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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Techno Bacon on October 15, 2014, 02:09:25 PM
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So, the title explains it all.
Where the hell is it? The last time we got news about it was in 2009 2009! That's 5 years ago!
So, do you think it's Cancelled and they just don't want to tell anyone? Or do you think they could be filming the movie in secret and be like "Castlevania Movie, comes out tomorrow, be there" (That's obviously not what's happening but, wouldn't that be awesome?)
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Welcome to the board!
Part of the confusion was that a fan project was mistaken for the official movie because it had Micheal Dorn (Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine) in it.
Castlevania: Hymn of Blood [Live Action Fan Series] - Castlevania: Hymn of Blood [Live-Action Fan Series] - Episode 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voEKEG0Y3as#ws)
The actual official movie has been in development hell forever. If Paul W. S. Anderson is still wanting more money he might go after it more aggressively now. Since this new Resident Evil movie is supposed to be "The Final Chapter", due I can only suppose to studio heads thinking Anderson's wife is getting too old to be a Mary-Sue much longer. Though I think this is probably going to be "The Final Chapter" of that franchise just like "Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter" and "Puppet Master Part V: The Final Chapter", which were each followed by around 6 sequels. Though since a Resident Evil TV show is being developed it might actually stick.
Personally after seeing how Resident Evil and pretty much every other VG movie has turned out I'd just as soon a Castlevania movie never get made. I mean even that fan film gets the mythology all wrong. If you're interested in seeing Castlevania-like films though they're out there. Things like Vampire Hunter D, Van Helsing and Solomon Kane.
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lords of shadow (yes it still is a castlevania game, shut the fuck up haters), which is essentially "the game of the movie"
the new film "Dracula Untold" is said to be an almost ripoff of lords of shadow
there ya go
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lords of shadow (yes it still is a castlevania game, shut the fuck up haters), which is essentially "the game of the movie"
the new film "Dracula Untold" is said to be an almost ripoff of lords of shadow
there ya go
"Yeah right, it is Castlevania only in name >:(" Sorry, I could not help it ;D. Just kidding, I think that all is said related to that ancient struggle.
As for Dracula Untold, there will be a second part if it gets a really good success. The ending reminds me a lot the epilogue of the first LoS... Anyone observed that, too? I challenge all of you to admit it!!!
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Hopefully dead and buried, I don't trust Hollywood to deliver an at least passable film.
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Hopefully dead and buried, I don't trust Hollywood to deliver an at least passable film.
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This! It's best if they don't follow through with it. Hollywood is not like it used to be. I wouldn't trust them with a Castlevania movie anymore then I trusted Mercurysteam with a Castlevania game. Heck, Hollywood would probably take a cue from CV Judgment and stick in that ridiculously useless love triangle--the one element that never existed in CV III to begin with.
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Yeah, leave it to hollywood to screw everything up.
If you really need your castlevania movie fix, just follow the advice of all those who posted above.
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Hey, it's that topic again
If they would just try to play it straight, a CV movie would just be another mediocre and embarrassing vampire movie with a few loose ties to a couple of vidyas. I mean, from what I've seen from that fan series, it's just a couple of checkboxes they filled in, but it doesn't feel like it's related to the games beyond that. It's too mundane. They should actually try to take advantage of the medium and do something creative with it. Put all the crazy elements from the games in it and make it work. For example, action scenes like in Scott Pilgrim would be perfect. Of course, there's plenty of other things they would do to make a good movie, but being self-aware of its own slockiness would be a good start.
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i would have really liked to see the dracula's curse animated movie tho, that was quite interesting
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An animated movie would be a lot easier to produce then a live-action one.
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Yah know, a while back I DID start on a CastleVania script (yes I capitalize the V deal with it) but it's been sitting in my Celtx box since July..it's just there..dormant, I don't even know if I'll finish it. I probably will but not anytime soon.
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When they originally said James Wan was attached, I had some hope. He has some damn fine atmospheric and creepy movies. I wouldn't doubt he'd have oozed in that spooky feel to the movie.
Other than Wan, I think Del Toro might be able to pull off a CV movie. He's good with action and loves strange plethoras of monsters.
