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Return to Castle Wolfenstein Still Happening
I can honestly say that Wolfenstein 3d was the first shooter game I ever played on PC, and this was rapidly replaced by the likes of Doom and Heretic. I never got into the upgraded sequel Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Well we learned that Samuel Hadida will produce with Roger Avary writing and directing so this thing is happening, but why the big delay?
id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead told Eurogamer that the project is still in development, saying that “with the writer’s strike it took so long to get underway and Roger Avary, the writer, had a commitment that was in line before working the Wolfenstein stuff, but I’ve recently been in contact with Roger and he’s actually working on the script right now.”
But how can this really be a bad flick. This has the makings of B Movie action and gore with such a silly concept as trying to make Nazis look worse because they now find out they have a paranormal division that is making demon super soldiers. Before that Nazis were just misunderstood emos. Now they have DEMONS!!
But it is a video game adaptation, so when they claim the writers strike held up production my knee jerk reaction was “A video game movie needs writers?” But alas it is true. All movies need writers. I just always hope that the next video game movie will actually deserve writers and be good, and like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin, I am repeatedly disappointed.
I think this got delayed because there are dozens of other video game properties that are still being published and released that they would like to exploit on the big screen.
So, where the hell is Halo? Petey Jackson was involved and it was slated to be the highest budget VGM to date. So all of these movies coming out and although i’m sure are popular among some people still don’t add up to the fan base that Halo carries. Just wondering why nobody has taken the opportunity to jump at that thing yet and get it made. I hear Gears of War, I hear Prince of Persia, Now we hear “Castle”, Next it’ll be metroid starring Judge Reinhold. Anyone get the feeling that if they wait any longer these movies (if bad) could ruin the chances for Halo? Does anyone care? lol
Just a thought
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was, and is, one of the best PC games I’ve ever played; simply fantastic.Any movie where Nazi’s are making zombies and whatnot is a good movie, hopefully it won’t be destroyed by any studios.
The world needs more Nazi zombies.
They will be our overlords.
MovieReign… Halo is dead in the water because Petey’s budget was unrealistic and no studio would pay it. Especially when he got a hack nobody to direct.
No one is touching it because its a legal thing. The studio originally slated to do it has the rights. But they wont pay for Peters “vision” and inexperienced director.
I know the budget was super high which sucks. I wonder how it would do in the box office. I know all halo fans would say it would run shit but… we all know that’s just opinion right? Rodney, why do you think Neil Blomkamp is a hack? Just because he did commercials? I’m interested in hearing what people think.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is still the best PC game I have ever played I have have played them all. Halo was a f*#kin joke compared to RTCW!
A good PC game will just flow taking you from map to map without any repetitiveness and can you say that Halo did that? There were many Halo maps that just sucked, drove me crazy!
The story of RTCW just translates easier to screen as well. I am completely psyched for this movie!
I think Blomkamp is a hack because he is a 3d effects guy and suddenly because Peter Jackson says he deserves a shot, everyone jumps on some crusade to hail this “director” as the next big thing.
No one has seen anything short of his effects shorts and some commercials. TOTALLY DIFFERENT than trying to carry a movie with an unrealistic budget that can bury a studio if it flops.
Maybe someday he will prove his worth. 3 years after the Halo Project got buried, he finally got a gig directing a small budget film in South Africa.
If he was this paragon of the industry, why couldn’t get get a job? Because he lacked experience and had yet to prove anything to anyone with money in their pocket.
And before you say it, yes. I have seen Yellow, and his other shorts. Nothing special there. Some decent effects, but we already knew he was an effects guy. I have seen better from film school kids who are actually learning to be directors. They were nothing special.
If Peter Jackson hadn’t dragged this guy’s name everywhere, no one would EVER have heard of him.
Would be halarious if this comes out a week before “Inglorious Bastards”.
Hee hee.
Real fun game btw.
Rodney. What’s your definition of a hack?
To quote The Princess Bride: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
I don’t know about you but a multiple award winning director is no hack in my book.
Gutpunch, I have a shelf FULL of trophies and awards. Doesnt make me a good director.
NONE of his awards have been for directing a feature film. Commercials and shorts are completely different than managing a feature film.
Let this guy earn his points, then let him have some budget. Until then he is no more qualified than any other kid fresh off his BFA, and if I had said that kid was directing Halo you would agree with me.
Are those trophies and awards for directing professionally?
Still doesn’t answer the question on why you insist on calling him a hack.
Did he do something to you cause you are so fierce in your hatred against this guy. It boggles the mind. Especially since just about everything you’ve said about him is wrong, especially that last sentence, so wrong on so many levels.
Its nothing personal. It is just reality that people have taken this nobody, that if not for Peter Jackson sitting him on his lap NO ONE would have ever cared about.
