Infamous videogame film auteur Uwe Boll is returning to the director’s chair with a religious successor to Home of the Lifeless

It seems like notorious filmmaker Uwe Boll is staging a comeback: The Hollywood Reporter says he is begun manufacturing on a brand new movie known as 23 Years Later—The Citadel of the Lifeless, a religious successor to his 2003 flick Home of the Lifeless, primarily based on the Sega recreation collection of the identical identify.

The report says Michael Roesch, a long-time Boll collaborator who labored with him on movies together with Blubberella, Within the Identify of the King: A Dungeon Siege Story (which in some way options Jason Statham, Ron Perlman, Ray Liotta, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Claire Forlani, Kristtanna Loken, Matthew Lillard, and Burt Reynolds, to which I say, what the hell), Bloodrayne (with a comparably stack forged—Ben Kingsley! Michael Madsen! Michelle Rodriguez! Billy Zane! Udo Kier! Meat Loaf!) and Home of the Lifeless. Jonathan Cherry and Ona Grauer, who starred within the 2003 movie, will return for this one.

Boll’s been out of the gamer eye for some years now, however he is continued to provide and direct poorly-received flicks primarily based on different matters, like migrants crossing the Mediterranean, the Bandidos gang, and “the primary QAnon mass homicide.” His return to the world of videogame cinema was apparently impressed partly by director Paul W.S. Anderson, who’s engaged on an formally licensed reboot of Home of the Lifeless.

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“After I heard that Paul Anderson is rebooting Home of the Lifeless, I instantly knew that it is going to be a soulless CGI orgy,” Boll stated. “And I wish to do a totally totally different zombie film: Bloody, gory and handmade.”

How “fully totally different” Boll’s new movie can be stays to be seen: The plot is not recognized at this level however the title is sort of a giveaway. “We’re upgrading from a home filled with zombies to a fort filled with zombies,” Roesch stated.

Effectively, look: No person’s going to see this stuff for the enthralling cinematic expertise they provide. Uwe Boll was making videogame variations lengthy earlier than Hollywood took the medium severely, in spite of everything—primarily as a way of exploiting loopholes in German tax legislation.

what you are in for whenever you go to see certainly one of his movies—shlock and garbola—and at this level in his lengthy, legendary profession (and I imply that totally unironically, it is a man who challenged 5 of his harshest critics to boxing matches and beat the shit out of all of them) I might be upset if he delivered anything. Think about if Uwe Boll demonstrated development as a commercially viable director by placing out, say, a serviceable Mortal Kombat movie? I feel the world can be a lesser, sadder place for it.

Boll’s Home of the Lifeless has a Rotten Tomato rating of three%, by the way in which, and no, that is not a typo, there isn’t any lacking quantity, it is simply 3. Here is a trailer:

A launch date for 23 Years Later—The Citadel of the Lifeless wasn’t introduced, however principal pictures is ready to start out on September 5.