Alexander Aja has managed to make a batch of pretty diverse horror movies — some good, some bad — that suggest he’s got serious chops that just desperately require a good script to flourish. So while I can expect Undying Love to be a well-constructed film, I can currently only guess if graphic novelists and screenwriters Tomm Coker and Daniel Freedman will cough up the kind of script that will do justice to Aja’s filmmaking skill.
The writing duo are adapting their own graphic novel into a screenplay for Warner Brothers, who optioned the story of a soldier who’s fallen in love with a beautiful Chinese vampire whose creator must be destroyed in order for her to become human again. So really this mixes Blade with a sort of anti-Twilight in which a human meets a vampire, and instead of falling in with her crowd and becoming desperate to be turned, he murders everyone like her until she’s human again. Built around Chinese mythology, the comic also apparently mixes in an underground mob element as the powerful vampire apparently commands quite an army to protect him.
Nothing’s set in stone yet, but this sounds like a good way for Aja to expand his wheelhouse a bit, without entirely leaving it.
Also: Vampires. Tired. Etc.
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What the hell happened to Alexander Aja? I know some would disagree but I thought SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE was brilliant and I absolutely adored his remake of THE HILLS HAVE EYES. I was a bit disappointed with MIRRORS when comparing it to Aja’s other movies but, by the standard of most Hollywood horror, it was still a cut above the rest. PIRANHA felt like a waste of his talents, even though I had fun with the 3D gimmick. Seemingly furthering his decline, this movie doesn’t sound very good even though I’ll try to remain hopeful. I want the guy who directed SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2006 back!
He’s supposedly doing an adaptation of Joe Hill’s Horns next and has been trying to get his dream project financed: an adaptation of the space opera manga Cobra: The Space Pirate. The man has been making a lot of progress in the industry lately, having gone from directing three remakes in a row………to only producing remakes now instead of directing them (Maniac, Madman). Considering remakes used to be the only thing he could get money for, I’m glad he’s moving up.
Anyway, like Horns, sounds like another fun project for Aja to do before making his space adventure epic. At least it’s not another damn remake!
Hopping vampires? C’mon!!
Quit fucking around. This is not funny!
I freakin’ LOVED Cobra the space pirate as a kid. The Anime series was dubbed into Spanish and I and all my friends growing up had a blast watching it alongside GI:JOE and Transformers cartoons.
However, Cobra was the best, considering the violence and nudity.
Also, freakin’ LOVE Joe Hill! He’s just as talented a writer as his famous Dad!
Awesome!
He tried to get X-men Origins: Wolverine, but I don’t think Fox even considered the poor bastard. I guess Gavin Hood was easier to push around.
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