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One of the best imports from Russia in recent years is Sergei Lukyanenko’s dark fantasy trilogy (and now quadrilogy) Night Watch. The series of books has made Lukyanenko one of the most important authors in the fantasy genre. His Russian take on dark fantasy brought a breath of fresh air to the genre and this unique vision is what makes his books such a hot commodity.
Two of his books have already been turned into live action movies. Night Watch and Day Watch were monster hits in Russia and showed that the Russian film industry can deliver a highly polished end product that can provide the same level of excellence in terms of the technical aspects of it. The latest installment in the franchise, Twilight Watch , is currently being shot in Russia. This third installment, will be shot entirely in English. This is a marked departure from the previous two movies which were shot in Russian. Twilight Watch will also be a co-production venture with the United States’ Fox film company and will have a tentative release date in 2009.
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80 Responses for: Twilight Watch currently filming
1 | Anneke
June 11th, 2008 at 3:28 pmWow Hollywood way to ruin a great thing. The movies are awesome (not the best representation of the books) but this is too much. In English? Pfff. The Russian actors in these movies are stellar and to change them out for Americans is stupid. grrr.
2 | boris
June 15th, 2008 at 10:45 pmyes i agree they should leave it as it is
3 | Shane
August 1st, 2008 at 10:24 pmI dont speak russian but I wish the yanks would have just left it alone let it be made like the other two they better not stuff it.
4 | chris
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 pmyeah I totally agree. I’ve seen both Night Watch and Day Watch and for them to change characters will ruin the movie. There’s nothing I hate more then when they change actors. I’m american and don’t speak russian but since the story takes place in russia it should be filmed in russia by russians with russian actors speaking russian. I don’t mind reading subtitles or listening to the english dubbed version. I mean look at Harry Potter….sure it’s in English but it’s not American and if it was it wouldn’t be the same. Worse case scenario I atleast hope they keep the same actors. And I agree about Hollywood. Hollywood is the root of all evil. In the end nothing good ever comes from there.
5 | Mav
October 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pmThats not the worst case senario though. The worst case senario is if they deviate from the book plot because the director decided to take “poetive license” to “cator to the american audience”. I hate it when directors try to change what happens in the book and screw up the story line so bad it isn’t the same story anymore.
6 | kiddus
December 13th, 2008 at 3:57 amWhenever a good series or an actor shows promise after many years of work in Asia or Europe ,along come the yanks and stuff things up.Lets hope Timur is still directing and remains true to his original style, not a Tom Cruise “Last samurai” type of movie.
7 | mick
December 16th, 2008 at 6:54 pmi agree. im australian and dont speak a work of russian but i love it. i dont mind reading subtitles or listening to the english dubbed version either and i do really hope the actors are the ssame.. it would be a huge let down if they change them.
8 | Hysube
December 30th, 2008 at 6:13 pmah but the movies are still being filmed in Russia, and its still the same actors most likely no American can take the place of Anton he is Russian, and they cannot really remove those same chars because it will crash the movies, on top of all the things going down here are they just get exclusive rights to lend their product and have rights to sell it in America, the actors i am sure are bilingual if i remember correct they are the ones who did the voice overs to English the only difference is its not gonna have them with their Russian tongue its still gonna be a good movie and i think that in Russia things wont change so easily…. so if i may conclude my query and stand point, with i believe that the movies will still have their charm and good actors, and that it will still be a very good movie
9 | antonJR
January 1st, 2009 at 6:01 pmIf they change the characters there will be hell to pay! not only will the film be shit with different actors but devoted fans like myself will come down on the cunts who changed the actors like a sack of shit!
Has anyone here seen WANTED, the bloke who plays anton was in that and when me and my mates saw WANTED at the cinema we nearly got kicked out for shouting “ITS ANTON GORODETSKY” No film sustains the same quality after they change an actor, take the mummy 3 tomb of the dragon emperor, different evelyn=wank film
10 | H
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pmDont quoat me on this but I was half watching the extras on my DVD of Day Watch and so I believe the Actors are all the same but so I understand (as it was all in Russian) will be learning english for the film. so we still get that very sexy Russian accents to listen to. but the english land scape is not the same as the russian land scape I really do hope they dont give it the shiny weston look. I love the Russian look all rustic and old elgance.
