Uwe Boll's $2.5 million Postal movie crowdfunder is a trainwreck, forced to abort after raising $850 and the game's devs say they 'have no f***** idea' who the people behind it are

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Uwe Boll, producer at the Mann�s Chinese in Hollywood, California.

Which is all quite lofty, isn’t it? And that makes it all the stranger that Boll didn’t actually launch the Indiegogo under his own name. Although the directorpublicised the campaign, it was launched under the name of Gary Otto—Boll’s co-host on his podcast Uwe Boll Raw USA—who seems to have been responsible for all the grunt work of running the whole thing.

Problem was, of course, that neither Boll nor Otto seemed to have informed Postal’s devs at Running With Scissors about it, and they were more than a little baffled. In an update posted on Facebook and shared to Twitter,RWS CEO Vince Desiderio wrotethat “The Official position of RWS is we DO NOT support this fundraising effort. I have no fuckin idea who Gary Otto, the project owner is. No one has contacted us about this effort, and it’s a major concern that he clearly states he can use any funds raised for another project.”

That last bit refers to a note from Otto that—if the campaign failed to raise the requisite $2.5 million, or some othercompletely unforeseeableobstacle cropped up—the money would instead go towards California Fried Movie, a sequel to Boll’s first film German Fried Movie, which currently has 1.5 stars out of 10 onIMDB. “I’d like everyone to know that the money in this campaign will go towards either POSTAL 2 if the goal is met,” wrote Otto in the campaign’s backer discussion section, “OR the concept will get redeveloped into ‘California Fried Movie’ with much of the same content.”

Oh, and all the while Boll was posting on Twitter that $2.5 million wouldn’t actually be enough to make the film the way he wanted to. “If we collect 2.5 mio [sic],” he wrote “I will come up with another 2.5 mio…to make it proper.” Boll offered no insight as to where or how he would magic up another $2.5 million for a sequel to a film everybody hated.

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Alas, it looks like they’ll never get it. Not long after Otto posted that update, the campaign was totally suspended. Its name was changed to “Cancelled all pledges refunded we had no choice,” and Otto posted that “Uwe Boll told me what he wanted and I did that. Everything—all the attacks etc I did nothing to deserve. If someone cursed at you, called you shady and a fraud, you’d probably not be very nice back. Especially when you were only doing your job.”

In a final update, Otto wrote that “Once we get the money, I will refund it back to all of you. Have a nice life OK.”

Since then, social media tied to the campaign has been erased. Otto’s Twitter account and the Twitter account for Uwe Boll Raw USA have both been deleted, leaving only Boll’s personal account as a source for continued updates. Ina videoposted to the service, Boll alerted fans that “We had to take the campaign down, it’s just not worth it.

“I think, especially on Twitter, some people should be very sorry who insulted Gary Otto, who did everything—what he had to do—based on my orders to him… Now it’s only me on Twitter left.” Meanwhile, “Everybody who paid money will get the money back or get the prize, I don’t know how exactly it works.”

But, just between you and me, I wouldn’t place any bets.

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