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2004 action/eventyr
Hugh Jackman .... Abraham Van Helsing
Kate Beckinsale .... Anna
Richard Roxburgh .... Count Dracula
David Wenham .... Carl
Will Kemp .... Velkan/The Wolf Man
Shuler Hensley .... Frankenstein's Monster
Elena Anaya .... Dracula's bride
Silvia Colloca .... Dracula's bride
Martin Klebba .... Dwerger
Josie Maran .... Dracula's bride
Kevin J. O'Connor .... Igor
Marek Vasut .... Villager
Samuel West .... Victor Frankenstein
Nu samles tre af Universals monstre - Dracula, Frankensteins monster og The Wolf Man - i en ny film af Stephen Sommers, der selv både instruerer, skriver og producerer filmen VAN HELSING.
Kate Beckinsale (”Pearl Harbor”, ”Lunefulde Lykke”) spiller den stolte datter af en familie, der står sammen om at jagte Dracula. Beckinsale spiller overfor Hugh Jackman (”Swordfish”, ”Kate & Leopold”), der spiller Van Helsing og Richard Roxburgh (”Moulin Rouge”), der spiller Dracula.
VAN HELSING foregår i slutningen af det 19. århundrede og man kan roligt glæde sig til, at Sommers lader nogle af filmhistoriens største monstre genopstå på det store lærred. Produktionen forventes at gå i gang i januar 2003 med forventet premiere i 2004.
I filmen drager Van Helsing til det dystre Transylvanien, hvor han tager kampen op mod klassiske filmmonstre som Frankenstein, Wolfman og ikke mindst Dracula.
- Van Helsing karakteren er i bund og grund en lejemorder for den katolske kirke, som har hyret ham til udrydde besatte sjæle. Det er Van Helsings opgave at opsøge og udslette alle de besatte sjæle som findes, men han har også en privat mission. Han er en konfliktfyldt karakter, og man kan roligt sige han er utilfreds og ikke synderligt begejstret for sit job. Van Helsing er ikke bare en cool James Bond type der kommer med en smart bemærkning og et lille grin når han har nakket en skurk, hvorefter han rykker videre til den næste. Han er faktisk en psykologisk meget interessant karakter, fortæller Hugh Jackman videre.
Inst. Stephen Sommers (The
Mommy, The Mommy Returns )
Spilletid : 145 min.
Universal Pictures
Biografpremiere d. 6-5-04
Trailers og klip : Universal Pictures officelle, Coming soon.net, Imdb, Yahoo Moves
Moviestills : Coming soon.net, Imdb, Yahoo Movies, Latinoreview.com
Anmeldelser - Danske anmeldelser - undenlandske anmeldelser.
Bemærkning :
Der sat 160 mil. af til filmen !
Der er verdenspremiere Van Helsing den 6. maj, deriblandt i Danmark.
Interview Hugh Jackman hos Empire
Empire Online fik for nylig en snak med Hugh Jackman på settet til Van Helsing i Prag, og det var ikke småting den kære australske filmstjerne havde at sige omkring det spændende projekt.
- Dette er yngre og mere eventyrlysten version af Van Helsing. Han er en slags lejemorder for den katolske kirke, og hans job er at udrydde ånder og dæmoner i alle former og afskygninger, forklarer Hugh Jackman.
- Det viser sig så, at Dracula, som er kendt af den transylvanske kirke, begynder at gå amok, og så sendes Van Helsing ud for at finde ham. Kate Beckinsales karakter Anna er det yngste medlem af den familie, som har forsøgt at spore Dracula gennem 400 år, så vi mødes i jagten på Dracula, fortæller Hugh Jackman videre.
Van Helsing er skrevet og instrueres af talentfulde Stephen Sommers, der henrykkede mange genre-fans med de to The Mummy film. Universal har givet ham frie hænder, så Van Helsing bliver et gensyn med adskillige klassiske filmmonstre fra Universals bagkatalog.
- Filmen er et rigtigt sammensurium af monstre og rigtige mennesker i Transylvanien, og det er helt fantastisk. Stephen har virkelig gjort det godt, fortæller Hugh Jackman afslutningsvist.
Van Helsing får premiere i foråret 2004
Engelsk :
Van Helsing: A doctor scooper over at Creature Corner has had the privelage
of watching a few minutes worth of the highly anticipated horror flick, Van
Helsing! Take a look at what he had to say about what he saw:
"The first minute had no music and was mostly fighting. Looks like lots of "wire fu" which was obvious as the wires and harnesses were clearly visable. The first shot was Van Helsing using a batarang type grapple gun that he shoots up to a high wall and then repels up. There seems to be a woman character who looks to have a large role. She was dressed in tight, somewhat revealing clothes as was a gypsy type. She looked to get just as much action as Van Helsing and in fact most of the fighting had her in it. A long sword seemed to be her weapon of choice.
