i just hope its not like van helsing. make it dark and gritty. think warhammer. thats how id picture a good movie for this franchise.

its technically the writers guild strike, not the Hollywood writers strike :).

Bullshit, I'll write it. I don't believe in guild's anyways. If they don't want me then let Iga write it. I'd just reshoot Rondo of Blood scene for scene, mixed in with a little bit of Bible Black. Maybe a little Beowulf inspired plot twist. Hot vampiress seduces and is impregnated by a Belmont. His heir has to go on to kill the new Dracula just to find out that it is *gasp* his brother.

As far as I'm concerned, it can stay on hold indefinitely.

I don't think they had internet streaming, DVD sales and iTunes Stores back when the WGA signed their first contract.

Here's my script treatment, absolutely free of charge:

HERO walks right, whips some SKELETONS. HERO tries to jump onto moving floating platform, but collides mid-air with a MEDUSA HEAD and falls off camera to his doom. Repeat.

I'm a big fan of the Castlevania series, but all signs point to this movie eating it. I has changed hands more frequently than a joint on a school yard, everybody that is or has been involved with it has a history of trainwrecks... Lock this one inside of a castle and close it into an eclipse or some junk.

OTOH, I am still looking forward to the animated Castlevania feature written by Warren (Fucking) Ellis. No idea when it comes out though.

Site:
http://castlevaniadraculascurse.com/

Each time someone mentions Writer's Guild Strike, I imagine a bunch of whiny MMO players not want to participate in a Guild raid due to unfair loot distribution. HAHAHAHAHA...well it was funny in my head. I just hope this strike wont make them go back to that screenplay with the goat beastiality.

FYI, Warren Ellis, who's mostly famous for writing comic books (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Nextwave, Ultimate Galactus, Black Summer, Doktor Sleepless) and the not-graphic novel Crooked Little Vein, has written a script for a straight-to-DVD Castlevania animated feature.

Workblog here. Beware, contains mention of fucking goats.

You mean people get paid to write these terrible video game movies?

One and a half hours of a guy whipping bats out of the air with Vampire Killer looping in the background.

Uh, yay?

THANK GOD.

This strike is pretty lame. I want new episodes of shows... I don't really give a damn about this movie though.

Something that just occured to me. I would have been way more excited/entertained by the idea of this movie if it was being written and directed by <i>Wes</i> Anderson.

I had no idea about this. He directed Resident Evil and [p]Alien vs. Predator [/b] I think Mr. Paul "W.S." Anderson and Mr. Uwe Boll should meet up; there's club status a-waiting.

I don't remember seeing any "writer's guild" in Oblivion. What on earth are they talking about??

@SubOrbital
I don't think there anything stopping them from hiring writers outside the guild, after all i think most of the writing for like animated films is done by people outside the guild (though a few are done by the guild and it's one of the issues for the strike)... the question however, for new projects is can they find decent writers who are not part of the guild and for old projects can they find writers that can work with the previous writers' work? the problem for the industry is that most of the good writers are part of the guild, and the fact that a writer plays a major role in how good a film comes out; so it's generally not a good idea to hire just outside the guild

Writers join the guilds and unions and such for a reason, to make sure they get a good pay for their work, and they may also help in finding jobs for you... the downside to trying to work on your own is that you may not realize when your getting shafted and under payed for your work, as in you might make twice as much if you worked at the guilds prices... so for good writers, it's generally a very good idea to join some kind of guild

Of all the "Anderson" directors out there, this movie got stuck with the worst. Let's hope there's a director's strike, an actor's strike, a nuclear strike to W.S's mansion, before he soils the image of this beloved franchise.

I hope it dies...
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It's not gonna be any good, but since it's Castlevania, I'm curious about it. I've almost given a thought to catching Hitman since Roger Ebert gave it a 3 Star review (while also bashing games in said review).

Anyhoo, picture this with me....The ideal Castlevania movie production would have license to use music from the games. "Abandoned Castle" and "Garibaldi Temple" from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, "Lost Paintings" and "The Tragic Prince" from Symphony of the Night, and of course a rendition of "Bloody Tears" in there. Now imagine exorbitant production values, for a big ole gothic castle set, a big bright moon and lots, lots of action set to the game music! How bad ass would that be?!

Someone told me about the script. This is the best thing to come out of the writers' strike. Trust me. None of the monsters, no whip, and a whole bunch of vampire fetish nonsense. Sounds to me like PwsA wanted to make himself an arbitrary vampire movie and is hoping (like his arbitrary zombie series "resident evil") that game fans will go see it.

Fool me three times, shame on you. Fool me four, shame on me.

Or do you just not care at all?
That would be it.

I honestly don't see this as a plague either, I'm truely, honestly, dare I say praying that these greedy fucks aren't re-hired and scabs take over. Fresh-blood = good.

I haven't seen a good episode of anything on TV since like 1995, remakes and movies based on comic books and CGI animation is garbage. Truthfully I thought they had already been on strike since 1990.
So what they're plaguing remains to be a mystery.