Dungeon Siege movie named

By Ellie Gibson Published 10 October, 2005

Plus: Boll on BloodRayne.

Uwe Boll, director of the forthcoming Dungeon Siege movie, has renamed the film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale in a bid to make it sound a bit more like it's a Lord of the Rings film.

That's according to MTV.com, which also reports that the movie's current running time is around four hours - so Boll plans to split it down the middle and release two separate films, just as Quentin Tarantino did with Kill Bill.

The movie, which is currently being shot in Vancouver, stars Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski and Burt Reynolds. Boll's previous films include House of the Dead and Alone in the Dark, neither of which were any good at all.

He's recently finished work on the big screen adaptation of BloodRayne, due to hit cinemas next year. According to Boll, as quoted on Uwe Boll Sucks, the film "Has that erotic lesbian but violent... It's little like a bisexual touch that a vampire has basically."

"The whole beginning of the movie, BloodRayne is like a freak in the circus, and people want to rape her, and she's like the attraction of the evening, and everybody in the arena of the circus is drunk and they throw her arms into water so the skin burns and then she must drink the blood of a goat [so] that she recovers." Righto.

Judge for yourself how the movie's shaping up by checking out the trailer via the IMDB.

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is also out next year, though there's no word on when exactly. You can find out more about the movie at the official website.

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About Ellie Gibson

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Comments (25) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Fozzie_bear #1 6 years ago

    and then she must drink the blood of a goat

    Ooooh. So near, yet so far.

  • sheepsteak #2 6 years ago

    Last linky is broken

    Dungeon Seige Movie
    Edited by 1 at 10/10/05 @ 16:08

  • Bumbuliuz #3 6 years ago

    Can it be as bad as I really think? Or mabye worse?

  • pantherboy #4 6 years ago

    Burt Reynolds..... oh dear
    Edited by 1 at 10/10/05 @ 16:19

  • Heds #5 6 years ago

    Poor Burt Reynolds, he's gone from top actor to desperate for gigs.

    More Bogey Nights than Boogie Nights.

  • kangarootoo #6 6 years ago

    I wonder how many people will mistake his Dungeon Siege masterwork for Lord of the Rings when they are down BlockBuster?

    Only one I would suggest. My grandma. And she's dead.

    Nice try though Uwe. At least this shows you have a great understanding of the industry through which you carve a living.

  • shamblemonkee #7 6 years ago

    That name just just rolls off the tongue doesn't it.

    Sounds like the sequel to a Sharks Tale.

  • Cpt_Fluffy #8 6 years ago

    Bloodyrayne apparantly has Meat Loaf.

    He has a fine body of acting work:

    Fight Club, Waynesworld, Spiceworld...

  • Kami #9 6 years ago

    Uew has NO understanding of the industry he carves up for a quick buck. If he had ANY understanding of the industry, his movies wouldn't suck so freaking bad. Uwe Boll must be laughing his ass off that fans STILL watch such utter crap because of the title.

    I yearn for the day when the news headline is, "Developer of (insert game here) tells Uwe Boll to F**K OFF!"...

  • StarchildHypocrethes #10 6 years ago

    What the hell is Ben Kingsley doing in BloodRayne?! He surely can't be that desperate?

  • rocketScience #11 6 years ago

    "I yearn for the day when the news headline is, "Developer of (insert game here) tells Uwe Boll to F**K OFF!"..."

    I think that was a Microsoft press release for Halo.

  • Spanky #12 6 years ago

    Ben Kingsley was in Thunderbirds so his desperate whoring for cash isn't exactly new...

  • mastertigurius #13 6 years ago

    The only one doing the raping must be Uwe Boll, when he's ruthlessly violating these great games.

  • McGeeza #14 6 years ago

    "Fight Club, Waynesworld, Spiceworld..."

    You appear to have dumped Fight Club in the same shit pan as Wayne's World and Spice World...

    PS: Uwe - Give it a fucking rest will you mate...

  • AHiFi #15 6 years ago

    Bloodrayne trailer isn't great but it isn't really that bad either. Here's hoping it will be okay.

  • Xerx3s #16 6 years ago

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooo [ breaths ] oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooo
    [ breaths ]ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooo
    [ faints ]

  • Dirtbox #17 6 years ago

    Burt Renolds?

    Impeccable casting as always.

  • Salvia #18 6 years ago

    " Uew has NO understanding of the industry he carves up for a quick buck."

    You're right, he has no understanding of the film industry but he does know all about German tax law and its loopholes. The long and short of it is there is a tax loophole that means that investors in films that don't make a profit can still make money through the tax system. It's a little like the Producers (apart from the runaway success of the production) in that he persuades people and institutions with lots of money to invest in his films knowing they will make profit no matter what.

  • Sko #19 6 years ago

    Wow, I guessed Bloodrayne was a bit sub-par from the trailer (and the whole UweBoll thing, of course) but hearing him trying to sell it with 'lesbian goat rape' kinda confirms it for me.

  • tengu #20 6 years ago

    LOL @ Fozzie.

    Did you mean I think you meant? :)

  • gallow #21 6 years ago

    Uwe Boll is insane. His brain never seems connected to his mouth and the words that spew forth from it are just random. He needs sectioning.

  • Donglebomb #22 6 years ago

    > What the hell is Ben Kingsley doing in BloodRayne?!
    > He surely can't be that desperate?

    I remember reading something about him having a lifelong ambition to play a vampire, and this was the first role that came up. All the same, you'd think the daft bald tit would do a *bit* of research.

  • SlackMaster #23 6 years ago

    It amazes me why developers sign over movie rights to this turd.

  • kangarootoo #24 6 years ago

    I feel sorry for Ben Kingsley (though thatb is a bit patronising). He's a great actor who just isn't fashionable at the moment it seems. I think its a bit harsh to acuse him of whoring out. He pays the bills by being an actor.

    If you were a mechanic would you decide only to work on Porshes and Ferarris, and starve if you were only offered my Hyundai Accent? (I have a motorbike too is my continued excuse).

    The film industry is fickle. Look at John Travolta, who admits openly that his career was dead until Pulp Fiction made him cool again (if only until Battlefield Earth came along).

  • Darth_Flibble #25 6 years ago

    sad thing is, Boll thinks his films are great (apart from house of the dead, which he blamed everyone else but him)

    Boll loves the goats