John Carpenter To Direct Darkchylde

John Carpenter To Direct Darkchylde

The legendary director John Carpenter, is set to direct the big screen adaptation of Darkchylde, a comic book series created by Randy Queen. Check out the first teaser image and an official press release!

By WolvieCBM - Oct 30, 2010 10:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror

Press release:

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 King’s Storm King Productions have allied with Randy and Sarah Queen’s Darkchylde Ent. to produce the film, following the release of test footage created by Richard Taylor’s Academy Award Winning Weta Workshop. (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong, The Hobbit)



John Carpenter says, "Randy Queen’s 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, "I’m 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 it’s because Carpenter is a genius."

Offering a stark contrast to super hero comics, Darkchylde was a breakout sensation of the late 90’s and early 2000’s, 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.

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bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 10/30/2010, 10:30 PM
Never read the comic but epic find wolvie love me some John Carpenter
Creature
Creature - 10/30/2010, 10:49 PM
This is great. John Carpenter of whom's movies I'm marathoning this weekend and DarkChylde of which was an awesome 90's run. Big surprise.
DetectiveCinema
DetectiveCinema - 10/30/2010, 11:56 PM
That looks pretty sick, to bad I've never heard of it.

I'll have to check it out!
scurvydog
scurvydog - 10/31/2010, 1:06 AM
This has the potential to be very good. If nothing else,the thought of John Carpenter doing a comic-book movie has my attention.In recent interviews,he revealed he took a break from doing movies because he was feeling burnout. This subject matter is in his wheelhouse.so I hope for the best....
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/31/2010, 1:22 AM
Wheres the LINK dude???

I would love this to be true but it needs that Source Link lol!

Damn man, thats a cool poster, loved this comic and love THE THING!
WolvieCBM
WolvieCBM - 10/31/2010, 1:31 AM
@LEEE: I didn't put it since it's the press release. So I didn't know which site was the first that provided it. But here is the link to one of the websites: PRESS RELEASE
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/31/2010, 2:00 AM
WOLVIE @ Oh cool, well WICKED find then dude!

This is gonna be [frick]ing fantastic!!!
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/31/2010, 3:37 AM
lol, Lee if Wolvie posts something like this you can rest assured its legit without a source link!

I have heard of this but never read it. As for Carpenter, yeah he was without a doubt a master of horror. Was. The man hasn't made so much as a watchable movie in about 15 years.

marvel72
marvel72 - 10/31/2010, 4:11 AM
yeah i'm looking forward to this big time.

the thing,halloween,escape from new york & cult classic big trouble in little china.

count me in.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/31/2010, 4:31 AM
Actually, your right! Make that 25 years!
TheDarqueOne
TheDarqueOne - 10/31/2010, 5:43 AM
This looks promising. I rather liked his Vampires and Ghosts of Mars in addition to the real classic stuff.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 10/31/2010, 7:19 AM
this is interesting
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 10/31/2010, 7:53 AM
Yes!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 10/31/2010, 8:21 AM
Lol @ Ror!

I didn't mean it that way, just thought he 4got to put it up, btw is that actress (?) anything to do with the YouTube video we saw a few months back? Can't remember lol and are they even connected apart from the actual name?

Anyways, hope this is good, we need this stuff on the big screen!

Talking Image Comics, check out DDD's WITCHBLADE casting in FAN-FIC >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>




[frick]ing good stuff!
Bandrews1
Bandrews1 - 10/31/2010, 12:11 PM
Awesome, it would be cool to see him tackle something like this.
Osiris
Osiris - 10/31/2010, 2:32 PM
bout time they got this moving, I've been waiting for it since they announced it like 2 years ago, I just hope they stick to the source material Darkchylde was one of the best comic series of the 90's that came from Image, along with Crimson, Witcblade and Spawn.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/31/2010, 2:46 PM
This film will rock my socks off.
kooldeath
kooldeath - 10/31/2010, 6:18 PM
This was posted like in September,and it had a link on there with like 5 minutes of footage from youtube..It was like mature. This movie is already done and waiting for a release date. Think it went directly to dvd.
preacher
preacher - 10/31/2010, 10:15 PM
This does look like it COULD be a fantastic film, just leery about Carpenter. Don't get me wrong, I've loved a few of his films, specifically The Thing!!!! And Big Trouble in Little China, Memoirs of An Invisible Man, Escape From New York, Assault on Precinct 13 and Christine. But..hated, for the most part, the others. Especially Vampire$. Anyone actually read the book that was the source for the film? Could've been one hell of a great vampire film and something that hadn't been seen, but Carpenter completely changed it...other than the beginning. Worried something like that might happen again.
DDD
DDD - 11/1/2010, 5:36 AM
Wow, this is great news!
Thanks for telling me about it Leee@!

If the REAL Carpenter shows up and he
stays extremely true to the comic then
this will be badazz!!!

If this does great then perhaps it will
speed things up with WITCHBLADE!
Man, she's been in developmental hell for
quite some time now!

Thanks fer the Plug fer my WITCHBLADE FANCAST
Leee@!

Man, I would love to Executive Produce a
WITCHBLADE movie and keep it extremely accurate
to the comic!
LOL
DDD
DDD - 11/1/2010, 5:37 AM
BTW, Nice avatar, WOLVIE@!
tricklove187
tricklove187 - 11/1/2010, 6:31 AM
Boner-ific
HelaGood
HelaGood - 11/1/2010, 10:36 AM
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 11/1/2010, 1:08 PM
I vote DDD for the WITCHBLADE movie!!!
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