Very like the undead, Uwe Boll’s movie directing profession shambles on, with the purveyor of schlock saying a crowdfunding marketing campaign for an unofficial sequel to his maligned 2003 House of the Dead adaptation.
Boll launched an Indiegogo campaign (noticed by GamesRadar) for his new movie, 23 Years Later: Return to Zombie Island. As Boll laments, he cannot identify the film “House of the Dead” as a result of “they’re making a $50 million House of the Dead film with any individual else,” referring to the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed movie that lately forged The Final of Us star Isabela Merced.
“It’s pissing me so off, that I’d say, give us the cash, produce the movie with us, purchase among the perks,” Boll mentioned in his signature unfiltered cadence. “We’ll actually compete with that different film.” Boll characterizes his 2003 film as “essentially the most hated video game-based film ever” that turned “into a complete cult basic.” The movie scored 15 on GameSpot’s sister website Metacritic, indicating “overwhelming dislike,” and sports activities a “typically unfavorable” 2.2 consumer rating.
The marketing campaign web page gives only a few particulars concerning the proposed movie itself, with no point out of a manufacturing timeline and even whether or not a screenplay exists, solely promising a manufacturing with sensible results and an “unapologetically bodily method to filmmaking.” There are, nevertheless, a number of photos that seem AI-generated depicting the marketing campaign rewards, which embody a 10-second AI cameo as a zombie, the choice to “Go to the Set and DIE,” and a thank-you video from what appears to be like like an AI-de-aged Uwe Boll.
Whereas the proposed movie’s title refers back to the 23 years since Boll’s authentic House of the Dead, it sounds extra like a mockbuster from The Asylum making an attempt to ape off the lately launched 28 Years Later. It would not assist that “Zombie Island” just isn’t solely hilariously generic however was additionally already used for the title of a direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie.
Moreover House of the Dead, Boll additionally tailored Alone within the Darkish, BloodRayne, Postal, and Far Cry as movies, all of which have been crucial duds. The German filmmaker, well-known for difficult his critics to boxing matches in 2006, briefly retired from filmmaking in 2016 after a Kickstarter for one in all his productions failed to achieve its funding objective. As of this writing, 23 Years Later: Return to Zombie Island has reached 22% of its funding objective with 20 days left within the marketing campaign.