Boll plans Alone in the Dark 2

By Robert Purchese Published 22 May, 2007

But won't direct it.

Gaming movie 'legend' Uwe Boll is eyeing a summer shoot for Alone In The Dark 2.

Fortunately he won't be directing the USD 7.5 million film, as he'll be away filming the Far Cry movie in Canada. It's not yet known who will fill the director's chair, or who will star in the film. Probably because everyone is running as fast as they can in the opposite direction.

But despite Boll's dubious track record, the first AITD film shifted over one million DVDs, and game licenses continue to fall into his lap. You can catch his latest creation, Postal, in cinemas across North America from 28th September. If you dare.

Alone In The Dark 2 will be based around Atari's next-generation game, which recently attracted the penmanship of Sleepers writer Lorenzo Carcaterra.

We had peek at the game at last year's E3 show and were genuinely excited by it. Head over to our Alone In The Dark preview for more information.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (27) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • speedtrax #1 5 years ago

    Not this shit again.

  • lambtron #2 5 years ago

    Nooooooooooooo.

  • DanWhitehead #3 5 years ago

    Only Uwe Boll could direct a movie set on a tropical island...in Canada.

  • souljacker2000 #4 5 years ago

    FFS.... Leave games outa films... really puts a downer on the games... UWE Boll Ur Shit
    Canada is such a tropical place
    Edited by 1 at 22/05/07 @ 12:27

  • lambtron #5 5 years ago

    Wait a minute - he's filming a movie set on a Tropical Island in Canada? Is it all CGI or something?

  • WrongShui #6 5 years ago

    The Postal trailer looks funny.

    Ew, I feel dirty now.

  • Azazel #7 5 years ago

    Uwe Boll must be stopped! No matter the cost!

    /transforms

  • souljacker2000 #8 5 years ago

    Just watched the trailer of Postal...
    Bloody awful... boycott that shit

  • Nova5lag #9 5 years ago

    If it wasnt for Uwe we wouldnt have anything to entertain us. I mean seriously you gotta just look at the guy and you can see he isnt all there.

    Maybe the Uwe adaption of Farcry is actually based on the Crysis game... that would work. Or maybe he has blown the budget and invested in a giant space mirror to reflect onto Canada to warm it up to tropical temp.

  • Talha #10 5 years ago

    "Fortunately he won't be directing the USD 7.5 million film, as he'll be away filming the Far Cry movie in Canada."

    Maybe I am just morbid, but where is the 'fortune' in that?

  • TwistidChimp #11 5 years ago

    I find it beyond strange that having seen his previous work, anyone would give Uwe Boll 7.5 dollars, let alone 7.5 million dollars.

  • Vin #12 5 years ago

    Next up, MGS.

    Mark my words, EG.

  • EmiliasHorse #13 5 years ago

    Please make him stop. Farcry the movie.?!?!

    That guy HATES games and is allowed to demonstrate his hate for all the world to see. Few people deserve a punch in the throat more than Boll.

  • Olemak #14 5 years ago

    Uwe makes what is known as "ape food" in the video rental biz: braindead movies that braiddead teenagers will pay to watch no matter how awful it is. It is just a matter of having a minimum of brand recognition, and a financial sucess is more or less ensured. It's a numbers game, of balansing the movies budget against projected income. If the numbers keep on ocming out positive after release, that means everybody's making money. Even though the movies are horribly bad, they still make money, and quite a bit of money at that concidering the size of the budget. That's why Uwe's still allowed to make this crap.

    If someone wanted to do a halfway competent movie based on a game, that would most likely cost more, but it is unlikely that the film would make more money. It is far from certain that more people would want to see the film, as the nerdcore audience is pretty small anyway.

  • EmiliasHorse #15 5 years ago

    Entertaining I will agree to that....But then again watching old episodes of the 'Little and Large Show' are entertaining, but utterly unfunny. Uwe Boll makes films that can be watched but they always entirely miss the plot or character of the game associated to the film.

  • Steroyd #16 5 years ago

    BAIL OUT!!!

  • space_ace #17 5 years ago

    about fc in .ca - most of the movies is shot in studio, but it's funny indeed :)

  • Kami #18 5 years ago

    I have an idea for a film. "Who Shot You?" whereby the least popular director in the world today is shot, and the detectives are at a loss with the hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of people with cause and motive. As everyone tries to mislead the investigation away from the real killer, with big explosions and gunfire and possibly the odd CGI monstrosity to give them the chills, the police uncover the multitude of reasons why this 'legend' was murdered - how he took peoples hopes and dreams and in his hands, crumbled them to dust, making the least entertaining movies the world has ever seen, and the tax scam and how he absolutely hates his audiences and couldn't care less about the people who see the film, because they don't know anything and he does. All this culminates in a large file, they are so close to the killer...

    Then they realise that actually he deserved it and "misplace" the file, never to be seen again...

    I'm pencilling in Paris Hilton as the lead investigator for absolute authenticity...

  • wibs #19 5 years ago

    I say we should organise a fight between Boll and one of his critics.....

    doh, someone already did it and Boll won.

  • captainrentboy #20 5 years ago

    Aiii Boll organised a boxing event quite a way back where he arranged for the dissing film critics and geeks of the world to ''come and ave a go'' at him for real, sadly though, from what I remember reading on AintItCool, he pounded every single one of them, he has a bit of a background in amateur boxing see?
    I'd fooking have him though, he's only a scrawny lil guy, facing off against massively overweight geeks and 18 yr olds probably wasn't that much of a challange.

  • Wyrm #21 5 years ago

    Seen Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead. Utter, utter wank. Eli Roth isn't amazing, but he's in another league to this idiot. I will continue to watch Bolls movies though as it amuses me to see how terrible they are.

  • TwistidChimp #22 5 years ago

    He beat them because aparently he veto'd anyone who actually had boxing or martial arts experience. There was some journo who was a Tai boxer of some description who never got a look in since Uwe obviously didn't want to get hurt.

  • captainrentboy #23 5 years ago

    Haha I didn't read that part! What a facking wuss! :)

  • Hugundo #24 5 years ago

    I like the way he's trying to cover up the smell of bullshit by saying he's not directing.

  • smelly #25 5 years ago

    Well SOMEONE must like his movies.. or they wouldnt be making any money for him to keep making them.

    Therefor - yer all wrong (as per usual)

    :-D

  • spunkymunkey #26 5 years ago

    Not content with cinematically murdering our favourite games franchises, Uwe Boll returns to fuck the bones....bravo.

  • Verwandlung #27 5 years ago

    Stop raping my youth memories!