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Wolfenstein Movie Delayed
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09-11-2007 10:59am#1Just read on GameSpot that the Return To Castle Wolfenstein movie has been delayed. Granted, I didn't even know they were making one, but what confused me was this bit in bold:GameSpot wrote:Writer/director Roger Avary told SCI FI Wire that he is almost done with the script for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, his adaptation of the hit video game, which he hopes to direct, but added that everything is on hold until the writers' strike ends.
Avary, who is co-writer with Neil Gaiman of the upcoming animated film Beowulf, said in an interview Nov. 3 that he "is almost done with the script and am proud of it, but everything as far as the production date and that kind of thing won't be decided on until after all this [is] over. And I fully support the strike."
Avary said the film will be based on a Commodore 64 game and will be a lot like "a World War II old movie of guys who are out on a mission, but this one will have the addition of monsters and horror and a lot of craziness all mixed together. We will start it when it is the right time."
Avary said he did research into the paranormal, the American military and the Nazis. Avary, who won an Academy Award for Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, also wrote Silent Hill, which is also based on a video game.
The original didn't have monsters in it, did it? (or is no one else here as old as I am?
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I feel Roger Avery is just surviving in Hollywood on the fact that he had a hand in the script of Pulp Fiction. He made a half decent attempt on Silent Hill but still the script was pretty poor and only saved by the great visuals, a Silent Hill film had the potential of being truly great instead of forgettable.
Castle Wolfenstein could be decent if they kept it tongue in cheek and an eighties action movie vibe going.
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Just read on GameSpot that the Return To Castle Wolfenstein movie has been delayed. Granted, I didn't even know they were making one, but what confused me was this bit in bold:
The original didn't have monsters in it, did it? (or is no one else here as old as I am? )
Spear of Destiny did, didn't it?
Actually, just wiki'd it. The first episode didn't, but then:Having defeated Grosse and escaped the castle, B.J. moves on to Operation: Eisenfaust. B.J. finds out that the operation is real, and that the Nazis are creating a mutant army of undead zombies in Castle Hollehammer. When the episode begins, B.J. has just entered the castle; the walls are covered in mulch, and the first enemies found are mutants with third arms grafted into their chests holding pistols
And the wiki article has an Atari Jaguar reference, so it must be true.0 -
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I was cringing at how they kept the plot moving by using videogame plot devices. They go to one place, 'oh I've found a piece of paper that tells me to go to [creepy place]' and then when they get there someone tells them to go somewhere else. A script based on videogame fetch quests, which people give out about for being in videogames, doens't make a good film.
The first Wolfenstein had zombies in it with guns in their chests. Monsters wouldn't exactly be a far departure from wolfenstein silliness.
It's a pity that the start of Hellboy was probably a far better wolfenstein film than this will be.
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