11 | Derek
January 25th, 2009 at 8:21 amI am American and I loved the first two movies, Russian-speaking actors and all. I am concerned that replacing the actors will unduly affect the tone and mood of the new film. One of the most charming things about the movies was the stylized treatment of subtitles, and I have grown attached to the actors in their established roles within the -Watch continuity. Fox can burn for all I care.
12 | Neo
March 5th, 2009 at 3:13 amMatrix trilogy all over again!
13 | Michael
March 9th, 2009 at 12:52 amI speak both russian and english, so watching movie in either language is not a problem for me. However, I will not watch Twilight Watch if the movie is done completely in English. A large number of russian sayings and slangs do not translate well to english and the movie will definitely lose the russian feel of it. I looked up some other posts and it is definitely being done in english with both russian and american actors.
Bekmambetov sold out to Fox and it is sad.
14 | danny
March 16th, 2009 at 3:11 ami hope that they dont cock it up because of the american money and try to pander to the american audience. one of the most enjoyable movie franchises for the last ten years and i hope its not ruined. im a bit dissapointed that the books are missing a story in english but hats of to Sergei Lukyanenko and i hope that the carry one with the forth book. ps the two films are from the book day watch
15 | dylan
April 4th, 2009 at 9:30 pmim a bit upset that it might be in english. its not right, have a dub for people who cant read.
the main actor does speak english tho, he was in that wanted movie.
16 | Stephanie M.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:27 pmA better quality streaming site for Twilight is http://www.twilightimmortals.com
17 | JennyG
May 9th, 2009 at 1:42 pmThe best place to watch it is at http://watchtwilight-movie.com/?page_id=5
18 | Dave
May 9th, 2009 at 2:51 pmTo all the nay-sayers on this thread: Where in that tiny little blurb about the movie at the top does it say they will change the actors. The ONLY change that any of us definitely know about is that it will be in English instead of Russian. What makes you think that all of the actors will be different. Take a look at Jet Li and Jackie Chan, they both speak shitty english during interviews, but when you hear them in their movies they sound much better. Who’s to say that during filming, they wont throw out the original audio and rerecord the dialog during post production. Point is, we don’t know what exactly is going to happen yet, so try not to get your panties in a twist and just calm the fuck down.
19 | Phoenix
June 5th, 2009 at 10:35 amRock on Dave–people, we don’t need to assume or jump to conclusions!
There is still so much that the public knows nothing about this film, sadly we have to WAIT AND SEE.
I just hope Timur Bekmambetov sticks with the series and gets the film done soon!!
20 | Joey
June 19th, 2009 at 9:58 amAs a fan of the movies I am also upset about the changes that have been made if FOX wants to get involved with the production and make thier money off of it that is fine, but why change any thing when ther first two were allready a big succes in Russia all they are doing is risking making a good movie bad
21 | Vince
June 29th, 2009 at 11:03 am@Mav: They’ve also deviated for the storyline in Night Watch (and perhaps Day Watch) and it turned out just fine. But I see what you mean, if hollywood does the same it could be catastrophical indeed. I also agree with everyone else here. If they change the actors, the film will be ruined.
I didn’t like the English dubs so much but the subs were just fine. Every bit of English will ruin the movie, I’m sure of that.
22 | trueamerican
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:47 amEveryone associated with this project should be offended that Fox would force them to produce this movie in English. When I stumbled upon the first film I appreciated the English dub. To change it for the third film, it lose it’s authenticity.
23 | Phisto
July 8th, 2009 at 1:54 pmAh-ha! Now we know where the Day watch headquarters are….USA! And let the cold war commence. I love the films and the books and I’m a little miffed it’ll be filmed in English.
24 | J
July 9th, 2009 at 12:29 pmNight Watch and Day Watch were great movies, as well as books. It is frustrating that the next movie will be in English. The Russian language just helps to heighten the atmosphere of the movies. However, I did watch them again recently with the English dub, and it wasn’t as terrible as I thought it would be. I’m just glad that another movie is being made.
It isn’t about catering to “dumb Americans.” This is often an excuse that studios use to expand their content to a larger demographic, in other words, the studios just want to get more money from wider variety of people. That is why nearly all of the movies that come out are diarrhea.
If nothing else, read the damn books. They’re awesome.
And seriously? Twilight links on this comment board?
25 | Jonnythedanger
July 27th, 2009 at 10:46 pmWTF!!!!!! IF ITS NOT BROKE DONT FIX IT!!!!Stop it America….No….Just no, i finally see something that is just well rounded and amazing and in comes fn hollywood to blah the day or in this case twilight. crappy pun but thats what years of american film directors do to you. Im depressed since finding this out.
