http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/luke-evans-star-universals-dracula-434729
A movie about the origin of Dracula could be interesting. I've been in a Dracula mood lately so I'm more excited for it than I probably should be.
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Dracula Origin Movie Starring Luke Evans
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/luke-evans-star-universals-dracula-434729
A movie about the origin of Dracula could be interesting. I've been in a Dracula mood lately so I'm more excited for it than I probably should be.
Count Dookkake
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Even though the movie was pretty awful overall, DRACULA 2000 has a great origin for the guy. He is
Judas Iscariot
Yeah I always thought that was a cool little twist. I know the movie is awful but despite that I've always liked it anyway.
Pop-O-Matic
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Do we really have to have an origin story/reboot for EVERYTHING? Next thing you know we're going to get a Jesus origin story movie.
Count Dookkake
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Verhoeven is working on that.
Discotheque
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Mixed with Orlando Bloom. It's pretty trippy
Lionel Mandrake
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I actually started writing a Dracula origin story last year, but lost the data on a corrupted flashdrive and never bothered picking it back up. I wasn't very far into it, though. Just building an outline. I know pretty much nothing about Dracula outside of movies and pop culture, but it seemed like a fun idea.
It was like part Dracula, part Hamlet, part Count of Monte Cristo.
He started out as a sickly child named Vladimir in a poor village, and ended up selling his soul to the Devil to save his own life. He soon learns that he has to kill and drink blood to stay alive, and although he doesn't want to, his fear of death overwhelms him. He marries and has a child, but there's an attack on the village from an army sent out by a corrupt Count. Vlad's child dies and his wife is wounded and becomes sick. She's dying and he tries to pass on some of his immortality to her but results in her becoming one of the soulless female vampires from the original story. Vlad and his she-demon wife are the only survivors of the attack.
Vlad chains up his wife in a hiding place and goes to the school of black magic that is apparently mentioned in the original book. He wants to learn to restore her humanity, but it's impossible. He instead learns how to shapeshift into a swarm of bats, hypnotize, and other vampire shit. The schoolmaster tells him that he has to abandon his former identity and he takes up the name Dracula, which means the dragon.
With his new identity, he acquires some fancy clothes, a carriage, and other rich people stuff and goes to visit the Count and his family in his castle. He stays with them as a charming guest, but begins to kill off the family and psychologically torturing the Count. He does the same trick he pulled with his own wife on the Count's, making her a crazy-ass demon lady.
Then of course at the end, the Count dies, either by Dracula or killing himself. Either way, obviously Dracula takes his castle and takes on the Count Dracula title. He's got his mindless demon women locked away in a dungeon, and all of his humanity's gone at this point. Then it ends with some ominous thing like how Dracula is expecting guests or wanting something to eat.
Anyway.... I thought it would have been cool. So it'd probably be hard for me to enjoy this.
It was like part Dracula, part Hamlet, part Count of Monte Cristo.
He started out as a sickly child named Vladimir in a poor village, and ended up selling his soul to the Devil to save his own life. He soon learns that he has to kill and drink blood to stay alive, and although he doesn't want to, his fear of death overwhelms him. He marries and has a child, but there's an attack on the village from an army sent out by a corrupt Count. Vlad's child dies and his wife is wounded and becomes sick. She's dying and he tries to pass on some of his immortality to her but results in her becoming one of the soulless female vampires from the original story. Vlad and his she-demon wife are the only survivors of the attack.
Vlad chains up his wife in a hiding place and goes to the school of black magic that is apparently mentioned in the original book. He wants to learn to restore her humanity, but it's impossible. He instead learns how to shapeshift into a swarm of bats, hypnotize, and other vampire shit. The schoolmaster tells him that he has to abandon his former identity and he takes up the name Dracula, which means the dragon.
With his new identity, he acquires some fancy clothes, a carriage, and other rich people stuff and goes to visit the Count and his family in his castle. He stays with them as a charming guest, but begins to kill off the family and psychologically torturing the Count. He does the same trick he pulled with his own wife on the Count's, making her a crazy-ass demon lady.
Then of course at the end, the Count dies, either by Dracula or killing himself. Either way, obviously Dracula takes his castle and takes on the Count Dracula title. He's got his mindless demon women locked away in a dungeon, and all of his humanity's gone at this point. Then it ends with some ominous thing like how Dracula is expecting guests or wanting something to eat.
Anyway.... I thought it would have been cool. So it'd probably be hard for me to enjoy this.
TheKaeptain
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I love that part of the movie.
Came here to post this. It's actually fairly "convincing" too. I wish the movie had been a bit better to support a really neat idea.
I have a cool twist too but I am saving it for a Twilight style megablockbuster.
Count Dookkake
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It's a great scene, but unfortunately it reminds you how awful the rest of the movie is.
The mirror trap was cool, too.
triplestation
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fucking wack they're going with another dreamy motherfucker
i would like to see a truly creepy dracula film starring this guy:
i would like to see a truly creepy dracula film starring this guy:
Count Dookkake
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Christopher Lee is best Dracula.
Udo Kier is second best.
Udo Kier is second best.
Yes Gary Oldman was an amazing Dracula. Like the movie or not you can't deny that he was amazing as Dracula.
I can't find it on youtube but there's an extended version of the scene where he talks to Jesus and I always thought it should've been kept in. Really great scene but it is unfortunate that the movie surrounding the scene is horrible.
triplestation
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this is great
1) How can you overlook Gary Oldman?
2) What about Bela Lugosi?! Literally the original, excluding Max Schreck
no fucking joke. that scene where he cursed god was amazing
What the hell? Who wrote this rubbish?
Nope. Lee is best Camp Dracula. Oldman wins for best overall. Too bad about everything else in the movie.
Escape Goat
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Leslie nielsen was the best dracula.
Has been done already!
How does no one know about this. Probably because the film is pretty mediocre.
How does no one know about this. Probably because the film is pretty mediocre.
fucking wack they're going with another dreamy motherfucker
i would like to see a truly creepy dracula film starring this guy:
YES PLS
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