New Dracula Spin-Off THE BRIDE Snags Garrett Hedlund and More
Screen Gems’ new horror thriller The Bride will take on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Kinda. Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) and also Garrett Hedlund (Death Sentence) will star.
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Jessica M. Thompson (The Light of the Moon) will direct from a screenplay written by Blair Butler (Polaroid, Marvel’s Helstrom) with revisions by Thompson. Emile Gladstone is also producing. The studio fast-tracking the movie for an end-of-summer start.
The film is a contemporary horror thriller. It tells the story of a young woman who is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot.
Recent Oscar-winner, director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, Eternals) is also working on a new take on Dracula. Her film is a “sci-fi Western” approach to the material.
The film “will be a far cry from the more traditional or even modern incarnations made over the years […] Zhao’s version is described as an original, futuristic, sci-fi Western. Themes of being on society’s fringes. Something Zhao has tackled in her previous work, will course through the project’s veins.”
Zhao tells Variety: “’m a huge fan of the book. And I wanted to see what essence I can find [in Dracula], and then be able to reimagine this really beloved character I love so much. I like complicated characters. That was a very important book for me. Immortality is something that I started exploring on Eternals. But is something I want to question and understand.”
Chloé Zhao’s Eternals hits theaters on November 5th. Her new Dracula film does not yet have a release date. No word on how this new Dracula will also affect director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation, Jennifer’s Body) was also developing with Blumhouse…
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