[MOVIES] VtR optioned by New Line

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st [...] _vampire_1

New Line will stake claim to 'Vampire'

Tue Jul 13, 9:37 PM ET

Cathy Dunkley, Dana Harris, STAFF

New Line Cinema has optioned feature rights for the role-playing game
"Vampire: The Requiem" from White Wolf Publishing for producer Adam
Fields. New Line's eyeing the property as a potential franchise
property.


"Requiem" introduces a contemporary horror universe that details the
night-to-night life of vampires. Just as it's up to the game players
to create characters and plots, a screenwriter will also be charged
with creating characters and a storyline for the adaptation.


"Requiem" and its ancillary role-playing products will be published
Aug. 30 through White Wolf's World of Darkness imprint.


"Requiem" is a successor to White Wolf's 1991 "Vampire: The
Masquerade." That gaming property spawned more than 150 products and
licensed materials, including several ActiVision videogames as well as
the short-lived 1996 Fox series "Kindred: The Embraced."


Luke Ryan and Magnus Kim oversee the pic at New Line. Roy Rocha
brought the property to Fields.


Fields, who will produce "Requiem" under his first-look deal at New
Line, is also producing "Josiah's Canon" at 20th Century Fox.

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"Moritz Voss"

> *sigh* I really, really wish someone would make a good Werewolf: The
> Apocalypse movie. While it's definitely not a mainstream setting, I think
> the mix of anthropomorphics, violence, spiritualism and the general
> darkness of it all could make it a complete hit.

Hmm...faux spiritualism. I see that not flying far. Plus making a
good looking Ron Spencer style garou would be hella impossible.

> Problem arising would involve that convincing Garou and the Umbra would
> require massive CGI budgets. Something hobby film makers, on the other
> hand, will never possess.

Don't discount non-CGI options, even if there was a big budget
attached to this. There's a lot you can do without it. And most
often it seems that when you DON'T have access to something, if you
really want to make it work, you'll find a way. Most innovations have
happened because of this.

Plus, CGI tends to look like CGI. Spider-Man couldn't have been made
without CGI, and frankly, it shows.

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In article <2lvvhvFhd6u3U1@uni-berlin.de>, "David Prokopetz"
<sirbob@penguinking.com> wrote:

> Yeah, CGI looks so much like CGI that some people will start criticising
> the CGI flaws in scenes that don't actually have CGI in them.

I think CGI has become a catch-all term meaning "special effect that
wasn't very good."

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Tyler

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Tyler Dion wrote:
>
> In article <2lvvhvFhd6u3U1@uni-berlin.de>, "David Prokopetz"
> <sirbob@penguinking.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, CGI looks so much like CGI that some people will start criticising
> > the CGI flaws in scenes that don't actually have CGI in them.
>
> I think CGI has become a catch-all term meaning "special effect that
> wasn't very good."

In other words, a term that has no relation to what it actually means?

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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 00:29:08 GMT, Julie d'Aubigny
<kali.magdalene@comcast.net> wrote:

>Tyler Dion wrote:
>>
>> In article <2lvvhvFhd6u3U1@uni-berlin.de>, "David Prokopetz"
>> <sirbob@penguinking.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Yeah, CGI looks so much like CGI that some people will start criticising
>> > the CGI flaws in scenes that don't actually have CGI in them.
>>
>> I think CGI has become a catch-all term meaning "special effect that
>> wasn't very good."
>
>In other words, a term that has no relation to what it actually means?

CGI is munchkin, mang.


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Tyler Dion <tfdion@spammenot.com> wrote in
newsIudnY6TaZVPSmfdRVn-jA@telcove.net:

> I think CGI has become a catch-all term meaning "special effect that
> wasn't very good."


Oddness... I think CGI has, ever since Jurassic Park, been a hallmark of
"realism that you just can't achieve just with puppets".

I liked the puppets in Dog Soldiers, though I heard they were so frail that
they had to make countless retakes of the scenes because their costumes
fell apart

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"Zane Graves" <maltlick@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> schaduw@silcom.com (Eric Tolle) wrote in message
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> > maltlick@yahoo.com (Zane Graves) wrote in message
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> > > "Moritz Voss"
> > >
> > > > *sigh* I really, really wish someone would make a good Werewolf: The
> > > > Apocalypse movie. While it's definitely not a mainstream setting, I
think
> > > > the mix of anthropomorphics, violence, spiritualism and the general
> > > > darkness of it all could make it a complete hit.
> > >
> > > Hmm...faux spiritualism. I see that not flying far. Plus making a
> > > good looking Ron Spencer style garou would be hella impossible.
> >
> > Now now, I'm sure they'll be able to get CGI at least at the level of
> > "Anaconda".
> >
> > In fact, I think classics such as "Anaconda" and "Deep Blue Sea" could
> > be perfect models for the Werewolf movie. ;')
> >
> > -Eric Tolle
>
> Again. Just my opinion. But I think CGI has easily turned into a
> crutch for film makers instead of actually making compelling movies.

This is different from any other special effects technology precisely how?
Think back; most of the Harryhausen stuff has downright mediocre stories and
characterisations, but folks love it anyway for the stop-motion skeletons.

(Which *are* pretty cool, I'll admit.)

- David Prokopetz.