Meh... I guess you can slap long hair and a Van Dyke on anyone and they can play Dracula. I like Worthington just fine, unlike some others, but I do think he's a bit over exposed.

Plus, I think a remake of Dracula is a bit too little too late. The only bad thing about the Gary Oldman movie was Keanu. I just snicker when I see him in that role now.

Yes, buy Oldman was awesome, one of his best performances.

Just remake Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, inserting new actors to replace Keanu and Winona. Then it will be the perfect Dracula movie (also lose 50% of the love story or make it less plodding). Screw it, just make a Van Helsing movie with Anthony Hopkins, I could watch that man read the phone book.

ehhhh, I'm not sold on this guy no matter how much Hollywood jams him down my throat. He wasn't that great in Terminator, and in Avitar he didn't add anything at all. Any other no name could have filled that role. I don't want to see him as Dracula and I wish people would stop saying he sould play Captain America.

And I'll be real honest the new Clash looks stupid. The monsters are WAY over the top and I'm not overly interested in what I've seen.

A lot of people don't realize the 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula was a remake. It was a remake of a version made in 1973 starring Jack Palance as Dracula. Like the 1992 version it had Dracula looking for his lost love. This version was directed by Dan Curtis (creator of Dark Shadows) and the idea of Dracula looking for his reincarnated lost love came from him and the vampire character Barnabas and his lover Josette for Dark Shadows. Dan Curtis recycled his plot idea for his version of Dracula and it was later reused for the 1992 movie with Gary Oldman. Dan Curtis was never given credit for his invented plot point.

Enough of the goddamn vampires already!

My fave Dracula movie will always be Bela Lugosi in Dracula.
sure we now have computers and great effects but i still like the old Dracula best.

man he is really getting big, he is pretty good in terminator which is not very good compared to t1 and t2 and the tv series even, he is alright in avatar think he has a great future

Oldman was brilliant (even with the silly hair), I've never seen him be anything but brilliant in any role. Frank Langella was actually very good in another version, that man had amazing charisma in that movie.

Overexposed already. That didn't take long. Way to go Hollywood.

No. Not a little no, but a big no. How much more horrible actors can Dracula take until he's the Steve Erkel of vampires? Honestly, ew.

I once thought "sexy" casting only happened to women (mostly unattractive women, but then, I don't have a penis), but apparently it happens with men, too. And I apologize to the man, but aside from being brain-dead boring in the looks department (I'm guessing whoever casts him has a thing for 50's good ol' boy), he's hardly a stellar actor.

And who the hell is Michael De Luca (and has anyone told him that the 'De' isn't supposed to be capitalized)?

I would like to see a REALLY SERIOUS remake of Dracula, IF it can be done without sex, humor, or excessive gore, but with real atmosphere perhaps like the original Stoker novel. Trying to make it a love story, though, as it's primary theme, would be a mistake. First and foremost, it should be gothic-flavored horror. Even though the interpretations were different, only Bela Lugosi (Dracula), Christopher Lee (Horror of Dracula), and perhaps the Jack Palance Dracula did justice to the part, each in their own way. Also, Jonathan Frid was great as Barnabas Collins. While hopeful for the Dark Shadows remake, Johnny Depp?! I'll believe he can do the part when I see it, but I have my doubts; he just mostly plays flaky mentally-atrophied disfunctional nut-parts. If he does Barnabas, tho, I hope he can make me eat my words.
There are a number of novels out there, now out of print but available through Amazon, Ebay, and interlibrary loan services that IF handled right by directors and screenwriters could have great horror movie potential for period supernatural thrillers: "The Wolf in the Garden", Alfred Bill (werewolves); "The Black Castle", Les Daniels (vampires); "House of the Wolf", Basil Copper (werewolves); :The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", H. P. Lovecraft (warlocks); "The Godforsaken", Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (werewolves); "Carmilla", J. Sheridan LeFanu (vampires); these novels all come to mind, as well as a number of shorter stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, and August Derleth, to name but a few. But again, while I hope there are directors, producers, screenwriters, and production companies reading these "money to be made" ideas, STICK TO THE BOOKS! Do not add humor, sex, deviate from the plots or add excessive gore for gore's sake, or you'll ruin them! I will say that the internet clips and TV ads I have seen for the new Universal Wolfman remake look like they might have been an honest effort there, anxious to actually see the whole movie.
Any other readers have any thoughts on these ideas?

I don't like when they mix the literary Dracula with the historical Vlad.

I like mixing history with the myth. I'll see it but I would like hollywood to leave out the heavy gore and for gods sake do not make it in 3-D.

