds his movies through private investors, could have avoided those costs by doing a different project. But he says he felt it was time to do "a real tentpole movie."
"I was sitting there last year in front of my investors, and I said, 'We can do three movies with the money,'" he said. "'We can do Far Cry, Hunter: the Reckoning and Fear Effect. Or we can do one big one.' I was happy that we made the decision to do one really big one to attract a wide, wide audience."
The last paragraph just makes you want to choke him.
Director Uwe Boll, whose new movie In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Adventure will be his fourth in a string of video-game adaptations, told SCI FI Wire that it will be the first to have a PG-13 rating. "This movie is way too big to risk not having a PG-13," Boll said in an interview on the set in Vancouver, B.C. "If a guy gets stabbed, we don't show the impact. We don't have a prosthetic with blood coming out. What we do is the guy is on the ground and he has some blood on his body. There are so many battles that if we featured the blood in a major way, with blood effects, we would have no chance to get a PG-13 at all. It will be, in total, not easy to get a PG-13. We will get the PG-13, but we will have maybe an R-rated DVD version."
Although Boll's directorial instincts have earned his films an R rating in the past, In the Name of the King's $60 million budget, easily the biggest of any film he's directed so far, led him to aim for a more inclusive PG-13 rating. 2003's House of the Dead had a budget of about $7 million, while this year's Alone in the Dark and the forthcoming Bloodrayne were made for around $20 million each. In the Name of the King has a much longer script, but another reason for the larger budget is that nearly everything had to be created from scratch.
"In Bloodrayne it's Transylvania in 1700," Boll said. "So we found original castles and original streets in Romania where you could just shoot for nothing. But for Dungeon Siege you need CGI castles. It's too big. You don't find that kind of fantasy stuff in the real world, so that drives the budget up."
Boll, who funds his movies through private investors, could have avoided those costs by doing a different project. But he says he felt it was time to do "a real tentpole movie."
"I was sitting there last year in front of my investors, and I said, 'We can do three movies with the money,'" he said. "'We can do Far Cry, Hunter: the Reckoning and Fear Effect. Or we can do one big one.' I was happy that we made the decision to do one really big one to attract a wide, wide audience."
The last paragraph just makes you want to choke him.
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ing games like crash bandicoot or superman 64. The production qualities would at least match thier subject. With a name like Uwe Boll you would figure hes gotta be good at making movies since thats all he would have going for him.
The one good thing about this is if Dungeon Siege flops his investors will, hopefully, dry up.
