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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'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've never played the AvP games, though I'm well aware of their accepted high level of quality and fun. I enjoyed AvP (the movie) though, certainly enough that I would see it again if I had a chance. It was fun and there was some cool action, the storyline was basic but it set up for what we wanted to see: Aliens Vx Predators Vs unlucky humans.
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Chris Mattern
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 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.
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."
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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