The Castlevania Movie is Not Deader than Lindsay Lohan’s Movie Career After All

Castlevania Movie, Horror Movie News — By Nix on July 23, 2009

It’s the movie that just won’t die, sort of like its vampire characters, now that I think about it. According to Bloody-Disgusting, who just a few months ago assured us that the live-action version of Konami’s Castlevania game is all but dead after losing would-be director Sylvain White, the movie is now back on, with Paul W.S. Anderson still in the producer’s chair. And in the director’s chair? James Wan, one of the guys behind the “Saw” franchise, and director on “Dead Silence” and “Death Sentence”.

Wan tells BD:

“I’m very fresh on this project, so its early stages and I’m still trying to work things out, but the producers love my vision for it. I’ll be working on the script with a writer to give it a new spin, different to the previous versions. This will have my stamp on it which Konami is very excited about.

“The thing I love about what Konami did with Castlevania, was taking the iconic Dracula mythology and Eastern-European setting, and retelling it with a Japanese pop-cultural sensibility. That’s the East-meets-West tone I want to visually expand on for the film. I’m thrilled by the opportunity to make a highly stylized, fantasy, action film that focuses on the gothic storyline and the cool, anime-like characters. For once, the human hero is as sexy and dangerous as the vampire villain, and his weapon of choice was what attracted me to the project in the first place – The Vampire Killer Whip.”

Oooh, Vampire Killer Whip. Does it come with cream?

And look, they even have a teaser poster for it, too: