Castlevania Turns White
News has come down the pipeline that Paul W.S. Anderson has stepped aside as the director for the live-action Castlevania movie and has signed director Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer) to helm the film. For a tiny snippet about the film, adjust your eyes to look down about one line:
"...a Transylvanian knight leads his men into a gothic castle to seek refuge from the Turkish army. The knights soon discover the castle is controlled by the original vampire."
Variety reports that White grew up playing Castlevania in the early 1990s and was seduced by the chance to make a vampire film that is a "dark, epic period movie that almost has an anime feel to it." The script involves a "generational clash between Vlad the Impaler and the Belmont family, a clan that unleashed the original vampire and battles to defeat him."
So what does this all mean? Who knows? Perhaps the movie won't blow? Then again, I've never really liked a movie by an American director who wants it to have an anime feel to it. However, it's too early to tell. Filming doesn't even start until the fall in Romania and South Africa. I'll wait for the trailer before forming my opinions, but it can't possibly be as bad as Dracula 2000 or BloodRayne...can it? Anyways, this movie will be under White's direction, effectively putting it before Static and the upcoming adaptation of Frank Miller's Ronin. we can expect to see the final results in late 2008. More than enough time to brace ourselves for whatever may come.
[NOTE: Dracula 2000, in my opinion, wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. I just liked it because it was in New Orleans and I worked for a very short time at that Virgin Megastore when I first moved here. Plus I thought the Judas twist was pretty spiffy.]
White stakes out 'Castlevania' [Variety]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Movies-DVDs, Video Games on 14 June 2007
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Mark my words. There is no possible way that a Castlevania movie can turn out good.
Jup~ It will never be good, because you just can`t capture the athmosphere of Ayami Kojimas pictures in a movie.
It could work in the style of "Interview with the Vampire", but I already know it will be the same action-crap like the Resident Evil movies, with silly techno-metal-music -.-°