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Here Comes a Dracula Prequel
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Well, it now looks like the race to bring Dracula back to the big screen is heating up, in both sequel and prequel forms. Back in May, Martha told us about Un Dead, a sequel to Bram Stoker's original story (not Francis Ford Coppola's updated version) set 25 years after the end of Dracula. Apparently, this was also the first script to be approved by Bram Stoker's family since Bela Lugosi's portrayal of the famous vampire back in 1931. Damn, talk about holding out -- you mean to tell me, in 75 years, no one managed to impress this family with a decent Dracula story? What gives?
Anyway, Variety reports Universal has snatched up the spec script, Dracula Year Zero, with intentions to bring an earlier version of Dracula to the big screen. Story is said to revolve around his origins, "weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince Vlad the Impaler." The idea here is to portray Dracula as a "flawed hero," all mixed up in love, magic and war. While it's not known whether the Stoker's approved this one, Universal was home to the original 1931 version which means, as adoptive parents, they can do whatever they want.
A Dracula Sequel that Might Not Suck
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Back in December, we totally failed to pick
up the news that someone had written a screenplay for a sequel
to Dracula. Whatever, right? Hollywood has sequel-itis, and a whole lot of the results suck. It turns out,
though, that the film, entitled Un Dead, is the first Dracula movie to win the approval of author Bram
Stoker's family since Tod Browning's 1931 masterpiece. Not only that, but it was written by a gentleman
named Ian Holt who, according to the always-reliable internets, is a Dracula scholar, and actually traveled around
Europe, scouting locations while he wrote. Plus, it's NOT a sequel to Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, but rather to Stoker's original story. I don't know about
you, but I'm suddenly feeling quite intrigued.Variety is just reporting the story today (which is fine because, well, so are we), which probably means that all the dotted lines are finally signed, and that the project might actually be getting off the ground. Action king Jan de Bont (he's busy right now directing Meg -- fear his power) will produce the film, which picks up 25 years after the end of Dracula and brings all the surviving characters together, along with an Inspector Cotford, who appeared in Stoker's original draft of Dracula, but was cut prior to the story's publication.
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