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Uwe Boll sounds off about the petition to make him stop directing movies
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Uwe Boll. Those two words now have the strength of sending parts of the internet into chaos and outright fear. In the past five years Boll has made a slew of video game movies like “Alone in the Dark”, “House of the Dead”, “BloodRayne”, “In the Name of the King”, “Postal” and “Far Cry” and he’s planning on making more. And while his films haven’t been met with open arms by the collective online audience, Boll knows that he’s become public enemy number one amongst certain segments of film fans. He has met his detractors head on too, if you count that boxing match from two years back as “head on”.Now there’s something new to stir up the Boll hornet nest: an online petition was started to try and get Uwe Boll to stop directing movies. When the petition was brought to Boll’s attention by the team at FEARnet, it was at 18K and change. Boll laughed at the thought of a mere 18,000 people requesting him to stop directing movies and said that it would take a lot more than that…like, try a million. And believe it or not, several websites are now massing the online crowd to try and get a million signatures on the petition (which now stands at 120K+ signatures.)Since MovieSet has been down with Boll (in a good way) to get word out about “Postal”, we thought that we’d give the Internet’s Most Hated Director an opportunity to weigh in on the petition. Naturally Uwe accepted and here’s what the man told MovieSet:
As Uwe mentions in his rebuttal, he wants someone to start a Pro-Boll petition. Use the comments section below to make sure Uwe directs movies for decades to come.
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