Yet Another DRACULA Movie To Be Made
Sony Pictures has just acquired the right to another Dracula film, which will once again tell the mythological origin of the famous bloodsucker. The pitch for the film came from screenwriter Jason Keller (Machine Gun Preacher, Mirror Mirror, The Tomb), and it will be produced by Joe Roth and Palak Patel. Can you believe Keller got paid a high six figures for this rehashed pitch!? It's Dracula for cryin' out loud! Why are studios paying this kind of money for something that has been made a thousand times before!? There's no information on what will make this story so different other than the fact that the studio is looking to launch a period franchise, which tells me they are looking to maybe give it an action-packed makeover. Right now I'm thinking Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, but with Dracula. I guess we won't know until we know.
As of right now, there are a few new Dracula vampire movies being made, such as Dracula Year Zero coming from director Gary Shore, Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain Trilogy will get an adaptation, and then of course, there's Matt Reeve's The Passage.
Are you a fan of The Count? What is your favorite Dracula film, and what future films dealing with vampires are you looking forward to most?