Castlevania III Animated Movie?

by Sindra, filed in Games on Jan.23, 2007

Not too long ago, news hit the Castlevania fan community that Paul S. Anderson would be directing a live-action adaption of one of the longest running gaming series to date. And, we all wept. Or at least I did. However, it looks like there might be an alternative in the works – a Castlevania animated movie.

It seems that Project 51 Productions Ltd. has aquired worldwide animated rights from Konami Entertainment to the Castlevania franchise. Representing Project 51 in the deal were Rick Privman and Yumiko Miyano from JEA and Eric Gardner from Panacea Entertainment. Their announced first project is an animated movie based on Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse; with Award winning comic book writer Warren Ellis writing the script and Eisner Award winning artist James Jean slated to be the art director. To enlighten the casual gamer, Dracula’s Curse was the third and last of the NES Castlevania games released in 1990, and has been argued by fans as being the best of the original trilogy, if not the series. Set 100 years before the original game, it follows the quest of Trevor Belmont to defeat Count Dracula before his curse spreads throughout the land of Warakiya, Transylvania.

No planned release dates have been announced as of yet, but the project seems to hold some promise despite being in the early stages of production. A production blog has been set up to track details of the flick as it developes – http://www.castlevaniadraculascurse.com/

Tags: Animation, Konami

joerammstein

Best in the series? That statement is a Blasphemy of the Night!

Anyway, this could be cool if it ever comes to pass. Ellis is King.
joerammstein

Best in the series? That statement is a Blasphemy of the Night!

Anyway, this could be cool if it ever comes to pass. Ellis is King.
joerammstein

Best in the series? That statement is a Blasphemy of the Night!

Anyway, this could be cool if it ever comes to pass. Ellis is King.
Sindra

I’m talking the oldschool agmers who grew up with Castlevania since the beginning. Most newschool fans stick to Symphony as their favorite because for most it was their introduction to the series.
Sindra

I’m talking the oldschool agmers who grew up with Castlevania since the beginning. Most newschool fans stick to Symphony as their favorite because for most it was their introduction to the series.
Sindra

I’m talking the oldschool agmers who grew up with Castlevania since the beginning. Most newschool fans stick to Symphony as their favorite because for most it was their introduction to the series.
http://powet.tv/ Zac Shipley

Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse is the best in THAT series. a series that ended with Castlevania 4.

Symphony Of The Night and all the games that came along on GBA and DS since then are so distant from the linear platforming of the NES ones.
http://powet.tv/ Zac Shipley

Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse is the best in THAT series. a series that ended with Castlevania 4.

Symphony Of The Night and all the games that came along on GBA and DS since then are so distant from the linear platforming of the NES ones.
http://powet.tv Zac Shipley

Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse is the best in THAT series. a series that ended with Castlevania 4.

Symphony Of The Night and all the games that came along on GBA and DS since then are so distant from the linear platforming of the NES ones.
joerammstein

Hmm. If you’re making the distinction, then I’d say Rondo of Blood is the best from that era. It opened things up a bit with multiple paths and optional tasks, but it was still the same old level-based progression found in previous entries.

And I’d argue it still has the coolest fight against Death in the entire series.

Also, the fact they used this game’s final boss battle as a playable prologue in Symphony of the Night is cool as well.
joerammstein

Hmm. If you’re making the distinction, then I’d say Rondo of Blood is the best from that era. It opened things up a bit with multiple paths and optional tasks, but it was still the same old level-based progression found in previous entries.

And I’d argue it still has the coolest fight against Death in the entire series.

Also, the fact they used this game’s final boss battle as a playable prologue in Symphony of the Night is cool as well.
joerammstein

Hmm. If you’re making the distinction, then I’d say Rondo of Blood is the best from that era. It opened things up a bit with multiple paths and optional tasks, but it was still the same old level-based progression found in previous entries.

And I’d argue it still has the coolest fight against Death in the entire series.

