And that was the day we realized there are like six or seven Dracula projects in the works
Threatening a real-life, not-as-terrifying “Monster Mash” with those hordes of Frankenstein updates that are staggering a path of mutually assured destruction toward screens and big and small, there are suddenly an awful lot of new versions of Dracula in the works—a realization sparked by today’s Deadline report of a new Dracula “origin story” that’s just been acquired by Sony. Much like its fellow competing attempts to return the vampire to his classier Old World origins, before he began thirsting equally for blood and Paul Mitchell styling paste, this as-yet-untitled take on Dracula from writer Jason Keller (who just did this same thing for Snow White with Mirror Mirror) will be a “period origin story on the Dracula mythology” that Sony is hoping will launch a franchise. They are also hoping it will somehow differ from Universal’s Dracula Year Zero, which has pretty much the same logline.