New Dracula movie coming from Luc Besson

"W hear this has an origin story element to it exploring in a little more depth the gothic romance between Prince Vladimir and his wife whose loss turns him to forsake God and become a vampire. Buyers familiar with Besson’s script tell us there are some epic and potentially spectacular set pieces."

It's too bad people think the shitty 1992 film is the original and not the actual novel written in 1897 where Dracula is just an evil bastard and never had a True Love and if he did have a wife he probably put her head on a stick long before he became a vampire.

I wish we could get a serious horror movie based on the original novel and not someone's "take" or "vision". No spectacular set pieces needed other than castles, swamps, ships and graveyards.

Being a Besson flick, it's guaranteed that Drac will this time be depicted as a much older man creeping on a 12 year old girl

Sounds awful. Why does this project sound like it is based on Bram Stoker's Dracula rather than going back to the book again and doing something interesting.

BS Dracula resembles the novel superficially. It hits most of the story points but adds the annoying "historical" background and the "great lost love" which was originated in the Richard Matheson screenplay to the 1974 version. Unfortunately while hitting story points, BS Dracula does everything in a garish, operatic way that renders the film camp.

I suspect it will be impossible to do a proper adaptation at this point as it really needs to be about a malignant outsider coming to prey on Victorian English society. Modern sensibilities view Victorian England as nothing but an evil pit of patriarchal oligarchy... (Not even wrong about that, I suppose.) So, the outsider would have to be far worse than Dracula or Jack the Ripper, to be seen as the threat. This is the 1890s. And our, very white heroes, despite a strong female presence in Mina, who along with her returned Jonathan (could they find an excuse to cast an Indian guy?), is the backbone of the vampire hunters... Well, they are a mental health professional (who has to be an older white guy), Van Helsing (who has to be Van Helsing) and An American cowboy (who is really the only hope if they want to cast a black guy).