Brad Pitt and Summit remaking Dracula
Pic: Brad Pitt.
The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that Summit Entertainment are looking to remake Dracula via a script by Queer As Folk actor Charlie Hunnam. The new film will be produced by Brad Pitt and his company Plan B, according to the trade.
The film, entitled Vlad, is an action take on the classic story, and centers on Dracula as a young prince, known to history as Vlad the Impaler, the man behind the Dracula myth.
The studio is hiring music video helmer and photographer Anthony Mandler to direct the project.
I just became a SOA fan (since my boyfriend kept talking about how awesome it was) and am reading this book now. This story to be told here is much more interesting than the fuzz that is taking over the screens and causing this vampire craze since the book is based on history and I think I am right in assuming that the movie would do the same with similar ties to Dracula (the dragon). Since I think Charlie Hunnam is a solid actor it would great to see him get the lead in his own movie so that he doesn’t get stuck casted for the same role over and over…although I have to admit he is pretty good when it comes to his SOA character = )