Topic: Plot of Castlevania Movie Revealed

[Profbeanburrito]

In Reply To #44

They said the Live action movie will be based on Simon. Not Trevor. I've never even heard any mention of Trevor being in a live action film

[Wolfman Jake]

In Reply To #40

Then why not start with LoI?
Or is this film (they keep talking about "the origins of Dracula") going to provide a new origin story that might clear up the whole Mathias argument (although I quite like the LoI story)?

LOI presents the origins of Dracula, but Dracula's Curse presents the Belmonts' first actual battle against Dracula.

[Alexc2808]

In Reply To #46
Then you skipped over my post.

[CVfan13]

In Reply To #44

Are we sure yet that the animated film is confirmed, cause I heard that too, just nothing official.

In Reply To #45

Don't make me beat you with a club.

[Profbeanburrito]

www.castlevaniadraculascurse.com
It's the official production blog from writer Warren Ellis

[Wolfman Jake]

In Reply To #50

Well, that's pretty definitive evidence that the live action movie will be based on Dracula's Curse.  Assuming the other heroes will be featured in the movie along with Trevor, I wonder how they'll choose to interpret Alucard's look and personality.

[Profbeanburrito]

Well, if thats true, I'm still excited. Dracula's Curse is my favorite so it's cool. But I doubt it's anything set in stone yet. So, we'll just have to wait and see

[DragonSlayr81]

Are we sure yet that the animated film is confirmed, cause I heard that too, just nothing official.

No "official" press release from Konami as of yet, but IGA did give a nod to it(as one of the two film features, the other being the Anderson/White movie). And yeah, Ellis met with IGA regarding some of the story info. The whole thing has been in motion for a while, now, and Ellis finished the script(and before the Writers' Strike).

Well, that's pretty definitive evidence that the live action movie will be based on Dracula's Curse.

[Wolfman Jake]

In Reply To #53

Ah yes, I got confused with which information was about what.  Still, that article from BloodyDisgusting.com reports that the live action movie will follow Trevor and not Simon.  With the slow pace at which this project is progressing, is a 2008 release for the movie unlikely?

[DragonSlayr81]

It depends. I wonder how much effort they are going to spend on it. From being an avid fan of horror movies, many movies, depending on the scale of the project and the budget, can either take up to a almost half a year to film and are released around a year later, while lower budget films can be filmed and released in around that time(half a year). IMDB has 2009 as a release date, but IMDB is as reliable as Wikipedia. But 2009 seems like a reasonable date, if they plan of filming sometimes next year with a good sized budget. Then again, if they start filming soon, it could be out by the end of next year.

It's going to be strange having two takes of CV3(well, three takes if you include the game itself). I don't think any will come close to show the "adventure" as seen in the game itself, but I'd like to see how Trevor is depicted as by two writers like Ellis and Jeffers. And since the live action movie is, well, live action, I cringe to think what Alucard will look like. Will they try to pull the silver-haired SotN version? Or maybe they'll opt for the dark haired Alucard of CV3(Young Bela Lugosi). I just hope they don't go the Buffy The Vampire Slayer approach with all the young hotties. Castlevania, IMO, is sooooo above that tripe(I never cared for Buffy, and definately don't care for the stereotypical teenage-typed prettyboy/prettygirl characters). I don't want Dawson's Creek with vampires here.

[CVfan13]

Wow, this sounds pretty exciting. I love the story of Drac's Curse and two (possibly) movies based on it is cool. Maybe Konami will do something right and in tune with the times, meaning a remake of CV3 at the release of the movies?

[crisis]

Director Sylvain White is temporarily hanging up the whip until all of this WGA strike business is sorted out. Rogue Pictures has delayed White's Castlevania until the strike is over so - and I don't understand how anyone can get pissed about this - the script can be re-tooled and made screen ready. Principal photography was schedule to begin in April somewhere in South Africa.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=3936

[A-Yty]

There'll be a 20minutes prologue , then Simons gets teleported in 2007 and find chris tucker a NY nigga policeman who will help him to defeat dracula, what a shit.

Two years ago I joked:

"The movie will be set in present times.

The main bad guy will be an evil mad scientist, who is distantly related to Dracula.

The undead will be super clone mutants.

Vampire Killer will be an anti-mutant revolver with unlimited ammunition.

The Belmont (played by Christopher Lambert) will be a sturdy middle aged police lieutenant, who has to protect A.Lucard (played by Chris Rock), a gothic rap star, who is going to witness against "Dracula" and his evil corporation.

Soundtrack by Linkin Park & Evanescence".

But seriously, this latest script sounds better than anything so far.

[DragonSlayr81]

LOL. I always hoped the CV movie would NEVER feature a song of Evanescence. Linkin Park either, urgh. I'd riot if they featured a My Chemical Romance song, as well.

[CVfan13]

Actually, in regards to the movie's music, if it is going to be about Simon, they'd be asses to not put an insanely good remake of Vampire Killer in there. I'd really like to hear music from the actual game, if you know what I mean.