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Dr Acula	Dario Argento's Dracula 3D with Rutger Hauer!	Lead	[-]
Feb 22 11 2:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/02/21/rutger-hauer-to-play-van-helsing-in-dracula-3d/ Kate Atherton Writes for Bleeding Cool: Every decade needs at least one Dracula and this being the 2010s we get one in 3D. Dario Argento is directing Dracula 3D and now we learn from the Italian site Best Movie who will play the chief vampire menace, Van Helsing. It’s Rutger Hauer. Hauer is best known for Blade Runner but his film CV indicates that he may have the skills and expertise necessary for such a role. He is about to be seen in The Rite, although I’m not sure whether he is on the receiving end of undeadly menace. Further back in time, in 2005, Hauer played Dracula III in Dracula III. The year before, he was seen in the TV movie of Salem’s Lot while, in the 1990s, Hauer was in Buffy. Need I say more? Dracula 3D is set to begin filming in May, delayed from March, and one must wonder at the inclusion of ’3D’ in the title, a la Piranha 3D. The 3D was a vital component of the cinematic experience of Piranha 3D. It required some tongue in cheek.* While Dracula 3D offers the possibility of an entirely new perspective on an extremely familiar figure of horror, and Rutger Hauer in the leading role is a good start, the 3D must, of course, hold its own and not replace an good plot and script. Personally speaking, I find horror frightening enough without having Dracula chase his victim into the theatre and splash me with the blood of the innocent. I’m still getting over Love at First Bite.
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drmedula		#1	[-]
Feb 22 11 2:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If this was 1983, I'd be very excited.
tonyrivers		#2	[-]
Feb 22 11 2:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Previous news about Argento's DRACULA 3D film: Disappointed as many might have been with the more recent output from one Dario Argento, there’s no getting away from the man’s capabilities, currently dormant or otherwise. Exciting then, that he’s mounting an adaptation of Dracula? Set to be filmed this spring, and with semi-inevitability in 3D, there weren’t too many details about the project buzzing around. Thanks, then, to the Little Bleeder who pointed me towards an Italian website called Horror Movie. They say that they’ve been chatting with a source close to the production, and they’ve brought back some interesting news. Here are some bullet points: * Filming will begin in Hungary but then move to Italy. * The production has scouted Balsorano Castle as a possible location. Italian horror buffs will know it from Bloody Pit of Horror, maybe, or Crypt of the Vampire. It also shows up in the quietly infamous spy spoof 7 Golden Women Against Two 07. Does seem like a good choice, though. * Though Antonio Tentori’s screenplay seeks explore the romantic and psychodramatic elements of the story, it doesn’t skimp on (allegedly inventive) gore scenes. * One such scene will apparently feature some wolves. I have to wonder why the report singles that one out…? Perhaps it’s particularly gory. Or inventive. * The film is, somewhat surprisingly, set in the modern day.
Bill Warren		#3	[-]
Feb 22 11 7:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, at least like Van Helsing, Rutger Hauer is Dutch.
Mark Redfield		#4	[-]
Feb 22 11 7:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill refers, of course, to Van Helsing the character, and not, the motion picture. Had "Van Helsing", the motion picture, been made by the Dutch, I'd be (slightly) more forgiving. I've noticed that Argento has gotten a lot of negative print on the web since this announcement surfaced. Having typed that, I'm not to excited by anything I'm reading about this Dracula project. Mark Redfield Visit www.redfieldarts.com <
Wich2		#5	[-]
Feb 22 11 8:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hauer can be really good when he buckles down. But I see him as Drac, not Mynheer Van Helsing.
BobRoss		#6	[-]
Feb 22 11 8:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Argento hasn't been a relevant filmmaker since OPERA. I have no interest in seeing this. I've been burned too many times by the man.
JimPV		#7	[-]
Feb 22 11 9:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dr Acula wrote: "...now we learn from the Italian site Best Movie who will play the chief vampire menace, Van Helsing. It’s Rutger Hauer." So Rutger Hauer is playing Van Helsing or Dracula? "Chief vampire menace" sounds like Dracula to me, unless the writer means the "menace" to the "chief vampire" (in which case she probably should have re-worded it).
Spoiler II		#8	[-]
Feb 23 11 12:42 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The title of this thread reads like someone decided to fashion a script out of a Mad Lib.
