‘Wolfenstein’ With Roger Avary

Published by Jeff Leins on: August 3rd, 2007

I had no idea that a Wolfenstein movie was being adapted, but now I can think of nothing else. In fact, I want to go back and play the old school first person shooter right now. But I think my employer would frown upon me shooting Nazis at work…

Roger Avary has been announced as the director for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, an adaptation of the original shoot-em-up video game and its recent game remake. Avary will write and direct the movie about the paranormal ties to Nazi Germany during World War II. The game, and now the movie, will center on U.S. Army Ranger B.J. Blazkowicz, who taught me as a kid that I was great with a chain gun.

Avary is best known as the co-writer of Pulp Fiction, which won him an Oscar with Tarantino. He wrote and directed the underrated Rules of Attraction and scripted the upcoming motion-captured Beowulf. Unfortunately, he also wrote Silent Hill, which was a particularly bad video game movie.

Most video game to movie adaptations are beyond awful. But Wolfenstein could be entertaining, especially with Avary’s credits.

Avary said, “It’s time to bust some dams, storm some bunkers and blow up some bridges.”