In what might be the best news to come out of Europe this year, Uwe Boll, infamous for butchering some of the most cherished names in video games, looks like he may finally be tiring of the relentless flack earned from his streak of bewilderingly inept big-screen adaptations.

“I won’t say that I won’t acquire another videogame licence in the future. But I’m not so eager to do it any more, to be honest. After Far Cry, maybe I’ll go away from videogame-based movies. And everybody can be really happy about it” commented the Bollster.

Boll first hinted at his disinterest with video game movies in the a last month.

Boll goes on to suggest that the upcoming Peter Jackson mega-adaptation of Halo “will be a failure”.

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One can only hope he does the world a favour. I also thought this was an interesting article linked off the above.

Quote from Boll in the second article:

The dangerous thing right now is that a lot of people bash me without thinking about the movies. It's fashionable to hit on Uwe Boll, and this is what I don't get. And I don't get why this comes so harshly from the games press," Boll says.

"Tons of journalists, including you, have nothing else to do than to follow the Internet voices of one or two thousand people. Only half of those people have seen my movies, and only two per cent of those people have seen my movies before House of the Dead."

Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on.

"If people don't see that, then it's not my problem, but I think those are the people who hate me or who want to bash me. Normal people, people who buy movies or watch TV, they see that absolutely."

upcoming Peter Jackson mega-adaptation of Halo

holy moses that would be cool if done right

Halo just needs to have a cool leading actor, a hot chick playing Cortana and a plot that involves blowing tonnes of s*** up. It almost worked for Doom and peter jackson's got infinitely more ability than the guy who directed that, so Halo should be a winner :D

Keep in mind Jackson is only producing it, not directing it but I'm still pretty interested regardless.

I heard it on the wind (attack of the show lol) that the Halo movie script was leaked and what's been circulated is pretty damn good. Looking forward to it.