What's this "Leave out the heavy gore" crap? People, it's a VAMPIRE movie! Leave out the sex and humor? Fine. That's going to be a really dry film that had better get a really great atmosphere and script.

But keep my snuff porn intact please. This isn't one of those mormon housewife vampires, this is the EFFING PRINCE OF DARKNESS we're talking about.

"It seeks to depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story..."? C'MON! When are we going to see a vampire movie (i. e. Dracula) that brings him back to being a MONSTER, which is WHAT HE WAS! I'm so sick of this, "vampires, the misunderstood heroes" garbage. I'll go see a vampire movie when they make them what they are, MONSTERS.

Please, no more of this brooding tragic hero vampire stuff.

This is RIDICULOUS! Coppola did the same damned take on Dracula as a tragic hero (and all that nonsense) in his film version. I'm sick to death of this crap about vampires being misunderstood or flawed "heroes." Rot! They're evil, they're parasitical monsters, and they deserve to be dealt with no less than Stoker's heroes did with Dracula and his brood. Besides, everyone who's seen it knows the BBC version starring Louis Jourdan as Dracula is the most faithful version, even if they did change the climactic fight a little. I like Sam Worthington. He's a fine actor with a lot of potential, but nix on this!

I'm really curious if someone on staff used to work for the National Enquirer, because you guys are constantly creating misleading titles for your 'articles.' Anybody who reads the title only (and it happens more often than you think) will think it's actually happening, when in reality negotiations can always break down, although scoring Worthington is a coup and I suspect this will go through. He'll bring an audience I'm sure, but... Dracula as a flawed hero? What's heroic about sucking people dry of blood? Forever Knight already did the tragic hero type (and was the best of the lot, really) but I guess everybody is still trying to tie onto the bandwagon that is "Twilight"....

I echo the sentiment that Gary Oldman totally took ownership of this character to the point that he and not Bela Lugosi is now the standard against which all others will be judged and it would be great to take vampires back from overly sensitive angst ridden or pouty psychopathic teens.

However a big budget historically accurate biography of Vlad Tepes Drakulya would be far more frightening than any vampire movie and it can be followed by a sequel biography of his future descendent (by marriage) Elizabeth Bathory the blood countess.

To all those who suggest leaving out the sex in Dracula belirving that there is no place for it, I would say that you are a product of an era that is very jaded by such matters and as such are not aware that to Victorian era readers, Dracula was practically oozing with eroticism.

The "tragic vampire"/"gothic vampiric love story" idea worked well in Dark Shadows with Barnabas Collins (both the TV show & movie House of Hark Shadows), but it has been done now, it's finished, leave that theme alone and get back to creepy horror. If I want eroticism, I'll subscribe to the Playboy Channel. And if I want non-stop gore and over-riding violence, I'll walk through the wrong neighborhood of Chicago or Detroit or LA or New York at night. I want atmosphere, drama, emotion all stirred up in my spooky movies. I want to wet my pants and enjoy it (well, after a fashion, of course, but you get my drift). Good horror was written by guys like Lovecraft and Algernon Blackwood in the late 1800s and early 1900s: creepy mist-enshrouded graveyards, creeky imposing castles, the dead rising out of their coffins...things to chill your heart and freeeze you blood in their veins. Horror is not a girl in skimpy clothing flaunting her big old penumbras around; horror is not an orgasmic erotic orgy; horror is not enough fake stage-blood, body-count and severed limbs laying around to look like an explosion at the local butcher-shop. Horror is implied, an emotional ballet, chilling-not-thrilling (although chilling can be thrilling, but does not have to be blatant). Think Bela Lugosi's Dracula, or Lon Chaney's The Wolfman. There are good horror-movies and books out there amongst the shlock, but you really have to be selective.

I see your point Boog E. Nosed man, but really...how many movies have been made from Lovecraft or Blackwood novels? Hardly any. The reason, I think, is because the imagery that you care for so much is very hard to translate to screen.
As I said, I agree with you, but it is also a matter of personal preference. I enjoy the chilling ride of old horror flicks, but what's wrong with boobies and blood? Not saying that there should be nothing else, but I like a bit of everything.

I hate this they keep casting this guy for all the wrong things this guy looks nothing like vlad.Gary oldman looked exactly like Vlad.This guy is just horrible he is not even a good Perseus for Clash of the titans.Hollywood just keeps wanting to make money and not care about the people who go to see them.Trying to appeal to a mass audience and not think of the fans of Dracula or Scfi/horror fans