John Carpenter To Direct Darkchylde
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Posted on: 2010-10-31 11:11 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Somehow I've never heard of this character. Although I have enjoyed Carpenter's earlier films (but none of his later ones), he doesn't have the most developed visual aesthetic. His movies are much more workmanlike with very little stylish flair.
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Carpenter's recent track record does not inspire confidence.
Mouth of Madness was his last watchable film and that was a long ways back.
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This sounds like a job for Zack Snyder, he of the cgi wizardry and action.
Sounds interesting enough, although I too have never really heard of the character. Could be a good time.
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So... this Darkchylde isn't Illyana Rasputin? Never heard of her. 
I actually happened upon the first couple of issues of this comic back when it came out. Let's see what I recall...
She's a normal teen (in comic book terms, so she has a perfect body and long flowing hair) that has some really nasty nightmares. Then, she starts to turn into the things in her dreams, using their forms to defend herself.
There's a big, nasty dragon in her dreams that is pusing for her to use this power more and more, and to call on bigger and meaner things. Then you find out that once she's called up a monster, it can enter the real world on its own. From what I saw, it looked like the Dragon was trying to get her to call on it in desperation, so it could enter the real world.
That's about all I remember of it. I only saw the first two issues or so, and lost track of it after that. I liked the dragon, though.
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If Carpenter and Weta are involved then this movie at least has a -chance- to be good.
But I'm still not going to assume it will be before it's out regardless.
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John Carpenter hasn't had the best luck with his pictures lately. Since the mid to late 1980s actually.
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Then again I guess it's fair to say any movie has some chance for that.
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Some directors have a higher change to create a movie that is good. Consider James Cameron to Uwe Boll. Although I have no idea what side John Carpenter is on with Cameron being a 10 and Boll being a 0.
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That's why I said it had a "chance" to be good.
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and Boll being a 0.
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You're not missing anything. Darkchylde was an indie "bad girl" book published during the bad girl craze of the 90's. The plot is forgettable and the creator/writer/artist was only really good at drawing waifish blonde teenage girls.
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Somehow I've never heard of this character. ...
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Master of Horror set to bring you the girl of your dreams. John Carpenter is onboard to direct Darkchylde, based on the comic by Randy Queen about a good hearted southern teen cursed to become the creatures from her many recurring nightmares. Every time Ariel Chylde transforms, she sheds her skin and a new nightmare emerges from her Id to act out her deepest, darkest impulses.
John Carpenter and Sandy Kings Storm King Productions have allied with Randy and Sarah Queens Darkchylde Ent. to produce the film, following the release of test footage created by Richard Taylors Academy Award Winning Weta Workshop. (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong, The Hobbit)
John Carpenter says, "Randy Queens hijacked angel, Ariel Chylde, is the best young female character since Laurie Strode in Halloween. Bringing Ariel and her dark mysteries to life should be quite an adventure for us all."
Adds Queen, "Im beyond thrilled that John Carpenter, one of our most important, and legendary genre directors, and the man responsible for such landmark films as THE THING, and HALLOWEEN has come onboard with Weta Workshop to help bring the nightmarish tale of Ariel Chylde to the silver screen. As a horror fan, the thought of Carpenter and Weta together, beautiful dreamscapes, and multiple transformations, makes me incredibly excited. There is a reason nearly his entire catalogue has, or is being remade, and its because Carpenter is a genius."
Offering a stark contrast to super hero comics, Darkchylde was a breakout sensation of the late 90s and early 2000s, garnering immediate acclaim, and an unusually large female fanbase. The property went on to outsell Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman in both domestic and foreign audiences, and has been realized in toys, trading cards, apparel, lunch boxes, mini busts, and more recently a hit crossover with Top Cow, and a statue from PopCultureShockToys. Fans can now read the Ariel Chylde saga online via Wowio and Darkchylde.com and a trade paperback collecting the "Legacy" and "Redemption" series of books ships in January from Image Comics.
John Carpenter is an acclaimed director, screenwriter, producer, and composer, who won an academy award for his short film while still just a student at USC. His storied career includes such seminal films as Halloween, The Thing, Escape from New York, Starman, Christine, In the Mouth of Madness, Assault on Precinct 13, They Live, and The Fog. His most recent outing, The Ward, starring Amber Heard as an institutionalized woman tormented by a sinister spirit, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.