Minds behind Doctor Who and Sherlock to make Dracula series for Netflix and BBC
By Dan Selcke
Steven Moffat is a big name in nerd circles. He’s the guy behind the last several seasons of Doctor Who, ever since Matt Smith took over as the Doctor from David Tennant. Nowadays, Moffat has cleared out of Doctor Who to make room for Chris Chibnall, with Jodie Whittaker in the lead role. According to Variety, he has a new project: Dracula, an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel for the BBC and Netflix.
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Moffat is also one of two guys behind Sherlock, the modern day update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective stories with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. The other is Mark Gatiss, who will be joining Moffat behind the camera for Dracula. Game of Thrones fans may recognize Gatiss as Tycho Nestoris of the Iron Bank:
Anyway, Dracula will look more like Sherlock than Doctor Who, with the BBC having ordered three 90-minute installments. There’s no word on whether those three feature-length episodes will cover the whole book, or if they’re hoping to have multiple seasons where Dracula…I don’t know, has adventures alongside Frankenstein’s monster or something.
The show will be set in 1897, the year the original book was published, rather than modernized. The closest thing we get to a plot synopsis comes from Gatiss: “There have always been stories about great evil. What’s special about Dracula is that Bram Stoker gave evil its own hero.”
Does that mean Dracula will be the “hero” of the show? Cause I’m pretty sure he was the bad guy from the book. Then again, the character has been around for well over 100 years and been depicted in a variety of ways. Either way, Benedict Cumberbatch should probably play him.
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