Luc Besson Will Take a Stab at Directing Dracula

There’ve been plenty of variations of Dracula working spherical in common tradition. Contained in the earlier decade, he’s been on a boat, ran a hotel, and been incredibly depressed after his partner was murdered, and we eat it up (almost) every time. Folks love themselves some Drac, and you might rely Luc Besson amongst them, on account of he’s be cooking up a Dracula movie of his private.

Per Variety, the Valerian director will direct an adaptation of the 1897 Bram Stoker novel. Titled Dracula – A Love Story, the upcoming film is being billed as a “big-budget reimagining” that capabilities 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 right into a vampire after cursing God for the lack of lifetime of his partner. Centuries later in nineteenth century London, he discovers a girl who seems to be like just like his misplaced love and makes her the factor of his affection obsession.

At present, Jones is barely joined by Christoph Waltz, though it’s unclear what place the No Time to Die actor can have inside the story. Deadline extra research completely different “buzzy” cast members are being talked to for key roles, and the film will lean further into the gothic romance parts of the character.

The next few years are going to large for followers of conventional horror icons. Along with Widespread’s Abigail in April (a reimagining of the studio’s 1936 film Dracula’s Daughter), Robert Eggers has his private Dracula movie in Nosferatu, which is anticipated to drop sometime this yr. Maggie Gyllenhaal is doing a Bride of Frankenstein movie as Guillermo del Toro handles a separate Frankenstein adaptation, and a Wolf Man movie from Leigh Whannell is at current set to launch in October.

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