Post by Enchant on Jul 2, 2006 9:49:44 GMT -5
Producer Jeremy Bolt told SCI FI Wire that he and his frequent collaborator, writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson, are well into development on a new movie based on Death Race 2000 and a second film based on the Castlevania video-game franchise. "We're talking about two projects: Death Race and Castlevania," Bolt said in an interview on the set of Resident Evil: Extinction here, which Anderson wrote. "[Death Race] would be a remake of Death Race 2000, with Paramount and us producing it with Cruise/Wagner, Tom Cruise's production company."
The original 1975 movie starred David Carradine in a story about a futuristic car race in which drivers run down innocent pedestrians for points. The remake has been in development for more than a decade. "Paul came in and wrote the script and got it a lot closer," Bolt said. "We should be making an official announcement about it in the next few weeks. We've basically taken the idea of reality television and extended it 2,000 years. It's definitely a comment on society and reality television, but it's not as much a parody or satire as the original. It's more straightforward." Bolt and Anderson, who have collaborated on the game-inspired Resident Evil franchise, will return to the gaming world for their big-screen take on the classic vampire game Castlevania. "The take on Castlevania is: What Paul has done in writing it is to try and integrate a Dracula origin story into Castlevania, the story of the Belmonts," Bolt said. The game, which originally appeared in 1986, and its sequels focus on the vampire-hunting Belmont clan. "There is a fair amount of reference [to the game]," Bolt said of the proposed movie. "We always try to give the fans something that respects their love of the game, but also gives them something completely new. We've given a whole new spin on Castlevania." scifi.com