Castlevania movie drops whip for sword
by Justin McElroy 
{ Jul 15th 2008 at 1:30AM }
Here's the word from CC2K writer "Big Ross" who says "Though I said Vampire Killer is gone from this script, Simon does wield what is described as a chain whip in two instances. However, it is nondescript and in one of the occasions is wielded as an off-hand weapon. So what is Simon armed with throughout the film? A f***ing sword."
No, that doesn't sound particularly encouraging to us. But, hey, at least the rest of the script review is almost entirely negative.
[Via AICN]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
rai @ Jul 15th 2008 1:37AM
great, it's like metal gear solid movie without the stealth action... or halo without master chief wearing a helmet
OR like dracula with no fangs...just rip the soul out and there's your movie... no wonder these movies are all flops
Lone Starr @ Jul 15th 2008 1:45AM
Or like a cheeseburger without the burger.
Moofree @ Jul 15th 2008 1:52AM
Mmmm... cheese.
j235 @ Jul 15th 2008 2:13AM
Or a Starship Troopers movie with no powered armor.
joe @ Jul 15th 2008 3:25AM
I'd say it's more like dressing Batman in a bunny suit.
kaneda @ Jul 15th 2008 9:28AM
Castlevania without a whip is like a day without sunshine!
bubuli @ Jul 20th 2008 8:16AM
this is like having a Batman suit with nipples...oh wait...
Chase @ Jul 15th 2008 1:41AM
Minus the whip, and with an addition of a sword, Belmont's just Conan. If they wanted Conan, they should have just made a fuckin' Conan movie. Ugh.
FSK405K @ Jul 15th 2008 1:43AM
can you hear the excitement? [pin drops]
grant d @ Jul 15th 2008 1:46AM
great is right. another asshole ruins a perfect opportunity with talentless and ignorant slop. I was hoping the castlevania franchise would be the one to actually get a decent film. i guess i was wrong. fuck the sword. bring back the vampire killer!
nxtiak @ Jul 15th 2008 1:47AM
Whips=Indiana Jones.
Indiana Jones already does the whole whip thing and probably the most recognizable character that uses whips.
nxtiak @ Jul 15th 2008 1:48AM
People (general movie goers) who don't know Castlevania will think it's some kind of Indiana Jones rip off with the whip.
grant d @ Jul 15th 2008 2:05AM
oh so Indiana Jones is the only person to use a whip as a weapon right? no wonder hollywood caters to the lowest common denominator. its that general attitude that kills it for the rest of us. you cant see the difference in castlevania vs indiana jones if they both have a whip? what about a sword? what are they going to get confused because braveheart had a sword too? come on. the whip is signature, to abandon it is the first in a series of bad ideas from this script writer
odiin @ Jul 15th 2008 2:05AM
I know right? Just like how Rambo uses guns, therefore no other movie can use guns or else people will just think it's a Rambo ripoff.
FSK405K @ Jul 15th 2008 2:39AM
Ya, I can't tell you how many times I've seen Indiana Jones kill a skeleton with his whip. Castlevania is just a copycat.
ChooChooCharlie @ Jul 15th 2008 1:48AM
Did anyone really expect this to be good? Hollywood fucks up every game-to-movie adaptation. I'd thought we'd all learned that by now.
FOXHOUND @ Jul 15th 2008 7:00AM
I just don't know how videogame movie scripts get past a studio's advisory board these days. They've never really profited well compared to other genres... and let's face it, the fans are only interested initially due to them being optioned. But the moment details like this get released... it's fizzled to nothing.
The money's in stoner comedies (Superbad, Pineapple Express, anything by former SNL crew... except Mike Myers it seems), Bad-PoV Horror Movies, CG kids films, comic book movies(Iron Man, Batman), and females' man-troubles these days(pull something from Lifetime. J/k, I swear).
Dr. Stabbingworth @ Jul 15th 2008 9:48AM
They should be forced to watch Vampire Hunter D over and over until they realize what a good vampire movie looks like.
Gwas @ Jul 15th 2008 1:50AM
FYI: This "script review" is based on the first draft of the script and has since been through major rewrites.
BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jul 15th 2008 2:05AM
Now this movie sounds like a miserable, little pile of lies.
(Yes, I know that's not the exact quote from SotN.)
Mr.ESC @ Jul 15th 2008 2:14AM
This movie steal men soul's and make them their slaves.
But I guess we can say that of all Religions.
But enough talk.
Have at you!
