Uwe Watch: World's Worst Director to Chronicle World's Worst Genocide

There seems to be no stopping Uwe Boll. Like cockroaches and CSI spinoffs, Boll continues to move...uh...forward (?) with his career. Just last week, it was reported that Boll's new flick, Postal, won't get the 1,500 screen opening he had bragged about. Instead of opening wide against Indiana Jones, Postal will now bow in four theaters this week. Prior to that, there was the back-and-forth news about the online petition to stop Boll from making films altogether, which is a quarter of the way to Boll's own demand of a million signatures. If having your voice heard in the quest to prevent the world's worst director from making movies in the future wasn't enough of an incentive, you could even get some delicious Stride gum for your actions. But this week, Uwe is guns blazin' again. He's already talking about a future project, one set against the backdrop of Sudanese genocide. He tells Film Stew, "This will be important for me," adding, "I will also do it in the style of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto… You do it almost like a documentary, but it's a fictional movie, and it will be very brutal." Brutal? You mean to watch? That kind of brutality? Perhaps setting the stage for what we'll see, Uwe mentions that the title of his upcoming film is Janjeweed, "just like the name of the Arab hordes who drive in on horsebacks and camels and kill everyone, raping the women and hacking the babies in pieces." So delicately worded, Uwe. Thanks for that. Boll says he feels a responsibility to make this film and he even offers a solution to the worst ethnic cleansing since the Holocaust:

"There's an unbelievable genocide going on, and a lot of people are outspoken about it, but nothing happens. We all remember after Rwanda, everyone said this cannot happen again, and it happens again and no one is doing anything. I don't get it. And Sudan is easy to control, it's not like Afghanistan! You could stop the massacres right now with 30 helicopters and machine guns, because you would see there are only 5,000 to 10,000 Arab mercenaries going around the country, supported by the government, killing all the black people. So it's a movie that I think is hard, but very much worth doing, and good to do."

In a convoluted, almost pervese way, you do kind of have to admire his attitude. As big an ass as he clearly is, Uwe makes the movies he wants to make, sometimes as many as three a year, and he doesn't give a continental damn what anybody thinks or says about them. I have a feeling, though, that this won't exactly be Hotel Rwanda.

Comments

[Will]

Thanks to Uwe Boll I will never use the commode in Starbucks again without thinking about how talented this man is.

Colin, how about some hard hitting articles about the men who actually bankroll these projects! I envision some son of a major CFO who has a huge trust fund and loves his X-box and back issues of National Geographic...

[Get The Big Picture]

That's actually a great idea. I could try to get a hold of some of the producers. Amazingly, they all have workable budgets. I mean, 'In the Name of the King' was in the mid-eight figures.