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monsterofmud in coppolasdracula

Dracula movie sequel

May 03, 2006 09:18

I need to work faster! I've been meaning to post about an alleged true sequel to Bram stoker's Dracula for some time now, but it seems I'm forced to comment on it now considering new news has hit this morning about yet another intended sequel ( Read more... )

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striges May 3 2006, 15:29:46 UTC

I read a short story about Quincey Morris becoming a vampire several years later. Dracula shows up again, something about him faking his death. That would make an interesting movie (one around Quincey Morris).

I forget the title of the short story. I'm at work right now, but I can check later when I go home. I think I still have the anthology it's inside.

monsterofmud May 3 2006, 15:34:57 UTC

At first I thought you were talking about the full novel, Quincey Morris: Vampire. But when you said it was in an anthology I realized its something different. I'd be interested in the anthology you're discussing!

striges May 3 2006, 21:29:58 UTC

Dracula: Prince of Darkness is a book of short stories edited by Martin H. Greenberg. The story about Quincey Morris is called "The Wind Breathes Cold," and it is by P.N. Elrod. Since the novel is by the same author, it must be an excerpt.

monsterofmud May 3 2006, 21:32:03 UTC

That's great information. Thanks a lot!

More info: monsterofmud May 3 2006, 18:21:51 UTC

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060503e.php

Dark Horizons clarifies a few things:

1. Jan de Bont is NOT directing, merely producing.

2. It seems the script may be an original, and not an adaptation of Dracula: The Undead by Freda Warrington.

Hopefully this will include Professor Vambery as a character, since Inspector Cotford has been included.

Darn....... dracschick May 3 2006, 22:59:06 UTC

Freda wrote a really good seqel:)

Re: Darn....... monsterofmud May 4 2006, 01:57:51 UTC

I had never even heard of her sequel until a few months ago, and I see it was released in 1997! They sure didn't do any publicity for it apparently!

Its interesting to see she published a sequel to coincide with the centenary of the original's publication, since I did the exact same thing! The only difference is hers actually got published. I started mine the summer of 1994 to allow enough research and writing to to make it happen, and started submitting for publication 17 mos. later.

I was tempted to dust it off and add a little to it, and try again. But if "the Stoker family" has officially designated this new story as the official sequel, I don't see much point. Oh well, at least there's always a few other stories I have in mind involving some of the characters at different times that would make great spinoffs.

I'm looking forward to reading the Warrington one!

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monsterofmud May 3 2006, 20:08:39 UTC

Yes, you are talking about Daniel Farson and Patrick Stoker, both great-nephews of Bram Stoker. It was likely Mr. Farson you saw on the documentary, because he is an author himself who, among other things, wrote a biography of Bram.

I think I got irritated at the time I was doing research into this, because I didn't see a great-nephew as being a close-enough association to warrant much endorsement. I was confounded as to whatever happened to his own son, and possible grandchildren. It was only recently that I discovered that Noel (his son) died in the 1960's, and apparently never had children.

Its still a really cool thing for both men to claim, but it wouldn't make me check something out Dracula-related based on their endorsement alone, especially considering neither man probably ever even met him (I'll have to check on that).

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monsterofmud May 4 2006, 04:33:05 UTC

Very interesting to hear that one or the other actually has memories of him!

Given that the work and characters have been in public domain so long, permission wasn't needed, but it was at least a selling point for the screenwriter to use as leverage in attracting a producer. Very sneaky he was!

The last Dracula film to receive the Stoker family's blessing was Todd Browning's 1931 classic, but of course the source was still under copyright then (although the resulting film was actually an adaptation of the Hamilton Deane play!).

monsterofmud May 3 2006, 21:33:51 UTC

Fangoria has the most information of all:

From May 2nd:

http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=6044

What'd this guy do to get knighted by the Order of the Dracul, get access to stay in Bran Castle, and get permission to leaf through the Rosenbach Dracula manuscript?!

operavampirate May 6 2006, 21:26:31 UTC

Wow - that's extremly interesting. I'll have to do some serious googling later and see what I can dig up about all these sequals.