With "Twilight" attracting mobs of new vampire fans to theaters and bookshelves right now, it makes plenty of sense that Alex Proyas would want to jump onto his Dracula origin project -- "Dracula Year Zero" -- while ticket-buyers are biting. Right now, all that the "I, Robot" director needs is a lead actor.
"There’s this kind of discourse between casting and budget and trying to find the sweet spot in between," Proyas told MTV News. The filmmaker, whose latest movie "Knowing" comes out this month, speculated that "Dracula Year Zero" would be next on his docket with one word: "Probably." Read more...
It’s the buzzword of 2008, and if I’ve heard it once this summer from a director I’ve heard it 100 times: “I want to make my origin story/comic book movie/space adventure/gay cowboy love story more realistic. Think ‘The Dark Knight.’” All fine and good, but just how realistic is too realistic for a character like Dracula?
It’s a fine line for director Alex Proyas, who is currently prepping his next movie “Dracula: Year Zero,” a story that he told us “sort of the origin tale that mixes [the historical] Prince Vlad of Transylvania with sort of [fictionalized] Bram Stoker [take]" (also find out why Proyas will never direct a Silver Surfer movie here).
Draculas, and vampires in general, are known, of course, for some pretty unrealistic things: being able to transform into bats, for instance, or aversion to garlic, or a lack of a reflection in mirrors, or giant fangs. Read more...
