Russell Mulcahy to direct Vampire Film
Russell Mulcahy (director of the ‘Highlander’ series) directed the recent box office success ‘Resident Evil: Extinction’ and now that he’s directed a zombie flick, he’s now moving onto another beloved monster genre, the VAMPIRE genre. Mulcahy is signed to direct the upcoming vampire film based off a novel by Steven-Elliot Altman called ‘Zen in The Art of Slaying Vampires.’
ComingSoon.net gives us this:
The protagonist is turned into a vampire as he and his lover are attacked in lower Manhattan. She dies, and he struggles to overcome his murderous instincts and thirst for blood through Zen meditation. A struggle for his soul ensues between the bloodsuckers and the zen masters.
I don’t know if this movie sounds brilliant or incredibly stupid. A vampire overcoming his killer instincts through ZEN meditations?! That doesn’t even work for me when I’m STRESSED!
Although, Russell Mulcahy is a fine director and a viligante vampire flick sounds highly tempting for me considering I love vampire and viligante films. (It can’t be any worse than this year’s ‘Rise: Blood Hunter.’)
I’ll guess we’ll have to wait to see who has been cast in the roles….then we’ll know if this is going to be a film that’s going to suck or something we should SINK our teeth into.
1. jack-o replies at 27th September 2007, 2:45 pm :
Is this going Direct to DVD?
Russell has been working in the D2D movies for a while now, and RE: Extinction is his first theatrical movie in more than a decade. THank goodness Paul Anderson gave him a 2nd chance.
2. Darren j Seeley replies at 27th September 2007, 3:22 pm :
@Jack
Since RE3 got a theatrical and his next film will could go theatrical (The Scorpion King 2) it’s possible that this Vampire flick could go theatrical. It could go either way.
@Serena
Okay, what do you have against “Rise”? It wasn’t *that* bad. Was it worse than say, the DTV ‘Vampires: The Turning”? Okay, maybe you are on to something there but hey, at least ‘Vampires: The Turning” showed off Muay Thai action in the flick…(and having a loose connection to the ‘Vampires’ series started by John Carpenter. Yeah, I know “fans”don’t consider ‘Turning’ part of the trilogy, but the Hunters that happen to show up use the same methods as the Hunters fromthe previous films)
Anyway…
Yes. It IS a silly idea. But, in other vampire flicks, most vampies drink rat’s blood (Interview With A Vampire, for example) or take late night hospital shifts and help themselves to the blood storage bags. Or run a late night blood donation scam where folks donate blood thinking it could save the life of another human being, only unwittingly helping vampires fill a winery. See? No Zen required!
BTW, one of my fave Mulchahy films, other than the first Highlander…is Razorback. (yes, folks, the monster boar-pig that eats human flesh) But you know me, Serena, I’m a sucker for all eco-horror…
3. Stormy70 replies at 27th September 2007, 8:16 pm :
Zen vampires? I got enough of vampire angst reading Ann Rice. I don’t need to see it writ large on the big screen. They should make a film based on those best selling vampire huntress novels.
4. Sir Jig-A-Lot replies at 27th September 2007, 10:18 pm :
cast ain’t important. hey the guy turned Chris Lambert into a star (sure he ended up squandering that fame away,but hey that’s his fault).
strangely last thing i heard a year or so ago about Mulcahy was he was doing a reboot on Dracula. guess he changed his mind.