Animated Castlevania movie still in the works!

EDIT(I made a mistake in the thread title, this is the live-action Castlevania, not the animated one)

They switched directors and changed the script a little but the new concept art is looking great. From what I can tell from the artwork, the protagonist is indeed a Belmont. (he's holding a whip in his right hand )

It will be directed by James Wan, so it's gonna be his first game adaption to a movie. Here's hoping that it will go well.
http://kotaku.com/5320874/castlevani...ew-concept-art

Unfortunatly, I don't understand Castlevania.
I know it was a video game series but what was it about?

The general plot is every one hundred years The vampire lord Dracula revives himself and it's up to a Belmont clan descendant armed with a enchanted whip to sent the Count back to the grave ( sometimes non-Belmonts get to take up the fight)

Sounds crazy but it's damn awesome.

This looks interesting. Hopefully it'll be better than pretty much every video game movie ever. I'm not going to hold my breath, though.

Originally Posted by VictorZamora

Unfortunatly, I don't understand Castlevania.
I know it was a video game series but what was it about?

Kill Dracula and you win.

Kotaku:Wan is interested in how Konami took iconic Dracula mythos and mixed it with a Japanese pop-culture vibe. "That's the East-meets-West tone I want to visually expand on for the film," he continues. "I'm thrilled by the opportunity to make a highly stylized, fantasy, action film that focuses on the gothic story-line and the cool, anime-like characters.

Sounds like a very great concept to help it stand out from other Dracula films. Castlevania was really never known for the plot but as long as the movie has solid fight scenes and tons of gruesome monsters and demons to be whipped down, I'm sold.

Dread:Kill Dracula and you win.

pretty much sums it up.

Hmm... Do any of the Belmonts have white hair? If not, then it must be a new Belmont, or not a Belmont at all. I'd actually prefer it to be an already existing Belmont. Not sure why.

There is one I believe, Juste? the grandson of Simon from one of the GBA titles.

Then again it could be Simon Belmont himself, one of the early drafts of the script had Simon with silver hair. Simon has seen so many redesigns in the games that it's possible.

I know... I hated his Castlevania Judgment design. Then again, I hated all of the Castlevania Judgment designs. Well, most of them. Trevor looked pretty cool. Especially if you equipped an eyepatch on his other eye.

Originally Posted by VictorZamora

Unfortunatly, I don't understand Castlevania.
I know it was a video game series but what was it about?

The 'Kill Dracula and you win' description is fairly apt but for a bit more depth:

Dracula's wife was killed by humans. Dracula vowed revenge. Dracula's son, Alucard (geddit) protects humanity with his vampiric powers. Eventually, a family of vampire-hunters, the Belmonts, get entangled with things. Eventually Alucard teams up with Trevor Belmont and they destroy Dracula. 100 years later Dracula is revived by some cult of vampire worshippers, and Simon Belmont destroys him. This time, however, Dracula was ready: he casts a curse on Simon, who will die if he doesn't kill Dracula again. Now SIMON is forced to revive Dracula just to kill him. he succeeds, but the curse passes on to his descendants, meaning that Dracula now gets revived every generation, or a Belmont dies young. Eventually, they discover a way to break the curse, but Dracula still revives every once in a while even without it. They search for a more permanent solution and discover a prophecy where they can destroy Dracula forever, but it's complicated and they disappear from history for a century (or two, I can't remember). When they return, the latest descendant, Julius Belmont, seals Dracula's castle, Castlevania, away inside a solar eclipse (don't ask). As the castle is evidently the source of Dracula's power, he can't revive anymore. Problem solved. Unfortunately, it transpires that the universe needs a Dark Lord like Dracula to maintain balance, and a boy named Soma Cruz is born with all of Dracula's powers. The forces of evil continually try to turn him to evil, but he rejects these, and becomes a hero. How this will turn out is unknown, as the story is ongoing.

That's sort of the cliff notes version. There's a lot more, but some of the games don't really change things that much and are pretty much 'Dracula revives again, tries something new but fails, and dies until next time'.

I have a great actor in mind to play Dracula, Gary Oldman. He was cast as Dracula in the 1992 film, "Bram Stoker's Dracula". He has very good experience with the role.

(Gary as young Dracula)


(Gary as old Dracula)


(Gary as demonic Dracula)