German director Uwe Boll is making his filmmaking comeback with two features in the works.
After a seven-year hiatus from the industry, that included setting up a restaurant in Canada, Boll is marking his return with an action thriller titled 12 Hours. The feature follows a man who returns with his family to Cape Town, South Africa, for his mother’s funeral, only for his whole family to get kidnapped, leaving him with 12 hours to kill five people to get his family back.
It will be produced through Boll’s outfit, Event Film Productions. It aims to shoot in Cape Town, in March next year. Boll is self-financing the feature, with a budget of $9m.
Boll has made 34 films to-date, and is best known for critically-panned video game adaptations, including Alone In The Dark, BloodRayne and House Of The Dead, that went on to become cult hits and commercial successes thanks to home entertainment releases.
“I can’t bash these titles in retrospective,” said Boll. “They were necessary for the rest of my career and for my independence. I cannot say I regret them – they made money.”
Boll is also working on a feature called Ness, which he bills as a follow-up to The Untouchables, and focuses on Eliot Ness, the agent who brought down Al Capone. He also has an eight-part Mare Of Easttown style mini-series in early development, which he hopes to shoot in 2024.
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