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Castlevania
 Tags: based on game, castlevania, Impact Pictures, Konami, Paul W.S. Anderson, Rogue Pictures, Sylvain White, VAMPIRES |
The film will focus on the origins of Dracula and the uprising of the Belmont Clan -- a vampire-slaying family who become humanity's last hope.
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PROJECT DETAILS
- The project is currently put on hold as director James Wan finishes up another film he's working on and there's still the matter of finding proper financing, as they're not going through a major studio to develop this.
- It's said that the vamps in the pic have a unique quality to them that mimics James Wan's style of filmmaking.
- James Wan was quoted saying: "The thing I love about what Konami did with Castlevania, was taking the iconic Dracula mythology and Eastern-European setting, and retelling it with a Japanese pop-cultural sensibility," he continues. "That’s the East-meets-West tone I want to visually expand on for the film. I’m thrilled by the opportunity to make a highly stylized, fantasy, action film that focuses on the gothic storyline and the cool, anime-like characters. For once, the human hero is as sexy and dangerous as the vampire villain, and his weapon of choice was what attracted me to the project in the first place – The Vampire Killer Whip."
- James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence) is said to be co-writing and directing, replacing Sylvain White.
- Originally scheduled to begin film in April '08 in South Africa, but was put on hold during the WGA strike, and now currently resides in an undetermined production slate. It will eventually be made, it's just a matter of when.
- Sylvain White (I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Stomp the Yard) was originally set to direct.
- The film will supposedly have a lot of references to the game to please the fans.
- It's said that the story will span hundreds of years and focus mostly on Dracula and Simon Belmont.
- The interiors of the castle will be constructed in Budapest.
- Budgeted at an estimated $50-million.
- Rogue Pictures hopes that this will be the start of a new horror franchise for them.
- Described as in the vein of action-horror films such as Blade and Underworld.
- Paul W. S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator) was originally set to direct, but now only serves as producer and scripter.
- Based on the classic Konami video game.
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Dates are tentative and subject to change.
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, February 17, 2012
- Tue, February 21, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 28, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 28, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 2, 2012 (VOD)
- Tue, March 6, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 9, 2012
- Sat, March 17, 2012 (SyFy)
- Tue, March 20, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 30, 2012
- Tue, April 3, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 6, 2012 (Limited)
- Tue, April 10, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 13, 2012 (Chiller)
- Fri, April 13, 2012
- Tue, April 17, 2012
- Tue, April 17, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, April 17, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 20, 2012 (Limited)
- Fri, April 20, 2012
- Tue, April 24, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, April 24, 2012
- Fri, April 27, 2012
- Fri, April 27, 2012
- Fri, May 4, 2012 (VOD)
- Fri, May 11, 2012
- Fri, June 8, 2012
- Tue, June 12, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, June 22, 2012
- Fri, August 17, 2012
- Fri, August 24, 2012
- Fri, August 24, 2012
- Fri, August 31, 2012
- Fri, August 31, 2012
- Fri, September 14, 2012
- Fri, September 21, 2012
- Fri, October 5, 2012
- Fri, October 19, 2012
- Fri, October 26, 2012
- Fri, December 21, 2012
- Fri, January 11, 2013
- Fri, February 1, 2013
- Fri, February 15, 2013
- Fri, February 22, 2013
- Fri, April 12, 2013
- Fri, May 10, 2013
- Fri, June 28, 2013
U mean people been postn shit on this movie since 2009,are you kiddin me right now here it is 2012,3 years later and there is,nt even a release date yet WTF.I hope the director and producers are Immortal because they will have Died of old age by the time they finish the script,Hell their kids will have 2 make the sequel.This F****NG movie should have been out 2 years ago Whats the holdup M8
YES! I was talking to my friends about Castlevania having its own movie, and now it's happening. Hopefully they won't disappoint us. I see that Konami is 1 of the producers. Maybe they will help to not screw this up. Plus I think this should be the opening song to the movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGEVgU3hmC8
All Praise Ozzy that Anderson is no longer directing!! Tho, I am iffy with him writing it. Probably end up like "Dracula goes in for the kill against Belmont...then suddenly has a change of heart and becomes friendly with the townsfolk and buys them ice cream because he forgot he was once human" Like what he did to Nemesis in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Hey...dumbass....Lickers are further evolved Zombies!! Btw...ya'll need to read George Romero's script for RE when he was originally on the project. It would have been 100 times better. Oh...AND YOU CAN NOT MAKE A FILM THAT CONTAINS BOTH ALIENS AND PREDATORS PG-MOTHERFUCKING-13!!!
hell yeah...
the games was fucking awsome i cant wait
YES!!!!!!! This looks GOOD but they beter not F it up. But they did do Resident Evil and Av.s P lol
At last, I have found you! People that also hate Paul 'W.S' Anderson. He ruined the Resident Evil movie franchise along with AvP, which could have been great! And what the hell was Pandorum about? A rip off of the fantastic Descent??? I mostly hate the fact that Event Horizon was actually very good. Of course that was Paul Anderson directing.
Ya Castlevania will be shit.
i love castlevania but i hate paul w.s. anderson. he murdered resident evil and if he does the same to castlevania i will move to have him banned from making games into movies. boo you anderson!!!
Konami is 1 of the producers for this movie. This should give us some hope that it won't be bad
I love the Castlevania series and have been wanting this movie out for awhile now I am so glad Paul W.S. Anderson is not going to direct.I hope James Wan does a good job with it cause this movie could be really cool.
blzh! i didnt really like simons quest. i liked the other ones better! but this better be good! im really looking forward to it!
heard it will be based on castlevania 2:simons quest game and thats my fav one of the whole series, hopefully this is good
Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest? That's got to suck. Hopefully they base it on the first one. And hoooppeefuully it doesn't suck. If it fails, there is going to piss off a lot of Castlevania fans..including myself.