Its not even hatred. I just don’t like to see nobody’s getting jobs that established and experienced directors dont get just because someone makes a bullshit call while riding his own declining wave of popularity. If Neill was as good as Peter said it wouldnt take him 3 years after the fact to get a job directing. Everyone seemed to jump on the bandwagon and took some hack short films and some commercials and decided he was god? Sorry. He didnt impress me at all.
The studios wouldnt take a chance on him even with Peter waving his flag, and frankly the studios wouldnt take a chance with what Peter was smoking then anyways.
My point about my trophies are that you attempt to give credit to Neill with the mention of his “awards” which are NOT for directing a feature film.
Sure, they give him some experience and someday this guy might accomplish something, but there is no reason to give this guy a film like Halo when all he has to claim for ACTUAL experience is some effects.
Give him an effects job. He is qualified for that.
Why do you automatically think that if he’s not been attached to a feature project (that we know of) since the project died nobody is interested in him. If you actually looked you would know that he is directing a Sci-Fi film called DISTRICT 9 for Peter Jackson that’s slated for next year.
This idiotic notion that nobody who hasn’t directed a feature shouldn’t be allowed to direct feature films is just bizarre and doesn’t make one lick of sense.
And again I like to point towards other “nobody” “hack” commercial directors that sort of prove you wrong yet again. Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Michael Bay, Alex Proyas. All hack commercial directors who had never even delivered coffee on a movie set before directing their first groundbreaking feature films (well maybe not Bad Boys but you know what I mean).
Millions of people have seen this man’s work, they don’t know his name but he has amazed people all over the world with his creations, including you Rodney.
And let’s not forget that it has him that pretty much got the ball rolling for the Transformers film.
And did you think the same thing about Jackson, a director know for nothing but low budget aliens eating vomit, Muppets fucking, giant zombiefied mothers, lesbian killers and a psychic Michael J. Fox when he took on the even more massive Lord Of The Rings trilogy?
Gutpunch. I already said that it took 3 years for him to get a job. And your response is “Daddy Jackson got him a job just this year” Exactly. NO ONE ELSE will give him a job. If he was this amazing director why didnt someone else just scoop him up when Halo fell through. Other directors get job offers when a project falls apart. Why not this guy? Thats right. No experience.
Jackson had experience. You just proved that. Now name 5 feature that Neill Blomkamp has directed.
You have proven my point. Jackson HAD experience before he was handed LOTR. Blomkamp has a few amateur films. And ALL those guys you ranted on about climbed the ladder too. They didnt get tentpoles on their first times out yet.
You are just proving my point. Sorry.
Could it be that it has taken 3 years to get District 9 rolling? Could it? No, of course not, these things take no time at all. Of course he was sitting on his ass for 3 years doing nothing until Jackson handed him a project and told him to get shooting pronto.
Of course. Cause that’s how this business works.
What Jackson had proved was that he could do entertaining slapstick gore films. Tell me. In that scene in Meet The Feebles where the fly is eating shit with a spoon from a toilet bowl, did you think to yourself: Now that’s the guy who should make Lord Of The Rings. Did you even think that with Heavenly Creatures? No you didn’t and I’m pretty damn sure you thought to yourself when news got out that he was going to direct them: “Peter “Bad Taste” Jackson is going to direct LOTR? What the fuck?”
That is if you knew who he was. Most people didn’t.
And I suppose by making short films that display his techniques of special effects and 30 second commercial spots this makes him qualified to do a scifi tentpole feature film?
No. It qualifies him to be on the effects team.
You are still proving my point.
And District 9 could have taken 3 years to get going, but that doesnt mean he has to wait around 3 years hoping for filming to start. Lots of directors sign on for films 2-3 years in advance and then take jobs in the mean time. In fact, many films were DELAYED because the director signed took a different job and they choose to wait a few months for scheduling. That is how things work in the movie industry.
So while I am clarifying, yes, I am aware of what a Hack is. Urban Dictionary says “a person who is a professional at doing some sort of service, but does crappy work. ” while dictionary.com says “one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts” So without ANY experience necessary to justify his role, I’d have to say the shoe fits.
And I edited your post to remove the derogatory remarks. If you want to continue discussing, that is fine. I quite enjoy you enforcing my points. However if you want to resort to name calling you will be banned.
A bit sensitive are we? What name did I call you?
This argument seems to go way over your head and there is no point going on if one is equipped with an edit button to fit his agenda.
Sorry. You’ll just have to play with yourself.
I editted out the part where you called me an idiot. But if you want to use my ability to remove your violations of the commenting rules here as an excuse to argue your point, I feel you have already bowed out.
I can only repeat the same facts so many times while you argumentatively agree with me.
Sure.