Guess what, Uwe Boll is taking on another videogame adaptation, this time it is the highly controversial game Postal, the game franchise that politicians, parents groups, countless cowardly reviewers and over a dozen sovereign nations don’t want you to play. Well, watch out all you watch dog groups, the game has just become the latest game to make the transition to the big screen.
Running with Scissors, has signed an appropriately apocalyptic deal with Boll to bring the most controversial franchise in gaming history to the screen in all its blood-drenched, ironic glory.
Despite everyone from Steven Spielberg to Microsoft announcing big money deals involving films based on video games, this new partnership between controversial figures in the game and film industries is destined to become the most incendiary game-to-film deal yet.
“Uwe Boll is the perfect producer-director to make Postal,” affirmed Running With Scissors’ CEO Vince Desi. “He understands the subject matter and has an appreciation and affinity for controversy and political incorrectness. Postal has always been about reason and insanity, violence and motivation; producer-director Uwe Boll is simply the right guy to bring that vision to the screen.”
The man behind the camera, Hollywood outsider Uwe Boll ranks Postal as his personal, all-time favorite video game. “I see it like a mirror for our society — funny, violent, absurd!” he declared. “So then the movie must be powerful, strange, and so full of the game’s political incorrect outrageousness that if we do it correct, we will all probably end up in jail!”
Boll has already produced and directed a series of films inspired by videogames, including Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, and the upcoming Bloodrayne. Boll is currently on-location in Canada shooting the cinematic version of Dungeon Siege.
The Postal saga extends back to 1997 when the original game was singled out by Sen. Joe Lieberman as the poster child for mindless violence in video games. This, in turn, led to it subsequently being blacklisted at retail outlets across America. Taking a no-holes barred approach the relentless crew at Running With Scissors has built the Postal series into a thriving licensing vehicle, from thongs and baby tees to coffee mugs and posters, while selling over a million units worldwide on PC.
In the decade since its original release, the Postal series has become a cult classic in America and a major success overseas in countries such as Japan and Russia. It was then followed by the even more successful sequel, Postal 2, as well as numerous add-on disks, including the multi-player Share the Pain and the recent Apocalypse Weekend.
Postal is scheduled to begin shooting in 2006 for a 2007 release, which will coincide with the 10th anniversary of the original game’s debut. “Running With Scissors will be creatively involved in this film,” Desi vowed, “from casting to the script.”
Thanks to Gareth at SKNR.net for forwarding on the information.
