Uwe Boll secures film rights to Legend: Hand of God

Uwe Boll is up to his old tricks again although, technically, this is a new trick. The oft-maligned director of terrible video game films has actually procured the rights to a game that isn’t out yet: PC action-RPG Legend: Hand of God. The game is due for a 2008 release, with a tentative early 2009 date set for shooting Boll’s likely skewering of the subject material.

There’s a certain level of amusement in all the franchise whoring going around these days, and Boll is certainly the most prolific offender…