Watching Solomon Kane reminded me how much I missed my dose of Hellsing. Because the lead actor reminded me of Hugh Jackman who starred on my less preferred version of Abraham van Helsing in the movie Van Helsing, a character who plays a vital role in Bram Stoker’s famous horror novel Dracula. Dracula is also the titular character and the main anti-hero of Kohta Hirano’s manga Hellsing (see the connection there). He just had a cooler name, Alucard.
For so long I wondered why they haven’t touched Hellsing (Hirano’s version, see the 2 ‘L’s) to be adapted in a featured live action film while I see Hollywood movies like Dragonball, Speed Racer, Blood . . . oh wait.
Well, now that I looked back, Hollywood also made a bunch of crappy films about Japanese games. (that’s not exactly a ground breaking good news if you've watched Street Fighter, Tekken, DOA, King of Fighters etc.) And the main reason probably goes to the casting of actors and their roles. Like them playing Asians despite being Caucasians. And secondly were the writers, who thought that they could make an adaptation better if they make their wildest fanfiction come true on screen.
Whatever happened to sticking to the main plot and main characters? (although a few make it big like Resident Evil, but that is an exception.) I guess they should just stop using and buying the rights of the said titles if they are just going to do it halfway. Just waste of money and time.
I just don’t even understand.
And why Guile is the main guy in Street Fighter while Ken and Ryu were just a bunch of clowns.
?!?
Why not just adapt Games and Anime that already have Caucasian characters in it? Which brings us back to Hellsing. I’ve seen what a bunch of directors can do with their visual effects like in Sucker Punch and Scott Pilgrim. I wish that they could at least do these with their adaptations.
And probably this is how I’ll do the casting.
In Hellsing we get Alucard, our main guy.
In the manga Alucard manifests many forms.
a gender confused kid, a lunatic, and a corpse.
His kid version, I chose that kid from the Omen remake. Just put on a nice wig because the soul piercing eyes are already given.
His middle aged version could be any of these two, Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Shelter, Tudors) respectively. Though I prefer the latter and hoped he knows how to wield guns.
And for his more mature form we could always have this guy to play this part. (yeah, I know. Who would have thought.)
And this.
For Walter. These are what I have in mind.
Young/Dark Walter
Old Walter, Ian Mckellen fits the bill.
(runner ups goes to Sean Connery and Alan Rickman)
For Paladin Anderson. . . (I’d totally like Liev Schreiber for that role but he’s better off as Hans)
So we have Gerard Butler. You know who would not like to hear him yell:
This is Iscariot!!!
And for Seras Victoria, Jena Malone is my bet. (minus Seras’ boob job of course.)
John Billingsley annoys me when he plays a character, then I thought why not play the annoying villain Major Montana?
For Rip I nominate PJ Harvey. The best part of it is that she could sing...
...and play rock guitar.
I have two characters in mind for Noomi Rapace (Girl with Dragon Tattoo) because she could either play Heinkel or Zorin. But she’s better as Heinkel, in many levels.
Lastly as for Integra Hellsing (my favourite character btw), there are just a few that could make this character believable. One of which I know is Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill, Final Days of the Planet Earth).
However, she is twenty years late. And underwent the knife. Which led to this.
But suddenly I remember Grandma Integra which perfectly fits her.
Now, if we follow closely Integra’s heritage, it was hinted that she’s part Indian and part British which will probably looked like her.
As for the tanned skin and dirty blonde hair part, a Brazilian could always pass. Ehem.
But just like they say. Dream on. (sigh)
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