Well the CGI stuff should be really inexpensive to do, If they use Vue6 for the landscapes they'll have no probs creating any world they wish; Starside/Sunside should look great at no earth shattering costs to the studios. Not an expensive piece of kit either. The best software for them to use to create creatures would probably be Zbrush, version 2, I believe, is only approximately 200 quid for professional use. This they used on Underworld 2 to create the Vampire king.

And please don't let them cast Hugh Grant as any character within the Necroscope movie.

lol. screw necroscope, i wud hunt the bugger down myself and slaughter him if they cast hugh grant.

 

and whoever let hime ever onto the set wud be next on my list.

 

had a wkd bday 2day everyone, had to go school got a new comp, really great it is. also i found out i won the science fair with my crossbow (what else was i gonna make?) happy birthday also to whoever else's birthday it is, sorry i dont no ur name but im too lazy to go look, all i no is im sharing it with sum1 else on here.

Very deffinately off topic there P, but as it was your birthday I'll let you off! Glad you had a good day.

 

Back on topic, I don't think that the violence or the sex will be a problem. There are so many films out there already with ridiculous amounts of violence in them I really don't think it'll be any worse than some of those. Of course it'll have to have a strong certificate but I think we are all expecting that anyway.

 

If you think about it the violence in the first Necroscope isn't actually that bad anyway. The fight at the end is mostly explosions and we've seen fights with zombies before so that should be ok. The scenes with Dragosani "working" are very graphic but if they're done tastefully, showing it in flashes or from behind Dragosani with shadows so all you see is him reaching in the body and pulling something out, you know what it is by the shape but you can't really make much of it out. I think that would sail through the sensors.

 

Also, in the first Necroscope there aren't any outrageous sex scenes, or Wamphiri fighting or having sex with each other so initially that really won't be an issue.

 

I don't know anything for sure but in my opinion they won't go into the vampire world at all, it'll be the first book or maybe the first and second, though I'd prefer the first one on it's own.

Ha! It'd one helluva long film if it went right through to the Vampire World books!

I was just on imdb and I stumbled across Sam Raimi's (Evil Dead, Spiderman) new movie 30 Days of Night - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389722/. It's about vampires invading a town in Alaska as it is plunged into darkness for a month with it being above the arctic circle...

 

So hopefully if this movie is sucessful then maybe Hollywood will start looking at investing in other vampire-based movies and help get the ball rolling with this one. Having the FX guys from Heroes will add some extra kudos to the project too - their FX in Heroes is amazing!

 

I re-read the fisrt Necroscope book last month (between the two Lost Years books), there is plenty in there for a complete movie so I hope they don't decide to merge the series together like they did with Queen of the Damned.

 

As for the sex and violence - there was not a lot of that going on in the first book anyway so I don't see it being a problem. Its easy enough to pan away to a roaring log fire while they "get down to business" and the mind always imagines a lot worse than what you actually see on the screen.

 

Oh and one more thing (off topic), how about a Necroscope T-shirt with "B.J. is Innocent.. (isn't she)?" on the back?

sorry for the off topic.

 

not just that vampire movie above, but check out the remake of i am legend being releashed by will smith late december/early february. not just that aswell but the new resy evil wud possibly boost the want for gore and horror, or might inspire some hollywood ppl to make a new, in ur face horror film, ya never know if sum1 makes the first necroscope film it might make a whole new genre of horror.

 

a teensie bit off topic here but it is sort of to do with the film.

 

could we set up a sort of petition asking brian and silky to advertise necroscope merchandise? they could sell t-shirts with necroscope insignias or just things advertising the film with necroscope plastered on them, it might cost a lil bit to start with but if they charge the right price then they could earn double or triple in return.

 

http://www.tshirtstudio.com/

 

a lil site i found where u can make ur own shirt online and design whatever u want on it, that's just a basic idea but ya get what i mean, brian and silky could earn yet more money through this and use it to sort of persuade the hollywood types that we can go big budget.

Have a look around the site posem, I'm sure that I saw some Necroscope T-shirts for sale somewhere on here...

I seem to recall an old post by Silky(i think) concerning the problems with expenditure, copyright etc. with trying to get T-shirts circulated. I'm not sure, but it rings a bell. I wouldn't know where to find it though. If you run a search on the archives with Tshirt" as a keyword you might find it, with some persistence--good luck:)

Haha...Join the great majority but not yet..or so?

Thats them...there was some on ebay not long ago

They did sell some tshirts and baseball caps a while ago but I don't think they are available anymore and it had nothing to do with the movie.

 

We should know more soon, as Silky said they're having a meeting with the people who bought the option last time and they've already renewed it once so I think that shows they are definitely interested.

Well they at least have a website devoted to the movie, it's in construction but it is a sign of hope!?

 

http://www.necroscopethemovie.com

It is under construction....well...from time immemorial

hey yall

 

havent been on much lately, quite a lot o stuff been happenin so havent had chance, i think it started sort of around 5 weeks ago where i had lotsa stress from hmwk and coursework and i just collapsed from exhaustion while walking down the stairs and woke up in hospital a week later with a fractured rib.

