There’ve been lots of variations of Dracula working round in popular culture. Inside the previous decade, he’s been on a boat, ran a resort, and been extremely depressed after his spouse was murdered, and we eat it up (nearly) each time. People love themselves some Drac, and you may rely Luc Besson amongst them, as a result of he’s be cooking up a Dracula film of his personal.
Per Selection, the Valerian director will direct an adaptation of the 1897 Bram Stoker novel. Titled Dracula – A Love Story, the upcoming movie is being billed as a “big-budget reimagining” that features as an origin story for the Prince of Darkness. Caleb Landry Jones, who’s already labored with Besson on 2023’s DogMan, will play fifteenth century Prince Vladimir, who turns into a vampire after cursing God for the dying of his spouse. Centuries later in nineteenth century London, he discovers a lady who appears to be like similar to his misplaced love and makes her the thing of his affection obsession.
At current, Jones is barely joined by Christoph Waltz, although it’s unclear what position the No Time to Die actor may have within the story. Deadline additional studies different “buzzy” solid members are being talked to for key roles, and the movie will lean extra into the gothic romance components of the character.
The subsequent few years are going to massive for followers of traditional horror icons. Together with Common’s Abigail in April (a reimagining of the studio’s 1936 movie Dracula’s Daughter), Robert Eggers has his personal Dracula film in Nosferatu, which is anticipated to drop someday this yr. Maggie Gyllenhaal is doing a Bride of Frankenstein film as Guillermo del Toro handles a separate Frankenstein adaptation, and a Wolf Man film from Leigh Whannell is at present set to launch in October.
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