Drac Redux
Sounds very promising. Firstly I hope the period setting restrains the more excitable instincts of contemporary film-makers where the supernatural is concerned. You’re stuck on a boat with an undead Transylvanian lord who looks decripid and ancient. Shoot the film accordingly.
Secondly, well, I hope at the very least it’s better than that Angel episode set on a sub.
Rather than repeatedly remake the same Dracula film over and over, I prefer this approach. Pick the sequences from the novel that happened ‘off-page’, as it were. I wonder if the film was inspired by the play Curse of the Demeter?
With thanks to Ragnarfan
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
“The Last Voyage of the Demeter” may set sail with director Stefan Ruzowitzky, who helmed the Oscar-winning foreign film “The Counterfeiters.” Ruzowitzky is in negotiations with Phoenix Pictures, and would work from a script by Bragi Schut, the writer of the upcoming Nicolas Cage horror movie “Season of the Witch.” The ship Russian ship Demeter appeared in Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 tale “Dracula.” In that novel, the Demeter washes up on the shore of Whitby, England, during a fierce storm after transporting Dracula from Transylvania. Only one crew member survives, but he collapses into insanity. The ship’s voyage will take center stage in the film, with the crew locked in a desperate struggle to survive as their mysterious passenger hunts them. Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer and Bradley Fischer of “Shutter Island” fame will produce.
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