How interested are you in yet another Dracula movie? Well, Luc Besson hopes you’re really into the lord of vampires, because he’s got a new one on the way, Dracula: A Love Tale, and a trailer for it has just dropped. If you recall when it began shooting last year, then you know that it stars Caleb Landry Jones, and that might be the most intriguing aspect of this idea. And this comes from someone who is an unabashed Luc Besson fan.
The film reunites Besson and Jones, who recently worked together on the batshit canine action flick Dogman. Jones becomes the latest actor to play Count Dracula, and based on this footage it’s going to be an extremely odd performance. Odd is pretty much Jones’ specialty, at this point. This could be REALLY bad, but I dig that Besson is still willing to take risks and this movie is nothing but risk. It’s dripping with an abundance of style, and you can tell Jones is totally going for broke, as he does with every role.
Also in the cast are Christoph Waltz and Italian singer/actress Matilda De Angelis. Besson directed the film and wrote the screenplay.
Coming so soon after Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, I have a hard time believing this will ever find U.S. distribution. Besson films haven’t been commercially successful here in ages. Movies like The Professional, The Fifth Element, Taken, and Lucy were ages ago. Since then, he’s had a couple of high-profile flops such as Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and the little-seen hitwoman flick, Anna. I still dig him as a filmmaker, but Dracula: A Love Tale might be something we will have to track down after its July release in France.
