Dracula (2025)

[filmbuffTX]

Caleb Landry Jones to Re-Team With Luc Besson on Dracula Origin Story

Christoph Waltz is in talks to co-star.



Luc Besson has found his next project with a Dracula origin story, teaming with Caleb Landry-Jones, who starred in his last film, Dogman, and Christoph Waltz.

The big-budgeted film will be a retelling of Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic tale with Landry-Jones set to play the Transylvania Count-turned vampire.

Landry Jones will play Dracula. It’s not clear yet which character Waltz will play, but talks are underway with other buzzy cast to join in the other key roles.

The project is expected to have a big budget for a European movie but is nowhere near Valerian levels. Luc Besson Productions is producing with EuropaCorp co-producing. The aim is to shoot this year.

The project has been bubbling in the market for a little while but is now firming up with Paris-based seller Kinology handling sales and discussing the project with potential distributors. It’s the biggest-budget new European project at the European Film Market.

https://deadline.com/2024/02/luc-bes...fm-1235828022/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...1c85efd8d3be8c

[RossyG]

Satan, thy name is “origin story”.

[s2mikey]

I mean, there are plenty of Dracula takes at this stage but I’d potentially give another version a try. Maybe.

[Phillip c. Niethe]

As long as it has some cool vampires, the genre needs more cool vampires: so far in no particular order iv’e enjoyed Underworld’s Marcus Corvinus, Del Toro’s Strain Vampires (the book more than the show), Blade 2’s Nomac, the Egyptian Vampire from season 1 of Penny dreadful (I never made it past season 1) from dusk till Dawn, Life Force, and that old Vampire tv show that had biker gangs and different species like the chameleon species and the Nosferatu… if it’s just another blood sucking film i’m skipping…A great narrative like The lost boys or something might pull me in regardless of how classic cookie cutter vampire it might get. I did dress as a Bela Lugosi Dracula 3 times in my single age years soooo i might have a weakness regardless

[drb999]

I’m not familiar with vampire movies but has there ever been a Dracula origin film before?

[Bubbles-11]

Now with more questionable age gap relationships!

[Walter Kafka]

Originally Posted by drb999

I’m not familiar with vampire movies but has there ever been a Dracula origin film before?

Bram Stoker's Dracula had an origin.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Bubbles-11

Now with more questionable age gap relationships!

Are you suggesting Waltz is playing Dracula’s love interest?

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Walter Kafka

Bram Stoker's Dracula had an origin.

Yep, Bram Stoker writing it down with a some paper and ink.

[Cremildo]

It's not Anna 2 but I'll take it.

[sandboxgamer]

We already got a big budget Dracula origin story film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2aWqecTTuE

[drb999]

I forgot about that movie.

[BluGalaxy]

Originally Posted by drb999

I forgot about that movie.

Everybody did, Heck, I know I've seen Dracula 2000 but I don't have a single memory of it, not a single scene


I liked Bram Stoker's Dracula but Francis Ford Coppola's directing style was a bit odd at times and some of the special effects looked cheap even at the time. So I'm not adverse for someone to take another stab at it as long as it stays faithful. Especially with a director with a great track record as Luc Besson, who's made some of my favorite movies of all time, let see what he can do

[Samus Aran]

Origin story? So like Snake Eyes, he won't become Dracula until the final second of the movie?

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Origin story? So like Snake Eyes, he won't become Dracula until the final second of the movie?

Correctamundo

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by Walter Kafka

Bram Stoker's Dracula had an origin.

Thats sort of the "canon" version, IMO. Its a decent film but not a masterpiece or anything.

[spaceball-one]

Originally Posted by s2mikey

I mean, there are plenty of Dracula takes at this stage but I’d potentially give another version a try. Maybe.

So you'll give Dracula another try, but not the Fantastic 4?

[mwynn]

Dracula 2000 has one of the best twist on the mythos.

[Winslow Leach]

Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of Coppola's best films.

I'll give this new one a try.

[stvn1974]

When do we get an origin story about the monster that Dr. Frankenstein created?