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Castlevania On the Big Screen

Posted by Zonk on from the vampire-killer dept.

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."

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  1. Is NOTHING Sacred? by dsands1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  2. Side Scrolling? by NVP_Radical_Dreamer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Side scrolling camera shot anyone?

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  3. Tag Team Tornado by dbhankins · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  4. "Welcome back, Mr. Anderson" by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, actually, no, we haven't missed you at all.

    Chris Mattern

  5. As soon as I saw the director... by Doctor+Tesla · · Score: 2, Funny

    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."

  6. Why bother getting the rights? by AndrewStephens · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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