Castlevania Movie On Hold

From Variety:

Rogue Pictures has halted "Castlevania," the live-action adaptation of the Konami vampire videogame that it is co-producing with Crystal Sky Entertainment. Sylvain White ("Stomp the Yard") was set to direct, and production was slated to begin in April in South Africa, according to Variety.

The film was unplugged because it needed additional script work that wasn't possible because of the writers strike.

Script sets up a generational battle between Vlad the Impaler and members of the family that inadvertently unleashed the first vampire.

With a budget around $40 million and franchise aspirations, Rogue reluctantly shelved the picture, preferring to wait for a strike resolution and get it right. White is still committed, and the genre producer has at least four other production starts for 2008, including remakes of "Last House on the Left" and "Near Dark."

- The Monster