 

not fun but ya no, so got ze hmwk done, and coursework so thats outta way, and in hospital i had a chance to read my whole collection of lumley's books. its fun when u leave em for ages then come back to em.

 

i remember when i first read salem's lot by stephen king, it was under the duvet covers with a torchlight and it scared me that much i hid it away and brought out necroscope for comfort, thats slightly balmy considering necroscope is more horrifying but i suppose it is good.

 

 

 

depending on who plays harry keogh, do you think it wud be good to have a sort of energetic character, say we had someone really bouncy and serine and stuff, at the start of the second book when he has discouvered mostly the full extent of his powers we cud start off by a sort fof overhead shot of the paris skyline, then the camera does a star wars swoop and it focuses on ze tower, and you see a human figure hanging from the top of it, clinging on by arm and leg, swinging out over oblivion, he looks around sort of, surveiling the skyline, and we see a sort of flyig shape in the distance (with an over the shoulder shot seeing what harry see's), and he just dives like a swimmer off the top of the tower disappearing halfway through the shot, and you see him reappear on the top of a building.

 

the next bit i sort of had an idea i stole from spiderman 1, where peter parker discovers he can climb walls, harry appears on a rooftop running along, so u see him from the side, and a few roofs over you see the vampire, sort of flying, sort of running, and harry sort of glances at him nwo and then. as he reaches the end of the building he jumps out into space disappearing and appearing on the next building over, and then we see him pull like a gun out (sort of stole this bit from league of extraordinary gentleman with mr hyde chase) and stars shooting sideways at the vampire, carrying on shooting and jumping over the builidings, he eventually veers off diagonally appearing a few metres infront of the vampire, and now we see through the vampires eyes, the camera jumps up, flying at harry, guns blasting, smoke emmiting from the end. and then just as you think harry is gonna be dead the camera switches to his view point

 

its a sort of shot from behind harry on the floor making him seem imposing and large, the vamp flys at him with an arm streched backwards as if he's going to sweep him away, and at the last minute a bullet hits the vamp in a sort of good place and he twitches and falls to the side, harry then pulls out a knife and sets to work on him slashing mercilesly while the vamp writhes in pain. he then disappears and while he does the vamp gets up slowly, limping. harry appears again with a kerosene bottle and spreads it around the vamp in a circle, bottle in one hand, gun in the other to ward vamp away, still letting off shots. then when the circle is complete he pulls out a match, the camera focuses on it being lit, and it tracks the matches path through the air in slow motion, the match revolving as it falls. it then hits the floor and oil patch, the camera then follows the path of the flame as it licks around the circle, with he camera sort of facing inwards looking at the vamp but still following the flame, the whole circle lights up and the vamp crys out, he tries to jump but harry cracks the top of the lid off the kerosene bottle, disappears and then the bottle falls out of the air above the vamps head, it leacks all over it flowing into every open orifice and covering it, a match is then dropped and an voerhead shot is shown as the vamp lights up.

 

we see a shot about 10 metres away from the inferno, harry steps out of nowhere, reloads the gun and atches the fire die away. the camera zooms out from him out over the skyline of paris, past the tower continuously zooming out until u can see most of the city, right in the middle, a slight dot or a bit bigger is a flickering flame, which we no as we zoomed out from it is the inferno, the screen then fades out and slowly into the next scene.

 

 

 

this is just an idea i had for the start of the second film, u may not like it because it doesnt follow any of the plotline, but i was thinking it wud only be abou 5-10 mins at most, with music playing in background, music i imagine would go best wiht this is a song from a bond film called explosive, if u download it in some places it is rather slow but if u download the bond version which says remix it has the right tempo and brutal violins that would make this scene put across the harsh point that it has.

Quite right Posem, I don't think I would like that! Very well thought out but it sounds exactly like the type of suped up hollywood relying too much on effects type of film that I don't think would work best for Necroscope.

 

It's not just that it's not part of the plot, it's also really not in keeping with Harry's personallity style.

 

Hope your ribs better though!

thanks silver im on crutches now, hobbling round everywhere 0_o

 

true, it does sound very hollywood cgi, but we have to think about the balance, if we want to get the film across in the right way to today's audiences. the possible audience could range from early teens to the elderly, it needs to be taken into consideration that older viewers might prefer the old action no cgi all explosive stuff that made films like psycho and the old james bond films great

 

but also it needs to be taken into consideration about todays teens (my lot), most films nowadays are heavily cgi'd, beowulf, the golden compass, the second was a success and the first was a flop, the right balance of both is needed. the amount of real life acting and cgi was a great balance in lord of the rings, prehaps that could be the sort of way necroscope could go?

Beowolf????

 

Saw this in 3D at pic's last Sat.

Sorry, but not that good IMHO...

3D effect best I seen so far, but the film?

 

Necroscope the film. British writer, perchance a British director

 

28 days later, 28 weeks later spring to mind. Instant Classics.

