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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: TatteredSeraph on April 10, 2014, 11:42:07 AM
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Has anyone heard any update recently on the Warren Ellis penned animated movie of Dracula's Curse? The last I'd heard was that even without updates for a while, that the website would occassionally resurrect. Has it ever been officially shelved?
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I don't think it's been updated since like 2008, right? It's long faded away into development hell and is presumably gone, but it's never been officially canceled.
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It's dead. The blog has been down for at least a year. Good thing too because it sounded really terrible.
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but goat fucking
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The entire essence of the movie contained in three words.
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I'm glad it's dead. It was a train wreak in every sense of the term. Let's just hope it doesn't get resurrected like Dracula has time and time again. Though if it got reincarnated into something good like how Dracula was reincarnated into Soma, I'd check it out.
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the only good thing 2 come out of this was this aswome artwork
(http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081019081256/castlevania/images/5/51/Animated_Dracula's_Curse_Concept_Art.jpg)
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but goat fucking
...wat
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IIRC the dialogue was "gritty" and "grimdark," judging by the snippets of script we saw, and one line involved, well, goat fucking.
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IIRC the dialogue was "gritty" and "grimdark," judging by the snippets of script we saw, and one line involved, well, goat fucking.
I never caught that reference, but I can speak for how horrible the leaked script bits were. Knowing "animated" films today, the whole film would have been like the flashback sequences in the Dante's Inferno anime, because EDGY.
Coincidentally, the Dante's Inferno anime film was a far better Castlevania film than any of the projects we might have gotten. And love it or hate it, Van Helsing is probably the closest we'll ever come to a no-kidding Castlevania movie. Given the track record of game-to-film adaptations, I'm pleased as punch that this is the case.
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I'm glad this never got made. It would be a painful cluster-fuck to watch. And no-doubt that the writers would sneak in some of the Hollywood crap like Judgement did *COUGH!*Love triangle*COUGH!* If I were doing a CV III animated movie or just a movie period then I would do whatever it took to make it as authentic and true to the CV III game and story as humanly possible. No bulls**t.
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Ah, nm, it was answered.
I wanted to see what this would have been. Shame. The games can't really get much lower for me, unless it's a Uwe Boll release.
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Trevor in the artwork looks so shy and afraid.
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but goat fucking
If you know anything about Warren Ellis, you know this is kind of a thing of his.
He is the creator of Transmetropolitan, after all.
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If you know anything about Warren Ellis, you know this is kind of a thing of his.
He is the creator of Transmetropolitan, after all.
Such a magical series. So glad he's on Moon Knight now.
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I remember seeing that concept art years ago and getting pumped, but yeah I'm pretty sure the film rights reverted to Konami even before MercurySteam got their hands on the franchise. I wonder if the live action movie is still gonna come out eventually. I hope not. Apparently the last guy they had attached to direct it made "Saw" and is now making "Fast & Furious 7" (which will no doubt be a classic to stand for all time) and before that it was the fellow behind those awful "Resident Evil" movies.
We're better of with what we do have, all of those movies that inspired Castlevania. The respective Universal and Hammer Studios canons, Vampire Hunter D and others.
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I was mostly asking because I'd remembered that one had been in the pipeline then had vanished and reappeared a few times. Some of the art was nice, some of it wasn't. It' just interesting to hear what's about. It's like that fan mini series "Hymn of Blod", which had Worf and Troi from ST:TNG in it.