Kingsley, Rodriguez & Sanderson in BloodRayne
Source: Mary
Tuesday, August 10, 2004


Insomniac Mania talked to director Uwe Boll about his upcoming adaptation of the popular Majesco action-horror video game BloodRayne, in which Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) will play the title character who is half human and half vampire, driven by vengeance to overthrow her father, Kagan, king of all vampires. The film starts shooting in August in locations throughout Romania from a script by Guinevere Turner (American Psycho).

Boll tells the site that Ben Kingsley will play Kagan in the film and that Will Sanderson plays Evil Thrall. He adds that Michelle Rodriguez (S.W.A.T., Resident Evil) is also on board, though her character was not revealed. Boll says Olaf Ittenbach SFX is doing the special effects while Doug Oddy, Toybox and Upstart are handling the CGI effects for BloodRayne herself. Only vampires will be featured in the film, no other creatures from the game.

BloodRayne is expected to have a love interest in the film, which will be set 240 years after the events in the game. Boll says that they are using the game' s storyline that BloodRayne has to find three Talisman organs: a heart, an eye, and a rib from an ancestor vampire named Beliar.

BloodRayne will be rated R, partly because Kristanna will be exposing some flesh.