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Netflix Castlevania producer says he turned down a live-action adaptation pitched years prior

by rawmeatcowboy
26 January 2018
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Netflix brought Castlevania to game fans last year, and the project ended up being a big success. A lot of that success is attributed to executive producer, Adi Shankar. He had a very strong vision for the project, and wanted to do right by fans. His passion for the franchise helped steer the animated series to great heights, but it wasn't the first chance he had to adapt Castlevania to another format.

Turns out in 2012, Shankar had the chance to create a live-action adaptation of Castlevania. In an interview with GamesIndustry, Shankar explains why the project never took off.

"It's not that live-action was unilaterally not right, it was just the way that version was coming together. The star of Castlevania is Castlevania, first and foremost; it's the characters. And the ecosystem has changed now, but back then the star system was still intact, so what mattered more to the greenlight committee than making a good film or faithful adaptation was who was in it. So it was like, Channing Tatum has to be the Belmont, or whatever. It would have been creatively bankrupt."

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