Atr-Slzr-Ctr @ Jul 15th 2008 2:52AM
This movie looks its worst than a miserable pile of secrets!
monkey3 @ Jul 15th 2008 2:30AM
God I hate paul ws anderson. He makes terrible movies and he knocked up the woman of my dreams. People give Uwe Boll a hard rap, but at least he doesn't pretend to be more than what he is. Mr anderson claims to be a fan boy but he perverts video game movies just as badly. i would not be surprised to discover he really was behind the Super Mario Bros. movie.
Crosswayboy @ Jul 15th 2008 3:11AM
Fuck you Paul W S Anderson!!! This movie will suck balls, just like every single movie you've ever made! I will never pay to see this movie if this is indeed true. Hasn't he done enough harm to video game film adaptations with Resident Evil? Apparently not.
ronald.raygun @ Jul 15th 2008 4:45AM
hey now, event horizon was a good movie so he's just batting like 1 and 15.
besides maybe he's got a chain instead of a whip.
StChristoph @ Jul 15th 2008 3:11AM
The only Castlevanias I like are the ones without whips. SotN, AoS, DoS.
Rob Accomando @ Jul 15th 2008 5:16AM
ok, this movie has failed even before it has come out.
Are they going to replace Dracula with King King?
bombtrak @ Jul 15th 2008 9:06AM
I stopped caring at "Paul W.S. Anderson."
kaneda @ Jul 15th 2008 9:28AM
It could be like Doom. That movie didn't have demos or a portal to hell and for a while wasn't even going to take place on Mars. And doom was still...um...it was...a movie.
mario montoya @ Aug 4th 2008 12:21AM
to all the people who seem to put us castlevania fans down for hating this whole non-whip thing.... lets think for a second here... castlevania is an awesome game franchise that has been revived by Mr. "Iga", who started with symphony of the night and has in some way shape or form created every castlevania game since then... if u know anything about the game then you know the whip is the focal point of the series of games... play Lament of Innocence and see it. I admit LoI sucked when compared to other castlevania games, but it makes up for it with its storyline and some of its memorable boss battles... anyways... the whip is infused with the first belmont's girlfriend... a woman that sacrificed her own soul to the power of the whip (which started off as just an alchemy whip) creating a whip infused with the divine power of love...
and to anybody thinking there's no plot to the castlevania games... FAIL there's a ton of great storyline in castlevania, look up an official timeline of castlevania history and you'll notice not every game is just a belmont killing dracula, the motivations for killing him and dracula's intentions are not always the same... there is also a huge lineage to learn about and follow in regards to not only the belmonts who have been fated to slay dracula, and btw the belmonts haven't always been famous... many belmonts had been outcasts in different points in history due to different reasons... Simon was loved by the villagers of the Transylvanian countryside, while Leon was ousted from Romania and fell from grace, losing his status as lord and his family's honor when the church told him not to abandon his army to save his kidnapped love..)
in portrait of ruin you play as Jonathan Morris,(a boy in the Morris lineage, a family related to the Belmonts, who somehow gained the task -nay- honor, of guarding the Vampire Killer until the Belmonts could return...)
jonathan wasnt happy about having to defeat this new vampire named Brauner... he wasn't even able to unlock the Vampire killer's true powers and felt inadequate... he didnt want to own up to his fate, that the only way a Morris could unlock the vampire killer's power was by sacrificing his own life... anyways play the game and see what happens with him.
im kinda just shooting randomly in the dark here but i felt compelled to defend my viewpoint in keeping the vampire killer (the "whip" to the ignorant) central to the movie adaptation of the game.
Please mr. Iga-san, fly over here and save this movie! don't let these producers butcher my fav game series ever! (second is metal gear... hmm also a konami game...) (third is silent hill... great movie adaptation btw... another konami game you say? whaaat? lol)
hopefully, the mantra "Konami games make great movies" can hold true after the castlevania and metal gear game movies. Sorry for the long post but i had to help set things str8.
Reki @ Aug 31st 2008 1:13AM
Its just like the people from American Pie making the Metroid movie. Japanese games don't convert to movies unless made by the original company. Look at Resident Evil, Capcom helped with it. Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children was made by Square Pictures, a subsidiary of Square Enix. I think that if they want to make a movie of Castlevania, they should stay with the whip, because of how it has become an icon of the real Castlevania games.
It is just a habit of Hollywood to take away the game stuff and move on to the big-groups-with-tons-of-guns American expectancy. It seems to either be extremely violent or horribly stupid comedy. It is just plain ridiculous. I say, have Konami help with the movie, or make it CGI. A live action Castlevania movie would fail becuase, yes, it would basically be Indiana Jones.
An animated movie would bring back favorite characters and make it better. It would be like making the Duke Nukem movie without Duke, and making a Metroid movie without Samus. It just can't work.