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Forums - PC Discussion - Blizzard denies Boll request to direct WoW movie--10million sigh in relief

thekitchensink on 21 April 2008

Blizzard denies Boll request to direct WoW movie 43 Comments by Kyle Orland Apr 21st 2008 12:45PM Filed under: Culture, PC, RPGs, MMO

That sound you just heard? It was over 10 million World of Warcraft subscribers breathing a simultaneous sigh of relief, now that the MTV Movies Blog is reporting that reviled game-film director Uwe Boll won't be getting his hands on the movie version of the popular fantasy franchise. Boll recounted a conversation with Paul Sams in which the Blizzard COO reportedly told the director, "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you ... especially not to you." In a rare moment of self-awareness, Boll seemed to understand Blizzard's reluctance, speculating that "because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income." A bad movie? But how could the self-described "only genius in the whole fucking business" ever make a bad movie? It just doesn't make sense! Blizzard joins Konami in the exclusive "Smart companies that definitively won't let Uwe Boll near their successful franchises" club.

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Naraku_Diabolos on 21 April 2008

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WOW, a WoW movie? How lame... I'd rather stick with the Illegal Danish movie on my laptop



Riachu on 21 April 2008

Uwe Boll is one of the worst directors of all time, period.



 

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cwbys21 on 21 April 2008

/applaud



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Untouch on 21 April 2008

A WoW movie?

They should be locked up for thinking about it.



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pichu_pichu on 21 April 2008

Imagine what how it would do in the box offices if theres that much subscribers, lol



thekitchensink on 21 April 2008

bump, because this is funny



Could I trouble you for some maple syrup to go with the plate of roffles you just served up?

Tag, courtesy of fkusumot: "Why do most of the PS3 fanboys have avatars that looks totally pissed?"
"Ok, girl's trapped in the elevator, and the power's off.  I swear, if a zombie comes around the next corner..."
lultor on 21 April 2008

Ive never seen any of that guys movies but each time i hear a story about him i cant help but laugh my ass off.

Im guessing he thinks his movies are great but understand how many people hate him after that poll that was made, thats most likely why he understands blizzards reluctance, if that part is true that is.



RDBRaptor on 21 April 2008

For the love of god, stop Uwe Boll by signing the Stop Dr. Uwe Boll Petition!  Over 200,000 signatures and counting, if it reaches 1 million I hope he keeps his word and stops ruining video games.  Do your part!



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kingofwale on 21 April 2008

if only a 10% of the people on WoW can take 2 seconds of their lives to do that petition. We can finally rid of this idiot.



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