Bite into This Mouthwatering Dracula Trailer
Look, you're going to get roughly one Dracula adaptation per year whether you like it or not. That's just the way things work. This year, it comes from Sherlock masterminds (come on, you know you love it) Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who have decided to crack open the dusty ol' coffin and let our palest king rise once again, with Claes Bang (The Square) as the titular Dracula you know and love. With the new trailer out now, let's see what they came up with.
Much like Sherlock, Dracula will be a three-part series, which is a disappointingly low episode count even by stingy U.K. TV standards. They'll all be feature-length, though, and that's where the similarities to Benedict Cumberbatch's sleuth show end, too. Instead, I'm getting more of a Jekyll vibe from all this—which was another Moffat show, from before his Sherlock years, which cast James Nesbitt as a modern-day version of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That one was exceptionally good fun until it all got far too complicated and contrived. Still, that's what we've come to expect from the former Doctor Who showrunner, who never met a straightforward narrative he didn't want to twist like a dang pretzel.
Just how weird this iteration of Dracula is going to get remains to be seen. There's not much plot to offer in the trailer, but the preview does give us some solid spooky imagery (Fly in the eye! Fly in the eye!), and Mr. Bang is a hell of a casting choice for Nosferatu himself. Dracula stories have been done time and time again. Whatever Moffat and Gatiss come up with, it will certainly be a little bit unlike anything we've seen before.
Dracula will air on BBC One in the U.K. and stream on Netflix in the U.S. sometime this winter.
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