Critical punching bag, German director Uwe Boll doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut. The most-hated director alive has had the gall to make poor adaptations of seminal video games like, “BloodRayne” and now he dares to claim he would be the perfect director for “Grand Theft Auto IV,” a move seemingly calculated to get Internet nerds into an even bigger lather.
“I think I would actually be the right guy to do [GTA4], because my movies are all bloody and violent and I don’t have a problem with action scenes,” Boll told Vulture (who are well aware that an interview with Boll is like money [hits] in the bank). “But look, 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.”
Also that proposed fight with Michael Bay? It’s not gonna happen. “His attorney wrote me that he’s not going to do it now. And I have to face, like, legal consequences if I say anymore that he will do it.”
“I’m going to make that. I’m going to make that very soon. With Guy Ritchie, I think.” How’s that for a riveting quote? Producer Joel Silver says he’s going to do D.C. Comics toughguy miltary character Sgt. Rock with Guy Ritchie as the director. Maybe everyone should wait to see if “RocknRolla” puts him back in a respectable place first. [AICN]
The Studio that runs “Thor” (Marvel) is throwin’ around Brad Pitt’s name as the lead. Apparently he hasn’t even been approached yet though. It’s certainly a better idea then Matthew McConaughey as “Captain Marvel.” We just can’t picture him looking at Bucky when the sidekick says he doesn’t have a joint and trailing off in disgust, “It’d be a lot cooler if you did…” [Latino Review]
Mike Judge apparently see his upcoming film “Extract” as an “evil-twin sequel” to “Office Space,” with a twist. “[The boss protagonist is] the owner of a company that makes vanilla extract and orange extract, and that kind of thing. ‘Office Space’ was sympathetic to the employees, and the bosses and the managers were the assholes. This one is sympathetic to Jason Bateman’s character as the owner, and all the employees are the assholes. … It’s another workplace comedy.” [MTV]
Scott Glenn has been cast as Donald Rumseld in Oliver Stone’s “W” biopic about our current dunderhead president George W. Bush. Glenn’s last role was a nefarious, underhanded and shady CIA head in “The Bourne Ultimatum,” so this one shouldn’t be much of a stretch. [Empire]
