Writers Strike Delays Castlevania Movie
By Jonathan on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 at 2:16 PM PST In Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Videos
The continuing writers strike has claimed another victim. The upcoming movie based on the Castlevania franchise has now been stalled by Rogue Pictures until some kinks can be worked out with the script, written by Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil). The production was slated to begin filming this April in South Africa with Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) directing. With a budget of around $40 million and plans for a franchise, this is one of the most ambitious projects Rogue has ever undertaken; so they decided to wait for a resolution to the strike to make sure they get it right.
I’m actually a little relieved they decided to shelve the film for now. Sure it may take longer for the film to see the light of day, but at least then we can be assured they did everything in their power to make it as good as possible. Well, except get a new director and screenwriter.
Via Variety
CASTLEVANIA MOVIE PLUS OTHER VIDEO GAME MOVIES.
Castlevania movie has been put on hold so is Return To Castle Wolfenstein,
Rogue Pictures can not get anyone to write the script for Castlevania so the movie will get back in production on the film after the strike ends.
Christophe Gans needs to rewrite the plot on the Onimusha movie all this Dutch merchant,spider ninjas and Nobunaga marrying two women in the storyline will be scrap out because the plot for the film is not true,it’s all false.
So Gans and the Asian screenwriters will rewrite the plot and story to be based on the Onimusha Warlords game so the filmmakers will get the script back to work soon.
Uwe Boll will be making Zombie Massacre and he would do another video game movie
with Namco’s Ninja Assault with a plot centers around an evil Shogun Kagai who captures two girls to marry for his resurrection and the only hope is four heroes to hunt down Kagai.Ninja assault will be like Big Trouble In Little China meets House of the Dead of feudal Japan and Michael Rosch and Peter Scheerer to helm the script for the movie.
Thank you.
BRUCE ACOSTA
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