Castlevania

Update on Frank Miller’s RONIN Movie from Director Sylvain White

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: September 13th, 2009 at 9:13 pm

Last week I was able to speak with director Sylvain White. While most of our conversation is under embargo, I’ve been given permission to post some of what was said. Since Sylvain is currently attached to Frank Miller’s “Ronin” movie, I figured you’d like to hear what he said about his take on the property and where it currently is in development.

According to Sylvain, he’s about to get a new draft of the script and he envisions the film as a “big-budget, big blockbuster.” He went on to say he’d “love to do it in 3D.” For more on the project, click the jump:

Game Over for CASTLEVANIA Movie

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 26th, 2009 at 1:54 am

According to Bloody-Disgusting, the planned adaptation of the popular videogame franchise “Castlevania” has been damned to Development Hell.  Apparently, the film was to focus on both the origins of Dracula and the vampire-fighting Belmont Clan, but then I guess someone made the mistake of actually playing one of the games and realizing, “Holy shit.  There’s no story here.  You just go around and beat the shit out of every monster ever created.”  And while that’s ridiculously fun to play (at least in 2D), I feel blessed that, for the time being, we’ve been spared another unnecessary videogame movie.

But like Dracula, don’t count on this one to stay dead.  My bet is that any producer or studio who looked at the script saw that it would be expensive (big castle, lots of special effects), remembered that we’re in a recession, and stuffed it in a drawer.  So if any good came of this recession, that was about it.

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