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04 Feb

The New Sci-Fi Dracula Western Could Unearth Themes Buried in Bram Stoker’s Novel

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Dracula has risen from his grave again. The news is hardly surprising since the most adapted character in cinema getting yet another movie is as inevitable as death and neck bites. However, the new Dracula project developing at Universal Pictures is of special intrigue given who is making it and why. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Chloé Zhao, fresh off receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director, has signed on to adapt Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel… as a sci-fi Western set in the future. “I’ve always been fascinated by vampires and the concept of the Other…
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16 Oct

Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Seduction of Old School Movie Magic

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It was one of the most challenging shots in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Sitting before Roman Coppola’s second unit camera was a 50/50 mirror, the kind that was once commonplace in any illusionist’s magic shop, but which hadn’t seen the inside of a Hollywood studio in decades. On the other end of the glass lay Winona Ryder in bed, ostensibly asleep but soon to be bedeviled by a monstrous vampire. Yet co-star Gary Oldman wasn’t on hand that day. Instead, at about a 90-degree angle away from Ryder’s boudoir, stood a duplicate set of the same size and shape, but buried…
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