Here is the film premise for an idea I'm working on developing. I feel it might have some potential, but I'd like to get opinions from you all and any helpful pointers. It is a modern-day, re-vamped (pardon the pun) retelling of Dracula's origins... I felt DRACULA UNTOLD and THE STRAIN were pretty darn lazy.
Vladimir Dracul is a physician-turned-vampire working on a cure for his curse. When tasked by the Vampire Sterilization Unit to infiltrate a vampire breeding ring, he stumbles upon the doppelganger of a long lost lover... who has just been bitten. Knowing VSU policy is to nix any vampiress, he chooses to spare her in the hopes of redeeming past mistakes. But Abram Helsing, head of VSU, learns of Vladimir's deception and dispatches agents to take both of them out. Now a target, Vladimir must find a way to finish the mission, cure the girl and himself, and outsmart their hunters. In the end, he learns the price he will have to pay to maintain humanity among monstrosity.
Think INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and elements of THE STRAIN meets BATMAN BEGINS crossed with BOURNE IDENTITY.
Other characters include:
- Dr. Frankenstein (who is a woman in this version and a friend of Vladimir's)
- Stewart "Wolfman" Talbot (assassin recruited by VSU)
- Codename "Resurrexit" (reanimated corpse of Dr. Frankenstein's husband -- dispatched by Helsing to assassinate Vladimir)
Vladimir Dracul is a physician-turned-vampire working on a cure for his curse. When tasked by the Vampire Sterilization Unit to infiltrate a vampire breeding ring, he stumbles upon the doppelganger of a long lost lover... who has just been bitten. Knowing VSU policy is to nix any vampiress, he chooses to spare her in the hopes of redeeming past mistakes. But Abram Helsing, head of VSU, learns of Vladimir's deception and dispatches agents to take both of them out. Now a target, Vladimir must find a way to finish the mission, cure the girl and himself, and outsmart their hunters. In the end, he learns the price he will have to pay to maintain humanity among monstrosity.
Think INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and elements of THE STRAIN meets BATMAN BEGINS crossed with BOURNE IDENTITY.
Other characters include:
- Dr. Frankenstein (who is a woman in this version and a friend of Vladimir's)
- Stewart "Wolfman" Talbot (assassin recruited by VSU)
- Codename "Resurrexit" (reanimated corpse of Dr. Frankenstein's husband -- dispatched by Helsing to assassinate Vladimir)