26 | AlfZ
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 amI’d love to see the movie without any changes in casting or direction.But what i’ll really hate to see is the movie getting cancelled.From what i hear i fear the worst.Says a 2009 release date but still not a word about filming-i mean there’s gotta be a postproduction phase of atleast two months-advertising-promotion-trailers.But here nothing…
27 | Disappointed
August 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm28 | nadege
August 14th, 2009 at 4:30 pmwtfh.. i luv’d the movies the way they are. i don’t speak russian at all but why the H are they messing up a good thing.y cant they do what they did before, shoot it in russian then either dub it in engliosh or print sum clear freakin sub titles.
29 | xtina
August 15th, 2009 at 9:14 ambad that
first Alaska now this…
hate it
30 | oldnick
August 23rd, 2009 at 6:31 pmheres one damn yankee hoping that they will record a russian soundtrack for the dvd release, i prefer to watch foreign made films in the native tounge as it always sounds better
31 | Joleen
September 10th, 2009 at 2:44 pmI am dissapointed to hear that FOX will be involved, also to hear that it will be filmed in English. I don’t speak Russian (I am Canadian) however, the tone of the whole movie is changed by making it english.
I hope it makes it to theatres by the end of the year though….. (fingers crossed)
32 | Geobaldi
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 pmGeh, I’m American and I watch films from all over the world. I’ve never cared for remakes and hollywood hijacks, I’m even suspicious of the subtitling translation of foreign films over here.
I don’t even know if I’m going to watch ‘Twilight Watch’. I will be getting the books though, just wish I could read them in Russian. Let’s just hope Richard Gere doesn’t show up in the next Watchers movies, ‘Shall We Dance?’ anyone? What a hack job that was. I just bought the original Japanese to wash the bad taste out of my mouth.
33 | Matteo
September 26th, 2009 at 1:19 pmi m sure they will keep the same actors and leave them with a prominet but not too ununderstanable russian accent so that the product will be just perfect for the imperialistic anglophone ears of the West.
read subtitles!
34 | VodkaDah
September 30th, 2009 at 9:36 pmListen, nothing that we say or do here is going to change anything. I love watching foreign films, and part of what I loved about this series so far is that they went the extra mile to make the subtitles an integral part of the movie. Not just something you read, but that they moved and changed and curled like smoke or like blood in the water. The text wasn’t just pasted on, care and attention to detail made it a fully ingrained stylized accent to the film. Lot’s of people won’t watch a subtitled movie. Lot’s of people won’t read a book unless there’s a test, or unless someone made a movie of it.
Listen I’m not going to learn Russian just so I can more authentically read the book, and when the third installment comes out I’m definitely going to see it.
What would Yakov Smirnoff say?
“In former Soviet Russia, We wanted your American money”
He lives in Branson Missouri and you can see him every day except for Monday.
Stop your whining and go out and do something.
yeesh
35 | WTF
October 1st, 2009 at 7:07 pmWhat??? This has to be a joke. I think J has it right. Some A** thinks they can make more money off it in English. Same guy who has no idea or care what the fans think. Would never read this or listen to someone who has. Like many of you I have been checking in online every few months to see when it is coming out for years. Now I want to rage. Futile…dang it!!
What are the Russians doing. What has kept them from making it. Surely it grossed enough for them to have it done. Why are they changing it? This has to be a joke..ha ha…got me good.
36 | squareeyes
October 10th, 2009 at 3:07 pmLook if as I do you love these films then think for a second how many more people are going to discover it now. The previous releases will not have had such a wide release for being marketed as “foreign” (although some of us prefer such films due to Holywood sucking so bad). The actors and director deserve some respect, let them get on with making their film. Let’s see how it turns out, I think it will be great.
37 | Daviey B
October 12th, 2009 at 10:40 amIt’s gonna be in ENGLISH!?!?!?! BUMMER!!!! how can they change it like that? what scum.