They showed a few village sets and Van Helsing driving a carriage down a cobblestoned path. I must say it reeked of atmosphere (of the good kind) and the sets as I said looked very detailed and quite large. Then the "Bram Stoker's Dracula" music kicked in and the footage got good. It was mostly centered around two things...1) a costume ball that is either at Dracula's Castle (my assumption) or one he attends with his Brides and 2) shots of the Frankenstien Monster and the villagers. The Costume Ball looked fantastic. Very Phantom of the Opera-ish. Lots of weird shots of people in grotesque-type masks dancing and posing. Shots were a masked head will suddenly turn, showing another more gruesome mask on the other side. Very luxurious and gothic.
Dracula looks to be seducing a woman with dark hair (probably the heroine as the scene didn't seem a throwaway type and indeed Dracula is staring at someone, almost gloating, as he dips her over and is about to bite her exposed neck.) And Dracula's Brides are here. At least three and there's a nice close up of one snarling with her eyes fire red and fangs showing.
As for the Creature. He looked pretty cool as well. He is first glimpsed on a cart, his head in someone's lap (possibly Dr. Frankenstien) and it's fleeting. I had assumed as it went by that would be all there was of him but I was wrong. The silhouette of him in the concept art was pretty dead on, though only his face and upper body was shown with any detail in the footage shown. He was more DeNiro than Karloff, and of a very large stature. Very ash-faced and scarred. He looked cool. There also seemed to be a glass-like bubble over his heart so that it could be glimpsed inside. The best part though was the shots of the villagers with torches attacking what looked like a very stylized (kinda Burton-ish) windmill with the Creature on top of it holding someones body in his arms. He's screaming/growling and the windmill is an inferno. It ending with the title and logo and "Now Filming""
"Van Helsing will have about 15 weapons, one of which was a hand held
circular saw which is about the size of a mobile phone at the start. Then he
presses a button and little blades spring out of it to make a circle, then he
holds the handle and continually presses the button with his thumb (or trigger)
and it spins the blades around.
Frankenstein plays a major role because Dracula needs him to make his offspring
live, we were told that Dracula has a harem of Draculettes that have been trying
to give birth to his children for 300 years but they keep being born dead. Dracula
is trying to find Frankenstein because he was once dead and came to live and
Dracula thinks he holds the key to live (or something like that).
Frankenstein is going to look like a real man-made monster, we're going to be able to see all his parts - there's a glass plate on his chest so we can see his heart pumping. We'll be able to see all of the wires hanging from the back of his head and at one point in the movie his head will be hit and the top of it will flip off (like there's a hinge at the back).
Unlike Werewolves in past movies where the hair will grow longer and longer until the man is transformed into a wolf, in this film it's going to be like a wolf is actually inside the man. We saw drawn concept artwork for the transformation from man to wolf and it's the man is actually a skin for the wolf who rips through the flash to be a fully developed wolf living within.
Premise: Set in the late 19th century, monster hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Jackman) is summoned to a mysterious land in East Europe to vanquish evil forces... evil forces with names like Count Dracula (Roxburgh), the Wolf Man (Kemp), and Frankenstein's Monster (Hensley). Assisting him once he gets there is Anna (Beckinsale), the heir of a long-running family committed to hunting down and destroying Dracula. (Anaya, Colloca and Maran play Dracula's brides; Wenham plays a friar, Carl, who escorts Van Helsing through the dangerous wilderness)
Hugh Jackman has put his "X" on summer 2004, too. The star of "X2" will debut next Memorial Day weekend in "Van Helsing," which is being dubbed as a creature feature extraordinare.
As for the opening date, the star of this weekend's box office winner says, "They used to call Memorial Day the 'Spider-Man spot.' Now, I'm hoping they call it the 'Hugh Jackman spot.' "
In "Van Helsing," Jackman puts up his dukes against several well-known monsters. "I fight Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula and a few other surprises are thrown in," he promises. "It's a huge movie. Don't get me wrong. 'X 2' was a big movie, but 'Van Helsing,' my God. The sets, the action pieces--it's out of control. It's like I walked into 'Indiana Jones.'"
Jackman just wrapped principal photography in Prague, where he said one stunt went especially awry. "The village peasants were extras. We literally went into the shelters to give them work, but the problem was their English was nonexistent," he says. "So imagine this scene where I'm on wire. I have to run, run, run and then jump and grab onto Kate Beckinsale's legs and go flying through the air before I get flipped. Once I launch into this move, I cannot stop.
"Now imagine 250 extras who don't speak a lick of English running around with pitchforks for this scene," he says. "We had this one old guy who was pretty frail. He made the mistake of coming right in front of me with his pitchfork when I did my big wire flip through the air. The poor guy was 4-foot-10, all skin and bones and looked like a deer caught in headlights while I hurtled at him, unable to stop.
"I saw the blade of his pitchfork in my way and realized that I was about to kill myself, so I put my arm out and knocked it away. Literally, I thought I also killed this man," he says. "Bless his heart, the guy was OK and I wanted to say sorry, but he kept running away from me because he thought he was fired. I think he was hurt, but he didn't want to let on. So much for the scene that read, 'A melee in the village,' because it was a full-on melee."
