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Thursday
28Aug2008

Director Alex Proyas Promises "Lots and Lots of Blood" in His New Dracula Movie

DateThursday, August 28, 2008 at 12:25AM
I sure do like the upper end of Alex Proyas' imagination. After all, he gave us the film version of The Crow, which I humbly submit has a lot of influence on today's darker comic book fare. And he gave us Dark City, one of the best out-of-nowhere sci-fi movies of the past 20 years.

The big budget I, Robot is fine, I guess, and I don't think Knowing looks like it could stop you in your tracks, but when he's at his peak, Alex Proyas can be very good.

He's a perfect director for a vampire project, because of the stark point of view of his best work, which is so clearly influenced by German expressionism, so I'm holding out hope for Dracula: Year Zero. The title is awful, but Proyas told MTV recently that his movie, currently in pre-production will have "lots and lots of blood."

Describing the film as a cross between the origin story of the historical Prince Vlad and the more familiar Bram Stoker tale, Proyas wouldn't say whether or not his Dracula would transform into a bat, although he laughs off the notion that garlic is vampire repellent. But one thing's for sure: Dracula: Year One will have fangs.

“Oh, you’ve got to have teeth,” Proyas explained. “I mean, the teeth are really important. I think Frank Langella in the Dracula movie that was made in the 70s, I think he didn’t want to have teeth in the movie. But, no, I like the teeth. I want to see girls with a lot of teeth.”

Again, there's plenty to rally behind for this vampire movie. I think Proyas is smart to choose the subject matter because it fits his most useful aesthetic and we could use a new angle in the genre (no offense to Twilight. So let's hope he's not trying to please a studio and just worries about making the best, weirdest, coolest looking Dracula movie he can. Well, without George Hamilton, that is.

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