The worldwide impact [and profits] of the ‘Twilight’ franchise has resurrected Hollywood’s interest in vampires to a degree not seen since the ‘Hammer Films’ heyday in the mid-1960’s. The latest incarnation is a new book penned by the grand-nephew to Dracula’s creator, Bram Stoker, which is now being prepped to be a major new movie.
Running to almost 500 pages, “Dracula: The Un-Dead”, is the result of five years of toil by Canadian author, Dacre Stoker and the New York screenwriter, Ian Holt, who’s a big fan of vampires.
“When people think of Dracula they think of Bela Lugosi,” Holt told the AP. “But Dracula was nothing like that. He was old and hunched, had hair on his palms, and bad breath.”
And Stoker agrees, “He was out of the grave and he smelt like death,” he added. “We’re going back to the original characters.”
