Uwe Boll promises to stop making movies if…

Gamers have been fearful of the name Uwe Boll for 5 years now. Starting with his film adaptation of House of The Dead (2003), Uwe has made a name for himself by not only making very bad movies (that’s about as politely as we can state it), but also by targetting videogame franchises for his film treatments. He’s gone on to create BloodRayne films, Postal, Alone in The Dark and more. Though gamers have been wishing that the man would simply stop destroying our franchises, the man keeps on going.

A day of hope, however, may be approaching. Uwe Boll was recently asked in an interview about his thoughts on an online petition that aimed at getting him to stop making movies. At the time of the interview, the petition only had 18,000 signatures and Boll stated, “Yeah, I know that. 18,000 is not enough to convince me.” When asked how many signatures would it take to make him stop, he replied “One million. Now we have a new goal.”

Where things get even funnier is that Stride Gum is trying to do their part to speed up the process. If the petition reaches 1 million signatures before May 14th, they’ll give 1 million packs of gum to the those who sign the petition.

Whether or not Dr. Uwe Boll meant what he said about stopping if the petition hit 1 million or if he’s just trying to take advantage of the press it’ll stir up ahead of his latest movie, Postal, making a theatrical release this month remains to be seen. For the gamers out there, however, that hope to never see one of their beloved franchises tarnished again, it just may be worth a try.