A new poster and trailer has appeared online for Blood: The Last Vampire. Don’t recognize the name? Well, if you get your movie news solely from Screen Rant (we’d be flattered if you did…) then you logically won’t recognize it as we haven’t covered it up until this point. But these two new pieces of marketing were just too good not to share.
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Just to bring you into the know, Blood: The Last Vampire is a live-action adaptation of an animated manga film from almost 10 years ago (a single-volume manga, as well as video game and anime cartoon series was also made). Here is the official synopsis (courtesy of MovieWeb):
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old “halfling.” Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent onto an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization she works for, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base’s general that Saya learns of her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability for human connection…
If that doesn’t convince you of how awesome the film has the potential to be, the poster and trailer is sure to do the trick. Check them both out below (click the poster for a glorious high res version):
There was a previous trailer released for the film which was a little more effectively put together, but nonetheless this one will certainly do. Although I have an issue with the fact that the whole thing is in English (simply because it’s a project that seems more suited to being in Japanese), it still looks – on a basic “coolness” level – pretty damn kick-ass.
I also dig the poster – it has both a lot on there and yet somehow seems to hold back from feeling too cluttered. From the looks of the poster and the trailer, Gianna Jun (originally called Jun Ji-Hyun… why she changed her own name for the movie I do not know…) certainly looks and acts the part of a half-vampire who kills those who are half her kind.
The female Blade, anyone?
I doubt this is going to be much more than splatterings of violence, tough-talking characters and some stylish, iconic imagery. But who said there was anything wrong with that!?
What do you make of the poster and trailer for the movie? Do you like the sound of it in general?
Blood: The Last Vampire is set for a US release sometime in July this year, with a UK one set more finitely as June 17th.
Sources: FilmSchoolRejects and MovieWeb
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i got to say it sounds cool but i thought it looked so dumb. Sounds exactly like Blade
LOL, yeah… I was watching it thinking Blade, Blade, Blade.
Vic
I loved the anime short and this looks awesome as well
Sadly… being a huge fan of the original story… seems this is going to so fail on that front as well… Blood: The Last Vampire and the TV series of the extended story – Blood+ is meant to be so much better… Saya was no halfling Hollywood! Quit using other people’s names and titles when all you’re going to do is make an unoriginal storyline of your own! It’s degrading!
Man WTF is this BS. This movie will never compare to the Anime Movie Blood the Last Vampire. Vic who do I need to write to in Hollywood to petition that they stop this nonsense of making mediocre anime and game movies. Sorry but the days of wire works is over, and I’d wish martial arts based movies would keep it pure like Tony Jaa and Jackie Chan back in the day. Also the original Anime Movie was mostly in English, and most of the film is supposed to take place at Yokoto Air Base (might be different one), which is a US Air Force installation so most people will be speaking english there and with in a certain radius.
@ SIN187UM and Liam,
Both well put, this film looks to damage the reputation of a very enjoyable animated series Blood+ and Blood the animated films.
Well, can’t seem to play the video; it pauses 8 seconds into the clip. I remember watching the anime short and from the posts above, sounds like a flop. Oh well. I guess Blade still rules as the only vampire killer live-action film.
@SIN187UM,
I didn’t say that it should be in Japanese because that’s the way the original was, I simply said it is a project SUITED to being in Japanese.
You guys don’t think the action (the swordplay in particular) looks cool?
The action does look pretty cool
You have to give them credit for casting the main character japanese, rather than going the Dragonball route with a white lead.
@Josh R,
VERY good point:)
@ Ross Miller
I’m sure the sword play will be good, but I am just disenchanted with the wire works stuff now. Im tired of the running on “air steps” bit, and that slow mo spin with the swords is like, wow step to the side cut her in half already.
“casting the main character japanese”
Well … Gianna Jun is Korean, not Japanese.
About the movie — this movie has spent one to
two years in post-production. That’s a — very –
long time. That’s usually a sign of a troubled production.
So I have low expectations for this one. Oh well.
@ Sergio
Not many casting calls ask specifically for Japanese which is probably what happened here, they just asked for Female, Asian, some what cute. At least they did not pull a Ming The Merciless from Flash Gordon.
I am a big fan of the Blood + series. Looks interesting to me, not that too worried that it will hurt the original series.
Saw the anime movie some time back. Really enjoyed it. Have to try and see it again.
Hmmm, does make me think Blade meets Battle Royale meets Hero, which would be very cool. Do think the action will be cool, but whether the rest holds it together is another matter. Hope so.
Sorry but action wise Hero Sucked. The story of Hero was good, that whole Lake Scene was garbage when they started dipping their swords in the lake. Upon further comparison this movie isn’t anything reminiscent to Blade, more like Rise:Blood Hunter, or a non crap version of BloodRayne, or the countless other direct to dvd female Vampire slayer films. I’ll be viewing with low expectations, but it will never be worthy of Blade status, maybe Blade Trinity, but not the First Blade.
This is suppose to be Gianna Jun or Jun Ji Hyun’s north american debut.
She was great in My Sassy Girl, a south korean romantic comedy released in 2001.
At least as far as I can she doesn’t do action/martial arts movies in South Korea.
You don’t have to be a martial artist or highly skilled in martial arts to pull of a martial arts film…..
Examples:
Chow Yun Fat
Pat Morita
David Carradine Prior/Early in the Kung Fu Series
As long as she can pull of the fight scenes the movie wont be a total flop.
im not into anime but everyone told me the girl looked like me so i went to see it. hmm…maybe i look like the girl on the poster but not like jun ji-hyun. i love ji-hyun in my sassy girl, but that was years ago and she must be 30 by now. seeing her, i thought the movie took place in college.
i’m a martial artist and i liked the swordplay, (i know ji-hyun is not a swordswoman but she sufficed), it did remind me of blade, and as for the wires well if i can suspend reality to believe in vampires i can believe in the aerials too.
the girl and the mother looked the same age, that was confusing.
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