Mark Redfield		#9	[-]
Feb 23 11 1:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Spoiler II wrote: The title of this thread reads like someone decided to fashion a script out of a Mad Lib. Dario Argento's Dracula 3D with Wings Hauser! Mark Redfield Visit www.redfieldarts.com <
Spoiler II		#10	[-]
Feb 23 11 6:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mark Redfield wrote: Spoiler II wrote: The title of this thread reads like someone decided to fashion a script out of a Mad Lib. Dario Argento's Dracula 3D with Wings Hauser! Is he going to beat Dracula with a bent coat hanger?
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reddog122		#11	[-]
Feb 23 11 8:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It can't be worse than Phantom of the Opera can it? Odd how a film that is supposed to start filming soon isn't listed at IMDB.
vamplover		#12	[-]
Feb 23 11 9:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'll give it a look.
Dr Acula		#13	[-]
Feb 23 11 9:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	reddog122 wrote: It can't be worse than Phantom of the Opera can it? Odd how a film that is supposed to start filming soon isn't listed at IMDB. It might be in IMDB Prime - I noticed that for many films in production, IMDB locks down the info, perhaps to give something more to folks paying for the service. Dracula with Wings Hauser - man, wouldn't that be something! Let's cast that hypothetical film, circa 1987: Dracula: Wings Hauser Mina: Debrah Foreman Harker: Zack Galligan Van Helsing: Michael Ironsides Renfield: Michael Moriarity Lucy: Colleen Camp Dr. Seward: Matt Frewer Quincey: Clancey Brown
CreepyClassicFan		#14	[-]
Feb 23 11 11:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This needs to end both in Hollywood and abroad, they need to lay Dracula to rest, period, enough is enough!! STOP making movies based on Stoker's book, at least for the next decade, if not more.
BijouBob8mm		#15	[-]
Feb 23 11 11:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bill refers, of course, to Van Helsing the character, and not, the motion picture. Had "Van Helsing", the motion picture, been made by the Dutch, I'd be (slightly) more forgiving. That production was certainly in Dutch (and I don't mean the language). Last Edited By: BijouBob8mm Feb 23 11 11:29 AM. Edited 1 times.
Wich2		#16	[-]
Feb 23 11 11:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>STOP making movies based on Stoker's book, at least for the next decade, if not more.< Hey, I'd let them off the hook if they'd only get it REALLY right just once!
BijouBob8mm		#17	[-]
Feb 23 11 3:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Is a new version of DRACULA really any worse than making yet another feature film based on an old TV show? (Unlike STAR TREK, most of these are not such hits that they launch new franchises. WILD WILD WEST, anyone? THE HONEYMOONERS? About the only big screen reboot we haven't seen is MY MOTHER THE CAR or THE FLYING NUN.) Although, that being said, I don't think Argento's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA showed the filmmaker at his best. The film looks fantastic, but his revisions to the story...ouch! One version of DRACULA I would have liked to seen is the one Sir David Lean long wanted to make. I can't recall when, in his career, he was considering it, but I like to imagine him casting Omar Sharif as the Count and Alec Guinness as Dr. Van Helsing.
Spoiler II		#18	[-]
Feb 24 11 12:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dr Acula wrote: reddog122 wrote: It can't be worse than Phantom of the Opera can it? Odd how a film that is supposed to start filming soon isn't listed at IMDB. It might be in IMDB Prime - I noticed that for many films in production, IMDB locks down the info, perhaps to give something more to folks paying for the service. Dracula with Wings Hauser - man, wouldn't that be something! Let's cast that hypothetical film, circa 1987: Dracula: Wings Hauser Mina: Debrah Foreman Harker: Zack Galligan Van Helsing: Michael Ironsides Renfield: Michael Moriarity Lucy: Colleen Camp Dr. Seward: Matt Frewer Quincey: Clancey Brown You had me at "Dracula: Wings Hauser"..
VoodooRob		#19	[-]
Feb 24 11 3:03 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It may end up being terrible, but I doubt it could be as bad as Coppola's. Hellbilly Hollywood - write-ups, reviews, and random info on horror, sleaze, and grindhouse. From movies to video games to comics to trailers to music, HH covers it all.
blackbiped		#20	[-]
Feb 24 11 3:08 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was one of the seemingly few people who really liked MOTHER OF TEARS, so what the hell, I'm looking forward to this. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. Porfle's Secret Blog HK and Cult Film News Andersonvision.com
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