It seems like the Writers Guild strike has claimed another victim. But this one I’m not so opposed to not seeing it ever. That would be the screen adaptation of CASTLEVANIA, from the one and only man that butchers good video games, Paul W.S. Anderson.
Rogue Pictures has halted “Castlevania,” the live-action adaptation of the Konami vampire videogame that it is co-producing with Crystal Sky Entertainment. Sylvain White (“Stomp the Yard”) was set to direct, and production was slated to begin in April in South Africa.
According to Variety, the film needed major script work that wouldn’t be possible because of the strike.
“Castlevania,” with a script by Paul W.S. Anderson, may not seem as high profile as those other pictures, but it is the most ambitious project attempted by Rogue, the genre arm of Focus Features. Script sets up a generational battle between Vlad the Impaler and members of the family that inadvertently unleashed the first vampire.
That takes a load off my shoulders. Seeing Paul Anderson put his name on another videogame adaptation would start the end of the world. Like how the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 which may or may not mark the end of the world, Paul Anderson is the one being that would jump start our demise as a planet. (I’m sure that makes no sense, but who cares, Paul Anderson will cause the anti-christ).
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