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Dungeon Siege film trailer surfaces

Preview of Uwe Boll's two-part epic fantasy tale now online; snippet shows an acrobatic Ray Liotta, regal Matthew Lillard.

When director Uwe Boll has a vision, he goes with it. The German famous for making films based on games, often to the disgust of gamers and cinephiles alike, has taken Gas Powered Games' Dungeon Siege series on a trip to the big screen, the way only Boll can.

A trailer for the flick has popped up on the Internet, courtesy of the Web site (editor's warning--long download) for Fantastic Films International, the film's (or films' rather, see below) distributor. Viewers of the trailer are treated to pieces of "an epic tale" showing star Jason Statham (Snatch, The Transporter) taking on man and beast with swords and fist, Burt Reynolds (Cop and a Half, Boogie Nights) riding horseback as the land's king, and Matthew Lillard (Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College, Scream) screaming and rolling on the floor.

Because Boll believes the movie is "a huge epic adventure," the movie will be split into two approximately 105-minute parts. If spending more than two hundred minutes in a theater is too much for some, Boll will offer the movies bundled together in a DVD set in 2007.

44 Comments

  • nikolokolus

    Posted Nov 29, 2007 10:45 pm GMT

    Here's the cruelest of all ironies. If you want Boll to stop making movies you actually need to go out and see his crap-fests in droves; doing so would cause all of his german investors to be forced to pay taxes on their investment, instead of the government giving them a 100% write off on any movie that posts a loss.

    Give Mr. Boll credit, he's tapped into one of the all time great money making schemes.

  • FearNeutron

    Posted Jul 6, 2007 2:56 pm GMT

    *sigh* I haven't watched the trailer (I refuse to install QT to see it) but I was really hoping that this would be pretty good since it stars Jason Statham.

    Oh well. =|

  • fuego96

    Posted Jul 11, 2006 9:58 am GMT

    Wonderful. Just wonderful. Another Uwe Boll film to avoid. What he did to BloodRayne and Alone in the Dark was just unforgettable (in the worst sense). Just search for public reviews on these films in http://www.imdb.com you'll be convinced he's really sh_t. Also, be aware that he's doing FarCry, Postal and Seed -- all in pre-production phases already :-(

  • jerico6

    Posted Dec 2, 2005 11:05 pm GMT

    Holy crap! That trailer was STUPID!! The writing and the characters were cliched, the action was boring, and it wes DREADFULLY miscast!!! That trailer was a complete joke!

  • fedejico

    Posted Dec 1, 2005 1:57 pm GMT

    The trailer looked interesting to me. I haven't seen Boll's movies but I'll give this one a try.

  • zachnunes

    Posted Dec 1, 2005 1:20 pm GMT

    the trailer looked like something you'd expect out of some fan film. The movie looks etremely low budget and the monsters look like garbadge.

  • AMNLamp

    Posted Dec 1, 2005 11:25 am GMT

    The trailer gave me cancer....its that freaking bad. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO RAY LIOTTA!!??!?!?!?

  • shaktisingh

    Posted Dec 1, 2005 1:15 am GMT

    Anyone read this interesting peice on Boll - http://www.cinemablend.com/feature.php?id=209

  • umbrae

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 3:58 pm GMT

    This guy's first name is soooo appropriate... Uwe. As in all his movie stink... Ewe. I still cannot understand why people give perfectly good IP licenses to this guy. Just flush them down the toliet: you will get a better return on your investment.

  • tj78714

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 1:55 pm GMT

    thanks alot german tax laws....

  • abdulgamemaster

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 1:10 pm GMT

    please please dont give this guy a camera. stop him before it's to late

    remember his films suck.

  • milsvaard

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 12:56 pm GMT

    looks like the movie industry has run out of ideas, more often we see that movies are based on video games, makes me think that if games become more cinematic they might replace movies altogether

  • slimjim2575

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 12:17 pm GMT

    Hopefully, it will be a good movie.

  • NeoJedi

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 11:42 am GMT

    Ugh... not even gonna take 2 minutes out of my life to download the trailer.

  • Rahxon

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 11:22 am GMT

    Wow how I dislike this man. I really wish I had a shirt that read "I hate Uwe Boll.....(turn to back).....as much as Jack Thompson!"

  • ghettocheeze

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 10:57 am GMT

    hehe this one is going down the toilet bowl very quickly ! ! !

  • Gustenx

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 10:22 am GMT

    What this man has done to the gaming community is just retarted. First off he thinks any game could be made into a movie. I'm not saying they can't but do them right at least. How can I say this "Do a a real movie first before trying to make a movie based off something".

