8 Cancelled Video Game Movies That Would Have Changed Everything
7. Castlevania
Konami's vampire hunt-em-up Castlevania recently found success as an animated TV series, but there were plans to turn it into a movie in the mid-2000s with some big names attached.
Paul W.S. Anderson was keen to adapt the series as horror-action hybrid steeped in Dracula lore that fleshed out the vampire's long-running rivalry with the Belmont clan. Based on his handling of the Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat licenses, this version of the film would probably have been high on adrenaline, but light on substance.
Only when Anderson vacated the director's chair did the project become promising. The Conjuring director James Wan was selected as his replacement, with Anderson staying on as producer, and that sounds a lot more like it.
With Wan at the helm, Castlevania could have been a survival-horror video game adaption that was actually scary. Not only that, if the movie delved into the origins of Dracula's conflict with the Belmont family, it could have had some depth to it too.
Location scouting took place around Hungary and Romania, and a screenplay underwent numerous rewrites, but the last status update came way back in 2009, so it's safe to say Castlevania's coffin is firmly nailed shut.