About
| Birth Notes: | 22 June 1965, Wermelskirchen, Germany |
| Height: | 5' 8" |
| Nicknames: | Senor Bollo, The Master of Error, Herr Boll, Ewe Boll, The Raging Boll |
| Family: | * 'Leanne D. Chan' (? - present); 1 child |
| Biography: | As a child, he produced a number of short films on Super 8 and video before beginning his studies as a film director in Munich and Vienna. He also studied literature and economics in Cologne and Siegen. Uwe graduated from university in 1995 with a doctorate in literature. From 1995-2000, he was a producer and director with Taunus Film-Produktions GmbH. Boll is currently Chief Executive Officer of Boll Filmproduction and Distribution GmbH which he founded in 1992. In 2000 he founded Boll KG and continues to direct, write and produce feature films. |
Filmography
| Heckler (2007) as Himself |
| Postal (2007) as Himself |
| Alone in the Dark (2005) |
| Far Cry (2008) |
| House of the Dead (2003) |
| In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) |
| Postal (2007) |
| Rampage (2009) |
| Stoic (2009) |
| Tunnel Rats (2008) |
| In Action (2000) as Himself |
| Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com (2009) as Himself |
| Mafia: Farewell to the Godfather (2011) as Roberto |
| Max Schmeling (2010) as Referee #2 |
| Amoklauf (1994) |
| Barschel - Mord in Genf? (1993) |
| Bennie (2012) |
| Blackout - The Film (2010) |
| Blackwoods (2002) |
| BloodRayne (2005) |
| Bloodrayne: The Third Reich (2010) |
| Darfur (2009) |
| Das erste Semester (1997) |
| Final Storm (2010) |
| Heart of America (2002) |
| Max Schmeling (2010) |
| Sabotage 1943 (2009) |
| Seed (2007) |
Trivia
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* As of 2008, all four of the films he has directed that were based upon video games, House of the Dead (2003), Alone in the Dark (2005), BloodRayne (2005) and BloodRayne II: Deliverance (2007) (V) were listed on the IMDb Bottom 100. Most of the other films he's directed, including Heart of America (2002), Blackwoods (2002) and Das erste Semester (1997) are not widely available in America, but have received similarly low ratings among those who have seen them. Having directed 14 movies up to 2008 Boll reached an average IMDb rating of 2,4 (2.44 to be precise). * His favorite video-game is Hitman: Codename 47 (2000) (VG). * His favorite film of 2005 is Sin City (2005). * He is good friends with Clint Howard and cast him in Blackwoods (2002), Heart of America (2002), and House of the Dead (2003). * Challenged his critics in June 2006 to "put up or shut up". 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. Footage of the fights will be included in his upcoming film Postal (2007). * Was a film critic for a local radio station in the late 1980s. * His favorite console is the SNES. * Cites Apocalypse Now (1979) as his favorite movie. * 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. * 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. * 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. * Cites the Trevor Howard / Marlon Brando version of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) as the film that made him want to be a movie director. * Lists The Searchers (1956), Taxi Driver (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Citizen Kane (1941), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Breaking the Waves (1996) as some of his favorite films. |
Quotes
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* Regarding 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." * When asked what he learned from his disastrous experience with Alone in the Dark (2005): "That a script matters." * 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!" * When asked about how game developers are involved in the making of his movie Postal: "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 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." * 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. * The German press is not friendly to me. I can compare it to the US press. I had 25 percent 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 "Lord of the Rings," but something weaker like "Eragon." |
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