The Gates To Finally Open To CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN?

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The Gates To Finally Open To CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN?
Like many people of our... vintage... Wolfenstein 3D was likely our first exposure to first-person shooter video games. Myself, I would go to the home office of our local paintball club and play until my vision blurred, I got a splitting headache, or I threw up. That usually only took about twenty to thirty minutes the graphics were so bad. Yet I find myself excited with the prospect of a Wolfenstein movie coming to a cinema near me. 

"Castle Wolfenstein is an action adventure film in the vein of Captain America and Inglourious Basterds.  The story follows a young US Army Captain and a British Special Agent on a top secret mission to Castle Wolfenstein, where Hitler will be for the unveiling of a new secret weapon.  After reaching the Castle, our heroes are confronted with Himmler's SS Paranormal Division and must fight, not only for their survival, but for a mission that could alter the course of the War."


With Roger at the helm, we expect everyone will join us for a wild and fun cinematic ride that will grab contemporary film audiences with the same irreverent, hip, over the top approach that Roger brought to Pulp Fiction and the other films he has either written or directed," said Hadida. "It is a big action adventure but also strongly character driven and based on a very solid story. ... The film involves a classic assault on the bad guys, who are nominally Nazis, more evocative of Inglourious Basterds than the actual World War II. It is a vaguely futuristic retro world as fun as Captain America, which has recently been reintroduced to the world audience with great success."


Said Avary in a statement, "I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career.  I have always thought Wolfenstein, transformed and opened for the screen to wider audiences not familiar with the games, would be a major cinematic experience, which is why I introduced it to Samuel.  He bought the rights, and I could not be happier that we are now embarking on this adventure."

Numerous works, theories and projects have speculated about the Nazi's obsession with the occult. It has permeated popular cinema for decades, from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Outpost films, and there are still more to come like Frankenstein's Army. So there is no shortage of projects out there but for nostalgia's sake I would like to see what Roger Avery can do with this source material.

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