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Is It Game Over For Paul W.S. Anderson's CASTLEVANIA Adaptation??
Merrick here...
Bloody-Disgusting says Paul W.S. Anderson's adaptation of CASTLEVANIA may not come together.
The project, originally announced with Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer) attached to direct, had recently went out to new directors only to take a trip into the abyss of "development hell."
...says THIS REPORT at Bloody-Disgusting.
According to BD:
The pic was to focus on the origins of Dracula and the uprising of the Belmont Clan, a vampire-slaying family who supposedly become humanity's last hope. Ian Jeffers had been penning the screenplay alongside Anderson.
Awesome news, if true, although I wish BD offered a few more specific details in the matter for clarity/certainty.
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that's a shocker
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Or Qbert, or Pac-Man, or Super Mario Bros.....
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Rejoicing in other people's failure!
For shame, Merrick!
Event Horizon wasn't THAT bad people! -
I remember reading an outline of the script and it was fucking awful.
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just not with anderson attached.
sadly the closest we will probably get to a castlevania movie was van helsing,if we edit out the 90% bad stuff. -
There was an I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer?
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Not because I hate Anderson (because I don't. I'm pretty neutral about him. I like some of his movies and I don't like some of them.) but I remember hearing bad things about the script. And I mean REALLY bad. As in "there is a script about a guy who hunts vampires and for any reason it has the same name like the famous video game, although it doesn't really have anything to with it."
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-- that Paul W.S. Anderson has one less movie to make!
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For those who dont believe in god? i think this is all the evidence that you need ;)
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Anderson would have put something together that would have just disappointed me anyway. He should work on something where he can't hurt himself or anybody else like Wishmaster 5, or Babylon AD 2, or a big screen adaption of Clu Clu Land.
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and put an end to all this fucking and mucking about..
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if they would actually get a good director and screenwriter behind it. I would love to see it, but most video game movies blow.
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Not much of it these days.
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Any time a Paul Anderson project stalls, I remember that God exists.
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His "Mortal Kombat" was great. The first "Resident Evil" was great. Hell, those two are probably among the very best in the genre. That seems to be his strongest suit. Damned sad to see that his Castlevania script won't come to light, especially after that "there's no whip" nonsense got outed as bullshit by haters who know nothing.
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Hope it never gets made because it'll be crap just like everything else. White shouldn't get a shot at directing anything after the turds he's given to the film world.
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Let someone with more creativity take on the Castlevania franchise (if there's a franchise to be made)
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really a low-budget, low concept remake of Coppola's Bram Stoker's "Dracula"...not really surprised it's not getting made.
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at least for this fan of the video game and "hater" of all things Paul W.S. Anderson.
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Christopher Gans would be a good pick.
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I've been against this from the beginning. I love Castlevania, but I doubt that American filmmakers will ever get the tone and the nuances right enough to please the fans of the games. Surely there will be some dipshits who loved it the same way they love Van Helsing, but I don't want to see it turn out that way.
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It's a fucking side scrolling platform game. Come on!
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Damn you to hell!
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Don't they realize that was a stupid idea? Movie game movies suck period! that's why they are VIDEO GAMES!
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Make it happen. I don't hate Anderson either,but I'm not thinking this would have been a home run under his watch. This movie could be really good if it's not given the "GI Joe, VanHelsing" treatment. It should be an old school horror movie with some action and violence into the mix.Dracula has to be a real threat or it just won't work.
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...but one where the hero fights some of the fucking coolest monsters that have never been on film before! This has every potential to be the movie that 'Van Helsing' should have been!
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Pull my finger.
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May 27, 2009 9:46:03 AM CDT
When is it game over for Paul WS Anderson?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That's the fucking story I want to read about.
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After a few major flop I guess it is about time. Never showed potential, but made movies that every fanboy would do. Hey, hollywood! I can make these kind of movies too. Only better! gimme a call! I am available.
