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‘Dracula Meets Stoker’ Blood Line
Spain’s Cin TV is prepping Dracula Meets Stoker, a 3D docu feature about writer Bram Stoker, his family and the vampire myth, reports Variety.
The film takes in the true story of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia — now part of Romania — a 15th century ruler better-known by his Romanian surname, Dracula.
Best-selling author Dacre Stoker (“The Un-Dead”), Stoker’s great-grand-nephew, is to helm, working from his new novel, “Dracula Meets Stoker.” The docu will be a kind of “making of” the novel, said a production company source.
The English-language docu is budgeted at $2.7 million — higher-bracket for Spain. Shooting is skedded for the fall.
It will open theatrically in 2012, to commemorate the centenary of the Irish gothic author’s death. Pic’s release will be accompanied by the publication of Dacre Stoker’s novel by Spain’s Iniciativa Mercurio, which partners on the project.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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