Bluegrass Films Options Graphic Novel ‘The Order’

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• This is a rip-off of “John Carpenter’s Vampires” which was a secret team of Vatican agents who traveled the world fighting supernatural evil they started with vampires and had it been a hit they would have gone after other evil creatures.

  The script was by Don Jakoby from a novel by John Steakley who died a couple years ago. Carpenter’s movie was really about “The Order” and that could have easily been the title but they thought Vampires was better.

  From imdb.com:

  The church has long known that vampires exist. However, it is discovered that a group of vampires are searching for a powerful doom for mankind. The Vatican then secretly enlists a team of vampire-hunters, led by Jack Crow, to hunt down and destroy the vampires before they find the crucifix.

  Comment by Jack Crow — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 4:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • You totally read my mind! When I read this article, I was thinking of John Carpenter, but I didn’t remember the name of the film. Good job pointing this out!

    Comment by Alex — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 5:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Well you can also go with the ‘Priest’ movie also. I’ve been wanting to see a squel of that to.

    Comment by elcamino — Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 3:25am PDT  Reply to this post

• Arcana a super cool company. Congrats to Sean O’Reilly and his awesome comics.

  Comment by ramblings — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 5:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• whatever happened to The Many Deaths of Barnaby James?….I liked that script

  Comment by jack — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 6:14pm PDT  Reply to this post

• um…IS there a Graphic Novel? I’ve never heard of it– no mention of a comic writer or artist, and a quick google search turns up nothing but news sites mentioning this article.

  I’m getting a Cowboys and Aliens vibe off this story…

  Comment by Comic Book Guy — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 6:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Almost everything that Arcana has pushed into production is a rip-off. Too bad, as they have some genuinely interesting one-shots in their library…

  Comment by Quinnie — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 6:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • What has Arcana pushed into production?

    Comment by Question — Tuesday August 28, 2012 @ 9:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• wait, didn’t this movie get made already? Via Wikipedia from The Order (2003) starring Heath Ledger – “The film’s premise is that there is another way to heaven than adherence to the practices of the Roman Catholic Church. A secular Sin Eater can remove all taint of sin, no matter how foul, from the soul just before death. The purified soul can then ascend into heaven. The Roman Catholic Church, according to the film, considers this heresy.
  Heath Ledger plays an unhappy and disillusioned priest, Alex Bernier, a member of a fictitious religious order The Carolingians which specializes in fighting demons and other hell spawn. Father Dominic, the head of the Carolingians, has died in Rome under suspicious circumstances and Alex leaves the USA to investigate.”

  Comment by MattSTKC — Wednesday August 29, 2012 @ 7:55am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yeah, they should probably change the name if they don’t want people to compare it to the Heath Ledger movie. Agreed… Sin Eaters, though? Different from “Evil Forces”.

    Comment by Question — Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 8:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• Doesn’t mention anywhere in there vampires, specifically, does it? Could be something different… “Mysterious evil forces” could be just about anything these days. As long as it’s not Twilight, I’m all over it.

  Comment by James — Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 8:54am PDT  Reply to this post

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  Comment by Hier — Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 10:08am PDT  Reply to this post