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I once asked a friend, if he could pick any director to make a Symphony of the Night movie (or maybe it was simply a Castlevania in general movie) and his favorite charity would receive millions and millions of dollars if he would pick someone, who would he pick?He laughed and said, "Way to find my price point." Then he suggested Guy Maddin.
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There is a God, and he likes me.
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May 27, 2009 9:55:55 AM CDT
While I couldn't care less about Castlevania, it's good news.
by jackpumpkinhead
Any news that means Anderson will not be involved into something is good news. Not as good as, say, "Brett Rattner, McG and Paul W. S. Anderson missing after their boat sinks at sea", but still good.
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May 27, 2009 10:19:17 AM CDT
Awesome news that it died? That's a little harsh Merrick...
by yackbacker
What has Paul W.S.Q.W.E.R.T.Y. Anderson done to you? He's a pussycat, I tellz ya!
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Those little Medusa heads that come flying at you. Little fuckers.
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Let it be directed by Guillermo Del Toro, Peter Jackson, and Steven Spielberg together. Give it a $300 million budget. Make it violent as hell. Do it now.
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seems like every arcade game from the 80s is going to get a chance at being a movie now.
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I agree, buster00. Medusa heads were annoying in the clock tower.
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...to work on that long-in-development "TETRIS: The Motion Picture" we've all been screaming for. You will watch in suspense for 80 minutes until finally the 5 block long straight piece drops in and saves the fucking day.
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but I wouldn't mind seeing a Castlevania movie. I just want to see a movie with Dracula as the truly evil bastard he was meant to be. Don't get me wrong Gary Oldman wasn't bad but the whole love story angle of the Coppola movie really irritated me. So please no love whipped blood sucker, no "I'm really Judas Iscariot," nonsense of Dracula 2000, just an evil force of nature that's nearly unstoppable. Is that too much to ask for?
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When I saw "Anderson", I thought we were talking about a real director, not this shit show fuckface.
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...or he'll have his wife come all up in here to defend him.
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This guys movies suck. Anderson and his buddies shit on Resident Evil so I dont want to see his Castlevania with Milla Jovovich kicking vampires ass's.
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When the fuck is PTA gonna announce his next piece of awesomness to the world?
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Because now some jackass at a studio is going to give Anderson a cool project to ruin.
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Like what, Duck Hunt?
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only PTA can deliver good videogame movies.although to be true,the Castlevania saga is based on books,but anyway,the thing is that without PTA the movie is going to be a turd.at least anderson knows how to direct.
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And I almost shit my pants. Castlevania by PTA? Good lord I can't even imagine what that would be like.
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It is too much to ask. Hollywood can't seem to let anything just be. There has to be SOME explaination to (insert horror icon)'s evil ways.See:Rob Zombie's Michael MyersPlatinum Dunes' JasonPlatinum Dunes' LeatherfacePlatinum Dunes' FreddySee a pattern here?
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Just re-use the sets from Batman Returns.
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I don't know why you people whine about movies being made. Who cares if it's made or not. I'd love to at least give it a chance. I thought this was a site for movie lovers. Not movie haters. If these films aren't made by Apatow, Pegg or Cameron you shit all over them. This site is greasy...
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apart from Apatow. We hate him now.
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Can only wish it was duck hunt, but you just know it's going to be something that should be given to a real director.
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Now we need to remove Len Wiseman off Gears of War
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There was some good talent on that film... actors, effects, sets, and the beginnings of characters we might even care about. And the premise? Well not so bad and by that I mean it could have gone its own direction. It *could* have been more than a feeble ripoff of 2001 and Alien. It started out great for the first half hour, and then it's like everyone said... making a serious and compelling scif-fi drama is toooo hard mommie! Can't we just say "screw it" and go home? And they did.
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Event Horizon a travesty. Star Trek. Now there's a travesty.
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horror movies.very underrated film.
really guys now,u r supposed to be cinephils? or u just dont have a girlfriend and u come here to express all this whatever is called? -
The whole story sounds like the kind of absolute CRAP Anderson would come up with. Follow the game. We don't need some fancy "prequel" story. That premise sucks-ass any way.
