Check out the latest featurette from Dracula Untold, which turns its focus on Sarah Gadon, who plays the wife of Dracula.
Love, historically speaking, can really bite. Just ask the real-life wife (or at least mistress) of Vlad Tepes, who in 1462 tossed herself from a castle into a river to avoid the fiendish hands of the Turks. It served as the inspiration for renaming the water as Râul Doamnei, or “The Lady’s River,” in Romania to this day. It also will likely serve as a major factor to Dracula Untold.
For fans who have yet to sink their teeth into the behind the scenes look at Universal Pictures’ revamp of its most famous monster, this new featurette takes you into the depths of vampirism’s genesis, as well as the perspective of its greatest love. Sarah Gadon plays Mirena, the wife of Vlad Tepes, who will see her husband become an awful, awful legend before her very eyes.
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 Charles Dance, Dominic Cooper, Charlie Cox, Charles Dance, Sarah Gadon, and Samantha Barks as a succubus claiming men’s souls.
Dracula Untold opens October 10, 2014.
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