Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is preparing to release his latest blockbuster
Rampage on to the world. However, even before reviews for the highly anticipated video game adaptation has been releasedm, it already has one harsh critic.
German director Uwe Boll has taken to Twitter, his website and pretty much any other form of media he can to trash Rampage and its star. Why is Boll so upset about the movie? It has to do with his film trilogy he directed that started back in 2009 with the same name. The most recent film,
Rampage: President Down, was released in 2016.
On Boll's personal
website, a statement reads,
"Uwe Boll is currently reviewing his options to pursue litigation against motion picture studio Warner Bros. and Producer New Line for using his brand RAMPAGE as the title for the upcoming motion picture starring Dwayne Johnson, also known as the Rock. Boll released 3 original Rampage movies in 2009, 2014 and 2017. This movie trilogy had a quick turnaround amassing large cult following on DVD and entities like Netflix."
The site also contains a personal statement from Boll himself:
"We are living now in a world where Independent Movies are dead and the big players only are making all the money. That they then use developed brands and ideas from established series such as my Rampage films in order to make even more money is unfair but typical. The new RAMPAGE movie will shrink my brand and my revenues I can make in the future with my RAMPAGE movies. It also confuses the audience! I want that WARNERS change the title, especially because the new movie has nothing to do with a RAMPAGE and looks more like Jumanji 2 and is one of those typical feelgood, popcorn bullshit movies that the studios use to brainwash America even more! All these kind of movies including Transformers, Avengers are helping the military industrial complex in America to win and have retards like Trump be American President who would say that the earth is flat as soon they think they can benefit from this!"
You can head over to Boll's
Twitter page to check out some of his other attacks on the film, and check out
Rampage when it hits theaters on April 13th.