Right here’s an fascinating little bit of film trivia that James Wan just lately shared. It seems that earlier than Nicolas Cage performed Dracula in Renfield, he was set to play the enduring vampire in a scrapped adaptation of the favored online game franchise Castlevania!
Wan was creating an adaptation of Castlevania again in 2009, and he mentioned on the time: “I’m very recent on this venture, so it’s early phases and I’m nonetheless attempting to work issues out, however the producers love my imaginative and prescient for it. I’ll be engaged on the script with a author to offer it a brand new spin, completely different to the earlier variations. This may have my stamp on it which Konami may be very enthusiastic about.”
Clearly, the venture didn’t pan out, which is a disgrace. I believe Wan would have made an superior Castlevania film, and Cage would’ve been superior as Dracula within the film! Hell, he was a lot enjoyable to look at because the Prince of Darkness in Renfield! He delivered such an satisfying efficiency.
Wan just lately praised Renfield on social media, and that’s the place he revealed that he was in talks with the actor about portraying the vampire for his live-action adaptation. Cage was simply destined to play the character!
Hopefully, Cage will get to proceed taking part in the function as he just lately mentioned that he’d prefer to make his personal Dracula film in order that he can higher discover the psyche of the vampire. He mentioned: “You understand, there are some minor moments right here the place you get to see a number of the pathos in Dracula’s eyes. That made me suppose that perhaps sooner or later I’d prefer to attempt for a complete film the place you’re actually understanding the psyche of the character. I didn’t actually have the time to delve into that right here.”
Cage beforehand defined that he accepted the function of Dracula as a problem to himself and since he’s a fan of different interpretations of the character that we’ve seen over time from the likes of Christopher Lee, Frank Langella, Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman. He mentioned: “I additionally sort of all the time knew I needed to do it in some unspecified time in the future. I went again to Christopher Lee, by way of his method of talking, however that was actually solely a place to begin. I knew Christopher. I did a small scene with him in ‘Season of the Witch,’ and I preferred him very a lot. We had loads of good conversations, and he jogged my memory fairly a little bit of my father, August. So from then on, my dad type of grew to become the principle inspiration for me.”
Would you have got preferred to see Cage play Dracula in a Castlevania film?