"Witchblade" Movie To Be "Very Different"
MTV’s Splash Page had an interview with the producers of the new "Witchblade" movie – to be called "The Witchblade", apparently – and learned all sorts of information that might interest the nine people who might possibly interested.
But don’t take my impossibly-unimpressed-by-the-majority-of-trying-too-hard-post-and-in-most-cases-during-90’s-’hard-edged’-psuedo-super-heroes-who-were-more-interested-in-looking-cool-and-having-’dark’-origins-than-anything-actually-meaningful-or-relatable-of-which-Witchblade-is-arguably-the-poster-child-for-the-girl-version-of-that opinion, take it direct from the horse’s mouth:
"We sat down with a couple of guys, [co-producer] Platinum Studios and Marc Silvestri and I, and we banged out a three-page document that says here’ the basic story idea we want to do," said Hawkins. "It’ sort of a balancing act—it’ very different from the book, but thematically, it’s very much the same."
Oh, good! Then thematically we’ll have a ‘tough’ female cop who has a thing that gets all sharp and insectile-looking replace all of her clothes. Well thank GOD for that, because if they didn’t nail that, I don’t know what we would have done.
Look, the premise of a cop–a well-balanced character–who mistakenly inherits an ancient object that forces her to fight demons and the forces of darkness and all that could be great if handled well. It’s a good, fun premise. But statements like the below don’t fill me with much hope that this thing is going to be done well:
"You look into the feelings, the tones and how the character acts, the thing that is the same in ‘Wanted’ is the character arc of Wesley," said Hawkins of the main character in the "Wanted" movie and comic book series. "If you actually look at his journey, it’ the same arc—the circumstances are slightly different and the other characters are slightly different, but it’ the same character arc—so that’s what we’ve been diligently working on with ‘Witchblade,’ too."
Still in search of a new screenwriter, "Witchblade" presents some unique challenges to potential scribes, said Hawkins.
"When you do a female-lead film that’ successful, they always turn it around and they say it was the effects," he explained. "People in Hollywood… When you talk to people about something like ‘Underworld,’ it’s always the werewolf/vampire thing and it’s not Kate Beckinsale. … It’s not that they always think a female lead film is going to fail, but… I don’ know. It’ just one of those things."
Yep. Give up now, guys. Is Fox making this thing and we just don’t know it yet?
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