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Castlevania On the Big Screen
As seemingly one of the few gaming properties not already optioned for a film, Gamespot reports that rights to a Castlevania film have been purchased by Crystal Sky Pictures. From the article: "Paul W.S. Anderson will direct the film, after having game-to-movie experience with Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil. Steven Paul and Benedict Carver of Crystal Sky and Anderson and Jeremy Bolt of Impact Pictures will produce the movie. No cast has been announced, and production is set to start in mid-2006."
...but at least it will have a great score.
What we really need is a contra movie!
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The war on terror is a war for peace
Pac man? WTF?
What's next? "Stampede, The Movie"... =(
Someone needs to rm -rf Paul W.S. Anderson and all his game to movie bastardizations...
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Side scrolling camera shot anyone?
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the director could be Uwe Boll.
making action movies out of action games is that Action game needs to be pretty constant action to be entertaining while a movie needs a rise and fall in the action to accentuate a story. If you try to make a good movie you are likely to not be true to spirit of the game, where as if you try to be true to the spirit of the game (constant action) you're likely to end up with something gothic on speed. It just won't be pretty.
I'm just waiting for Paul Anderson and Uwe Boll to team up as co-directors.
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Seriously...if you're going to screw up a movie adaptation of a game, why not do it with some style? Get Roger Corman on it, at least then the result would be horrendously cheesy and fun to watch.
I for one can't wait. I mean, Alien Vs. Predator (the movie) was such an atrocity I almost gouged my eyes out with a tic-tac. The reaction from fans at Mr. Anderson's latest bumbling in the film industry should cause geysers of hatred and blood.
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Well, actually, no, we haven't missed you at all.
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great another game will be ruined by a bad movie
mortal kombat, street fighter, and all the other pitiful video game-based movies. (whoops, forgot doom [vin diesel/the rock is the marine!] and halo)
Matthew McConaughey
Leonardo Decaprio
Hayden Christensen
Ewan McGregor (because he has only one accent)
Johnny Depp
Orlando Bloom (again, only one accent... and he can't act anyway)
Toby McGuire
Tom Cruise
Best charecter lineup? I don't know. But, seeing as the odds are the movie will suck, I'd really like to see the Belmont played by someone who we can take seriously.
Or just screw the whole show up and make it fun! I foresee:
Dracula must be played by Christopher Walken!
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it includes that great room in the new DS Castlevania... upper-left of the castle in the noblemen's quarter's-type area. The only thing in a backround is a huge bed, and there's just a pile of Succubi, witches, and maid-girls.
It really won't matter how good or bad the movie is. Nobody is going to see a movie called "Castlevania". It's a cute name for a video game, but for a movie it just sounds cheesy.
Paul W.S. Anderson will direct the film, after having game-to-movie experience with Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil.
So, a 5.1 rating and a 6.2 rating. Personally, I thought Resident Evil was one of the worst films I have ever seen. Even my nephew, who was 11 when watching it, and thought films like "Bad Boys" were cool, could see how awful it was. Big mistake.
Redub [i]Van Helsing[/i] with Castlevania-based dialog and digitally add a whip to Wolverine's hand in a few scenes. Viola.
I just cringed in pain. It could be Uwe Boll, but that's like the guys at 3 Mile Island going "well, at least we're not Chernobyl."
Am I the only one who liked both Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil?
/huge George A. Romero fan.
I thought both movies did a good job of taking the basic concept of the game and turning them into halfway decent movies. The only thing that really irked me about Resident Evil was that George A. Romero wrote a script for Resident Evil that, while perhaps even less true to the game than the movie we got, was a much better script. If you ever get a chance, google for Romero's script for Resident Evil.
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I'd LOVE to see an attempt at a Zelda movie... not some cheap action thriller like Castlevania is sure to be, but an epic LOTR like movie. The stories are out there, they could pick the plot of any of the Zelda games... Perhaps A Link to the Past. Now, move on it Hollywood!
Is Hollywood is desperate to get the 16-30 demographic back into the theatres that they will spend money on purchasing the rights to a popular game when they could easily make the exact same movie without the rights by changing a characters' names (which they will probably do anyway). The plot is so generic that they could make their own "lone man storms a castle to fight monsters" movie.
I guess the Doom movie was just successful enough for them to think that maybe it is worth a try.
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...that the W.S. in Paul "W.S." Anderson stands for "What Substance?" Seriously...I was confused after watching five minutes of Alien vs. Predator. How in the would could anyone mess up something so simple like that?
As long as there are zombies, automatic weapons, and former sports/wrestling stars filling lead roles.