Dracula movie sequel
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.
- In a spring 1993 issue of Wizard magazine there was a blurb about Francis Ford Coppola's intent to shoot a spin-off trilogy of movies entitled "The Van Helsing Chronicles", which would follow the vampire hunter around the world as he battled various supernatural threats. Anthony Hopkins said he was up for the series when it began. Sadly it didn't.
- Then five years later in 1998 I bought a British movie magazine (may have been Empire), which had a small blurb reporting that Jim V. Hart (the screenwriter of Bram Stoker's Dracula) had penned a series of teleplays for a "follow-up" television series based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Again, sadly, this never materialised. I'd absolutely love to get my hands on these unproduced scripts.
- Now this morning I'm hit by conflicting news reports about another possible sequel attempt:
The following is from Cinescape (http://tinyurl.com/pqyg6)
The Un-Dead, a sequel to Dracula (1992), is in development via Blue Tulip Productions and Atchity Entertainment.
There is no named director as of yet for the project, but a script has been penned by Ian Holt. The script has the movie taking place 25 years after Dracula and focuses on the surviving characters. This is the first sequel the descendants of Dracula author Bram Stoker have authorized.
Dracula (1992) was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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However, if you check out the report on Aint it Cool News (http://tinyurl.com/nvsz6), its reported that this will be an adaptation of Freda Warrington's sequel, and gives no indication this would be the same stylistically as the Coppola movie, nor that any of the Coppola cast members would return. Jan DeBont (Speed, The Haunting (1999)) is set to direct the script by unknown writer Ian Holt.
What gets me is that this production is being touted as "officially sanctioned by the Stoker estate". How is this? THERE IS NO STOKER ESTATE! Back in 1998 I delved into finding descendants of Stoker, and although I talked to quite a few that claimed to be very distantly related, there really is no direct family presence anymore, since Bram's son Noel never had offspring.
- In a spring 1993 issue of Wizard magazine there was a blurb about Francis Ford Coppola's intent to shoot a spin-off trilogy of movies entitled "The Van Helsing Chronicles", which would follow the vampire hunter around the world as he battled various supernatural threats. Anthony Hopkins said he was up for the series when it began. Sadly it didn't.
- Then five years later in 1998 I bought a British movie magazine (may have been Empire), which had a small blurb reporting that Jim V. Hart (the screenwriter of Bram Stoker's Dracula) had penned a series of teleplays for a "follow-up" television series based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Again, sadly, this never materialised. I'd absolutely love to get my hands on these unproduced scripts.
- Now this morning I'm hit by conflicting news reports about another possible sequel attempt:
The following is from Cinescape (http://tinyurl.com/pqyg6)
The Un-Dead, a sequel to Dracula (1992), is in development via Blue Tulip Productions and Atchity Entertainment.
There is no named director as of yet for the project, but a script has been penned by Ian Holt. The script has the movie taking place 25 years after Dracula and focuses on the surviving characters. This is the first sequel the descendants of Dracula author Bram Stoker have authorized.
Dracula (1992) was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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However, if you check out the report on Aint it Cool News (http://tinyurl.com/nvsz6), its reported that this will be an adaptation of Freda Warrington's sequel, and gives no indication this would be the same stylistically as the Coppola movie, nor that any of the Coppola cast members would return. Jan DeBont (Speed, The Haunting (1999)) is set to direct the script by unknown writer Ian Holt.
What gets me is that this production is being touted as "officially sanctioned by the Stoker estate". How is this? THERE IS NO STOKER ESTATE! Back in 1998 I delved into finding descendants of Stoker, and although I talked to quite a few that claimed to be very distantly related, there really is no direct family presence anymore, since Bram's son Noel never had offspring.