According to Variety, “powerful” Spanish film-TV businessman Enrique Cerezo has taken a minority co-production stake in Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. Cerezo boards a production that already has financing in place from Rome-based shingle Multimedia Film Prods. and France’s Les Films de l’Astre. That’s three countries giving Argento mucho dinero!
The flick, which will shoot in stereoscopic 3D, commences filming in February in Hungary. It carries a budget of Euro10 million ($13.2 million) and will be shot in English. Cerezo’s apparently bringing along three unnamed Spanish actors to the production as well as crew from his Enrique Cerezo Prods. shingle.
Argento has said about his vision: “My Dracula will be a film full of feeling because Dracula is also sentimental… Dracula loves, hates, with strength, appeal and resolution, which reflects my way of making films.”
Argento’s last film was GIALLO, which is quite easily the worst movie I saw all year, not to mention the funniest, so you could say I have a love-hate thing going on with it – with strength. I can’t imagine anyone giving him a dime after that debacle, but that’s not to say I’m not curious to see what he has in store with DRACULA 3D. Hell, the man almost never bores with his movies, even the terrible ones.
To see an interview with Argento as he talks more about DRACULA 3D, head on over HERE.
Dario’s sinfully delicious daughter Asia