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Yeah, Del Toro is the perfect person to write or direct the movie.
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I more excited about the Metal Gear Solid movie...
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Anyway, my script was based off of the Lords of Shadow trilogy, probably the least practical version to make one out of.
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If Paul Anderson gets withing a thousand yards of any Castlevania movie I will instantly boycott it.
I read the leaked script for the project he was supposedly attached to direct and it was garbage.
And the Resident Evil movies are atrocious that have nothing to do with the games.
And if he directs a CV movie that's what you're going to get.
A movie that has nothing to do with Castlevania.
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Is this the movie that was at one time rumored to star a Russian-American girl as Sonia and Jonathan Frakes as her grandfather?
And then we got Patrick Stewart narrating LoS.
And Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis in the fan film.
What's with all of the TNG-CV connections?
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Is this the movie that was at one time rumored to star a Russian-American girl as Sonia and Jonathan Frakes as her grandfather?
And then we got Patrick Stewart narrating LoS.
And Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis in the fan film.
What's with all of the TNG-CV connections?
And Gargoyles for that matter. All we need now is Brent Spiner.
Anyway, my guess is that the movie is rotting in a bin somewhere. Nobody associated with it was known as a great filmmaker so it's probably for the best it be left forgotten.
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Solomon Kane.
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Anyway, my script was based off of the Lords of Shadow trilogy, probably the least practical version to make one out of.
Between LOS and Classicvania, LOS seems more easily translatable to the big screen. But then we got Dracula Untold so...
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Between LOS and Classicvania, LOS seems more easily translatable to the big screen. But then we got Dracula Untold so...
We got the game of the movie, then the movie. That means, Castlevania on the silver screen is done. hehehe.
Oh... wait... I think there is a planned sequel.
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Dracula Untold 2000?
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Dracula Untold 2000?
Perhaps. Universal is keen on developing a shared universe for all their monster films.
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I more excited about the Metal Gear Solid movie...
You should watch Metal Gear Solid: Philantropy while you wait for it.
Dracula Untold 2000?
Like Dracula 2000?!
NO GOD! PLEASE NO!!! NOOOOOOOOOO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc#)
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^ That pretty much summarizes what most people are feeling.
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Between LOS and Classicvania, LOS seems more easily translatable to the big screen. But then we got Dracula Untold so...
Funny thing was, despite Dracula Untold doing well at the box office(so I heard), a lot of people didn't like the aspect of it basically being a super hero film(with Dracula as the main anti-hero). Some just want a straight up scary villain Dracula with evil intentions, not misunderstood anti-hero. This also has people thinking, since Universal wants to do a sorta "MCU" with their monsters, are they going to do the same type of thing to The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster and such? People aren't hopeful for a rebooted Universal classic monster lineup that are now super heroes and not "horror villains".
And funny thing regarding Dracula 2000(since we are also talking about it), I thought the scene where the guy opened the bible and the pages flew out at Dracula, catching on fire as they touched him, felt like something you could including in a CV game or CV movie.
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And funny thing regarding Dracula 2000(since we are also talking about it), I thought the scene where the guy opened the bible and the pages flew out at Dracula, catching on fire as they touched him, felt like something you could including in a CV game or CV movie.
Well they did have the bible in both Rondo and SotN, although it functioned differently.
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Well they did have the bible in both Rondo and SotN, although it functioned differently.
It reminded me of a tweaked version of the Rondo one. I remember the Rondo one has the pages fly out of the bible, but they just circle you like a barrier.
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That's right, they did. They also did that in SotN however the bible had a followup to that which was the rainbow-colored star blast that was emitted from the six page points. It would be neat to see the bible pages spray outward towards an enemy. Kinda like Contra's spray gun. And even better if they did just as much damage.
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Perhaps. Universal is keen on developing a shared universe for all their monster films.
They actually did this before in the 1940s. Most of their major monsters met each other and shared a loose continuity for several films including "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" "House of Frankenstein" "House of Dracula" and ending in "Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein". The last of which had a cameo from The Invisible Man. Only the Mummy and the Gil Man (since "Creature from the Black Lagoon" didn't exist yet) were left out of these so-called "monster rallies" as far as Universal's classic monsters were concerned.