Thursday
Dec182008
Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 9:21PM 'Castlevania' Movie on the Back Burner
It's been a rocky road for the video game adaptation
Castlevania, but it looks like it might still
happen. Some day. 
"This year has been unbelievably chaotic for the film industry with the writers strike followed by the perpetual threat of a SAG strike," Anderson said. "It's one thing if you're making a huge movie where you have $200 million and you say, 'Oh, [expletive] it. There's a SAG strike. We'll just wait.'"
"For other movies it's very difficult to go into production if there's a threat that you'll have to close down. Not many movies can afford to take the hit of putting the cast and crew on hiatus for months while the strikes gets resolved," explained the director. "So I think in terms of anything we're developing there won't be any sort of priority until the SAG strike is resolved."
Though not the most imaginative game from the 80s - dispatch with underlings, work your way to the boss fight at the end of each round, repeat - Castlevania has nonetheless managed to not be completely forgotten in the way other Konami product of that era has, probably because there have been multiple updates ever since, including a mobile phone version released just last year.
And Anderson still believes there's a quality film to be made here. "We still want to make the movie, but I can't say we're going into production in January or anything like that," he said. "It's a project that everybody likes. I love the videogame. I think the script is really strong. Everyone is really enthusiastic about it, but we're still in the process of deciding when the movie gets shot."
Reader Comments (2)
This is one of my favorite all-time video games. I'd almost rather it were in the capable hands of the "other" Paul Anderson.
Please oh please oh please don't eff this up!
Clearly you never played the master-piece of the castlevania collection "Symphony of the Night" for the PS1. Still a 2D side scroller. every good Castlevania game since then has been based on that one.
The movie is very Vanhelsing, with a whip and without the werewolf. This also means it is very easy to screw up.