Another Dracula adaptation is coming as Hollywood decides it likes vampires again

Hollywood loves a good trend. It can’t just release one documentary about Fyre Fest, or just one Winston Churchill biography, or one magician drama…if something is successful, we get lots of movies or TV shows at once. And right now, apparently Hollywood has sunken its teeth Bram Stoker’s Dracula, that classic tale of public domain horror.

First we got Dracula from the BBC, a period-accurate adaptation from Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the guys who brought us the 2010 revival of Sherlock. Then we heard that the team behind Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was making an ABC show called The Brides, about Dracula’s paramours — one of them played by Gina Torres — striking out on their own, in one case as a New York City real estate mogul. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has it that Blumhouse Productions — the same people behind the recent hit The Invisible Man for Universal — are going forward with a new take on Dracula, this one set in modern times.

Although it’s not set in stone yet, this movie — which I’ll just call Dracula 2020 until someone stops me — will very likely be part of Universal’s second go at its “Dark Universe,” a failed attempt to do for classic movie monsters what Disney did for Marvel superheroes. 2017’s The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, was supposed to launch that project, but it tanked, so Universal went back to the drawing board. It’s still updating classic monster movies, but has asked filmmakers to focus on story rather than trying to tie everything into a greater universe. The Invisible Man has been a hit with audiences and critics, and it cost very little to make — only $7 million — so it looks like the strategy is working so far.

And I imagine this new Dracula movie could be pretty interesting. The director is Karyn Kusama, the woman behind cult hits like Jennifer’s Body. At the same time, it is a little frustrating when so many movies and shows based on the same basic idea come out at once. (Let’s not forget that the third season of Castlevania also just came out on Netflix.) We can’t subsist on an all-Dracula entertainment diet, you know.

There’s no release date for Dracula 2020 as of yet.

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