In what I hope to God is a joke press release, game developer Running with Scissors has announced that Uwe Boll has signed a deal to turn the over-the-top gore-fest Postal into a movie.

Despite everyone from Steven Spielberg to Microsoft announcing big money deals involving films based on video games, this new partnership between controversial figures in the game and film industries is destined to become the most incendiary game-to-film deal yet.

"Uwe Boll is the perfect producer-director to make POSTAL," affirmed Running With Scissors' CEO Vince Desi. "He understands the subject matter and has an appreciation and affinity for controversy and political incorrectness. POSTAL has always been about reason and insanity, violence and motivation; producer-director Uwe Boll is simply the right guy to bring that vision to the screen."

The man behind the camera, Hollywood outsider Uwe Boll ranks POSTAL as his personal, all-time favorite video game. "I see it like a mirror for our society — funny, violent, absurd!" he declared. "So then the movie must be powerful, strange, and so full of the game's political incorrect outrageousness that if we do it correct, we will all probably end up in jail!"

The press release goes on to say that shooting for the movie begins in 2006 with a release set for 2007, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the original game's debut.

Update:: I just confirmed this with RWS CEO Vince Desi, they are in fact making the movie. I'll post my short interview with him in a bit. It also includes one... interesting casting announcement.

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