Tuesday, February 08, 2011

New 'Dracula' film sounds like a bad idea



From slashfilm, [excerpt]Badass Digest had the first report, and now Deadline fills in a few details. The latter says that Warner Bros. is about to pick up the project and that the script “focuses on Jonathan Harker as the Scotland Yard detective who is tracking Dracula, and the script sets up the sleuth as a potential new franchise character.”

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3 comments:

Catfreeek said...

Why does everything have to be a damn franchise, how about just making a film because you believe in it. Oh wait, that would mean being artistic instead of greedy.

Octopunk said...

Oh my god, is that an amputee clown in your avatar?

My first thought was "Harker? Harker who got so scared by meeting a vampire he erased the experience from his memory? Surely this is Van Helsing's role."

But of course Stephen Sommers ruined "Van Helsing" as a lead character.

At least they're taking Stoker's name out of the working title. A new period piece (if it is that) in London with a classic monster could be something... but I might've said that about Wolfman too.

Catfreeek said...

Yes it is Octo I was wondering when you'd notice:)

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