Sebastian Stan is already lobbying to star in Blumhouse's Dracula movie reboot. Earlier this year, Universal and Jason Blum's production company teamed up for The Invisible Man, a low-budget remake of the former's classic monster property. The film was both a critical and commercial success, with many praising its timely re-imagining of the titular character as an abusive boyfriend who terrorizes his ex-girlfriend after she leaves (or, rather, escapes) him. It even managed to gross $126 million at the box office right before theaters closed down across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Blumhouse and Universal have since made plans to collaborate on similar reboots of the latter's classic monster IPs, beginning with Dracula. The latest re-imagining of Bram Stoker's horror classic is being directed by Jennifer's Body and Destroyer helmer Karyn Kusama, from a script by her writing partners Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. It may've already found its Count Dracula too, if one of Kusama's previous collaborators has their way.
As part of a recent interview with THR, Stan confirmed he's reached out to Kusama (whom he worked with on Destroyer) about reuniting for the Dracula reboot. You can read his comment below.
I already emailed her about that. I said, “You know I’m from Romania, right?” and she goes, “Yes, yes, it’s very early - and there’s a pandemic. Hopefully, we’ll see you in four years.” (Laughs.)
While he's best-known for playing Bucky Barnes in the MCU, Stan's earned far more critical praise for his work as a character actor in smaller films like I, Tonya and Destroyer (where he plays an undercover FBI agent partnered with Nicole Kidman's detective). He'll get a chance to share the spotlight with Anthony Mackie in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on Disney+, but it would be certainly be interesting to see how he does tackling an iconic role like Dracula on top of that. He's already done excellent work playing an archetypical character on Kusama's watch, so that alone bodes well for him bringing the famous blood-sucker to life. Either way, it seems Kusama would be open to casting Stan in Dracula, whenever the movie is ready to take the next step forward.
The news about Blumhouse's Dracula only broke a couple days before Hollywood shut down to prevent further spread of COVID-19. As such, it's reasonable to assume it's still in the early stages of development (if not years away, as Kusama half-joked). In the meantime, Stan still needs to finish filming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and was recently attached to appear in Steven Soderbergh's new crime drama Kill Switch. However, he should be freer by the time Dracula is gearing up for production, at which point he and Kusama can have a more serious conversation about him (possibly) coming aboard.
Source: THR