Caleb Landry Jones to Re-Team With Luc Besson on Dracula Origin Story

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Luc Besson has found his next project with a Dracula origin story, teaming with Caleb Landry-Jones, who starred in his last film, Dogman, and Christoph Waltz.

The big-budgeted film will be a retelling of Bram Stoker’s classic Gothic tale with Landry-Jones set to play the Transylvania Count-turned0vampire. Many directors have done their take on the infamous villain, including famously Francis Ford Coppola with 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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Written in the 1890s, Dracula follows a nobleman who loses his wife and in his grief and cursing of God is transformed into a vampire. While the original Stoker story travels on the doomed ship the Demeter and into England, following multiple protagonists, Besson’s take will focus on the beginning of Dracula’s life and his relationship with wife.

Besson’s EuropaCorp is producing. Kinology is handling sale of the film out of EFM.

Besson last directed Dogman, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival to positive reviews. The Hollywood Reporter‘s review of the film reads: “It’s a lot to handle and also a bit silly, but Besson often pulls it off — thanks in no small part to a commanding performance by the chameleon-like Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), who manages to be touching and slightly terrifying at the same time.”

That film has earned some $4 million at the international box office.

Landry-Jones is best known for his role in the Frances McDormand-led Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. His other credits include Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Waltz’s recent credits include the James Bond title No Time to Die and the Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch.

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