Also, this kinda bullshit:
This is the
incredible Warren Ellis giving four or five completelly bullshit reasons to remove Grant, on top of getting three or four more storyline elements wrong.
-Grant is not a pirate. He's a Wallachian rebel.
-Grant is not "Danasty" nor "Dinesti" but "Danesti". With this tidbit alone there is enough plot about warring families to last the entire movie. For someone who did an "extensive study on Vlad Tepes", as Ellis claimed on another post, it's interesting to see him ignore Grant's connection with a family Dracula had ties with and decide to not adapt that.
-Grant shouldn't have to be "shoehorned" into the plot because HE IS ONE OF THE PROTAGONISTS. Ellis shoehorned his goddamn bishop of Gresit nobody gives a flying fuck about to tell me there is no room for Grant?
-Acts as if there is not enough story on the original plot when there is actually one for a two-hour movie easily. That's what happens when you do zero research on the original material.
-No, you can't call your inexpertise "comedy".
On top of other one million useless stuff he added about Speakers and about Alucard getting fucked in the ass on the first act to then complain that Grant has no space on the story. Maybe he'd have some if Ellis weren't more preoccupied with goat-fucking-philosophy scenes.
"Plot you're calling Ellis inexperient?"I'm calling out Ellis on his past inexperience
with Castlevania. In one of the comments he even adds he has an
interest in Castlevania. You can't put someone who has an
interest on the property to write a big-screen movie about this property. Either this person eats and breathes the property, or they can get the fuck out. And Ellis has shown at the time of this blog post that his knowledge comes from what some Wikipedia article told him.
To be fair to Ellis, the project was envisioned as a trilogy. The "first movie" ended as they discovered Alucard's tomb, and not at the battle with Dracula. Thing is: There is absolutelly no reason to make this story into a trilogy. If they were not SO EAGER to make trilogies, they'd actually not have to fill the plot with a bunch of completelly inane crap and remove Grant from the first movie (
"when he does turn up"). It's more about the complete lack of respect to the series than about the removal of Grant.
I sure hope this project as it stands NOW is good and Ellis has evolved the script into something superior (preferably with Grant in it), because the one he had was total horseshit, and it's truly astounting to me that Koji "Grant is important enough to be on Judgment" Igarashi approved of it.