Director Uwe Boll is at it again. The controversial filmmaker is currently in production on a $30 million adaptation of Crytek's Far Cry video game. (The licensing deal is through the game maker, not the publisher, Ubisoft.) Boll is filming the movie on several islands around Vancouver, British Columbia. He had originally had his sights set on Hawaii and Florida, but ultimately decided to stay in Vancouver, where he has filmed the majority of his movies.

Boll has cast German actor Til Schweiger (Tomb Raider 2, King Arthur) in the lead role of ex-special forces operative Jack Carver. Emanuelle Vaugier (CSI: NY), who gamers know from her role in Need for Speed: Carbon, plays reporter Valerie Cardinal. Craig Fairbass (White Noise 2) assumes the role of Parker and Udo Kier (Grindhouse, BloodRayne) brings the evil Dr. Krieger to life.

Boll has also cast Natalia Avelon, Ralf Moller, Michael Pare, Michael Eklund, Don Davis, Jay Brazeau and Chris Coppula in the film. Boll said the script will follow the plot of the first video game, which sends Jack and Valerie to a mysterious island that's home to the Kreiger Corporation and its genetic experiments.

The production will film through August 4. Boll KG and Brightlight Pictures are once again tag-teaming on this latest video game adaptation from Boll. They previously worked together on Alone in the Dark, Postal, BloodRayne II: Deliverance and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.

Far Cry is expected to hit theaters next year. Boll already has a busy line-up from past films. The next out of the gate for Boll is Postal, which Freestyle Productions will release September 28. That same company, which has released movies like The Illusionist, will bring In the Name of the King to theaters January 18 on over 2,500 screens. Boll's original horror movie, Seed, which is not based on a game, will launch next year, as well.

Boll's BloodRayne II will go straight to DVD in North America this October, but it will open theatrically overseas in certain markets. Boll also has filmed another non-video game film, Tunnel Rats, which takes place during the Vietnam War. That film has no release date yet. He's also in pre-production on Alone in the Dark II, which is likely to get a direct-to-video release.