[-January-]

Well withthe studios buying any comic book story or video game story they can. All we can do is hope one or two of them get represented right. Now sadly unlike many others i truly loved Aeon Flux. I felt it was represented with a brilliant story and cast and even had the coldness that the cult classic of an animie short had and with brutal art like landscapes. Sadly this was lost on many. It was the way the matrix two should of been presented i nsome areas of the shots. Another movie i am excited about is taken from a video game anyoen with an Xbox or playstation will be familiar with. It is called Blood Rayne. A brillant mix of gothic horror and romance as well as action and mystery. It has a stunning cast that truly fits this genre and is lead by a beautiful heroine from the T3 installment.



This group gathers from movies like T3, The Lord of the Rings, and Resivoir Dogs. It was taken very closely from the game i feel and transcribed it with a bit of a twist onto the screen as described here.





As you can see it is very intense and i was hoping anyone who has played the game or goes to see the movie or has thoughts about the actors or has more to add will do so. I am very escited. Below i have included the official website addy that also includes a fun game demo and blogs about the movie and game so check it out if you have time. It is where these pictures have been obtained from. and you can see the uber beautiful Kristanna Loken.

Blood Rayne Movie Site (click here)

This post has been edited by Star*Crossed: 20 December 2005 - 12:55 AM

[Jason Vines]

In case people don't know, this is a vampire movie, a la Blade. And from some other images I've seen, it looks as if it'll be bloody... also like Blade.

Ben Kingsley and Billy Zane having roles in the movie is a good sign. They, especially Kingsley, are serious actors who might not have appeared in the movie if the script reeked of crap. (Kingsley's pedigree includes Ghandi and Schindler's List. But, then again, it also includes Species, so this rule isn't ironclad. )

Here's an IGN interview I found with the director, Uwe Boll: IGN Uwe Boll Interview, Part One. She's directed another movie based on a video game, House of the Dead, which I hear was good, so at least the film appears to be in competent hands.

Something that concerns me from the interview:

IGN Interview said:

It's a very interesting movie and the first Avid output is around three hours. So, it is a long movie but I will make it two hours in the end. It's definitely the longest movie I've done so far.

Why do studios believe they must cut movies so much of their original content lies on the editing room floor? I could understand if the original cut of the movie has a four hour running time. But BloodRayne is only three hours. Maybe the studio should chop it to 2.5 hours instead? The Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies run that long, and we know them as good movies partly because they have time to develop their characters and stories.

Meanwhile, shortening movies to a perfunctory 2 hours (or less!) ruined movies such as Daredevil. And it's an onimous portent for how BloodRayne will turn out eventually.

Still, I'm always up for an 18th century period movie that's not like Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility.

This post has been edited by Jason Vines: 20 December 2005 - 07:21 AM