Who would play an incredible Dracula these days?

[elgato]

Vincent Gallo

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I have this fantasy of a 3-way monster mash movie being made with Strong as Dracula and Fassbender as Dr. Frankenstein. The position of the Wolf Man has yet to be filled.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I strongly dislike Ryan Gosling. Everytime I see him, I want to wipe that smarmy look off his face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gC1GiSDDA

 

[dude stannis]

The position of the Wolf Man has yet to be filled.

Naked Robin Williams.

 

[TheWatcher]

Christoph Waltz
Mark Strong

 

[Doctor Jones]

Waltz as Van Helsing I could definitely get behind.

This thread just reminds me that we are due for a new great Dracula adaptation.

 

[Sawyer]

Naked Robin Williams.

This isn't a documentary.

 

[Sawyer]

I could see Fassbender.

I really like the suggestion of Mark Strong though.

I also think Christoph Waltz could be a vampire, though maybe not Dracula, per se.

I've had an idea of Waltz being in a new Salem's Lot adaptation as either Kurt Barlow (the vampire) or Straker (his familiar). Either of which, I would be fine with.

 

[gwynplaine]

I've had an idea of Waltz being in a new Salem's Lot adaptation as either Kurt Barlow (the vampire) or Straker (his familiar). Either of which, I would be fine with.

Straker

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Chrsitian Bale should play Dracula in a parody, and use his Batman voice when he acts scary

 

[dark_b]

Joaquin Phoenix could work.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Gerard Butler was awesome as Dracula!

No, he wasn't. Unless your idea of Dracula is a guy channeling Michael Hutchence.

Seriously, I kept expect Butler to bust out a rendition of "I Need You Tonight" when I was watching that movie.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Tom Hanks!!!

No, jk, awesome but don't think he would translate to villain.

Robert Downey Jr. - suave, his nice front would be rather creepy.

Leonardo Di Caprio - suave, handsome, and no doubt could pull off very creepy. This would be the classic Dracula nobleman approach.

 

[marvelman2006]

I totally can buy fassbender in the dracula role. He has that creepy edge to him while being sophisticated and charming enough to lore in victums. Not sure about the time period though, which time period to set it in though. As weird as it sounds modern day dracula settings have never been big hits or meshed well.

 

[Visualiza]

Tom Hanks!!!

No, jk, awesome but don't think he would translate to villain.

Robert Downey Jr. - suave, his nice front would be rather creepy.

Leonardo Di Caprio - suave, handsome, and no doubt could pull off very creepy. This would be the classic Dracula nobleman approach.

Downey really has come into his own in recent years, gotta agree here.

I totally can buy fassbender in the dracula role. He has that creepy edge to him while being sophisticated and charming enough to lore in victums. Not sure about the time period though, which time period to set it in though. As weird as it sounds modern day dracula settings have never been big hits or meshed well.

 

[Johnny Drama]

I love Idris Elba and think he is a great actor and all, but it's sheer lunacy some of the roles you people suggest him for.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Chrsitian Bale should play Dracula in a parody, and use his Batman voice when he acts scary

No one agrees on this? Anyone?

Robert Downey Jr. - suave, his nice front would be rather creepy.

Leonardo Di Caprio - suave, handsome, and no doubt could pull off very creepy. This would be the classic Dracula nobleman approach.

Not the right voice

 

[chamber-music]

Idris Elba was a cool Badass vampire hunter in late 90s British vampire show Ultraviolet. Stephen Moyer aka Vampire Bill from True Blood was also a vampire in Ultraviolet.

Michael Fassbender played a fallen angel Azazeal in Hex. Fassbender definitely had a Dracula vibe in that show.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'd actually be really into Noomi as a female Dracula.

On that note, I'd also be into Rooney Mara as Carmilla in a Carmilla adaptation.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Not the right voice

Is there even a voice? And I don't mean Bella Lugosi lol, but in the lore - never knew it went as detailed as specifically stating the voice.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

The voice was started by Bela Legosi, along with the legendary Draulca look we see all the time.

The closest movie to the books is actually Coppola's version, though even Coppola changed a few things like adding a backstory by fusing some of the real life facts of who Dracula was based on, and he also made Van Helsing a bit more kookier.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

This is what Dracula would actually look like by going by the original novel and according to a police artist sketch.

A tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache…His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead…His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking…For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin…The blue eyes transformed with fury.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Looks kind of like Edward Norton with a porn 'stache.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I can see why they changed it up so much. The stash was in style in the gay nineties (what the 1890s is called), but not today.

I think the most important aspect of Dracula is his eyes. If the actor can pull of the stares and glances, then they are already halfway there to being a successful Dracula.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, that vampire gaze is key. You need someone who looks like they have the devil in their eyes. Ben Foster is good at that... maybe he could play a good younger Dracula.