I wanted to make a departure from the drama/horror/action films I'd been recently making. I made the creative decision to present the feature POSTAL as an extremely dark comedy. As a genre, comedy provides the opportunity for one to explore controversial and politically volatile subjects. If you make people laugh , you can address forbidden topics with a harsh and brutal approach.

One takes the potential risk of offending audience members with every new film. In POSTAL, we chose to send up every forbidden topic. We laugh and abuse all groups, religions and political parties with a sense of equality. Some people will find the film humerous and entertaining, and others may be deeply offended. On one hand we make jokes at George Bush's expense and on the other we take the piss out of environmentalist, tree hugging, yoga supporters. No one is spared.

I wanted to make a departure from the drama/horror/action films I'd been recently making.

If you make people laugh

One takes the potential risk of offending audience members with every new film.

A recording of Uwe Boll’s seminar on ‘Transforming Games to Movies’ at Breakpoint 2007 is available in form of a bittorrent file. It contains new trailers for In the Name of the King and Postal. A huge surprise: Boll shows the first 4 minutes of Postal.

The movies opens with a scene inside the cockpit of the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center. The terrorists who hijacked the plane argue about how many virgins they’ll get in the afterlife. They decide to call up their leader, Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden confirms there is a bit of a shortage of virgins lately due to all the martyrs blowing themselves up in the world. Dumbfounded, the terrorists decide to give up their plan to sacrifice themselves and reroute the plane to the Bahamas. But then the passengers break into the cockpit and attack the terrorists. Out of control, the planes crashes into the WTC. At this point we get the exact same shot that was contained in the leaked clip, albeit with slightly different sound editing. The fireball from the exploding plane engulfes the screen and we cut to the title credits.

Thanks to Georgit Porgir for pointing out an older article on IGN. They had 100 celebrities pick their favorite moments in television history. Uwe Boll remembered the TV coverage of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. (tv.ign.com):

"My favorite TV moment was the September 11 attack. For one day in TV History every channel showed the same stuff over and over again. This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not. I think on that day I saw 150 times the same shot of airplanes crashing in the World Trade Center and of course every time the news showed it again the reporter made a long speech how bitter it is. This day showed me also that we are all really convinced that 3000 dead people in a western civilization are way more important that millions of dead Africans and Arabs in wars and civil wars at the same time."

If the 9/11 victims' families complain, Uwe will just challenge them to a boxing match.