Yet Another Dracula Adaptation Going to Series – Bloody Disgusting

Nick Wechsler and Scanboxs Joni Sighvatsson have joined forces to produce Dracula Now, a contemporary Gothic drama series adapted from an edgier, more political reworking of Bram Stokers classic horror novel, reports Variety.

Dracula Now is based on Powers of Darkness (Makt Myrkranna), a reworking of Stokers Dracula by Icelandic writer Valdimar smundsson in 1900, just a few years after the original novel appeared. Powers of Darkness has just been translated into English by Hans de Roos, in an annotated edition featuring a preface by Dacre Stoker (the great-grand nephew of Bram Stoker) and an afterword by vampire and horror scholar John E. Browning.

The 10-episode TV series will transpose the action to present times and emphasize the political dimension of the novel. In the series, Dracula will be a seductive, manipulative megalomaniac from Transylvania on a ruthless quest to conquer Europe.

Dracula Now will be an allegory of whats happening today in the U.S., in the U.K. and in France, said Sighvatsson, who is based in Los Angeles and heads up Scanbox with Thor Sigurjonsson and Chris Briggs. It wont be like a Dracula spinoff because theres no need for that. Dracula Now will explore the idea of Dracula as a dictator forging a reign of blood to control people in todays world.

Icelandic screenwriter Otto Geir Borg, who previously penned the 2010 film Undercurrent (Brim), which earned six Edda awards (Icelands equivalent to the Oscars), is writing the English-language series.

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