French director Luc Besson has begun filming a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with Caleb Landry Jones, best known for his role in the film “Dogman,” set to play the lead role.
Besson said the idea for the film came more out of “admiration” for Jones than any particular interest in the Dracula story. Luke and Caleb apparently became friends on the set of Dogman. “We were just talking about roles that would suit him. I said, ‘You know, I’ll just write about that,'” the director admitted in an interview with Deadline.
Speaking about the plot of the film, the director said that it will present a romantic story about Dracula meeting a woman in Paris who resembles his wife Elisabeth, who died in Transylvania in the mid-15th century. According to him, this film tells the story of a man who waits 400 years for the reincarnation of his lover.
Elisabeth and her 19th-century alter ego Mina will be played by Rosanna Arquette’s daughter Zoe Seidel (“Nowhere to Run,” “The Whole Nine Yards,” “Pulp Fiction”). Besson has not said whether Dracula will be reunited with his wife in a new form. Christoph Waltz also joins the cast as a priest and vampire hunter.
Source: People Talk
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