NBC orders ‘Dracula’ drama starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers
The ten part series will go straight to series shooting -- no pilot -- produced by the same people who bring us the inexplicably praised Downton Abbey, i.e. bad writing, bad plotting, bad acting.
[ " The “cool new version,” as Greenblatt described the series, introduces Dracula as he arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier. There’s only one circumstance that can potentially thwart his plan: Dracula falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife. " ]
According to the NBC chairman, the series will bring an HBO Tudors' sensibility to Dracula, i.e. loads of nekkid women, degrading sex and violence, and blood, blood, blood. Wait -- doesn't that sound like True Blood? So when you've got True Blood already why do it again? O, wait, the poor woman's True Blood, i.e. network teevee, meaning also no copyright and license fees for the material, title, or names, unlike for that Suuucky thang.
Personally? I'd say that NBC is a day late and a dollar short with this vampire thang. OTOH, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who has been playing creepy sociopathic pervs since childhood already -- i.e. the assassin for no reason of Michael Collins in the 1996 eponymous film of Irish politics, and the 1999 Ride With the Devil pro-slavery and csa thug crew film -- which, of course includes a slave loyal unto death to his master -- set in Kansas-Missouri during the Civil War.
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