38 | devious
October 16th, 2009 at 11:04 pmLMAO – i couldn’t care either way what language its in… but then, i guess that’s a real fan huh.. Obviously the movie makers went with the majority of watchers – if more Americans watch the movie, we actually get to watch it now instead of read it – and the minority gets to read it – i am just glad there not speaking Spanish
39 | mikkii
November 9th, 2009 at 7:12 am‘Rock-on Phoenix’ imho i dont think people are jumping to conclusions, it is well known that ‘Big America’ cock-up some good movies in comparison to japenese horror, anime etc. to change the basics/foundations of this movie, will just be a ‘Big America’ waste of time in putting any (part 1,2 or 3) of this story onto film screens, meaning it will just WRECK ALL OF IT!! (maybe that is secretly the aim-who knows?)
also changing the dialect form RUSSIAN TO AMERICAN is simply…BULLSHIT
the movie and storyline are strong enough
is AMERICA?
40 | MGU2008
November 19th, 2009 at 3:04 pmI speak Russian and English. Being American, I decided to study at the Moscow State University so I could learn Russian. I remember the day I saw Night Watch in Walmart. I was like a little kid in a candy shop when I saw a Russian movie sold there.
Then I waited for the next installation of Day Watch. In fact, I am re-watching it in Russian as I write this. I’ve enjoyed both movies and hopefully the 3rd installation will be just as good. I know I will buy it so I can add it to the series but if they fumble the 3rd one, I wouldn’t hope for the last one to come out so well. It is a tetralogy. I hope they do what they have done with the 2 previous by being consistent with the actors. I prefer hearing it in Russian and if I need to, I turn on the English subtitles which I know isn’t the best translation source.
And for the record, Fox has been involved in Night and Day Watch.
41 | Skrebzilla Xth of Norwich
November 21st, 2009 at 9:54 pmI loved the first 2 films and still do, and i do feel slightly sad they are making the 3rd in english but regardless of the change of language i will probably still love this one because i love horror/scifi/fantasy films and cannot think of one i hate apart from that crappy girly twilight film where the vampire falls in love i mean what the fuck.
p.s. anyone have any idea when T.Watch is coming out or what the sweet music from the other films are?
42 | Orson
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:45 pmI’ve seen some rushes………they’re AMAZING! Better than the first Matrix.
KFOF for sure! This film is going to blow your minds. It fits in perfectly with the other ones. NPI (no pun intended). Can’t wait to see more.!
43 | Sparrow
December 27th, 2009 at 7:48 pmalright, I’m American, so it’s not like we’re are stupid yanks because I’m furious, too. (Then again, I’m an Irish citizen, too ^_^) Maybe I’m a purist, but as if the Harry Potter series wasn’t mutilated enough to satisfy them, now they’re butchering a film series right in the middle of it? It’ll be as bad as watching dubbed anime and will completely throw everything off! I understand the benefits in that the lazy a**holes who won’t read subtitles might go see it now, but really, Hollywood? Really??! Haven’t you slaughtered enough good stories? Feckin idiots
44 | Evelyn
March 13th, 2010 at 4:14 amI’ve seen both previous films. First one, massive success… second one, not so much. It’s obvious that they’re afraid the third one will die down. Make no profit. No wonder they sold it to the Americans, they were stupid enough to buy it. Obviously it is gonna be crap, but the mainstream audience will buy it and it will turn itself into another camp reign like twilight or true blood.
It’s litrally gonna suck.
45 | Richard Winder
March 21st, 2010 at 6:04 amIF THIS IS CORRECT THAT AMERICA HAS INTERVEINED AND DESTROYED SOMETHING ELSE, WHATS THE WORLD COMING TO, I BELEIVE SUBTITLED FILMS CAN BE AWSOME AND GET AWAY WITH ALOT THAT OUR OWN LANGUAGE DOESNT, BUT TO DESTROY THE TRILOGY OF THIS MUCH AWAITED FILM IS AWFUL THE ORIGINAL ACTORS WERE GREAT FOR THE ACTING AND THE STORY LINE, IT SHOULD BE A RULE IN FILMING THAT THE ORIGINAL ACTORS CANNOT BE REPLACED UNLESS THERE WAS A DEATH BECASUE IT JUST RUINS THE WHOLE STORY AND THEN YOU PSYCHO ANALYZE THE NEW ACTOR TO THE PREVIOUS AND YOUR JUST ANNOYED WITH THE END RESULT. AS YOUR GRADING AND VIEWS ARE ALTERED FROM THE STORY TO THE ACTING.
SO OVERALL THE FILM WILL NOT BE AS GOOD AS THE PREVIOUS AND IF IT IS THE ACTING MAY BE BETTER BUT CANNOT BE COMPARED AS THE ORIGINALS ARE THE BEST.
