Dracula on a boat? Take a look at the Last Voyage of the Demeter

By Jake Dee

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 26, 2021

Dracula’s back y’all. Back for good!

With the recent announcement that Aussie it-boy Sam Worthington will be teaming up with Alex Proyas for DRACULA: YEAR ZERO, it seems the preeminent bloodsucker will also be featured in a new flick entitled THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER, so says producers Mike Medavoy and Brad Fischer during a recent sit-down with FearNet. Dig it…

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Here’s what the two dudes had to offer on the potential project:

“When I picked up the script, it just struck me as such a great idea. Because I’d always been a fan of the Stoker novel, and the Dracula mythology and lore. And that chapter, which – if you go back and look at the Stoker novel – is basically told through the captain’s diary, from when he was on the boat.

The boat was chartered to go from Varna to London, and there were these boxes of earth that were being put on it, and one of these boxes of earth was Nosferatu himself; and he was feeding off of the crew members as the boat made its journey. The captain’s log – the way that it’s structured in the book – it actually starts off with someone who was a journalist, who is among this group of people when the boat crashes into the rocks at Whitby. And he finds this water-soaked log book. Just by reading these entries, which grow – starting off with descriptions of an “unsettled feeling among the crew that there’s a presence on the boat, someone who can’t be accounted for” – into varying increasing degrees of paranoia.

Crew members go missing; no one had actually dramatized what happened on the ship. And Bragi Schut, who wrote SEASON OF THE WITCH – this was actually his first script that he wrote, before SEASON OF THE WITCH – he came up with this idea to tell the story of what unfolded. It’s told from the point of view of a guy who’s just desperate to get to London. And he just gets on the wrong boat basically.”

Sounds pretty rad, no? Definitely a much welcome variation on a theme. Hopefully SEASON OF THE WITCH will be successful enough so Schut can parlay his “heat” into getting this sucker made sooner than later. Of course, with Nic Cage and that nasty rat nest spread on his dome, I’m sure it will!

Does it get much sexier than Carla Gugino?!?

Source: FearNet

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