Uwe Boll, commonly cited as the worst director ever, has officially retired from his filmmaking career.
And although all of his films have been negatively received, including adaptations of video games like House of the Dead and BloodRayne, that isn’t the reason for his departure. Rather, Boll insists the market for his films is dead.
This means that his final film will be Rampage 3, to which he says:
Rampage 3 will be watched on Netflix, DVD or iTunes or whatever. They’ll say, ‘That wonderful movie! I liked it blah, blah, blah,’ then watch Avengers. With streaming everywhere there is just a big wave of movies flooding around and you have no impact. The market is dead. You don’t make any money anymore on movies because the DVD and Blu-ray market worldwide has dropped 80 percent in the last three years. That is the real reason; I just cannot afford to make movies. I can’t go back to student filmmaking because I have made so many movies in my life, and I can’t make cheaper and cheaper movies at my age. It’s a shame. I would be happy to make movies but it is just not financially profitable.”
Boll continues to explain that one of his problems is that he’s been self-financing his own movies.
I’ve been using my money since 2005 and if I hadn’t made the stupid video game based movies I would never have amalgamated the capital so I could say, ‘Let’s make the Darfur movie.’ I don’t need a Ferrari, I don’t need a yacht. I invested in my own movies and I lost money.”
Without filmmaking, Boll intends to oversee his own film distribution company and manage his Vancouver restaurant Bauhaus. His last wishes for filmmaking is that critics will one day revisit his work and take into consideration how supposedly well-made it is. At least, how well-made according to Boll.