Yeah, 'cause Van Helsing turned out well.

I would think the movie would do well, just as long as The Rock stars in it...

Yeah i know what you mean, that crap started with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS1) and since then every 'vania has followed that anime androgynous bullshit, Igarashi is the one to blame for all of that since he's been behind the series since that game.

Before that, all of the NES/SNES games had a style that was like Conan the Barbarian.

The Rock busting vampire heads? I'd be there opening day.

If he had a British accent, this'd become yet another adaptation of I Am Legend.

So in effect you're saying that a video game adaptation has to be campy in order to succeed?

But then if the filmmaker does that, everyone on this message board (and the rest of the internet) cry out "He's bastardizing the material! We want something that stays true to the game!!!". You can't please everybody.

Paul W.S. Anderson Out of Castlevania?

http://www.dreadcentral.com/index.ph...ticle&sid=1672

White stakes out 'Castlevania'
Rogue to release vampire film in late '08
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Sylvain White has been set to direct "Castlevania," a live-action adaptation of the Konami vampire videogame that's co-produced by Rogue Pictures and Crystal Sky Entertainment.

Pic will shoot late fall in South Africa and Romania. Rogue, the genre arm of Universal-based Focus Features, will co-finance and distribute in late 2008.

Deal was worth seven-figures for White, who has been in demand following the sleeper hit "Stomp the Yard." While White has deals to develop "Static" at Columbia Pictures and the Frank Miller graphic novel "Ronin" at Warner Bros., "Castlevania" will be the next film he directs.

Scripted by Paul W.S. Anderson ("Alien vs. Predator"), the drama begins as a Transylvanian knight leads his men into a gothic castle to seek refuge from the Turkish army. The knights soon discover the castle is controlled by the original vampire.

Crystal Sky's Steven Paul and Benedict Carver are producing with Anderson and Jeremy Bolt.

White grew up playing the game in the early 1990s, and was attracted to the chance to make a vampire film. The script sets up a generational clash between Vlad the Impaler and the Belmont family, a clan that unleashed the original vampire and battles to defeat him.

"Most of the vampire films have been present or set in the future, from 'Blade' to 'Underworld,' and I was attracted by the chance to make a dark, epic period movie that almost has an anime feel to it," White said.

Anderson wrote the script with the intention to direct, but stepped aside to helm the remake "Death Race." White, who's repped by WMA and Principato Young, will work with Anderson on a rewrite.

Sweet! It's gonna be directed by the guy who did "I Know What You Did Last Summer 3" and "Stomp the Yard". Sounds promising.

I didn't think the choices could get any worse than Anderson. I was wrong. What's next? The guy who did Stealth doing Mummy 3?

For some reason I read it as Paul Thomas Anderson directing. Whoops.

So we lose Paul "Wuss Ass" Anderson and get the guy from "Stomp the Yard". Awesome! Seriously, though, you know anyone is better than Anderson. See schematic below:

Anyone > Paul W.S. Anderson

It's still shooting from Anderson's script, and he's still producing.

Now that I would pay to see. Why don't they get talented (or at least interesting) directors for throw-away movies like this, so that there's a little bit of a chance of originality? Oh right, that wouldn't be profitable.

Imagine - David Fincher's Castlevania. Better yet, David Lynch's Castlevania.

Now there's something I'd like to see.

Casting had been fully underway on this film for over a month, and I just read on IMDB that the writers strike has caused this film to be delayed for the time being.

Thank god!