Dracula | Blumhouse

[Deck Rickard]

#DominicPurcellOrBust

 

[Luigi]

Pretty excited for this. Blumhouse seems to be the taking right approach with the Universal Monsters.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I hope they do a good take on Frankenstein. I feel like there's so much potential there any yet no movie has ever really got Frankenstein and his monster right. Penny Dreadful did about the best job I've seen. But I hated the Branagh version, and the old Boris Karloff/Glenn Strange versions are overrated and butcher the story.

I never bothered with "I, Frankenstein" lol.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

#DominicPurcellOrBust

Well I guess I should have seen that one coming lol. I don't actually mind the guy as an actor, but man was he awful in Blade: Trinity. It's a shame that the franchise was never able to recover after that, because I honestly love the first two films.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Well I guess I should have seen that one coming lol. I don't actually mind the guy as an actor, but man was he awful in Blade: Trinity. It's a shame that the franchise was never able to recover after that, because I honestly love the first two films.

Yeah, he's been good in other things but WOW was that a bad bit of miscasting. Like, what in the actual **** was Goyer thinking? Dracula, or Drake (less syllables, brah), just comes off like a grunt the whole time.

 

[eon001]

I really want them to take some risks with this. Have Dracula be some power hungry Zuckerberg style tech billionaire or something.

Each generation he's reinvented himself and in the 2000's he's adapted to this era's leaders in technology.
I'd go with Timothee Chalamet.

And if I'm going WAY out the box and reinventing the mytho's I'd have crack at Henry Golding.

 

[Eddie Dean]

This is Blumhouse. We'll get some moderately famous tv-ish actor for the main role and then some European guy know one knows about as Dracula.

 

[StarLord]

 

[Deck Rickard]

I really want them to take some risks with this. Have Dracula be some power hungry Zuckerberg style tech billionaire or something.

Each generation he's reinvented himself and in the 2000's he's adapted to this era's leaders in technology.
I'd go with Timothee Chalamet.

And if I'm going WAY out the box and reinventing the mytho's I'd have crack at Henry Golding.

I think Chalamet is a bit too youthful for this. He’d make a great Harker though.

But Golding? Hell yeah. He was excellent in The Gentlemen and I can totally see him as Dracula.

 

[eon001]

I think Chalamet is a bit too youthful for this.

Yea that's kinda the point. Dracula can't age and Chalamet would be and interesting departure to the older sage like version we've seen before.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Not threatening enough.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yea that's kinda the point. Dracula can't age and Chalamet would be and interesting departure to the older sage like version we've seen before.

Yeah but Dracula should at least look like an adult man. Tim still looks like a kid. Maybe it could work but there’s a reason he keeps getting cast in these “a boy becomes a man” roles.

 

[-JKR-]

Yeah, no to Little Timmy.

 

[eon001]

Yeah but Dracula should at least look like an adult man. Tim still looks like a kid. Maybe it could work but there’s a reason he keeps getting cast in these “a boy becomes a man” roles.

Fair enough, but a boyish Dracula would be a fresh take from the traditional version. Each to his own though.

 

[eon001]

Not threatening enough.

Subversion of expectations my friend.
And anyone can be made to be dangerous and threatening. Even kids.

 

[elgaz]

Whilst the recent BBC adaption didn’t end on a particularly good note, I absolutely loved the first and second episode and particularly who they cast as Dracula. He embodied the old Hammer style Dracula casting choices as opposed to the teen Twilight-type vampires we’ve seen in recent years - mature, suave, black hair and piercing eyes, incredibly charming but playfully sinister.

I think Jon Hamm possesses similar aesthetic characteristics and could be an interesting choice.

It’s hard to imagine how Dracula would be presented in the modern day. Perhaps the story could have him in different time periods, using supernatural powers in earlier times and technology in current times to try and find ways to allow him to survive in daylight.

 

[fan4stic]

Benedict Cumberbatch?

 

[Boom]

Benedict Cumberbatch?

I'd never say no to more Cucumberbumberbatch.

 

[eon001]

Whilst the recent BBC adaption didn’t end on a particularly good note, I absolutely loved the first and second episode and particularly who they cast as Dracula. He embodied the old Hammer style Dracula casting choices as opposed to the teen Twilight-type vampires we’ve seen in recent years - mature, suave, black hair and piercing eyes, incredibly charming but playfully sinister.

I think Jon Hamm possesses similar aesthetic characteristics and could be an interesting choice.

It’s hard to imagine how Dracula would be presented in the modern day. Perhaps the story could have him in different time periods, using supernatural powers in earlier times and technology in current times to try and find ways to allow him to survive in daylight.

You are absolutely right about the BBC adaptation. It honours the classic iteration of Dracula and adds it's own little spin on it. (I even liked the 3rd ep).

But that's also why I don't think Blumhouse will not go in that direction. It's been done to death. I'll be surprised if they go for similar style and tone considering we wouldn't be far removed from the BBC's version.

I would imagine we'll see a similar departure to Dracula as we did with the Invisible Man. Something fresh that honours the original source material.

 

[Boom]

Claes Bang was great. Just top notch casting.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

I actually think a Dracula movie is more relevant in this current climate than ever before. In the novel, at least my reading of it, Dracula is a metaphor for disease, and his main goal of moving to London is to spread his vampirism to the populace.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu definitely plays up the disease angle in the plague ridden London of the 1800s.

 

[Doctor Jones]

This is Blumhouse. We'll get some moderately famous tv-ish actor for the main role and then some European guy know one knows about as Dracula.

Bingo.

 

[Roose Bolton]

The Strain was really the best modern interpretation of the whole viral aspect of the original Dracula concept. Just a shame that the show was kinda bland and not on par with the novels.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Karyn Kusama's Dracula starring Finn Wittrock as Jonathan Harker and Yugoslav Tripekina as Dracula