Topic: Netflix Castlevania Animation: Cast Revealed

[Shiroi Koumori]

I think I saw Grant in a blink or miss moment in the trailer (the guy with 2 daggers). Unless I'm mistaken.

[Nagumo]

Despite Grant being most likely in, I wonder if he's going to be part of the core group of protagonists.  The reason I'm wondering is because he isn't mentioned in the prophecy. Ellis could simply ignore this of course (something I wouldn't put it past him). Also, there's no scene in the trailer where he's seen fighting with the rest of the group. It wouldn't surprise me is Grant if just going to play a secondary role and maybe even gets killed off. Perhaps he won't even interact with the main characters at all. Call me cynical, but I could also imagine his presence is primarily going to be used to generate hype. Grant's appearance in MoF was also heavily teased by Cox for the sake of hyping up the fan base and he's just a generic looking corpse in that game.

[Aiddon]

In the case of something like Death of Superman, faithful is better because it makes the story more presentable to people who aren't fans of the original storytelling medium.

In the case of Castlevania though, I agree wholeheartedly with your point and have often expressed similar sentiments. Not many people seem to be watching it who weren't already connected to the franchise in some way -- almost every single viewer seems to be either a fan of the existing Castlevania franchise, or a friend of said fans. The latter seem to view it as a decent place to step aboard (and it is; it even starts essentially at the beginning of the story!) but are nonetheless "familiar enough" with it.

So, given that basically every viewer possesses at the very least a cursory knowledge of the original material, Ellis has my fullest blessing to express a bit of artistic license. He gets to feel like his talents are used properly rather than as a very highly paid photocopier, and we get some twists and turns that keep things a little more interesting. It's a win-win in my opinion.

As long as he sticks to the major story beats like he's been doing, I really don't mind some changes elsewhere, even hefty ones.

Plus there's just the problem of the vast gulf in how the mediums are experience. A comic book to film adaptation can be pretty faithful due to both being visual mediums that are primarily storytelling mediums. A video game, especially one like Castlevania that wasn't very narrative-focused until arguably Rondo of Blood and even then the plots always took a backseat to the raw gameplay. CVIII was not a story-based game; it had lore, it had a setting, but it wasn't a narrative. Ellis giving more story to everyone and the setting worked beautifully, like with us actually seeing Lisa's death after establishing her relationship with Dracula, Trevor's bitterness over his family's exile, Sypha and the Speakers' persecution (similar to persecutions the Romani face to the present day), and of course the corruption of the church and the mania of witch hunts during the time period. It works well and gives some added weight to the story and creates a richer world because of it.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

What would be cool, is if Grant is corrupted and remains a 'boss' type of thing, but interacts with the 2nd wave of characters.
That is, with Hector, Isaac, and others.

Then when he is reverted back into a human somehow, he still remembers Hector and stuff.

[Aiddon]

More promo art, this time of Dracula with the family:

https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1026186066317832192

[X]

That's a nice image! But Alucard's hair is the wrong colour.

[Shiroi Koumori]

I love the picture! Baby Al! Squeee~♪

[Aiddon]

I love the picture! Baby Al! Squeee~♪

My question is this: who in-universe painted that? Does Dracula have demon artists at his beck and call? Did he ask Carmilla to get her brushes out and do the family portrait?

[Nagumo]

I could be a self portrait.

[Aiddon]

Alucard has taken over the Castlevania Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/Castlevania

[SecretWeapon]

is that Lisa's nipple?

[X]

Well her dress is semi-transparent so..?

[AlexCalvo]

Confirmed.   Lady vampire in the trailer is Carmilla.

[DragonSlayr81]

Confirmed.   Lady vampire in the trailer is Carmilla.

There's three lady vampire sin that trailer. You mean the blonde one?

[Lumi Kløvstad]

There's three lady vampire sin that trailer. You mean the blonde one?

Obviously they're all Carmilla.