Video game adaptations quickly become the next great thing in Hollywood, with films like “A Minecraft Movie” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and television shows like “Fallout” and “The Last of Us” which all find massive success. This is a trend that no one would have predicted a few decades ago, at the time when the very notion of a video game film spoke of low-budget thoughts, ugly criticism, C-List actors and box office deficits.
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Back in these gold days, nobody was no longer sadly famous for his flop video film than the controversial German filmmaker Uwe Boll. Throughout the aughts, Boll launched a bomb after a bomb, adapting games as “alone in darkness”, “Dungeon Siege”, “Bloodrayne”, “House of the Dead” and “Far Cry”. He is undoubtedly the most responsible man for the hellish reputation of video game films at the time. In 2007, Boll produced “Postal”, based on the series of games of the same name which started in 1997. A reduction “Grand Theft Auto” Ripoff with all the violence and none of the tact, “Postal” was a material from Boll Prime, and the film, without surprise, fell completely flat. “Postal” won just under $ 150,000 with a declared budget of $ 15 million. But that did not prevent Boll from trying to finance a suite almost 20 years later.
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In September 2024, Boll and the Gary Otto cohort launched an Indiegogo campaign looking for $ 2.5 million for a “postal 2.” The only problem, apart from the odious history of Boll, his pariah status in the film industry, and the fact that the first film was a total disaster? He apparently did not have the right to make a second adaptation in the first place.
Uwe Boll postal campaign was a total disaster
Uwe Boll’s Indiegogo for “Postal 2” is no longer available to oppose, because the campaign has been suspended and all commitments are reimbursed. Presumably, this is due to the response of game developers, running with scissors, who claimed to have no knowledge of the project. In other words, Boll was trying to finance a series of a universally shot film according to a franchise that he no longer had the right to adapt.
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According to a PC player The report at the time, the Indiegogo page of the film declared that the manufacture of “Postal 2” was “almost a duty for freedom of art, speech and life”, claiming the usual and tired objective of retaliation against the “politically correct” and “woke and cancel culture”.
Supposedly, Boll pointed out towards the lively mind and the cultural incision of the first “postal” film, which is full of things like the jokes of the holocaust, the most tired gay stereotypes and the people in the camera. Really, a courageous artistic experience. It is a tragedy that we will not see his sequence crawling in cinemas to hemorrate even more money in the future.
Maybe Boll will be more lucky with this film “Dark Knight”.
