Video game adaptations quickly become the next big deal in Hollywood, with Movies like "Minecraft Film" Both the "Super Mario Bros." and TV shows such as "Fallout" and "The Last of Us" all find huge success. It is a trend that no one would predict a few decades ago, when the very notion of video game film created the thoughts on low budgets, bad reviews, actors on the C and box office list.

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Back in those golden days, no one was more infamous about his Flops for video game movies Than a controversial German director Uwe Boll. During all the attacks, Ball threw a bomb after a bomb, adapting games like "alone in the dark", "dungeon siege", "Bloodrayne", "House of the Dead" and "Far Cry". He is probably the man who is most responsible for the hellish reputation of the video game films at the time. In 2007, Ball directed "Postal", based on the game series of the same name that began in 1997. Discount "Grand Theft Auto" with all violence and none of the tactics, "Zip" was not head material, and the film, surprisingly, fell completely flat. The Postal made just under $ 150,000 with a $ 15 million budget. But that did not prevent Ball from trying to promote the sequel almost 20 years later.

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In September 2024 The only problem, sideways from the heinous record of Ball, his status on the film industry and the fact that the first film was a total disaster? He apparently had no rights to make a second adaptation in the first place.

The Indigogo page for Uwe Ball's "Postal 2" is no longer available for review, as the campaign has been suspended and all promises have returned. Probably, this is because of the response from games developers, running with scissors, who claimed they had no knowledge of the project. In other words, Ball was trying to promote the sequel to the film that was universally omitted on the basis of a franchise, for which there was no longer the rights to adapt.

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According to a Computer gamer A report at the time, the film's page, said that "Postal 2" was "almost a duty to freedom of art, speech and life", claiming the usual, tired goal of fighting "political correctness" and "waking up and giving up culture".

Ball allegedly pointed to sharp wit and cultural incisiveness of the first "postal" film, which is full of things like Holocaust jokes, the most focused gay stereotypes and people who defecate on camera. Indeed, a brave art experiment. It is a tragedy that we will not see his sequel as crawls in cinemas to break even more money in the future.

Maybe Ball will be more lucky with that movie "Dark Knight".