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Posted: **Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:03 pm**

Found here:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/08/03/rog ... ein-movie/

Roger Avary to make Return to Castle Wolfenstein Movie

Posted on Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 8:28 am by: Peter Sciretta

Return to Castle WolfensteinMany of you might not remember this but, before Quake, Before Doom, there was Wolfenstein 3D - considered to be the first first person shooter video gameof all time. It’s even more popular sequel, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, was released in November 2001. And now Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary is set to write and direct a feature film adaptation.

The game is based on Castle Wewelsburg, a 17th century castle occupied by the Germans under Heinrich Himmler’s control, and used for occult rituals and practices. The game begins in Nazi-occupied Europe during 1943 and revolves around U.S. Army Ranger B.J. Blazkowicz, who, along with another agent, is sent to investigate rumors surrounding one of Heinrich Himmler’s personal projects, the SS Paranormal Division. The agents are, however, captured before completing their mission and are imprisoned in Castle Wolfenstein. Blazkowicz must escape the castle and continue investigating the activities of the SS Paranormal Division, which include research on resurrecting corpses, bio-technology, and secret weapons.

While Return to Castle Woldenstein is technically a sequel, without the name and the occasional in-game references, it might be unrecognizable as a part of the series.

There are not many video game properties that have the potential to be made into an entertaining movie, but this may be one of them. And Roger Avary is a geek an academy award winning writer in his own right. In addition to co-writing the upcoming Robert Zemeckis computer animated Beowulf with Neil Gaiman, Avary was also behind The Rules of Attraction and Killing Zoe, two very underrated indie films which you should probably add to your Netflix list. Oh yeah, and he helped scribble out a little film titled Pulp Fiction.

Posted: **Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:20 pm**

even with avery doing it... its still probably going to end up as "just another action movie".
i really don't see how it could really be much more... but at least avery knows how to write dialogue... so it should at the very least be more watchable than doom and resident evil.
probably make or break in the casting. (might be a good fit for clive owen)

Posted: **Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:40 pm**

If it is even a little better than the Doom movie it still would not be worth my time.

Posted: **Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:56 pm**

When playing RTCW, I thought that it was all nonsensical fantasy but what makes me appreciate the game more today is all the factual references presented in the game.

Castle Wolfenstein is of course a reference to the Nazi owned Castle Wewelsburg, "known for becoming the ritual headquarters of the SS in 1934 under Heinrich Himmler", who appeared in the game. There are quite a lot of references to Nazi Occultism in real life, "Himmler has been claimed to have considered himself the spiritual successor or even reincarnation of Heinrich the Fowler [the final boss guy], having established special SS rituals for the old king and returned his bones to the crypt at Quedlinburg Cathedral."

Even some of the crazy aircraft in the game turned out to be actual German experimental planes:
Bachem Ba 349
Horten Ho 229

Anyway, point is that if they're going to make a movie based on RTCW, there's a lot of material that the game just barely scrapes, so there should be a lot they have to work with. As long as they don't turn it into some CG action flick, it pretty much writes itself.

Posted: **Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:06 pm**

ohhh, ill watch this even if its bad, be great to see how what they do with the castle and themes.

Posted: **Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:11 pm**

pfff...

i have the feeling it will remind me the Doom Movie failure...

Posted: **Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:17 pm**

BARREL = SCRAPED