And so another piece of the puzzle falls into place. We now know two things about German tastes in entertainment: 1) Germans love David Hasselhoff; and 2) they also loved that 90s mega-fiasco Showgirls. Either that, or German filmmakers absolutely hate their audiences.

If you’ll remember, Showgirls was supposed to make history by taking NC-17 into the mainstream, with a veritable dumptruck full of naked boobies, full frontal nudity, and graphic, wildly gyrating swimming-pool sex. Instead, it made history by becoming one of the worst movies of all time. It won a record eight Razzies (out of a record thirteen nominations), turned Elizabeth Berkley’s career into a smoking crater, and made $20 million in the theatres—not so good, for a $45 million film. (Since then, the turkey has earned $100 million-plus in rental fees, so they’ve got that going for them.) It takes a truly unique sensibility to look at that track record and think, “This movie cries out for a sequel!” Meet Marc Vorlander, who plans to make a sequel to Showgirls and has $25 million in funding to prove this isn’t some hideous Teutonic form of black humor. None of the survivors of the original planecrash have opted to board this flight, so Showgirls: A Story of Hope will focus on the highly forgettable character played by Reina Riffel in the original. Here’s a plot summary, courtesy of Babelfish:

It’s about stripper who died from a dose of contaminated cocaine. Her brother comes to Frankfurt to find the responsible and revenge.

Call me perverse, but this project has me sort of intrigued. Most sequels are signifcantly worse than the first pic, and Vorlander may be entering genuinely uncharted territory here. He won’t be winning any Oscars for this effort, but Uwe Boll has got to be feeling nervous about his place in cinematic history.