White Wolf and author Nancy A. Collins sue Sony over Underworld

[Pielorinho]

Sorry, I didn't mean to be abstruse or recondite.

nikolai.

Enough already with the prolixity!
Daniel

 

[jdavis]

You mean you haven't already read the short story?

Having a hard time finding it, it appears the book it was in is now out of print. Has anybody around here actually read the short story? Has anybody even seen it? It would clear up a lot of stuff on this topic but I can't find a copy of the silly thing.

 

[Mark Chance]

Having a hard time finding it, it appears the book it was in is now out of print. Has anybody around here actually read the short story? Has anybody even seen it? It would clear up a lot of stuff on this topic but I can't find a copy of the silly thing.

Odd. I just assumed since you wrote, "It sort of glosses over the fact that the storyline of the movie almost directly mirrors a short story they published", that you surely had read the story. Could it be the glossed over fact isn't a fact at all?

 

[jdavis]

Odd. I just assumed since you wrote, "It sort of glosses over the fact that the storyline of the movie almost directly mirrors a short story they published", that you surely had read the story. Could it be the glossed over fact isn't a fact at all?

you are absolutly right, My point was that the cartoon hadn't "actually nailed it", the cartoon was about suing because they said they invented vampires and werewolves, which has nothing to do with the case. My wording was improper and poorly thought out, what I should of typed was "It sort of glosses over the claim that the storyline of the movie almost directly mirrors a short story they published". The "facts of the case" are something that will be decided in a court of law not by me on a messageboard. I consider myself duly corrected and chastised.

 

[Wormwood]

Lawsuit, shmawsuit.

All I know is that I dug the Vampire/Werewolf origin story in Underworld a lot more than the murky WW canon stuff.

Very creative, and immediately *yoinked* into an upcoming game (if I ever get the chance).

 

[Dimenhydrinate]

Lawsuit, shmawsuit.

All I know is that I dug the Vampire/Werewolf origin story in Underworld a lot more than the murky WW canon stuff.

Good thing too they just got green lighted for 2 sequels.

 

[Truth Seeker]

The Review....

Well, just saw it today...

As a former White Wolf player...the undertones are all there(themes of White Wolf)...plain and simple.

As the movie itself.... ...that is my rating.

 

[Crothian]

Good thing too they just got green lighted for 2 sequels.

That amazes me. It's doing okay at the box office but not anyting that would suggest two sequals.

 

[jaldaen]

That amazes me. It's doing okay at the box office but not anyting that would suggest two sequals.

It does if you consider the cost to make it was only 22 mil versus the 37 mil in revenue... When you can double your money on a movie its well worth a sequel and perhaps even a budget increase... One should also consider that with its performance this weekend it'll be in the top 25 gross income movies this year... pretty nice ;-)

Good Night!
Joseph

 

[drnuncheon]

Well, just saw it today...

As a former White Wolf player...the undertones are all there(themes of White Wolf)...plain and simple.

I think for every similarity specific to the World of Darkness (and not vampire/werewolf legends or movies in general, which is what 90% of the complaint was made of) you could come up with a much larger dissimilarity. At what point does it stop being 'White Wolf'-ish?

J