At first the self-delusion and hugely inflated opinion of his film-making skills were funny... Uwe Boll, the German director who makes bad films from good computer games, what a guy, eh!
But now he’s gone too far and intervention must take place. Boll, it seems, has plans to make a Grand Theft Auto movie. Yep, you read that right.
Boll recently confessed to Vulture in typically modest style that he’s the perfect man to helm Grand Theft Auto: The Movie and he would make a “very brutal” adaptation.
“Grand Theft Auto would be super interesting for me, and I think I would actually be the right guy to do it, because my movies are all bloody and violent and I don't have a problem with action scenes,” said the director. “But they will go in the end with a Michael Bay or a Brett Ratner and it will be a PG-13 movie made for $150 million. I think it would be better to make a $30 million, very hard, brutal movie without compromising, but I'm not optimistic.”
Unsurprisingly, Rockstar Games (which produces the GTA franchise) has chosen not to comment on the offer.
Were it not for his appalling back catalogue, you could almost applaud Boll’s self-assurance but we can’t help but think that this is a really bad idea. Despite our usual partisan stance when it comes to cinematic stupidity, Boll has proved that he simply can’t learn from his mistakes. Of course, if his latest game-adaptation flick, Postal, manages to trounce Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull at the box office, there’s actually a chance that A Boll Production of Grand Theft Auto: The Movie could become reality and for the sake of mankind we simply cannot let that happen people – we must rise up and speak out, stop this Bollocks now!
Click here to sign the online petition to get Boll to stop making movies - he has said that if a million people make their mark, he will retire forever.
Click here to read the full GTA story.
What do you think, should Uwe be allowed to make a live-action GTA?