Russell Mulcahy (director of the ‘Highlander’ series) directed the recent box office success ‘Resident Evil: Extinction’ and now that he’s directed a zombie flick, he’s now moving onto another beloved monster genre, the VAMPIRE genre. Mulcahy is signed to direct the upcoming vampire film based off a novel by Steven-Elliot Altman called ‘Zen in The Art of Slaying Vampires.’
ComingSoon.net gives us this:
The protagonist is turned into a vampire as he and his lover are attacked in lower Manhattan. She dies, and he struggles to overcome his murderous instincts and thirst for blood through Zen meditation. A struggle for his soul ensues between the bloodsuckers and the zen masters.
I don’t know if this movie sounds brilliant or incredibly stupid. A vampire overcoming his killer instincts through ZEN meditations?! That doesn’t even work for me when I’m STRESSED!
Although, Russell Mulcahy is a fine director and a viligante vampire flick sounds highly tempting for me considering I love vampire and viligante films. (It can’t be any worse than this year’s ‘Rise: Blood Hunter.’)
I’ll guess we’ll have to wait to see who has been cast in the roles….then we’ll know if this is going to be a film that’s going to suck or something we should SINK our teeth into.
