The Twilight fallout continues…
Summit Entertainment, the guys behind the aformentioned series (“Saga”?), have announced via THR that they’re hard at work at a new take on Dracula that will be entitled simply Vlad. You can see the black and white t-shirts already, can’t you?
Written by Charlie Hunnam, an actor probably best known as Jax from Sons of Anarchy, Vlad will center on Dracula’s life as a young prince. It will of course be based on Vlad the Impaler, the bloodthirsty real-life prince who some suggest became the basis for Dracula.
Brad Pitt is producing alongside Dede Gardner, and they’re looking on getting music video director Anthony Mandler on board as director. Apparently the execs in charge were wowed by his reel, which drew comparisons to 300. This meshes with the action-oriented take of the material that they have planned, because we all know what was most compelling about Dracula was his slow-motion vampiric asskickery.
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"comparisons to 300"? ehm..
DROP THE VLAD BULLSHIT NOW. Are we ever gonna get a faithful adaptation of the original novel. Fuck Hollywood. Guess our only hope now is that Affleck is a fan of the novel, now theirs a director that could make a faithful adaption of the brilliant novel.
I blame Coppola and his disgraceful 'adaptation' – which and the nerve to shamelessly slap Stokers name on a film that completely bastardized his work.
Scrap this shit right now, Call Affleck and get him working on a, gasp, version of Dracula that actually follows the novel. Closest we've ever had was Nosferatu, in what 1920-something?
When are they gonna make a "Count Duckula" movie?
"This meshes with the action-oriented take of the material that they have planned, because we all know what was most compelling about Dracula was his slow-motion vampiric asskickery."
– I about fell out of my chair at work reading this. I'm still laughing my ass off at this!
Do what you want with the bloodsucker, how the fuck about a faithful Frankenstein already???
Gives new meaning to "blah blah blah"
Yawn. Period Twilight with 300 style fights. Fuck this Fang.
I bet ole Vlad will have SICK abs.
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