Caleb Landry Jones & Christoph Waltz To Lead Luc Besson’s Next Movie, Ambitious Origin Story ‘Dracula – A Love Tale’: EFM Hot Project
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: One of the last big European Film Market pre-sales projects to be revealed is one of the most intriguing as SAG winner Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) has been set to star with two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) in a big-budget reimagining of the Dracula story from Lucy filmmaker and Taken creator Luc Besson.
Based on Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, sources close to the production confirm to us that the project will be Besson’s next movie and mark his own take on the vampire classic about the dark Prince who is condemned to eternal life.
We 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. Landry Jones will play Dracula.
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