Castlevania movie drops whip for sword [Joystiq]

[TonyTheTiger]

What I'm failing to understand is that it's proven that execs in Hollywood get a hard on for movies that are nothing more than a CGI wankfest (case in point TF).

To be fair, Transformers couldn't have been anything but.

It's going to take a copious amount of CGI to bring both the denizens of Castle Dracula to life such as skeletons, werewolves, medusa heads, etc. as well as help establish the mood and ambience of the movie.

See, this is why I don't think keeping movies so close to the game is necessarily always a good idea. I think having random skeletons and zombies around would actually be a bad thing. It's way too cheesy to have the hero run through a village beating the shit out of random monsters. You'll end up with Van Helsing.

People need to realize that out of all entertainment mediums, video games are probably the hardest to convert. A game is, most of the time, built around the need to have the player do something. So hordes of enemies make sense. Movies have different rules. You can't really do "OMG SKELETONS" and keep the film from having a tone akin to The Mummy. Which might not be a bad thing if that's the goal. But if you want to do a more serious film and not make Dracula come off as "Bwahahahaha!" then you'd have to scale back on the video gamey stuff.

[E Nice]

People need to realize that out of all entertainment mediums, video games are probably the hardest to convert. A game is, most of the time, built around the need to have the player do something. So hordes of enemies make sense. Movies have different rules. You can't really do "OMG SKELETONS" and keep the film from having a tone akin to The Mummy. Which might not be a bad thing if that's the goal. But if you want to do a more serious film and not make Dracula come off as "Bwahahahaha!" then you'd have to scale back on the video gamey stuff.

Well, it's not like Castlevania has the deepest of storylines. Once every hundred years, or sooner whenever a wizard does it (in Castlevania, literally), Dracula is resurrected and evil things terrorize countryside and maybe kidnaps some people and along comes hero with a whip to take out the Count. It would perhaps make for better B-rate horror flick, especially given it's environment and theme, than trying to come up with some type of deep story.

[TonyTheTiger]

Well, it's not like Castlevania has the deepest of storylines. Once every hundred years, or sooner whenever a wizard does it (in Castlevania, literally), Dracula is resurrected and evil things terrorize countryside and maybe kidnaps some people and along comes hero with a whip to take out the Count. It would perhaps make for better B-rate horror flick, especially given it's environment and theme, than trying to come up with some type of deep story.

Don't get me wrong. I think it's very possible to convert the game to film. Really, all you would need is a guy named Belmont with a whip, a guy named Dracula, and a castle to make it "accurate." Everything else in the movie would come from various embellishments. In the hands of a more capable director a Castlevania movie could kick ass. In the hands of Paul Anderson, though, we're going to get something between Van Helsing and Underworld.

[Jorpho]

Well, it's not like Castlevania has the deepest of storylines. Once every hundred years, or sooner whenever a wizard does it (in Castlevania, literally), Dracula is resurrected and evil things terrorize countryside and maybe kidnaps some people and along comes hero with a whip to take out the Count. It would perhaps make for better B-rate horror flick, especially given it's environment and theme, than trying to come up with some type of deep story.

When you put it that way, it does indeed sound very much like Uwe material.

In the hands of Paul Anderson, though, we're going to get something between Van Helsing and Underworld.

If it means more Kate Beckinsale in leather, I'm on board.

[TonyTheTiger]

B-movie material or not, I find it amazing that Dracula is the most filmed character in movie history and yet has so few good movies under his belt. And most of those good movies are notably campy in one way or another. Forget making a good Castlevania movie. Make a good Dracula movie and just have a guy named Belmont kill him.