Statham, Sobieski, Perlman, Gimli & Burt Reynolds have all gone insane!
Published at: July 1, 2005, 2:48 a.m. CST by staff
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an announcement... more of a warning, really, but it appears that the good Dr. Boll has somehow tricked a fairly decent cast into working with him on his next atrocity, DUNGEON SIEGE. The trailer for BLOODRAYNE was, predictably, laughable and the poster just confirms that Uwe's dream project is to remake Paul WS Anderson's RESIDENT EVIL.
Now he's gathered Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Matthew Lillard, Kristanna Loken and Burt Reynolds for his next attempt... Now, I love Perlman, but he'll do damn near anything, so that's no surprise, even though I still think Perlman's too cool be in a Boll KG film. Lillard and Boll were destined to work together... Statham I like and wish he wasn't headlining this film, Rhys-Davies will eat a phonebook if you pay him... the only one that I'm truly sad to see do this film is Burt Reynolds... Remember how promising it was when he gave that great performance in BOOGIE NIGHTS, that feeling that we were going to see a new era of Reynolds... Now he's doing a Uwe Boll movie... Sigh... I guess this means STRIPTEASE won't be the worst film he's done.
So, HOUSE OF THE DEAD ($12 million budget, even though it's listed as $7 million... Boll said this himself when I saw him introduce HOUSE OF THE DEAD at AFM back before I knew better than to watch one of his films and expect anything of any quality) loses money, ALONE IN THE DARK (budget $20 million before marketing, which grossed just over $6 million WORLDWIDE) is one of the worst reviewed movies in the history of film and loses money, BLOODRAYNE ($17 million budget) can't find a US distributor... yet he's still pulling together casts that would be promising in any other director's hands and huge budgets.
I'm just wondering when the rug is going to be pulled out from under Boll. He has a talent for finding money and pulling together decent people... if he'd just stop directing and trust some decent writers he could be a great producer... maybe. How the fuck he got $60 million to make this movie is beyond me, but hopefully it'll put the final nail in his coffin when it makes two dollars and seventy-six cents at the box office...
