German director Uwe Boll has had a hard couple of weeks. He's suing Billy Zane for 700,000 he says the actor owes him for the 2005 flop "BloodRayne" and then there's that little online petition to get him to stop adapting video games for the big screen. I would almost feel sorry for Boll if he wasn't such a dick.
Boll has called himself "the only genius in the whole fucking business," while most movie fans call him the worst director of all time. Responding to his critics, Boll told Fear.net that he would stop making videogame films if an online petition garnered one million signatures. And thus was born www.StopUweBoll.org. As of May 7th, nearly 235,000 people have already lent their support to the "Stop Uwe Boll" cause. I have a feeling that Boll will find a way to weasel out of his agreement when the inevitable one million mark is reached, but hey! It doesn't hurt to try!
Today the earnest folks at StopUweBoll got a big endorsement from the chewing gum industry. Stride Gum has pledged to send every petition signer a free pack of gum if the one million goal is met by May 14 – I'm not sure why the gum lobby cares that Uwe Boll is a crappy director, but free gum is good – right?
From their press release:
Getting Uwe Boll to stop making videogame films will not be easy. The guy is his own boss, really, so only he can "fire" himself. And what are the odds? This is the man who called