Comments on: Alex Proyas Next Film Probably ‘Dracula Year Zero’

By: Sam Worthington to Play Dracula? - Screen Rant

Sam Worthington to Play Dracula? - Screen Rant — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:29:48 +0000

[...] Year Zero is set to be directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot, Knowing) and the script has been written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:01:05 +0000

Why why why? I like vampire movies as much as the next guy, and I’m all for some original vampire stories, but why do we need to keep going back to Dracula? He was scary and original back in the day, but now he’s ridiculously cliche and just doesn’t hold the same connotations as he used to.

A “re-imagining” of the character won’t help either. The Dracula story is too ingrained in our heads already, so we’re either gonna get another rehash of the same boring story, or something so different that its only real connection to the original story is the name. If that’s the case, then I’d prefer they just call it something different.

By: Bill Blume

Bill Blume — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:36:28 +0000

The Historian has potential, but it also has a lot of problems to overcome. This is one case where I would truly hope the film takes liberties. After all, the book doesn’t offer much action and has enough plot holes to resemble a massive chunk of swiss cheese. Honestly, this was one of those books I wanted to throw across the room. It disappointed me that much.

By: Reverend

Reverend — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:59:16 +0000

Bill,

But that’s my point exactly! The Historian was a take on the story that I think needs to be told. All of these movies seem to just re-hash the same thing over and over. The “New Take” on Dracula in his earlier years is probably he had a homosexual relationship at some point.

Sleuth, anybody?

Rev

By: Bill Blume

Bill Blume — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:54:40 +0000

@Rev
Sorry, gotta disagree about The Historian. The plot wasn’t very good, but in its defense, The Historian was more of a literary novel than a horror, adventure story. I won’t say anything here to spoil the book for any who try to read it, but the “payoff” to that book was just awful.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:43:29 +0000

I would interested in this as long as its not too much “young Dracula”.
I have had enough of teen or Generation X Vampires.

By: Reverend

Reverend — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:41:29 +0000

They need to base a movie off the book The Historian.

Rev

By: heath

heath — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:11:02 +0000

Vampire films are the ultimate cliche nowadays. Let ‘em rest for a while, unless it’s a big screen version of Angel.

heath

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:52:01 +0000

Maybe they will make a darker version to Dracula and go all out. I have a recent Vampire fix with all the books and shows that have recently been out. Wouldn’t mind seeing this if done the right way.

By: Bill Blume

Bill Blume — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:05:43 +0000

I was one of the people horribly disappointed in the inappropriately-titled “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Never mind the poor acting, but the film could never make up its mind as to whether Dracula was a good guy or a bad guy. Sadly, where vampire films are concerned, if they want to do something original with Dracula, then they should actually make him a bad guy without any type of conscience. We have enough of these “whiny vampires with a conscience” films.

Then again, how about actually making a Dracula film that really does follow the book? Perhaps that would be too original an idea for Hollywood to stomach.