Luke Evans, Dracula Untold
Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast, The Hobbit) stars inthis 2014 action-horror-historical fantasy flick that aims to, as the title suggests, deliver a version of the Dracula origin story that’s never been told before. Here, our man Vlad is bitten by a mysterious, cave-dwelling creature (Game of Thrones’ Charles Dance) amid a fierce war with the Ottoman Empire, and ends up using his newfound vampire powers to create an army of the undead and save Europe from invasion. Despite that creative interpretation of Dracula’s life story, Dracula Untold is mostly memorable as a footnote in Universal’s Dark Universe, which was scrapped after Tom Cruise’s Mummy movie bombed in 2017. And really, Evans is the last big-screen Dracula we’ve seen in awhile—there’ve been some notables on the small screen, including Tricia Helfer on Syfy’s Van Helsing and Claes Bang on the BBC/Netflix seriesDracula—but it’s high time for some, ahem, fresh blood. Bring on Count Cage!
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