With "Doom" blasting its way to the top of the box office, video games are hotter in Hollywood than ever before. For controversial filmmaker Uwe Boll, yanking the controller out of your hands and replacing it with popcorn is his business -- and business is very, very good.

Boll has acquired the rights to "Postal," billed by creator Running With Scissors as "the world's most outrageous video game," and plans to begin principal photography in Arizona during the latter half of 2006.

"The key character is the Postal Dude," Running With Scissors' irreverent CEO, Vince Desi, said of the franchise's plot. "That's what we call him. He's anonymous; he represents everything that's wrong with America. Basically, it's going to be following him ... he's your everyday white-trash guy, lives in a trailer in Arizona, he smokes and has a pit bull named Champ as a dog, he's got a bitch for a wife, he drinks beer."

When the Postal Dude finds himself in the midst of a particularly difficult week, he grabs a big gun and goes ... well, you guessed it. And although the role of Dude has yet to be cast, Desi insisted that his company will work with Boll in every phase of the film's development and has already signed one actor to play the key role of himself.

"In the game, he bumps into Gary Coleman, because his base is basically an old abandoned mall," Desi revealed. "And the only thing going on in this mall is that Gary Coleman is having a book signing of his autobiography. So he goes to get his autograph, but all hell breaks loose because that's what happens in these games."

In addition to the casting of the former child star, the movie will also feature an appearance by "The Postal Babes," scantily clad women who frequently appear in public to help promote "Postal" (released in 1997) and "Postal 2" (2002). The violent series gained infamy in the late '90s when Senator Joe Lieberman cited the first game as an example of moral bankruptcy in entertainment.

"I see it like a mirror for our society: funny, violent, absurd!" Boll said in a statement. "So then the movie must be powerful, strange and so full of the game's politically incorrect outrageousness that if we do it correct, we will all probably end up in jail."

For many diehard game fans, the director's incarceration would be cause for dancing in the streets. Boll, the 40-year-old German filmmaker behind such game-to-movie adaptations as "House of the Dead" and "Alone in the Dark," is adding "Postal" to a list of upcoming projects nearly as long as the roster of Web sites that mention his name and the word "antichrist" in the same breath.

"You cannot have all the fans on your side," Boll recently admitted during an interview on the set of his upcoming adaptation of the "Dungeon Siege" video game. "Especially in that sector, you have a lot of video game freaks, they are on the Internet, trashing you. It happens to all video-game-based movies. It's not making me happy that it happens, but what should you do?

"I cannot say that nobody talks about me," he laughed. "I have so many millions of page impressions everywhere ... [angry] e-mails I get every day. If someone e-mails me: 'You suck, you a--hole,' I respond and I say, 'Why? Explain it to me.' They say, 'Because "Alone in the Dark" was so sh--ty!' "

"[He] has an appreciation and affinity for controversy and political incorrectness," Desi said, justifying Boll's appointment as director and producer of "Postal."

Regardless of the quality of his past work, Boll has set up an independent-movie empire that now includes "Postal," "Far Cry," "Hunter: The Reckoning" and several other game titles, as well as "BloodRayne," the upcoming super-violent adaptation that hits theaters January 6 after being trimmed down just enough to secure an R rating.

"We omitted the problems, we've basically cut a few things out, and we have a harsh R rating," Boll said of the movie, which stars "Terminator 3" sexpot Kristanna Loken as an 18th century vampire whose inclinations to do good are hampered by her thirst for human blood. "We will have maybe an NC-17 on DVD later for a special gore edition. It's very violent, it's very dark, it's very sexy. The audience will really like it, because people who want to see a movie like 'BloodRayne' want to see gore and sex."

It's also the latest film in a long string that, according to Boll, hasn't needed to do huge box-office numbers to keep his business booming. " 'Alone in the Dark' didn't work in the U.S.," Boll said of last year's Tara Reid/ Christian Slater clunker. "In the theaters, it basically bombed, with $6 million box office, but on DVD we did over $30 million, even in the U.S. Outside the U.S., we were running in the theaters way better, like Spain and Russia, in the Middle East, Thailand and Mexico, we were running two or three weeks in the top 10. In the U.S. box office, we weren't in the top 10; we started in position 11 on the first weekend. It's evening out worldwide; some movies are working in the U.S. better, and some are working foreign better, but on DVD, video-game-based movies do very, very good."

Boll is counting on that built-in audience for "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," a medieval tale with names like Jason Statham, Burt Reynolds, Matthew Lillard, Ray Liotta and Leelee Sobieski (see [article id="1505062"]"Burt Reynolds, Statham, Perlman To Star In 'Dungeon Siege' "[/article]). With initial cuts of the film coming in at more than four and a half hours long, Boll recently decided to plan a "Kill Bill"-like release, cutting the film into two companion movies that will be released months apart.

"I'm personally not a big fan of too-long movies," Boll stated, explaining the decision. "I'm very bored if I'm sitting three hours, three and a half hours in the theater. I would prefer cutting it in half, then, if I was sitting in the audience."

Boll did admit, however, that U.S. box office will be far more important for the "Dungeon" films, the first of which is due next year. "These movies must be a big success in the theaters to return $60 million, what we spent," Boll revealed. "We need a success, but I think with 'In the Name of the King,' we'll go for a really big, wide audience, and people who liked 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' or 'Lord of the Rings,' people who like those kinds of movies will like 'In the Name of the King.' "

If the success of "Doom" is any indication, it seems that Uwe Boll will be limiting his "Postal" fits of rage to the one he's putting on the big screen. Those "freaks" on the Internet, however, may want to start composing those angry e-mails.

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