Check out the first two posters and set photo from Universal Pictures' new take on the good Count with Dracula Untold.
A good monster never dies; he just hibernates in the earth, waiting to rise once more in another form.
In the last year alone, we have gotten three radically different takes on Dracula. The good Count appeared in his most campy best in the schlocky Dario Argento remake, and starred in his own dubious soap on NBC last Fall. And he’s faring far better right now as a force demonic reckoning in the far more literary-faithful Penny Dreadful on Showtime.
Yet Dracula’s big return to the spotlight and center stage might finally be here as Universal Pictures, the studio that gave us the definitive Dracula movie in 1931 with Bela Lugosi, gears up to reimagine the Count for a 21st century audience and new vibrant lead and look for Dracula Untold. And our first set-photo and poster are at hand too…
For their fourth official attempt to unearth the Undead count in Dracula Untold, Universal has partnered with Legendary Pictures with the intent of going back to the “origins” of the vampire. Yes, it is true that the connection between Vlad Tepes (Vlad The Imapler) and vampires was first made by Bram Stoker in his 1897 novel Dracula, but let us not quibble over details. In this Halloween-timed vampire flick, directed by first-timer Gary Shore, Universal time warps to the 15th century. After the fall of Constantinople, Eastern Europe is in a world of religious and cultural upheaval. Out of the darkness arises a Romanian Prince Vlad (Luke Evans) whose unusual story will inevitably take him down the dark and damned path of the Nosferatu. Complete with Dominic Cooper, Charlie Cox, Sarah Gadon, and Samantha Barks as a succubus claiming men’s souls, this would appear to be the first mainstream vampire movie in ages worth looking forward to.
Dracula Untold opens October 17, 2014.
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