Witchblade is being turned into a movie. Well actually, if the news is true, Witchblade is being made into 2 movies. Witchblade was a mildly interesting comic book that was made into an even more mild television show a few years ago on WB. But even though the show wasn’t that good… the woman playing the lead (actress Yancy Butler) was SMOKING hot and made the show at least worth watching (well… with the volume turned off anyway).
The show’s official website gives us this synopsis of Witchblade:
For thousands of years it has existed. An intelligent, symbiotic weapon of incredible power. A living gauntlet that becomes one with its wearer. The Witchblade: Only women of unmatched strength of mind, body and will have ever successfully worn it. Its legacy has created a warrior bloodline back through time and forward into the future. Joan of Arc wielded the blade as did other great warrior women throughout the ages. But to wear the Witchblade is to be both its master and its servant, as this mysterious weapon draws to it what it needs and casts aside what it does not. Stirring to life at times of crisis — during wars, famines, pestilence — the Witchblade has been used to cut a swath of blood and viscera through the ranks of previously insurmountable evil.
Yeah, that’s a pretty good summary of the overall story.
The problem is… can a failed TV show adaptation be reconstructed into a hit movie? Let alone 2!?!? I have my doubts. I’m a huge fan of Sci-Fi and fantasy… but this one seems like a bad idea. No word yet on if Witchblade the movie will have the cast from the TV show or not. I doubt it will.
