DRACULA UNTOLD
FIRST MINDBLOWING TRAILER
Check it out people! The first absolutely mindblowing trailer for
Luke Evan's epic fantasy action adventure
DRACULA UNTOLD is here and it brings all kinds of epic fun! Weaving both the
historical and the fictional characters
DRACULA UNTOLD explores the origin of famous Dracula, mixing vampire mythology with the true history of Prince Vlad Tepes the Impaler. It seeks to depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war. Starring
Luke Evans the film is out this October!
DRACULA TIDBITS
It was originally supposed to be directed by
Alex Proyas with
Sam
Worthington in the lead role and with
Abbie Cornish 
playing his wife,
but then they hired
Gary Shore (this is his first feature film, before
this he was making commercials) who had smaller budget in mind.
Luke
Evans took over the lead role, and along with him the original name
DRACULA YEAR ZERO was changed into
DRACULA UNTOLD and later on the
release date was postponed from August to October. It is interesting
that this is
Luke Evans' fourth time to play a God or a royal: he was
God Apollo in
CLASH OF THE TITANS, Supreme God Zeus in
IMMORTALS, Bard
the Bowman future king of Dale in
THE HOBBIT and now he is the prince of
Wallachia!
THE CAST OF DRACULA
LUKE EVANS & DOMINIC COOPER
Welsh superstar
Luke Evans is the historical medieval Prince
Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian ruler who would later on become the inspiration for
Bram Stoker's vampire. In the film he is a young 15th century prince who, when the
lives of his wife and child are put in danger by a bloodthirsty sultan,
risks his soul to save them, and in the process becomes the first
vampire!
SULTAN MEHMED
Dominic Cooper will play Turkish sultan Mehmed (It is interesting that this
won't be Cooper's first time around vampires, since he recently starred
in ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER! ), who is famous for conquering Constantinople and ending the Byzantine Empire.
SARAH GADON IS MIRENA
Sarah Gadon, whom we watched as a medieval wife of a nobleman in WORLD WITHOUT END, will be that again since she will play Dracula's wife Mirena!
GYPSY CHIEFTAN
Zach McGowan, whom we watched as the pirate chief in BLACK SAILS, will be a leader again but this time as Shkelgim, a gypsy chief!

EVIL BABA YAGA
LES MISERABLES star
Samantha Barks will be Baba Yaga, an angelic woman from Eastern European folklore who turns into an atrociously deadly witch.
Thor Kristjansson plays Bright Eyes, who was enslaved as a young boy and is now an Ottoman Empire assassin, while GAME OF THRONES'
Art Parkinson will portray Dracula's son, Ingeras.

DEZZY'S HISTORY CLASS
Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, was the 15th century prince of
Wallachia who inspired the character of Dracula (the name comes from his
Draculesti dynasty). He ruled Wallachia (part of today's Romania) while
the whole Balkan peninsula suffered under the ruthless Ottoman tyranny. He was a
member of the
Order of the Dragon and is actually considered a hero in many
countries since he protected Christian people from Turkish aggressors. His
bloodthirsty reputation from the tales comes from his practice of
impaling his enemies. It is believed that he had tens of thousands of
victims.