As rumored back in March, Paul W.S. Anderson is no longer going to be the director on the big Castlevania feature film now coming our way in late 2008. The director of the best video game movie of all time (Mortal Kombat) will instead be focusing on the remake of Death Race, of which I wholeheartedly approve.

In his place will be Sylvain White, who you may remember from sleeper hit street dancing movie "Stomp the Yard" or... "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer." I'm scared.

"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.

Well at least he has a handle on the basics. Past, gothic, vampires, anime. Go boy. As for the script, Anderson and White will be working together on a rewrite, since the original was written with Anderson's directing in mind.

So we have a relatively untested director with one major sleeper hit under his belt, but White is also slated to direct Frank Miller's Ronin, and Miller's properties aren't exactly fluff that studios hand out to just anyone. Someone has faith in the guy, so I'll swipe a little of that and see what happens. Michael Fahey

White stakes out 'Castlevania' [Variety - Thanks Ja!]

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