PA on Castle V!
Dec. 19, 2008
Our man JimmyO recently had a chat with wam-bam director PAUL ANDERSON and he gave us the heads up as to WTF is going on with CASTLEVANIA already and what he'll be shooting for in terms of tone with the film. Get the juice below! And scroll down lower to read what he had to say about an EVENT HORIZON sequel...
I've heard about CASTLEVANIA being held up with a possible SAG strike,
but the script seems to be in good shape. What are we looking at with the
script so far…?
It'll come as no surprise that eighty percent of the movie is set in a
castle, and it's Dracula's castle obviously. And the movie focuses on… I
mean, the thing about CASTLEVANIA is it is an intellectual property that's
been around for such a long time and there are so many games, so many
different story strands. But by far the most popular story strand seems to
be the battle of the Belmont clan with Dracula through the ages. So that
will be what the movie focuses on, it will be the Belmont clan and Dracula
all contained within the confines of this kind of, killer, gothic
environment that contains all the creatures, tricks and traps that you'd
associate with Castlevania. I kind of read on the internet… "outrage"
because there is no whip in the movie, and that's bullshit, you know.
There's more whipping than in an Indiana Jones convention [Laughing].
Well it also sound like it will be a more serious tone…?
Yeah, it's going to be a scary movie for sure. It's going to be scary and
it's going to be dark and it's going to have these elements of gothic
romance to it. Which, if you're familiar with the video games, just the
packaging of the games has that kind of, very gothic, romantic feel to it.
I hope we don't have to wait for too long man…
Well, you know, the hold up is the potential SAG strike. I mean it's not
just us, it is a whole bunch of movies that are just in a holding pattern.
Because you don't want to go into production then have to close down your
movie because everyone goes on strike. Hopefully next year there will be a
resolution to that and we can go on ahead with it.
Would you ever consider doing EVENT HORIZON 2?
I don't know, I don't know if that's a movie that really requires a sequel.
You know, I think there are films that when I was making them, I definitely
thought this is part of a franchise. Like RESIDENT EVIL, I've always seen
that as part of a franchise. But I don't think EVENT HORIZON has… I think it
has, I wouldn't say a completed ending, but one of the strong things about
it is this question mark that leaves you hanging, but I think that's the
strong thing about it. It has a real following and that's why people like
it. I think if you answer all of the question marks at the end of EVENT
HORIZON, I think it [takes away] the power that the movie has and the magic
that it has. I think for that reason, it is not something that I would ever
really want to go back and do.
PA has good tastes in women...