 

Oh, yeah, glad to hear you feeling better Posem. Sorry it was last bit on post and an edit to boot

Errr...There are many videogame cutscenes rivaling Beowulf

No offense posem, but I agree with silver.

Anyways, I LOVE the gravitas of Hugh Lorrie. (house). He's a brit, he's got the "dark avenger" deal written all over him, he's a little wild, and he's got the complexity and stamina to pull off Harry as a human AND a vampire. In my opinion, Jeremy Irons would make an excellent Faethor(whom I have the hots for...can't explain it really). That Die Hard franchise movie he was in was only good because of him. Can't you just imagine that slick voice overdubbing historical battles and lurid sex? MMMMM......

aaahhhh i've been thinking about it too much!!!! lol I think the movie should start with a black void (yes, as many movies do) .We see a little gold light in the center of the screen and it burns away the blackness as the camera does a closeup on Alec Kyle (pulling his hair out, wearing a corny polyester 70's suit and jacket ) in the office. We can see his breath in the early morning computer light and the steam from the coffee as he pulls out a file (i know it's the book verbatim but cut me some slack!) and opens it. He bangs the intercom on the desk and says, "get the damned heat fixed, will ya?" (only british). Then he looks straight ahead (at the audience) and the cigarette in his mouth falls out and he pushes back his chair and falls over (in a serious way). The camera changes to view the side of the desk, and we see kyle scrabbling for his cigarette and gets back up, and backs himself against the window blinds (because i always imagine a window right behind the desk in the DO's office) and as we close up on his face, so does what is frightening him-nose first, a blue face comes into view and the mouth says in a friendly way,"Have a seat. We've got a lot to discuss." the scene breaks for titles and overture (by Tool). Towards the end of the overture, we see a couple ice skating on a little pond fed by a stream in a stand of trees. Every so often, we can see a sprawling house by a larger river in the distance. We see flashes of joy on the woman's face, between flashes of a beautiful ice dance, and the man's eyes narrowing. We see a flash of her face again, with a look of horror, and hear a splash.Now the scene swtiches to underwater, and we see little more than thrashing water, a hand bloodily scraping at the ice, and then the shadow of a body floating and settling next to a submerged tree root. We hear a voice say, "harry! Harry!", and the screen changes to blur, then focuses on a classroom scene. We see harry with his hand bolt upright. The teacher says something like, "What's wrong with you, you nincompoop? Why'd you raise your hand if you're not going to answer the question? What's *insert 5th grade math question here*?" (only british) and the scene progresses etc etc. They go outside to the beach, and the scene progresses verbatim as the book.

 

 

more later tired must sleep

You missed out Chapter 1 of the first book, with Dragosani doing his necromancy - that scene should be after the title sequence.

 

Anyway, I think I'd like to see more special effects seeing as the guy from Heroes is doing them! They don't need to be something that costs millions and sell the movie, they just need to be subtle like they are in heroes when Claire does her regeneration - the fact that you can't really notice them makes them all the more realistic.

 

I'm reading Necroscope III again at the moment - the saga really starts to gain momentum with this book and has a bit of everything. I wonder if for the movie they merge books I & II or just drop book II and go straight to book III for the second movie.

Book II has some of the greatest moments, tho....i mean, yulian's family, the seductions of his aunt, mother, and cousin, that dog....i'm sorry, but the dog is cool and we can't ax the dog! And yulian as a child...so coool....pointy teeth....How could we miss the secret death on the hills and the "probe"? lol

Wamphyri was one of the hardest of the series to get thru for me. I must say on rereading it this year, I found it a better read, but it still didn't have the 'unputdownability' of the others. Don't know what it is about it, I still enjoyed it though, just not as much.

Hopefully there won't be as much time spent on book 1,2, although with book1 it won't be possible to leave anything out if going for a saga-the entire book(well most of it) is just about setting the scene for the rest of the epic.

 

 

Is someone going to recognize this series as the potential money-generating machine that it could be?! I find it hard to believe that they (Hollywood) could MANGLE a perfectly good storyline that was '30 Days of Night' to produce the wretched film that was released, and not even show an inkling of serious interest in the Necroscope series. This is not to say that I would like a major studio to come along and water-down the Necroscope series into a lackluster, inferior story. But rather that I find it mind-boggling that a series which contains elements of psychic\ESPers, vampires, and some gratuitous sex thrown in NOT worthy of translation onto the screen, big OR small. For christsake, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER had most of these elements, and it started as a cheesy movie that evolved into a great TV show! And even more of an insult, we have straight-to-video masterpieces such as 'Mansquito' getting made and getting air-time on cable-networks over here on the Sci-Fi channel.

Give us something. Maybe one of those 6-part, 2 hour installment movies that could run over a major cable-network like Showtime or HBO. At least that way it could still be as violent and sexy as it wanted, and keep all if not most of the elements of the original story.

I tell ya, if I had a few million just lying around, I'd fork over the dough to make sure this project turned out right!

 

 

So, who's got a few bucks they could loan me?

 

- Moogly :|