RICHARD
46 | KungFuChick
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:54 pmLOL@the Alaska comment ^
I reckon it’s being made in English because of the massive illiteracy in the United States. That and the fact that most English speakers are too lazy to read subtitles…
I’m English, from the UK, and can read(!) I enjoyed watching the first two films in Russian and would prefer the third to be filmed in Russian (with a dubbed version on the DVD for the uneducated/lazy). Being shot in English doesn’t appear to make it happen any faster….
I really, really hope that they haven’t spoiled everything that was so good about the first two. We’ve been waiting so long and don’t want to be disappointed!
47 | Treborus
April 20th, 2010 at 12:56 pmAfter realising there were two other novels in the series & they were shooting the third I logged on with “rising “excitment only to read america is likely to “clodhopper” their way all over it ….but why would I not expect just that ..bloody typical ! One of my fave films is “Das Boote” & I always watch it in German with subtitles , to hear the original language spoke ALWAYS adds realism to any film . Oh well…Yet again we must hunt the shadows & untrod ways of this world to find originality & the unique……Treborus
48 | Night-Watchmen
May 26th, 2010 at 8:51 pmSo, when will it be out?
I agree, the stupid Yanks will take another masterpiece and mutilate and destroy it until it is another Twilight.
Oh. God. Why can’t they just leave well alone?
If it isn’t broken, why fix it?
Any definite release date? It said 2009 in the description.
49 | Toru
June 7th, 2010 at 8:15 amHey, people, I’ve come here looking up for information about when will be (or has been released) Twilight Watch, because here in Spain there is no information about it at all, and neither I have been able to find it on the Internet.
I’ve not read all the avobe, ’cause it is too long, just some posts. So
do you know if it is already filmed, and when it will be released (I know that asking for the Spanish date of release is too much xD)? Or it has been already released?
By the way, here in Spain, there hardly are any original version with subtitles (for historical reasons), and all movies are dub. That’s why our English is so bad xD
Thank you! Cheers!
50 | Toru
June 28th, 2010 at 3:59 pm2009… yeah… good… ¬¬U
51 | Peter
July 4th, 2010 at 8:42 pmI have some worse news for you guys… The film is “on hold”, the Director has had success in America, which means he is now working on American films. So our only hope now is that his next film is complete rubbish, so he can’t get any work in America, moves back to Russia and actually makes a Russian version of Twilight Watch (or Dusk Watch (which will at least mean we wont have to explain it isn’t a sh*tty “Twilight” series film to retards)). Seems unlikely though
On the note of filming in English, I can’t believe they can be that stupid.
Would Downfall be as good if it is wasn’t in German?
Would Mesrine be as good if it wasn’t in French?
Would Pans Labyrinth be as good if it wasn’t in Spanish?
Would the Educators be as good if it wasn’t in German?
Would Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon be as good if it wasn’t in Mandarin?
Oh and would Night Watch and Day Watch be as good if they weren’t in Russian?
The answer to all these questions and a much longer list I decided not to bore you with is quite clearly NO.
Does anyone actually not see a film just because it isn’t in English and they don’t want to read, is this really the way the world is going, is it a world anyone wants to live in, and why are these film makers promoting lazy illiteracy.
If this film does actually come out I think I will cry if it has a Hollywood ending.
52 | Dahnne Hammond
July 14th, 2010 at 12:31 amI am soooooo DAMN sick of all you people ragging on Americans!!!!! YES WE CAN F***ing READ!!!!!!!! I watch movies in the original language as much as possible. If I am watching a Japanese movie or anime, I watch it IN JAPANESE AND I F***ING READ THE DAMN SUBTITLES!!!!!!!!! Not everyone here in this country is illiterate(Ooh, and I’m African American, too)!!!
My dad used to say, “When you assume shit you make an ass out of you and me.” Just wait for the movie to come out before you assume that it’s going to be bad because Americans have anything to do with it!!!!
