'Legendary' film director Uwe Boll has revealed to MTV that he tried to get the rights to create a from Blizzard.

Blizzard were less than overcome by Boll's overtures, it would seem, the director admitting that COO Paul Sams said: "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you... especially not to you."

Boll is of course infamous for directing epic gaming-film flops like Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, BloodRayne and Dungeon Siege.

A movie based on Crytek's is due out soon, another critical panning is expected, while gamers have never learned to love his cinematic conversions.

"Because it's such a big game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it," commented Boll.

By Luke Guttridge