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follow the RE gammes story.their story sucked and it still sucks.
in fact its a fucking carbon of the same plot.infested region with zombies,pass through it and fight the final boss.these games were so fucking original story wise...
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He can't write, direct or produce for shit, and he ends up banging hotties like her. Cunt. Still, he had Luc Besson's sloppy seconds.
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But I used to love it. And I still like the set design and space effects.
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Indy 4, Ghostbusters 3. Fucking TR2N. Everything is possible nowadays.
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scared the shit out of me when I saw it in the theater. They had the sound and the AC cranked way up, which made the movie that much more frightening. Having read the novelization, I can say that studio interference pretty much neutered the movie, but the performances and atmosphere are top notch, as are the effects. And Sam Neill rules, even if he was sucking in his gut in the dream sequence. "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
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see above
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To get the origins of the castlevania dracula, one only needs to play Lament of Innocense on the ps2. The movie, judging from the synopsis in harry's post, would have been inconsistent with the game right out the fucking door.
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May 27, 2009 3:17:56 PM CDT
Event Horizon was derivative and had terrible performances, even
by morganleafy
it was still brilliant. Hate him if you will, that movie hit the mark.
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Somebody in the mold of David Lean or Terrence Malik. HeeHee
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Of what, Black Hole? And whose performances were terrible? I thought all the characters were pretty well-defined and fleshed out. For instance, DJ's chest had this huge scar running down the middle of it, but it's never explained. But Jason Isaacs seemed to know what it was and brought some inner darkness to the character, like when he freaked out on Sean Pertwee's Smitty, putting a scalpel to his throat. Then he just snapped out of it, dropping the scalpel like he had no idea what he'd just done. Lots of little touches like that. Also, the crew felt like just that- a group of people who'd been working together for a long time and became a sort of family.
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...HOMO MOVIE SINCE TOP GUN. TRUE STORY. WHAT A SHAME.
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You want to see a 'dumb retard bad movie', just bop on over to the local multiplex. There are quite a few of them out there right now. Event Horizon is flawed, mainly due to studio interference, as I stated above, but it is far and away Anderson's best work. I really thought we had a new John Carpenter after that and Soldier (which was decent, but had some pacing issues and was rather formulaic), but now he's just another studio hack.
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But it was the script and the subject matter that was so effective. A baboon could have directed that movie and it would still have been good.
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Yeah, you're probably right. Still, I didn't get much sleep the night I saw it in the theater. Kept seeing "Hell-O-Vision" everytime I closed my eyes.
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Because Universal already has an anime-styled vampire hunter franchise they need to work on...
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May 27, 2009 5:11:06 PM CDT
Castlevania was frustrating as FUCK to play as a kid
by nasty in the pasty
Man, those old NES games from the late 80's were MERCILESS. No save features, limited continues...Castlevania and Mega Man probably took five years off my life out of sheer stress.
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my asshole is safe now
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Why was event horizon so good? Well, that's a tuff question. The premise of a hell dimension that has been visited by the crew of a warp ship is indeed intriguing, & I wonder what a Michael Bay version of Event Horizon would be like? Crazy robots, intergalatic warfare, and trailer trash fluzies...oh my! Can I purchase my ticket now?
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You'd adapt the manga 'Hellsing' word for word, panel for panel... but it won't happen because no one in Hollywood has the balls to do that thing justice! And Event Horizon was awesome! And Mortal Kombat is the most faithful videogame adaptation!
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Ill pass, thank you.
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And make it a hardcore badass film. As bloody and brutal as the arcade game.
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So Universal is whoring out their property to have another shot at Van Helsing? Thank Simon this got the axe.
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A sequel. Not a reboot. And not the cheapquel they were going to anger the fans with until the writer's strike killed it. Of course, they should've learned their lesson after leaving "The Mummy" with the anti-Sommers, Rob Cohen, who seems to ruin everything and those "Smallville" guys who should just stick to pop culture from the '30s and beyond because they apparently can't look up history and folklore right.