  • Petri87

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 10:01 am GMT

    since Uwe Boll is making the game you know its a flop.

  • Stedmister

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 9:02 am GMT

    You can really tell a move is bad when there's no voice over guy in the trailer? Man it was bad, Uwe needsome directing skills, oh and has anyone noticed the writers, they eiter have written files I have never heard of, started writting, or work with Boll. At least he should get better writers, that would make his movies tolerable.

  • exavior17

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 8:10 am GMT

    That is the best they could do. Who else in there right mind would want to be in a movie by Uwe?

    To bad more actors wouldn't stop taking roles just to get money and would all reject any script with Uwe attacted to it in any way. Then his movies would stop being made.

  • arjnav

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 7:35 am GMT

    burt reynolds being cast as a king?? whats wrong with these ppl!?! do they WANT to make a crap movie?!?

  • Muppet_Hunter

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 7:13 am GMT

    We should have already learned from WING COMMANDER, that matthew lillard should stay far away from game franchises.

  • ewjim

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 2:17 am GMT

    Knowing the bad lets hope for good!

  • isahunt

    Posted Nov 30, 2005 1:50 am GMT

    HA-HA. I like the first poster commenting "I hope they dont mess it up", since "messing it up" and "Uwe Boll" are synonymous.

  • Raeldor

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 10:43 pm GMT

    OMG, this is going to set fantasy movies back 25 years. All the hard work done by Peter Jackson to give the fantasy genre some credibility is going to be undone. This is a must-boycott movie.

  • theRunninGamer

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 10:30 pm GMT

    Just be thankful he's not making a Diablo movie... that would piss a lot more people off.

  • FordFairlane

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 10:30 pm GMT

    Didn't I read a story on GameSpot recently about some tax law in Germany that almost encourages studios to put out films that bomb?

  • travdark

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 9:14 pm GMT

    The trailer is just plain sad...what is he doing to Dungeon Siege?!? The acting also seems very bad in it.

  • FeldmanSkitzoid

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 8:58 pm GMT

    Well, at least he's getting the movies that are just shameless cash-ins anyway. Every one of the movies he's done has been based on a game that I don't care about at all.

  • Squids-Ahoy

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 8:44 pm GMT

    I'm not defending Boll in any way, but there really doesn't seem to be a way to make dungeon siege into a good movie...

  • sammeal

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 8:06 pm GMT

    Uwe Boll should stick to directing Ron Popeil infomercials.

  • farnes

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 7:58 pm GMT

    jesus christ what the hell is this...that's one movie i'm not going to watch.....i'm shocked......

  • Kuruption84

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 7:39 pm GMT

    Wow, this guy really just wh*re$ himeself out for any videogame property he can turn into trash.

  • MeepMeepoo

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 7:31 pm GMT

    This movie was filming around my school where there were forests and stuff in the SUmmer. It was pretty cool. I live in Vancouver B.C, Canada if you were wondering.

  • deirdre_lcy

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 7:05 pm GMT

    My only thought: LOTR meets the Transporter.LOL

  • RoninKengo

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 6:54 pm GMT

    Please don't encourage Dr. Boll... the failure of this movie will mark his end as a director... for the love of god do not give him your money!

  • Chewedpenney

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 6:41 pm GMT

    Hey, what do you know there's an actual hollywood face here. Burt Reynolds, in a EPIC FANTASY.... what a joke lol.......... i cant wait to see it

  • Chewedpenney

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 6:40 pm GMT

    Hey, what do you know there's an actual hollywood face here. Burt Reynolds, in a EPIC FANTASY.... what a joke lol.......... i cant wait to see it

  • Bean

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 6:17 pm GMT

    Boourns! Boourns!

  • pimp_jim

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 6:08 pm GMT

    boll may be crap.... but matthew lillard?! now thats bad.

  • bfeinberg

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 6:01 pm GMT

    Anything by Uwe Boll = complete crap.

  • jordanroher

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 5:59 pm GMT

    Nope, crap. Boll sees no problem with calling the main character "Farmer." Really. The trailer is by far the worst piece of fantasy I've ever seen, and that includes the opening movie to Dungeon Siege II, which was very bad but at least creative with its badness. I guess we'll have to wait for Peter Jackson to be done with the Halo movie for game movies to gain even the smallest shred of respectability.

  • SolidSnake961

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 5:53 pm GMT

    HAHA, hope not

  • AA7

    Posted Nov 29, 2005 5:35 pm GMT

    Could be cool, could also be total crap if its nothing but repeditive dungon, spider slashing. I hope they dont mess it up.

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