This guy is a pain in the ass but I already drove that point home a time ago. For­tu­nately, his lat­est movie – In the Name of the King – didn’t do too well at the box office where it only grossed roughly $10 mil­lion world­wide. Accord­ing to Hol­ly­wood Reporter, Boll “will focus on small films” in the future. Unfor­tu­nately, before he will do so there will be another film adap­ta­tion of a famous game.

This time around the movie is based on the very pop­u­lar Far­Cry cre­ated by the Ger­man com­pany Cry­tek. Far­Cry is star­ring Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Craig Fair­brass, Ralf Moeller and, sadly, Don S. Davis whom I liked as “Ham­mond of Texas” in Star­gate SG-1. There’s no defin­i­tive release date yet except that it will come in 2008.

Any­way, take a look for your­self. Be sure to watch out for absolutely awe­some catch­phrases like “I haven’t said any­thing about being sim­ple.” or “You are one per­sis­tent son of a bitch.” or – best of all – “Is that your gun?”. I may not know much but I know one thing: This movie will suck again. Then, this doesn’t come as a sur­prise, does it?

Finally, I get to see those two in one movie. They got together to star in the upcom­ing movie The For­bid­den King­dom – for­merly known as The J & J project – which is about an Amer­i­can teenager trav­el­ing back through time to ancient China. Obvi­ously, he doesn’t do so because he planned it but rather because he got his hands on a leg­endary weapon that once belonged to the Mon­key King. The offi­cial site doesn’t have any­thing on it at all but the lat­est trailer which is also avail­able in HD over at Apple. Accord­ing to IMDB the movie will be open­ing in the US on April 18th, 2008.

This is the first col­lab­o­ra­tion between mar­tial arts vet­er­ans Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Chan will act as a drunken kung fu mas­ter while Li slips into the role of a silent monk who doesn’t talk much. This was quite unex­pected. I always hoped to watch both of them come together in one movie and now the time has arrived. Truth be told, I hoped for them to star in the upcom­ing movie adap­ta­tion of the very pop­u­lar video game Tekken. I’m afraid that’s not going to hap­pen if this report can be believed.