"I like it so much, I actually don't have any time to play video games, so I let other people do it for me, and I just watch the footage and make a movie about it".
Actually that's what George Romero, the
father of the modern zombie genre, did when he was set to make the Resident Evil movie. And his script was far more faithful than the one we wound up with. Anderson comes off more like someone started to describe the plot to him and he cut them off after 15 seconds "Zombies secret base yaddyadda I got it." At least fans have the Biohazard 2 commercials Romero made.
>Directed Mortal Kombat
I-I-I kinda want to see this...
>Nothing else of particular interest
though I am skeptical.
Only reason MK didn't blow junks was because it was already a lighthearted send-up of every kung fu cliche known to man. With a barely-there plot to start with.
Milla Jovovich as either Sonia Belmont or Maria Renard. Calling it.
I don't think his wife likes her Mary-Sue characters to be tied down to anything so inconvenient as established canon or characters. He sure doesn't seem to like being tied by them in any other area of his movies. We're talking about a guy who's idea of "adaptation" is to make a move, roughly in the same genre (for the first entry anyway) with the same antagonists and a few familiar names slapped onto otherwise unrelated characters.
Even if he just wants to produce and not direct, I thoroughly expect any Castlevania movie he has a hand in to suck, it's only a question of how much.