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Ben Kingsley To Co-Star In BloodRayne Game-Based Movie

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the silver-screens dept.

vansau writes "Ben Kingsley, the Oscar-winning actor for his role in Gandhi, has signed on to star in the upcoming BloodRayne movie alongside Kristanna Loken (the T-X in Terminator 3.) Kingsley will play Rayne's (Loken) vampiric father, Kagan." We've previously covered director Uwe Boll's inspiring words on this movie, and Metafilter has plenty of comments on Boll's newly released Alone In The Dark trailer.

19 comments

  1. Boll... ocks by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 3, Informative

    That "Alone in the Dark" trailer is quite possibly the worst trailer I've ever seen. Were it not for Slater and Tara Reid, I would assume it was merely a bad cutscene from a bad game.

    A military junkie friend told me tracers are all wrong too.

    Awful, AWFUL looking film. Of course, what do you expect from the idiot who directed "House of the Dead", a movie that has 2.7 out of 10 on IMDB, and is considered by many to be the worst movie made in recent times.

    Boll... He's a 21st century Ed Wood.

    1. Re:Boll... ocks by wheresdrew · · Score: 2, Interesting

      There's another trailer that's not nearly as bad. Anybody want to lay odds that Boll cut the worse of the two himself?

    2. Re:Boll... ocks by Lisandro · · Score: 1

      Oh, c'mon, don't exaggerate. You still have the "Catwoman" trailer, for Pete's sake!

    3. Re:Boll... ocks by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 1

      I'd rather see Halle "Hit'n'Run" Berry than this dog. And I fucking hate the woman.

    4. Re:Boll... ocks by Jarlsberg · · Score: 1

      This trailer - it wasn't too bad - but what kind of a movie is it going to be? Apart from using the Carnby name, I don't see the connection with the game and the movie.

    5. Re:Boll... ocks by bjb · · Score: 1
      Seriously.. in the IMDB description, they at least mention Abkanis, but nothing in the cast about the Morton family? There were two other agents in the game (speaking about Alone in the Dark 4), but they were only on the radio and beginning/end cut-scenes.

      I got excited when I saw that they were maknig a movie out of this game. I really enjoyed playing this game over the last year or so (hey.. real job, life, etc.. not much time to play games)

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  2. Kristanna Loken? by Kris_J · · Score: 1

    Isn't she a bit tall for Rayne?

  3. What? Ben Kingley? by mbourgon · · Score: 1

    What, wasn't Jeremy Irons available?

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  4. Have you learned nothing? by empaler · · Score: 1

    Tsk, tsk.

  5. Did someone say my name? by wind · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey - that's Sir Ben Kingsley to you, Bub.

  6. Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast" by dave-tx · · Score: 1
    I just re-watched "Sexy Beast" yesterday. What a 180-degree character turn from what Kingsley played in Ghandi. Fantastic portrayal of a relentlessly brutal character.

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  7. Must owe money to someone... by OldManAndTheC++ · · Score: 2, Funny
    He does this after agreeing to do Thunderbirds. Looks like he's one step away from hocking his Oscar.

    Please Sir Ben, don't turn into Michael Caine!

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  8. Wow. by mbourgon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think it says something that Slashdot, ostensibly the Target Audience for this movie, can only come up with 8 comments.

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  9. Underworld by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I still say that this movie was already made. Quite probably much better (rather sad, really) than this one will be. Who did not immediatly think of Bloodrayne when they saw Underworld. I don;t see how infusing that movie with nazies is going to help.

  10. Re:What? Ben Kingley? by willynate · · Score: 1

    Ha! I was thinking the exact same thing. Once again a former Oscar winner begins his descent into the drecks of filmdom.

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  11. One guy in the audience will be alone in the dark by write_with_numbers · · Score: 1

    And he'll only be there in the hopes that Tara Reid will take off her shirt.

    Bonus, I think those soldier guys we see in the trailer are wearing left over stuff from Starship Troopers 2.

    Makes me wonder if and when a B-movie drops to a C, D, or F-Movie.

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  12. BloodRayne by kjones692 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now, the inherently flawed premise of the game, and presumedly everything based on it... If you were a vampire, and you killed Nazis... wouldn't that make them vampire Nazis? or Nazi vampires? Neither one is really a good thing.

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    1. Re:BloodRayne by vansau · · Score: 1

      I think you're supposed to be a half-vampire. Besides, if you're not going to kill Nazis, then what generic villains are left? There aren't too many militant groups in recent history with such notorious connections to occult research.