Marcus Nispel to Board the Bloody 'Demeter'
Filed under: Classics, Horror, Remakes and Sequels
One of the coolest chapters in Bram Stoker's Dracula (the book, not the Coppola movie) is the one in which the titular bloodsucker is on a boat ride from Bulgaria to England, and he uses the crew as a rather messy all-you-can-eat buffet. It's a sequence that certainly seems spooky enough to warrant its very own film, so I say it's good news that Marcus Nispel is on board to direct The Last Voyage of Demeter.Variety describes the story with a bit more clarity than I can muster at 6am on a Sunday morning, so here goes: It's "based on a chapter in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" describing the arrival of the vampire count in England on a cargo ship that has crashed into the rocks at Whitby with no crew and the dead captain lashed to the steering wheel. Stoker tells the story via the captain's log of the voyage, which begins in Bulgaria and becomes increasingly disjointed as members of the crew disappear."
Given Nispel's affection for tackling old-school horror (like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th), it'll be interesting to see what he does with Dracula. It's not like Demeter could be any more outrageously ridiculous than the Frankenstein adaptation the director did for the USA Network a few years back.
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5-04-2009 @ 2:08AM
TearsIntheRain said...
I've been keeping my eye on this project ever since I knew of it's existence. Pissed me off when I found out about it, because I was deep into research in order to write a screenplay on the exact same concept. Would have been my first, so I'm sure it would have amounted to nothing, and you're more than welcome to roll your eyes at me lol. But still, that really sucked.
This can make an incredible film--I found the story in that single chapter more terrifying than anything else in the book. When you read it you wonder why the hell every motion picture adaption has skipped through that chapter, at the very least turning it into a short scene or giving it a small moment in a montage.
This story about the Demeter, more than anything else, is about the captain staying with his ship, even in death.
If this is done right, it will be about seamanship.
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