Warner Bros is revamping the mythology of Bram Stoker’s original ‘Dracula’ that will be a departure from Francis Ford Coppola‘s overblown interpretation. The new story will be set in the present day and the ‘Van Helsing’ of the story will be the character Harker, a Scotland yard detective who hunts the elusive Dracula.
Seems Vampires are truly the stuff of legends surviving multiple incarnations and the mythos up for grabs to anyone with a good take on the classic story. The script focuses on the super sleuth Jonathan Harker, whose character could be the beginning of a new franchise that would see him hot on the trail of the legendary blood-sucker and his minions.
‘Harker’ was written by Lee Shipman along with Brian McGreevy who’s first novel, ‘Hemlock Grove’ plays as a revisionist Gothic horror with an aristocratic vamp, a werewolf and a teen girl Frankenstein like-monster living in a Pennsylvania high school. The two scribes also wrote the upcoming ‘Captain Blood’ sci-fi remake.
Jaume Collet-Serra
Jaume Collet-Serra is attached to direct the project who made the eerie ‘Orphan’ and most recently the Liam Neeson mistaken identity flick Unknown that opens February 18th.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way banner will produce, though DiCaprio isn’t expected to star in the film. Michael Connolly of Mad Hatter Entertainment will co-produce.
It may be a while before casting begins, though the project that was recently shopped around to the major studios, was a fleshed out package so the project could move along quickly.
via: Deadline
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