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Writers strike drives stake through Castlevania’s heart
By Stevie Smith Dec 6, 2007, 10:19 GMT
Hollywood writers strike sees movie adaptation of Konami\'s Castlevania series shelved. Credit: Rogue Pictures
Not content with spoiling our enjoyment of narrative television by ransacking normal scheduling, the wonderful writers strike is steadily spreading its into Hollywood’s movie lot, with the big-screen adaptation of Castlevania emerging as the latest victim to succumb to its damaging effects.
According to a report in Variety, Rogue Pictures has pulled the plug on the live action version of Konami’s popular Dracula-inspired vampire videogame series. The movie, which was to be co-produced by Crystal Sky Entertainment had Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard) pencilled in to helm and was supposed to start shooting in South Africa in April of 2008.
Fans of the Resident Evil movie series will be further shattered to learn that Paul W.S. Anderson’s Castlevania’s script saw ye olde Vlad the Impaler pitted against "members of the family that inadvertently unleashed the first vampire," reveals Variety.
However, not all is lost and perhaps Oscars may yet go begging for Castlevania seeing as Rogue Pictures remains committed to the $40 million USD project and has said that shelving the movie should only be temporary until the writers strike finds its resolution.
Other movies in the pipeline for Rogue Pictures include 2008 remakes of Last House on the Left and cult vampire hit Near Dark.
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albion71Dec 6th, 2007 - 18:35:47
The writers have had to go on strike to save themselves from being ripped off rotten by studios, broadcasting film and TV on the internet and not paying them for its use. If you want quality narrative TV to continue, then don't worry that you're only going to see half of Heroes or whatever this year - look forward to a swift resolution to the strike in the writers' favour and think long term rather than sniping at the writers, who are as important as directors, actors and even, believe it or not, the executives and lawyers in the film making process...
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