Eurogamer is carrying an interview with film director Uwe Boll about videogame movies. The thrust is basically that when his videogame adaptations have failed to succeed critically or to make good theatrical box-office numbers, the reasons have largely been a lack of support from the developers of the original game and an unfairly hostile press.

He states a firm belief in his approach, which can be summarized as getting the maximum amount of Hollywood-level production value for as little money as possible and then going into profit-taking mode on TV rights and DVD sales.

And projects that dare to go a more traditional route, with a big budget and big names? Yeah, they're doomed, says Boll:

I don't know if I would definitely make the movie very differently, because I think that Doom remembered me in a lot of the camera angles, what the creatures were doing and so on... I think the guy who made Doom definitely saw Alone in the Dark.

I personally think that with the budget they've planned, Halo will be a failure. I think Halo will not make the money back in the end.

Check out the complete interview at Eurogamer and get it straight from a part of the horse's anatomy I'd rather not think about. Thanks to A of T who pointed out the story.