BLOODRAYNE

From a press release received today: “Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier and Michael Pare are the latest actors to join the ever-increasing cast of BloodRayne, the new film adaptation based on the popular video game of the same name. The trio join the previously announced cast that includes Sir Ben Kingsley, Terminator 3 star Kristanna Loken, Michelle Rodriguez, Matt Davis and Michael Madsen.

“Now in production in Romania, where the film is set in the 18th century, BloodRayne is written by Guinevere Turner (American Psycho) and is produced and directed by Uwe Boll. Shawn Williamson of Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures and Dan Clarke are the producers.

“Similar to the popular video game, the film is based on a sexy, supernatural huntress named BloodRayne (Loken), who is an unholy breed of human and vampire and certainly the most deliciously wicked action heroine ever to grace a console game. She is an explosive force with gymnastic dexterity and has an intense lust for blood and action. Trained by a secret agency called the Brimstone Society which hunts down and eliminates supernatural threats around the globe, BloodRayne is confronted by the deadliest of all creatures, the powerful and evil Kagan, King of the Vampires (Kingsley). Chaplin plays the Fortune Teller, who teaches Rayne that she is damning combination of human and vampire. Kier is the Regal Monk, who teaches Rayne about the three Talisman, and Pare portrays Iancu, the character who uses his butcher shop as a front to sell weapons. As previously announced, Madsen and Davis’s characters are vampire hunters who initiate Rayne into their world, and Rodriguez plays the head of the local Brimstone Society chapter.

“The video game was debuted in 2002. This October, when the sequel is set for release, Rayne is challenged with her most personal battle yet in BloodRayne 2, for the Xbox(r) video game system from Microsoft, Sony PlayStation(r)2 computer entertainment system, and PC.”