Warren Ellis planning on three Castlevania films

by Justin McElroy { May 7th 2007 at 4:15PM }

The official blog of the straight-to-DVD animated Castlevania film that Warren Ellis is writing has become a veritable minefield of information for fans to stagger across and then be blown up by. For example: Ellis (the genius behind comics like Planetary and Transmetropolitan) feels that the story of the film, which is based on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, should be broken into three chunks. Also, pirate Grant DeNasty won't be included, or at least not in the first 80-minute film.

There's a lot of encouraging info here, especially the post about making a film for adults, and it's well worth poring over. While there's still not a really clear picture of what sort of film this will be, it's already looking better than any videogame adaptation Uwe Boll has ever made. Of course, the same could be said of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and it was based on trading cards. So hopefully Ellis has set his sights a bit higher than beating Boll.

[via GameSetWatch]

Tags: castlevania, draculascurse, uweboll, warrenellis

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Thad @ May 7th 2007 5:04PM

"it's well worth pouring over"

Pouring what, exactly?

Justin McElroy @ May 7th 2007 5:12PM

I would think the answer would obvious, Thad. Liquid grammar.

Crono @ May 7th 2007 5:18PM

I still grieve for the live action castlevania movie, as it was to be based around Sonia Belmont.

And if you don't know who she is, she was the original belmont before IGA took over. IGA had her and her game (castlevania legends) removed from cannon.

Too bad, because her story made a hell of a lot more sense about the origin of the belmonts vampire hunting powers than the crap of Lament of Innocence.