Topic: What happened to the Dracula's Curse animated movie?

[randir14]

The latest news I could find was from three years ago and the blog maintained by Warren Ellis doesn't work anymore.

[crisis]

Time Reaper was sent back to destroy it, therefor it doesn't exist anymore.

[Profbeanburrito]

I wish it would still happen, or at least if it's not going to come out they would just let everyone know. Maybe I'm looking into to it too much, but if you check out the source code for the site, and I really don't know much about web design, it does say "transitional" in it, so maybe they're working on a new site. Thats my hope

[Nagumo]

It sucked therefore all traces of it had to be destroyed. Too bad they spared the existence of the live action movie.     

[darkwzrd4]

Time Reaper was sent back to destroy it, therefor it doesn't exist anymore.

lol

It sucked therefore all traces of it had to be destroyed. Too bad they spared the existence of the live action movie.     

Why couldn't the Time Reaper kill it too?

[thernz]

Because the live action movie just keeps resurrecting itself like Dracula.

[Nagumo]

Has anyone here ever read the script? Because its pretty bad. The only thing good thing is that Sonia is Trevor's mom even though that doesn't make sense anymore.   ;___; 

[Profbeanburrito]

Isn't that for the live action film? That script was terrible.

[Nagumo]

Yeah I meant that one.

[ChibiMaddiChan]

Has anyone here ever read the script? Because its pretty bad. The only thing good thing is that Sonia is Trevor's mom even though that doesn't make sense anymore.   ;___; 

Where can I find said script? Sounds like it's good for a laugh.

[Nagumo]

I'll mail it to you.

[Harrycombs]

Could you send the script to me as well?

[Nagumo]

Its sad how both the animated film and the live action one are soulless adaptions of a game the script writers barely know anything of. And I don't mean just characters and story. It just bothers me how they are horribly unfaithful they are to CV III, they can't even get the characters right in both cases. If I want to see an adaption of it I want to some iconic areas from the game like the ruined town, Alucard's tomb, and the ghost ship if that isn't too much effort. Even the small things like the monster they screw up. Instead of familiar enemies from the game they give us dumb skull spiders and most of Dracula's minions consist of minor vampires who don't even appear in most Castlevania games except for a few exceptions. Not to mention that you can't get away with downgrading the whip to a secondary weapon.   

At least this movie is better than the garbage Warren Ellis delivered.                             

[GummiCandyful]

Yeah, I didn't like what Warren Ellis was planning, either. When I first heard about the whole Goat f*cking and naked Alucard scenes (I'm sure this one isn't a problem, but his character art for that film is horrible), I literally rolled my eyes at how hard they were trying to be 'adult-oriented' with this film, but, like the sucker I am for CV III, I let it pass and tried to keep my hopes up.

However, when I read on his blog that he was going to remove Grant from the plot just because he thinks his surname sounds stupid, not to mention he believes that Pirates weren't around in the 1400's (he truly doesn't know a damn thing about CV, because it's not based on actual history, let alone the fact that the Japanese manual states that Grant is a rouge/freedom fighter), I was pretty PO'd, due to the fact that he's my favorite out of the three heroes who help Trevor, and he actually played a role in the game's story; his family was mercilessly killed by Dracula, and was sent to the Clock Tower after being transformed into a hideous monster. There is no reason not to include him. It's unfaithful to the original source material.

Paul W.S. Anderson, or whoever is directing the live-action movie, doesn't get any slack from me, either. Aside from the silly character relationships, he wanted to change Grant's name to Granvid in order for it to sound 'more Romanian'.

Bottom line, movies and video games will never go well together if stupid directors keep screwing up pre-established storylines and characters. Except for PoP: SoT. That was actually a good movie.

[Nagumo]

Heh, the live action script I was talking about was written by Sylvian White, you don't want to know what Anderson wrote. 

Also, was that Prince of Persia film actually in the same continuity as the games? That's quite something.