oscarito33

Bonzo

There is another aspect which may be overlooked... and that is, how good do the movies do? It won't be to Anderson's benefit if he stays true to a game and the fans love it but the movie flops in theatres.

Anaxagoras

mjsmitho

Aitrus233

As for Mr. Anderson, I find that if he doesn't write the film, it's usually better. The man is a decent to good director but a horrific screenwriter, and even has less talent at adapting works.

I'm not going to bother in any debates about his individual works because I've heard an arrange of them going from ResEvil/ResEvil Apocalhyse rocked/sucked/were so ungodly awful, Mortal Kombat was sooo off, and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (Written by Anderson, not directed) was one of the best game adaptions ever (I kid you not I had a roomate who swears that).

But one of the constants I find that Movies Directed by But Not Written By Anderson Are Better than ones he Wrote and Directed. For instance, Mortal Kombat He Didn't Write, Mortal Kombat Annihilation he did.

K-OSS

Merusdraconis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19023459@N00/150045685/

TheCalmBeforeTheMiniboss

Of course Silent Hill is the reigning champ of Video Game movies, I won't be jumping on the bandwagon of this has to suck cuz it is by Anderson. I think some of his movies are good or pretty good. If it was Uwe Boll doing, no doubt it would suck.

BlindsidesDork

krozall

krozall

dead_red_eyes

Narsil

SuperSci

I can hear it now... "Oh, and the subtitle will be 'Dracula Begins'! Because, you know, Dracula is a vampire, and they turn into bats! Get it? So it will be, like, 'Bat-Man Begins'! Clever, ain't it?"

Sid

also, imbd says (as a rumour) that star trek's Riker will have a role in the film as the "grandfather".

just in case you weren't feeling crappy enough

Graedus

snazzynick

what Graedus says:

"We don't need Castlevania to be a typical action film like underworld, or every other vampire movie. They already exist so we don't have to keep remaking them."

OK, they CAN keep making those movies. That is fine. What they shouldn't be doing is making just another run and gun/zombie/vampire movie and then taking a game and slapping its name on the movie when it doesn't really have anything to do with the game that it is named after.

I would rather they make good action movies and make up their own character names than good action movies that tack on a video game name and destroy any chance of a movie that looks and feels like the actual game. Like RE4, think we will ever see that made into a proper action movie now? Not a chance in hell and someone could have done a really good job on it.

Such will be the fate of castlevania. Someone out there could make a movie that looks and feels like symphony of the night played. But we are going to get a vampire movie and it will be called castlevania and the main character in it might have a whip. Other than that it won't be anything like the castlevania games.

divad

Angelcurio

Gagaman

Gloominati

Slab

Anderson is not capable of doing that. This is a huge waste of potential for a phenomenal series like Castlevania.

We don't need Castlevania to be a typical action film like underworld, or every other vampire movie. They already exist so we don't have to keep remaking them.

/sigh

Graedus

He begins what? His career as a lounge singer? His 12 step program? His line of facial cosmetics?

Also, the font they used looks all messy and lame. It reminds me of a goth kid who made a geocities page and wrote his name such that is is HARD CORE!

divad

Narsil

Anderson can make a Castlevania movie that is as good as the source material will allow. But we're talking about a game that consists, almost entirely, of walking across the screen and whipping things. This is not Shakespeare. If we were talking about an adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus, or FFXII, it might be different. But if you're expecting high art out of a Castlevania adaptation, then the problem's not with the director.

K

KevinQ

Claudius

I would say at least its not Uwe, but i haven't had the (dis)pleasure of seeing any of his films yet so I'll wait until i finally watch one before i start moaning about him.

Cirrus

It's people like him that malign the possibilities of videogame films. He is why you don't get Ridley Scott or James Cameron doing them. As long as he's out there spewing crud with videogame flavour, nobody with any class will go near the genre. Leading to a host of blowhards saying you can't make videogames into films. No; Paul "WaterSports" Anderson can't make them, or a fat kraut, or any clones thereof. They scare the talent off.

aestheticity

sweetasman01

jeffx

Elixir

Tyrannical

All the same, that poster is *yawn*.

Magwidgeon

I think every Japanese game developer needs to hire an American/Canadian(since lots of film/tv is shot in these countries or produced by studios out of them) to tell them who to pitch their products to for film adaptions, because they certainly always pick the wrong people to make their films. DoA movie for example and the list goes on and on.

boombye