So if you don’t hate director Uwe Boll yet, you might be interested in his next project, being the video game adaptation of HUNTER: THE RECKONING. While his previous works have led some of the fans of the game screaming in fear, the folks over at Insomnia Maniac had a chance to ask the president of White Wolf, and the licensor for the HUNTER brand, Mike Tinney, a few questions about the upcoming adaptation.
Now, I was all for giving Boll some credit, everyone’s entitled to making a bad movie- especially if it’s your first. But two in a row? And both video game adaptations? It makes me a little scared for both BLOODRAYNE and HUNTER. But here’s a few blurbs of what Tinney had to say on the project:
Question – Many fear that this movie will diminish the moral grey area between the hunters and monsters that is inherent in the game. They fear Hunters will always be the ‘Good guys’ and Monsters will always be the ‘bad guys’. Even in the games, which had sketchy character development at best, Blured the line with characters such as Carpenter and the hunter Devin. Will we be seeing any moral abiguity, or is this just a simple absolute good verses absolute evil thing.
MT: I’m happy to say that moral ambiguity is one of the themes the writers embraced. The protagonist is a *good* guy, but he’s in bad times and has to make tough decisions.
Question – I’m sure you’ve done your reasearch, but have you read Hunter: The Reckoning core rule book, or any of the other pen and paper books of the line?
MT: Uwe and the writers have complete libraries at their disposal, along with full access to us here at White Wolf (which they’ve used liberally). In the few places in the script where we did tweak the property or the “rules” of the Hunter world it was with full awareness of doing so, and in order to make the movie a better _movie_. As opposed to having it be a game or book on film.
Oh man. I wonder if Boll had a complete library for the other video games he’s managed to destroy. Only time will tell. And who knows- maybe two bad movies, then two better movies will be Boll’s signature as a filmmaker. We can only hope.
To check out the entire interview with Tinney, click HERE.
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