ROTTEN TOMATOES: David Goyer to Direct Mike Mignola's Vampire Adaptation

David Goyer to Direct Mike Mignola's Vampire Adaptation

Baltimore, of the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, to be exact.

by Jeff Giles | October 01, 2007

David Goyer is one very busy man.

The writer/director -- whose previous credits include the Blade movies, Batman Begins, and The Invisible -- already had a list of upcoming projects that included directing Magneto and helping with Doug Liman's Jumper. Now, according to a report posted at Variety last week, he's signed on to direct the film adaptation of Baltimore, of the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, an illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden.

Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, did conceptual artwork for Bram Stoker's Dracula and worked with Goyer on Blade 2, while Golden, whose previous novels include "The Myth Hunters" and "Wildwood Road," has multiple films in development. The duo will write the screenplay. The Baltimore synopsis, from the article:

Just-published by Bantam, the graphic novel tells the story of the awakening of supreme evil on Earth. Lord Henry Baltimore is bitten by a demonic vampire bat on a WWI battlefield. The plague destroys his family, and Baltimore creates a team to hunt and fight the Red King, the embodiment of all evil.

The Variety report goes on to note that optioning Baltimore fits Regency's "new mandate to make films appealing to a young male demographic," and lists the comic-book adaptation Virulents and an action thriller titled The Darkest Hour as other projects in development.

Source: Variety

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walkingdead09 writes:
on Oct 01 2007 09:41 AM

"A young male demographic" that means their going to do what they do will all vampire movies. Show a male vampire feeding off a female and make it look like a sex scene. IE the first blade. Oh and Hellboy sucks.

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wiggins writes:
on Oct 01 2007 09:53 AM

stick with writing david. blade trinity was absolute garbage, it had the supporting cast of a teen gross-out comedy and made dracula look like male stripper. just awful.

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monkeyonaspring writes:
on Oct 01 2007 10:23 AM

Hellboy did let down terribly as it ruined the comic's creepy feeling in exchange for over-the-top action and cereal box baddies. Hopefully someone other than Guillermo del Toro can do justice to Mignola's amazing artistic style.

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mjolson20 writes:
on Oct 01 2007 10:29 AM

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ya david goyer is a great writer, but terrible TERRIBLE director, i loved the first two blade movies and the third ruined the whole trilogy

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renodc writes:
on Oct 01 2007 10:40 AM

David Goyer seems to be mentioned as directing virtually every comic book adaptation that that's still in the conceptual phase.

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kenny356 writes:
on Oct 01 2007 02:52 PM

Well I generally get excited when I see that Goyer is writing any kind of comic book movie, but when they mention him directing that is when I get all depressed.

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jeremyd4 writes:
on Oct 01 2007 05:03 PM

"Blade: Trinity" was terrible.... when there's a scene in a movie devoted to showing the main character uploading songs to her iPod before going out to slay vampires - well, you know you have some serious problems.

"The Invisible" was even worse, it was so cliche and riddled with plot holes that it was almost unwatchable. It's over-filled with "indie music" anthems too, like that done in the OC. Perhaps 12 yr old emos might find something in it all, but from the guy who "supposedly" wrote Batman Begins, it just doesn't seem to add up.

The fact Mr. Goyer isn't even involved with The Dark Knight, to me raises some serious questions just as to what role he played in crafting BB's script in the first place.

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twinsfan2715 writes:
on Oct 01 2007 06:00 PM

jeremyd4, i could be wrong on this but i believe Goyer was only involved with Batman Begins as partially coming up with the story. i believe Chris Nolan did the entire script, but possibly with his brother like in TDK. but i do believe Goyer is still part of TDK, just for the "story by" credits or something to that effect

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renodc writes:
on Oct 02 2007 09:15 AM

Goyer co-wrote Batman Begins with Nolan, and since Nolan was also director, I would hazard to guess that Nolan was the creative majority.

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