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Warren Ellis, the writer behind several original comics, novels, and animated series, is also the creator of theCastlevaniaanimation. The series was an instant hit and could even pull out of the video game curse!
In an interview with Bleeding Cool, Ellis confessed that he has never played any of the games he has worked with. In fact, most of his knowledge ofCastlevaniacomes from Wikipedia and other fan-pages. However, the splendid voice cast ofCastlevaniamade Ellis do things he never thought he would.
As the writer fell for the series and its voice actors, he realized it would be idiotic to not perfect the script even more.
Warren Ellis Did What Every Writer Hates forCastlevaniaVoice Actors
‘Relieved’ would be an understatement for what Warren Ellis felt when he got to know theCastlevaniavoice actors. He was enamored by their talents as each of them showed him something new. This led the writer to fold into the writing even more.
Inthe interview, Ellis admitted that he could still remember every actor and how he changed his writing to suit theperformances of the characters.
It’s a terrible thing to fall in love with your actors but when they are this good, and bringing so much, you’d be an idiot not to take it with you and fold it into writing.
Every writer’s worst nightmare is having torewrite their scriptseveral times just to accommodate small things. Yet, Ellis loved the franchise and its crew so much that he gladly changed his script not once or twice but multiple times over.
You just start writing for your actors and thinking of fun things for them to do. You lose what it was that attracted them to the project.
According to Ellis, each and every actor decided to join the project because they liked the scripts, and personalizing them according to the quirks they brought was just a way to entertain them even more.
How theCastlevaniaCast Came to be
Warren Ellis, Kelvin Kolde (executive producer), and Meredith Layne (casting director) all discussed at length who they wanted for theCastlevaniacharacters and who was available to join. He admitted that Layne is the best at recruiting people that the others could not even think of.
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Ellis was so excited aboutCastlevaniaand enjoyed the prospect of writing about it that he became involved in most aspects of the show.
I’m involved in almost all aspects of the show which is weird for me going from someone who sits in a box, types, and emails scripts to being involved with a lot of different people. I speak with our composer as well, Trevor Morris, and suggest probably extremely annoying things I’d like to try.
It looks like the animation made Ellisbreak a lot of his rulesas he enjoyed being involved with the series. The author even humorously commented that at first, he had no idea what he was doing, but later, he had almost no idea about what he was doing. Thus, he considered it major progress.
It’s what I love most about the act of writing, which is that it is something new every day. I’ve actually really loved this entire experience.
By the end of the interview, it was pretty evident that Ellis considered Castlevania a dear project and had put his heart into its development. Given the series’ success story, you can say that it all paid off.
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You can watch theCastlevaniaanimation on Netflix.
Aaheli Pradhan
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Aaheli is an Anime Content Writer at FandomWire with 1300+ published articles. With five years of experience under her belt, she is a living, breathing encyclopedia for anime and manga. From Shonen and Shojo to the most niche anime, nothing escapes her radar. Her poisons of choice are Assassination Classroom, Gintama, Ouran High School Host Club and every Ghibli movie ever. She believes in living a slow life, surrounded by incomplete art projects and her beloved cats.