53 | totenkopf
July 17th, 2010 at 10:36 amsummer 2010. i am an american. i hope that Twilight Watch has been released so that i may find a copy or that i may see it somewhere-if not now,then soon. i am a purist and i love film from other countries-I HATE IT WHEN HOLLYWOOD MONKEYS MONKEY AROUND WITH GOOD THINGS-AMERICA AND AMERICANS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM-HOLLYWOOD AND HOLLYWOOD HOSRES’ ASSES ARE THE PROBLEM. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAGNIFICENT BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY OF THE 1950s,1960s and 1970s-HOLLYWOOD AND IT’S EVIL SPAWN DECIMATED IT WITH THEIR BIG MONEY. most Americans that I know love foreign film and we lament the days of the 1980s and 1990s when American TV was replete with cinema from other nations. I myself am a great lover of French,British,Russia,Italian and Asian Film-preferably in the original languages. as a lover of culture and as a believer in culture I am outraged that The Evil Dead From Hollywood would want or even allow an atrocity such as a mutilation and mutation of the Daywatch films to occur. I am a dire enemy of Multiculturalism and Multilingualism but I am a great respecter and defender of the great cultures such as those of the Russians. only the idiot zombies of Hollywood would want a fine Russian film to be in English. It is typical and charactaristic of things in my country as of the momemt-LOUDER,CRUDER,DUMBER. LEAVE THIS GOOD THING ALONE!!! i am also a lover of comic imports and right now I am teaching myself French,Spanish,Portugese and Italian so that i can read my original-language comic books.This will also be useful for reading many books that have not been translated into English. Most Americans are not ignorant buffoons-only most of our bigwigs and other such pests and vermin-mostly from our principle cities. No person here in my part of Alabama would be so stupid or so ignorant as to want a Russian film to be in English-we people of The South have long been the victims of foreign influence and cultural imperialism and the Northern barbarians continue to ruin us even as they ruin themselves. By the way,I am a Black guy.Alabama is my ancestral and current home-but New York City and New Jersey are the homes of my heart and where I mostly grew up.It there was that I became who I am- living with and among people of many origins and nationalities gave me a great appreciation of other peoples and of their cultures-SOMETHING LACKING IN HOLLYWOOD.Hollywood is a moral sore and a cultural cancer.
54 | totenkopf
July 17th, 2010 at 11:07 amAnd to the Americabashers and Yankhaters-GROW UP AND GET A LIFE!!! Every nation is full of culturally illiterate anthropoids and every nation is largely populated by nationally chauvanistic(spelling ?) morons. America is no different-your homes are no different. Evil and stupid individuals and evil and stupid attitudes and institutions are the problem- not whole nations and entire populations.Some nations are just worse off than others-In the 21st Century most nations more or less suck-LOUDER,CRUDER,DUMBER. History and everyday life prove this. You as individuals should be among the freinds of civilization.not it’s enemies-such as the australipithecines who want to enslave or destroy all of us. I myself do not go around insulting or disparaging entire nations and nationalities-it would be imbecilic and uneducated to do so. I do however revile a vast number of demonic individuals and diabolic institutions who help to make our world a worse place. Every sane and normal person loves his or her own nation,wishes welll to it’s friends and hates it’s enemies.Hence the name Totenkopf.GET IT,DUMMKOPFS?
55 | Ass
July 20th, 2010 at 2:08 pmI don’t care when it comes out, i just hope to god that they let Mel Gibson play Anton, and Scarlet Johanson play Svetlana.
56 | Topcat
July 24th, 2010 at 9:49 amI’m American and an American soldier. Making this movie in english, for a lack of a better word, will phuc it up! Dah?
57 | Treborus
July 31st, 2010 at 1:40 amI like trawling the second hand games shops for cheap films , you can risk £2 on an unknown , & have only just found & watched DOWNFALL , god how chilling that film is ! & it,s true if that was in English it would be unbelievable & irrevellent . It,s a pity a more left field director hadn,t done RED OCTOBER with all russian on the R O as it actually began , or WIDOW MAKER – how even better with an all russian unknown cast in russian !
58 | DVSfANbOY22
August 5th, 2010 at 6:42 pmI literally just finished watching Day Watch and thought i would check out to see when Twilight Watch is gonna be made. I’m so pissed off to hear that fox bought the rights for filming, they really know how to fuck up a good thing. If this movie gets released by the fox company with american actors it will destroy the franchise. COME ON FOX WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING!I really hope they just bought it to make money and not to produce the shit out of it. Timur Bekmambetov had also better be directing it too, any hardcore fans out the, make some noise and spam every chat room, blog and review site with comments to make them do the movie justice. MAKE SOME NOISE!!!!
59 | Toru
August 6th, 2010 at 8:09 amHm, I think it may be never really made, as I have recently watched the second one and it has a pretty close end. It doesn’t look to me like it is going to be continued.
