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EXCLUSIVE: Will Smith has attached himself to star in and produce The Legend Of Cain, an epic re-telling of the Biblical sibling tale, this time with a vampiric twist. Smith will play Cain, the original Bad Boy, and he will produce with Overbrook Entertainment partners Jada Pinkett Smith (his wife), James Lassiter, and Ken Stovitz. The script was written by Caleeb Pinkett and Dan Knauf, with Andrea Berloff revising. No studio or director yet for the Overbrook project. The production company is coming off The Karate Kid, which has so far grossed more that. $210 million worldwide. Smith is currently promoting that film internationally and in August he begins filming Men In Black 3.
Now Will Smith Wants To Play Bad Boy Cain (…With Vampiric Twist)
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Has anyone told White Wolf that Will Smith is poaching the basis for their entire Vampire the Masquerade game? I wonder if there’s going to be a Book of Nod?
This is NOT a new idea, and White Wolf WILL sue. Just ask makers of Underworld (although they lost that one)
Though why anyone would want to tap such a dreadfully-written collection of hate and bigotry as the bible is beyond me.
White-Wolf is so going to sue. Apparently hollywood didn’t learn when Sony was sued for Underworld and lost for their abomination story arc.
If this is what I think it is, it could be pretty good, though I am not sure of the casting. I think that this movie could be based off the “Book of Nod” which is from the RPG “Vampire: The Masquerade” published by White Wolf in the 90s. In this particular story, Cain’s punishment is to walk to earth forever, never allowed to stand in God’s light, and must drink the lifeforce of others to survive. It is actually a really good take on the biblical story and has a lot of potential for a great movie, if done right of course. Aaron Spelling tried making the game into a TV series, you all may remember it as “Kindred: The Embraced”, a fine example of how this could go wrong.
:yawn:
Yeah, this “twist” was thought up over a decade ago by the folks at White Wolf for Vampire: The Masquerade. In detail is it told in “The Book of Nod” how Caine become the first Vampire, how he met Lilith (Adam’s first wife) and how he was spoken to by Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael and how he was cursed and gained the various “dark gifts” that vampires have.
I love how Hollywood does very little in the originality department.
It’s unlikely that a lawsuit based on Cain being the first vampire would succeed, unless the movie took additional material from another source, any more than the concept of “vampires fighting werewolves” was enough for the White Wolf folks to claim a portion of the Underworld profits.
That said, vampires are definitely overexposed at this point, and only going to become moreso as Twilight movies continue to come out, and True Blood and the Vampire Dairies continue to pump out new episodes on TV.
Will that impact the success of the movie? I doubt it. The truth is, the people who eat that vampire stuff up now are going to keep doing so, and the people who are sick of vampire stuff were sick of it before the first Twilight movie came out. The two crowds are likely to cancel each other out.
What will impact his movie the most, as usual, will be the quality of the movie itself. If the writers/directors/actors go in with the idea that because it’s a vampire movie they don’t have to put out a polished product, that they can just sail to profits on the vampire fad and post-production 3D, they’re in trouble.
On the other hand, if they put work into it and give us a great movie, then that’s what we’ll get.
You can boil “I Am Legend” down to, “Yet another movie about zombies” but it was much more than that. A Will Smith vampire movie can be too.
After reading the comment above mine, I tried to fact check that White Wolf did indeed lose their suit as I had remembered. This is the best I could come up with:
“What is worse is that the case was actually settled “confidentially” on September 7, 2004. No-one really knows what happened, but I would imagine that Sony just paid White Wolf a bunch of money to shut up and stop trying to hurt their image with bad press.”
Source: http://www.daneofwar.com/2010/06/remember-when-white-wolf-sued-sony-over.html
You could do this movie with a hackneyed and cliched plot, but seeing that Dan Knauf is writing it gives me hope that the result will surprise everybody. I mean, Carnivale, come on, wow!
DON’T DO IT, WILL. SIMPLY DON’T DO IT. BACK OUT OF IT, CANCEL IT, DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO BUT DON’T DO THIS FILM. IT WILL MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF YOUR CAREER OR MUCH, MUCH WORSE.
Agreed. It will most likely mark the beginning of the end of his career.
Fact of the matter is, no matter how much money you make, you will still keep wanting more. But when all is said and done, not having commanded enough respect or recognition is what is going to haunt an actor’s mind – not the amount of money they made or didn’t make.
Pick projects with more depth and dignity, you have enough money. Leave harmless blockbusters to your son.
Instead of this new idea, could we PLEASE have the prequel to “I am Legend”?
The ideas tossed around for it were very interesting, and would look smashing on film. The whole “Custer’s Last Stand” scenario that we never saw in the first film leaves fertile ground for the second, and I look forward to seeing what they might do with it.
Definitely need better looking creatures next time though.
What??? Mark Wahlberg wasn’t available for this concept? And just where is M. Night when you need him?
@ everyone: Sony settled with White Wolf. No one won or lost. Well, arguably White Wolf “won” since they clearly got paid.
What probably happened with this one is that having your wife’s younger brother with no credited writing chops write an “original” screenplay/story for you is not the best idea in the world if you are Will Smith. Hundreds of millions of dollars of net worth buys an awful lot of nepotism, but it can also buy some cursory legal work (Google??) or some option deal.
I’m excited about this! I love Will Smith, and Daniel Knauf’s Carnivale was one of my favorite TV shows in recent years. Can’t wait to follow a project utilizing both those men’s talents.
Is this based on a book from Karl Edgar Wagner’s Kane series, plagiarized, or just a coincidence?
Everyone see’s “vampire” and thinks “Twilight.” Ha!
Of course, I’m on the fence about this one. We’ll see how they play it out…but, I’ve never been big on biblical tales, anyway.
As this is coming from Dan Knauf, creator of the excellent Carnivale series, I’m looking forward to this. Nice to see more of his work on screen.
Just a day ago this site reported that Johnny Depp and Burton were going to do Dark Shadows and now Will Smith wants to do a Vampire story.With all those Vampires there won’t be a drop of the red stuff left in Hollywood. Now maybe if Smith did a spoof of the Vampire trend. Where is Mel Brooks when you need him? Actually a preferred story would be something uplifting,like Pursuit of Happyness. Smith has a very winning screen personality,so why diminish that with Vampires?
“Well said.”
This sounds like a terrible, terrible film. However, the article does not answer the most burning question: will the vampires sparkle?
This is beyond disgusting. This vampire thing is so overdone and I HATE the idea of them taking a Biblical base and perverting it like this. I hope it rivals Ishtar in receipts.
Because not all Muslims are terrorists, you stupid douche?
I love the self-righteous!
its bet weird concept but i seen will pull stranger roles and be successful i am legend was weird but it was good this movie sound interesting i would like to c how it plays out
The premise is so laughable. Is this going to be a comedy? Vampires mixed with the story of Cain and Able? Silly….
I guess it was inevitable, this latest incarnation of vampire lunacy makes me chuckle, poor Will, he has his own weight, why waste it on this crap?
I don’t care for Will Smith, but if Daniel Knauf has taken the time to write a screenplay, I’m there! CARNIVALE was absolutely the best television series I have seen in the last 15 years, and HBO are a bunch of morons for taking it off the air prematurely. Anything Knauf puts his hands on gets my support!
Ugh; why haven’t Smith’s people put a stop to this? He needs some no-men, stat. This smacks of Wild West and Seven Pounds all over again.