Video game publisher Konami is in negotiations with James Wan (he of the Saw series) to direct the big screen adaptation of the video game classic Castlevania. Hey, at least it isn’t a whole movie based on the View-Master. Ian Jeffers is set to pen the script (he may actually use a computer, or a typewriter or even a pencil, though that would require an awful lot of sharpening). From Variety.com:
The project centers on the battle between Dracula and the Belmont clan of vampire hunters in a labyrinthine fortress in the Carpathian mountains.
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“Castlevania” debuted as a vidgame in Japan in 1986. Crystal Sky acquired the feature rights in 2005 and attached Paul W.S. Anderson to direct, followed by Sylvain White in 2007, with Rogue co-producing, but the project stalled during the WGA strike.
Steven Paul of Crystal Sky Entertainment will be producing. As a video game player who has loved the “Castlevania” series, all I have to say is, “Someone please keep Uwe Boll distracted for the entirety of this production.”