60 | DVSfANbOY22
August 7th, 2010 at 5:34 amhey toru! why do you say that? have you read the books? i havent read them yet, so i dont know weather the whole story could just end where it was. im so keen to see another though
61 | Matthew Berriman
August 8th, 2010 at 7:44 pmHey, thought you may all like to know I just emailed fox with a short painful letter, it would pretty awesome if you could all do the same, since the only people that will go see this movie will be its fans, i suggest fox start paying more attention to the fans.
the letter read..
Dear Fox,
Rumour has it that you’re taking over the night & day watch sequel; The Twilight watch. except this time, you’ll be making it in English, and since Konstantin Khabenskiy speaks poor English, its safe to assume you’re replacing a stellar cast with some Hollywood trash.
you’re going to kill something beautiful and I am very very disappointed in you.
62 | Toru
August 9th, 2010 at 6:51 amNo, I haven’t read the books either, but the end of the second film is not open, there is no unsolved matters and stuff like this, so, even though the books are three, there is no reason to make a third film. However, I would love too to watch another one, of course!
Anyway, according to what I have read, the films do not follow estrictly the books, since the books are made of short stories related one to each other, or something like that, and the films are a kind of ‘remix’ of everything made to fit into just one story.
I wish I could know more, as I just have some vague ideas. And I wish more I could see an advertisement of a third film soon! That would be a nice surprise ^o^
63 | o07jrbond
August 16th, 2010 at 12:09 amread news releases idiots. I wish with all of my heart that twilight watch will come out, but apparently a$$h0l3 decided that “wanted” was the movie he wanted to do instead and it replaced any aspect of twilight watch that would ever be released. soooo basically the movie twilight watch may or may not come out but if it does probably your kids will see it before you do. i’m as upset as you are trust me.
64 | Jerrah D.W.
August 22nd, 2010 at 8:41 pmI do not believe they will change the actor’s that would be a total failure and they want to make money. I don’t know why all of you are complaining about the English. If you want the movie in Russian then buy the movie via internet from Russia, I do believe they will make both. The first 2 movie’s are on the top of my list of favorite movie’s. I am an American and hope everything is the same as the first two. I watched the first 2/3rd’s the way through in Russian reading subtitle’s then started it back up and it started playing the dubbed which i did not know was available. I watched it again dubbed because the movie is awe inspiring to see. You people should not be so down on American’s we should all get along and love everyone. What does “stuff thing’s up” mean? Why do you call us Yank’s prejudice is bad, I still love all you Russian’s. I hope to go there someday it is one of 3 countries I want to see the most.
65 | фйбй
August 24th, 2010 at 3:37 pmAmerica sticks its nose where it isn’t needed! The movies weren’t the best movies, but they’re way better without America messing with them! Yes, I am american… But I didn’t mind reading the sub titles! The books were made in Russia, took place in Russia, originally written in Russia, and that’s how the movies should be too! The actors were great and now America is ruining things all over again! Arg!
Toru,
Yeah, I completely agree with you… I just finished the book Twilight Watch… (Dusk Watch… Whatever the original name is) and it still has characters that died from Day Watch the movie… The characters were a really big part in Twilight Watch too! (Its been a while since I watched the movies…) I’m not really sure how Anton is going to become an other now that he has rewritten his life. The movies were very different from the books… Night Watch (the movie) was the first part to Night Watch (the book…) Just a little different. Day Watch (the movie) was the second part in Night Watch (the book…) Just a little different… I hope your able to understand that… Its a little confusing… XD
66 | mooveebuff
August 26th, 2010 at 5:17 pmI hope we who have waited for Twilight Watch are not disappointed. The first two movies Night Watch and Day Watch were so exciting. Many of us are anxiously awaiting the third leg of this great trilogy. Let’s hope the sly “Fox” hasn’t fooled us again!
67 | фйбй
August 30th, 2010 at 9:21 pmJerrah D.W.,
Do you think that the russian actors will suddenly learn english? I really doubt that… You don’t see this the way everyone else does. Everyone else want it to be made how it should be… From Russia! The other books and movies have the Russian culture, but something from America won’t… And by the way, we can’t, “all get along and love everyone,” it just isn’t possible… We’re always going to hate someone… I bet you hate someone right now…
Mathew Berriman,
You’re awesome!
