Sam Worthington Will Be Alex Proyas' 'Dracula'

Maybe other people use this phrase, too, but because in this industry you hear a lot of stories that make headlines and never fully develop (hey, we've all gotta fill space on the magic netterwebs), I like saying that this or that is "officially official," reconfirming what we thought had already been confirmed but apparently hadn't. Of course, with Sam Worthington, you should always check for the officially official label first because he's prone to change his mind about a project pretty quickly. While I thought he was all-in for Dracula: Year Zero, that apparently just happend. So now he's officially official. The movie's the latest from Alex Proyas, meaning it's hard to discount it right away, no matter how much vampire schlock there is in theaters and on TV. Knowing that, you can put two and two together and figure out that this is a Dracula origin story, more specifically, how Vlad the Impaler became known as a vampire. Vlad was really just a sick, powermad dude whose real story is even ginned up a bit through mythology. He wasn't a vampire, as they don't exist. Filmofilia says this origin story will weave a bit of the real man's mythos with that of the character: "It seeks to depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.” Proyas has made a few films I can't completely get behind, but his Dark City is a tremendous, inventive motion picture. And if he can bring something new to the bloodsucker genre, I'm game.

Comments

[Jay]

"It seeks to depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.”

Didn't Francis Ford Coppola direct a film that did this? What *was* that film called again?

[Charcole]

Plus with Coppola's version, at least I had Keanu Reeves. I don't get the Sam Worthington's popularity. I don't feel he's really shined in anything I've seen.

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It seeks to depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.”

[Home Staging Toronto]

Dracula's are becoming stories of the past and know the people are more intrigued by alien stories.

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