Also, the fact they used this game’s final boss battle as a playable prologue in Symphony of the Night is cool as well.
http://adamrulz.com/ aDam

Castlevania 3 was one of my favourites as a lad. I loved that you could play through with the different characters along the different paths. Rare for a game of the time to have that kind of flexibility.

And the game has enough characters that you could make a really great story out of that. I look forward to this.

All that being said I’m still looking forward to the Castlevania live action movie. I know people don’t like the director but I think you need to remember that this is a video game movie and while I wish these franchises would be treated better they’r enot! We’re talking Double Dragon or Super Mario Bros. caliber movies here. When the best you can look back in with the history of gaming movies is Van Damn’s Street Fighter and the first Mortal Kombat I don’t think we’re allowed to be angry when a big time Hollywood director is handed one of our franchises. Much like with Michael Bay and the trannie movie we should be happy with what we’ve gotten because it could be much, much worse.
http://adamrulz.com/ aDam

Castlevania 3 was one of my favourites as a lad. I loved that you could play through with the different characters along the different paths. Rare for a game of the time to have that kind of flexibility.

And the game has enough characters that you could make a really great story out of that. I look forward to this.

All that being said I’m still looking forward to the Castlevania live action movie. I know people don’t like the director but I think you need to remember that this is a video game movie and while I wish these franchises would be treated better they’r enot! We’re talking Double Dragon or Super Mario Bros. caliber movies here. When the best you can look back in with the history of gaming movies is Van Damn’s Street Fighter and the first Mortal Kombat I don’t think we’re allowed to be angry when a big time Hollywood director is handed one of our franchises. Much like with Michael Bay and the trannie movie we should be happy with what we’ve gotten because it could be much, much worse.
http://adamrulz.com/ aDam

Castlevania 3 was one of my favourites as a lad. I loved that you could play through with the different characters along the different paths. Rare for a game of the time to have that kind of flexibility.

And the game has enough characters that you could make a really great story out of that. I look forward to this.

All that being said I’m still looking forward to the Castlevania live action movie. I know people don’t like the director but I think you need to remember that this is a video game movie and while I wish these franchises would be treated better they’r enot! We’re talking Double Dragon or Super Mario Bros. caliber movies here. When the best you can look back in with the history of gaming movies is Van Damn’s Street Fighter and the first Mortal Kombat I don’t think we’re allowed to be angry when a big time Hollywood director is handed one of our franchises. Much like with Michael Bay and the trannie movie we should be happy with what we’ve gotten because it could be much, much worse.
Sindra

Oh, no doubt I’m still gonna go see the actual Castlevania movie. To be honest, I rather liked what Anderson did with the first Mortal Kombat movie, (and with me being a rabid fan of that series, that’s saying something)…so I’m hoping by some miracle there will be some good points to the movie.

I’m just saying that I’m holding out on this animated flick to stick closer to the original story concept of the game it’s based on…but then again, I could end up being wrong about that as well.
Sindra

Oh, no doubt I’m still gonna go see the actual Castlevania movie. To be honest, I rather liked what Anderson did with the first Mortal Kombat movie, (and with me being a rabid fan of that series, that’s saying something)…so I’m hoping by some miracle there will be some good points to the movie.

I’m just saying that I’m holding out on this animated flick to stick closer to the original story concept of the game it’s based on…but then again, I could end up being wrong about that as well.
Sindra

Oh, no doubt I’m still gonna go see the actual Castlevania movie. To be honest, I rather liked what Anderson did with the first Mortal Kombat movie, (and with me being a rabid fan of that series, that’s saying something)…so I’m hoping by some miracle there will be some good points to the movie.

I’m just saying that I’m holding out on this animated flick to stick closer to the original story concept of the game it’s based on…but then again, I could end up being wrong about that as well.
http://adamrulz.com/ aDam

Well as someone who cared nothing for the Mortal Kombat game series I absolutely loved the first movie.
http://adamrulz.com/ aDam

Well as someone who cared nothing for the Mortal Kombat game series I absolutely loved the first movie.
http://adamrulz.com/ aDam

Well as someone who cared nothing for the Mortal Kombat game series I absolutely loved the first movie.

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