68 | John
September 9th, 2010 at 9:29 amEveryone keeps blaming this on America…. Uh last time I checked Fox was owned by Rupert Murrdoch who is I believe Australian. Just a thought
69 | Shelby
September 19th, 2010 at 3:51 amActually, Fox is owned by an American.
Rupert Murdoch renounced his Australian citizenship in 1985 to become an American so as to further his business interests.
70 | Tom
September 28th, 2010 at 10:49 am@фйбй
I’m glad someone else on this thread seems to have actually read the books, I was wondering the same thing about how they could make it into a Trilogy after how much they changed what happens in the films compared to the books.
I saw Nightwatch before I read the books, then I read all the first 3 books of the Watch sequence before Daywatch, and was disappointed by the changes: I don’t like when film deviates from book.
As to the language, Russian vs. English, what made Nightwatch that much more awesome for me was the theatrical subtitles, and the way they had been made a real part of the film, even if you are Russian, I recommend watching Nightwatch with the English theatrical subtitles just to experience that much more…
P.s. Am I the only one who thought even Daywatch (film) was a poor sequel to Nightwatch (film)? Even that was too “hollywood” for my liking… Anyone who hasn’t read the books, do yourselves a favour and read them, they’re way better! In fact, I’m going to re-read them now!
71 | alexandria
October 2nd, 2010 at 4:06 pmi am so pissed its in english and us STUPID americans have to ruin EVERYTHING because we can! GA!!!! im so not happy!!!!!!!!
72 | Daizy
October 7th, 2010 at 5:04 pmI absolutely loved the first two films (own both DVDs and rewatch them often), and I’m very much looking forward to the final installment in the trilogy! While I agree that the movie will not have the same impact if it is either replaced with American actors, or forced to be English speaking, I feel that reviling an entire nation of people based on the idiocy of a few is ignorant. Just my opinion.
P.S. Loved the Alaska comment ↑. I’m a born and raised Alaskan and I came this close ” ” to being Russian.
73 | фйбй
November 21st, 2010 at 12:19 pmYes, it doesn’t make any sense to have a third movie. Anton is an Other in all of the books and Kostya is the one of main characters throughout Twilight Watch and they killed him in the movies so…
74 | cherie
December 7th, 2010 at 9:06 amI am so excited that they finally decided to continue to book series into film! Love it!
75 | The Punk
December 19th, 2010 at 9:53 amI’m an American/Texan. I absolutely loved the first 2 movies. I’m sad to hear that the next movie will be made in English. This makes no sense. The author is Russian. The first 2 movies were filmed in Russian. Why change the language? Why change horses in mid stream? This is disastrous! This may ensure that the 4th book never hits the big screen. Very sad.
I can’t help but wonder if the decision regarding language was made in order to milk the “Twilight” vampire series fans a little more. Bleh. I haven’t read those books or seen those movies but from what I understand the “Twilight” and “Watch” series books and movies are not even similar (I hope!).
Regardless of the obvious mistake that will be made in filming it in English I will be anxious to see it.
76 | Jake Nevel
January 15th, 2011 at 6:22 pmJeez, shut up all of you. It should be better since it’s being American made. Can be at a faster pace and not some lame foreign crap that moves too damn slow! The movies were mediocre at best aside from the action parts. If this was “cleaned up” in America and marketed in America, they could be huge…so STFU!
77 | Jazmin
January 26th, 2011 at 4:06 amI LOVE HIS SEXY RUSSIAN VOICE..they would be better off speaking there own language with the same characters.
It better be one heck of a movie otherwise..i’ll be marching up to the director and demand he make it again!! properly.
78 | Jazmin
January 26th, 2011 at 4:07 amBy the way , are the books written in English? I wanna read them!!
79 | Nataku.s81
February 20th, 2011 at 9:29 pmWow totally not in favour of hollywood stamping its foot all over this franchise…
Just look at how they have to remake every japanese horror out there, usually for the worse.
I have to say though I didn’t really like how much they changed the movies from the original books. Wish they’d actually made movie daywatch follow the book daywatch, rather than nightwatch part 2 lol. well everyones a critic
80 | allnn
March 6th, 2011 at 1:34 amGuys, Just relax a little bit. I’m Russian Moscovite, all right. Lukyanenro is not Dostoyevskiy or a great author by any means. But he had his moments. Let hime enojoy entering the establisments. By the way, I like the movies a lot, espesially because of the fact that they dropped all the Lukyanenko’s philosphical moments. That was a really pathetic part of his texts.
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