Uwe Boll is a German director, producer and screenwriter, whose work includes several films adapted from video games. He finances his own films through his Boll KG and Event Film Productions production companies. Many of his films are produced on low budgets. He has been des...
Film Producer, Film Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Author
Education
University of Cologne
Nationality
Germany
Spouse
Natalia Tudge
Nicknames
Dr. Uwe Boll , Senor Bollo , The Master of Error , Ewe Boll , The Raging Boll
Movies
Postal, Alone in the Dark, In the Name of the King, House of the Dead, Rampage: You End Now, Rampage: President Down, Rampage, BloodRayne, Assault on Wall Street, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, Darfur, Tunnel Rats, Blubberella, In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds, Heart of America, In the Name of th...
Star Sign
Cancer
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Trademark
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Recurring flashback scenes
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His films often feature a scene involving the death of a child
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Frequently shoots his films in Vancouver, British Columbia
[on Hollywood] That is the most bullsh*t business with bullsh*t idiots, one after the other lined up behind each other. You know, they are all fu*king each other in the asses and nobody makes any decisions. All the actors I ever worked with, Ben Kingsley, whatever, are fu*king pussies, nothing else! They are in the as*holes of their managers, agents and publicists and attorneys...[June 2015]
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Maybe you know it, but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. The reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically 50% back from the government.
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The German press is not friendly to me. I can compare it to the US press. I had 25% really bad reviews, like, "Oh, a Boll movie. Typical trash." But some said it was "by far Boll's best movie." They compared it to, not The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), but something weaker like Eragon (2006).
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I want to make good movies. Of course, I want to make entertaining movies for the younger audience, and this is a lot of times not working with film critics who are more into drama or art-house movies. But on the other hand, I always try to make solid movies.
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[asked about how game developers are involved in the making of Postal (2007)] Yeah, they were very involved, this time too much involved, I wrote the script, it's their baby. They liked the treatment, but they didn't like the approach of some stuff, they thought it was too funny, but I said the only way to tell a story like "Postal" is to do it funny, let people laugh. I don't want a movie like Taxi Driver (1976) where a guy is killing everybody, too many movies like that. "Postal" is a movie where everybody is running amok, everyone has good reasons to run amok from the welfare office guy to the police officer. Coming up in two to three weeks, they will be really happy, like our cast . . . I think it will be hilarious.
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[on fighting--and winning--against all of his critics in a boxing ring] You see what happens when people get hit in the head? They like my movies!
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[about what he learned from his disastrous experience with Alone in the Dark (2005)] That a script matters.
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[about his favorite book, Gustavus Myers' "The History of American Fortunes"] If you follow the money, like the writer did - the history of the Rockefellers and so on - you find out about real history. In that book you learn that the Civil War was not about freeing the slaves, it was all about the money, etc.
[2010] Empire Magazine's 'The 50 Worst Movies Ever' includes 2 films by Uwe Boll: House of the Dead (2003) (Nr.35) and Alone in the Dark (2005) (Nr. 21). Boll is the only director with 2 films on the list.
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Considered fighting comedian Ron Sparks when he challenged critics to a boxing match during the filming of Postal (2007) but ultimately declined because of Sparks' age, height and weight advantage - and due to the fact he'd be fighting several challengers back-to-back. Boll ultimately defeated every opponent in the Vancouver matches, which can be seen in the Raging Boll (2010) documentary.
Despite several Razzie Award nominations, including one "win" for Worst Director, not one of the films he has directed has been awarded the Razzie for Worst Picture.
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Planned on making a film based on long running Sega franchise Wonder Boy, with a script by Robin Morningstar. Intentions moved so far along that Caitlin Stasey from Aussie soap Neighbours was attached to a part. When Sega decided to leave the character for all intents and purposes dead, the project collapsed, and was featured as the main news story in issue 51 of Retro Gamer Magazine.
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Has worked with Robin Morningstar on a proposed film of Konami property Contra, which either has resulted in the mock Uwe Boll's Contra trailer by fans on the internet, or the fanbase was unknowingly ironic in its timing.
Was a film critic for a local radio station in the late 1980s.
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Challenged his critics in June 2006 to a "put up or shut up" boxing match. His production company issued a press release stating that Boll would challenge his 5 harshest critics each to a 10-round boxing match. To be eligible, the critic must have written two extremely negative reviews of Boll, in print or on the Web, in 2005. The fights are documented in the film Raging Boll (2010). Boll knocked out all opponents.
$10 million
