Uwe Boll Explains Why He's the Perfect Director to Make a Grand Theft Auto Movie

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 Uwe Boll Explains Why He's the Perfect Director to Make a Grand Theft Auto Movie
Photo: Getty Images Derided by some (okay, many), German-born director Uwe Boll has made ten movies in the last eight years, challenged critics to boxing matches, and inspired an online petition to ban him from cinema for eternity . In his latest movie, a freewheeling adaptation of the video game Postal (out next Friday) — his first (intentional) comedy since his 1991 debut, German ... [link]

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Uwe Boll Should Direct Grand Theft Auto: The Movie
Published 5/12/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
... I admit that I write about Uwe Boll too much, and I couldn’t care less about video games or the movies adapted from them, but on a slow news day such as this, I’d rather ruffle some feathers than resort to writing about something less interesting. Besides, I agree slightly with his comments to New York’s Vulture blog, at least that he’d be better to direct a Grand Theft Auto movie than Michael Bay or Brett Ratner. ...

Uwe Boll Wants to Direct Grand Theft Auto Movie!!! He Wants to Make You a Star!
Published 5/12/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... indefatigable voodoo child, Uwe Boll, recently confessed to Vulture that he’s the perfect manimal to helm Grand Theft Auto: The Movie. Moreover, Boll said he would choose to direct a “very brutal” $30 million adaptation that would absolutely destroy Michael Bay’s $150 million PG-13 version that exists, yep, only in Boll’s well-protected brain! As of 6 p.m. EST, Rockstar Games had suspiciously chosen not to comment on this non-rumor. Here’s Boll… ...

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