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Yeah, real shocking stuff there. Way to stand out from the herd. Now be a good geek sheep and say "Baaaaahhh", Merrick.
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The game is so good, that no movie could come close to it. The UMD features the original game, the remake and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! All three games should be played by everyone who calls themselves true Castlevania fans!! The stories in these games are meant to be played out, not watched on the big screen. If you want Castlevania, then play these games. Also, any of the Nintendo DS games are great too! Please forget the movie! The dude who said that "Van Helsing" was the closest one would get to a Castlevania movie was right. Right down to the teleporting mirrors.
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I'm still waiting for Bad Dudes vs. Double Dragon.
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You know this to be true.
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...makes the only watchable video game movies. By which I mean, his stuff is so bad it's good. All the other ones made by "actual" filmmakers are just forgettably bad. Now BOARD GAME movies, that's a goldmine...
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The prefix tetra- means four, there are no five block long pieces. Fucking noob
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Castlevania, despite increasingly shitty games that have all but killed off any original fanbase, has the potential to be a lucrative franchise. Unfortunately, you know they're going to screw the pooch. Either they'll go for a campy, painfully bad action/humor approach, turning it into another Van Helsing, or they'll go the wannabe badass/sad little goth porno direction of the Underworld series. If they managed to assemble a crew, specifically a quality writer and gifted director, who saw the potential for it to be more, striving first for character development and story, while incorporating all those great action beats and FX money shots, then they could have something really special. They need to go more Vampire Hunter D than Van Helsing.
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Yep. Breck is gone and Universal is looking for a new director. They want it dark, gritty and scary. Good to see they wont be going 'THE MUMMY' route and are going to treat their classics with the dignity they deserve.
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Alien, Sphere,Hellraiser, 2001, Solaris. Terrible performances from Laurence Fishburne and Joley Richardson. Predictable in parts. But its basic premise, travelling through a black hole to wind up in hell, was just effectively executed
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They were two of the best videogame movies out there. MK isn't a masterpiece, but it was suitable for its time...it came out in the middle of MK-mania and the crowds went nuts at certain scenes. RE1 was just awesome for similar reasons.
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I doubt the fanbase are kiddies to begin with.
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And maybe its lackluster success is what gave the producers second thoughts about doing this pointless piece of shit movie.
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anally raped with a multiple headed fish-hook caked in hydrochloric acid and made to watch his own films whilst being force fed a leper's penis, not because he is one of the worst film makers in existence but because he is one of the lamest writers and that is what makes his films truly, shockingly poor.
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...the celluloid abortion that was May Payne, I swear to the good lord himself that I will NEVER EVER pay to watch another movie based on a computer game again. Lets face it people, it seems they are cursed and are always rubbish!
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is that the one where you just walked in a straight line and twatted bats, candles and zombie things with some sort of whip? what a fucking lame game that was.
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was a fucking disgrace. They should have followed the fucking plot of the game. None of this Red Queen bollocks or Amnesia (fucking Amnesia! the hack writers favourite crutch). And Valerious, Van Helsing doesn't have fans. It has you.
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Milius Conan flick and the 74 Captain Kronos. But realistically speaking based on virtually everything we've seen so far it will be a retarded hybrid of Blade and Van Helsing with shitty CGI.
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I'm talking about the PS2 ones. Levels are basically squares, the head guy of the franchie Igarashi has no fucking clue and has been banking on his success of Symphony of the Night ever since which was over 10 years go, and he's repeated the same formula over and over with heroes that look like metrosexual trannies. The better games were on the older Nintendo systems.
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And if you don't know, that was sarcasm.
So obviously you have nothing better to do than berate people who actually enjoy movies rather than talk shit about them.
This is why I left the MB board here. And this is why I might just end TalkBacks because of people like you.
Oh, and do yourself a favor and watch "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", as it actually proves my point about douches like you. -
A Pac Man movie would be awesome. Sean Penn can play Pac Man, and Rosie O'Donnel, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Deniro, and Richard Dreyfus can play the 4 ghosts.
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