This seems to be a day for news of upcoming vampire movies: Movieweb (via SF Crowsnest) has a picture of Milla Jojovich (Fifth Element and Resident Evil) in a movie version of the critically-acclaimed Channel 4 UK series Ultraviolet. Starring Jack Davenport and Susanah Harker amongst others, the series was incredibly cool, taking a covert arm of British Intelligence who hunt vampires and threw in a possible world-wide conspiracy with much moral ambiguity. It was cool, stylish, original and very thought-provoking (it also, famously, never mentioned the word ‘vampire’).
I know little about the movie version (due for some time in 2006) other than the rumours that Jojovich is playing (again) a gun-totin’ action heroine called Ultraviolet who is caught in the middle of a struggle between humans and the mutated vampire race; sounds a little like the X-Men to me with bloodsuckers instead of mutants and certainly doesn’t sound like it has much in common with the fascinating TV series other than the title.
Tue, Nov 29, 2005
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