Castlevania movie drops whip for sword [Joystiq]

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Despite two-year-old assurances that "the whip is still in it" it seems that, if an early script review is any indication, the Belmont's signature weapon has been knocked down to bit player in the Castlevania script by Paul W.S. Anderson, who has seen fit to make Simon live by the sword.

Here's the word from CC2K writer "Big Ross" who says "Though I said Vampire Killer is gone from this script, Simon does wield what is described as a chain whip in two instances. However, it is nondescript and in one of the occasions is wielded as an off-hand weapon. So what is Simon armed with throughout the film? A f***ing sword."

No, that doesn't sound particularly encouraging to us. But, hey, at least the rest of the script review is almost entirely negative.

[Via AICN]

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[mailman187666]

its shit like this that makes people not like videogame based movies. They leave out the damn Vampire killer and now what else do we have? shoulda just stuck Alucard as the main character if that is the case. The less trademark things they leave out, the further it goes away from being based on the game *cough* Mario *cough*

[MrSparkle]

*cough* WHAT THE HELL!!! maybe they should change the name of the Belmont family to smith. Oh thats just crazy old richter smith hes always on it about vampires and upside down castles. Also maybe he should instead of fighting Dracula's army of demons and the undead fight communism. And they could change the title to Mr Smith goes to... oh fuck it this just sucks.

[Jorpho]

And make it set in Modern Times! And Dracula's actually the head of an Evil Corporation! And instead of zombies, he just has an army of Robots! Powered by Nanotechnology! And Richter finds bottles of Vitamin Water!

[RadiantSvgun]

Lame! Thats part of Castlevania! What's next? Dracula being replaced by Fred Durst? Ugh....

[Icarus Moonsight]

First the fighter now this? Leave me alone people! *fetal position*

[Push Upstairs]

Lame! Thats part of Castlevania! What's next? Dracula being replaced by Fred Durst? Ugh....

Fred Durst is more evil than Dracula could ever be.

[Dreamc@sting]

Wow..hollywood continues to prove themselves...there are so many good IP's to turn into movies but they just butcher them...and what for? why take a game like Castlevania which has pulled in millions and change what made it sell so well and suck in so many fans?

Woooo go hollywood...you suck

[heybtbm]

I love Kotaku's headline for this story. It was almost Onion-esque.

FYI: They already made this movie...it was called Van Helsing, and it sucked.

[CosmicMonkey]

If they want to make a Vampire film where the hero wields a sword that's fine, just don't call it Castlevania.

If you're gonna do something, do it properly and accurately, otherwise what's the damn point (other than the obvious answer of milking the IP for $£)?

[calthaer]

I am 99% sure that I will not be seeing the piece-of-crap movie that that reviewer just described. This "Anderson" tool needs to get together with Uwe Boll - they're made for each other.

[Oobgarm]

This Is Castlevania Movie

It Is Made Of Sword And Fail

[kainemaxwell]

What a way to drop the ball. There's so much more they go do with a whip in a movie then a sword that we haven't already seen one way or another.

[Kaine2071]

Hope you never drop them balls boy 'cos damn do I love that squeaky voice of yers. Come give grandpa some sugar!