Man with the slew of bloodsucker films and television shows over the last few years you'd think Hollywood was being run by the undead. Twilight, 30 Days of Night, Let Me In, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and even the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Well like the porn star said to her director, I guess there's always room for one more.
Oscar winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator) is currently in talks to join the film Harker a re-imagining (natch!) about the Dracula myth. In the original novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, Jonathan Harker was a lawyer imprisoned after going to Dracula's castle. His love Mina Harker eventually gained the interest of Dracula himself. In Harker Crowe would play Jonathan Harker as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a series of murders perpatrated by the titular King of the Undead. Sounds a little like Jack the Ripper meets a Dracula film from Hammer Studios.
Director Jaume Collett-Serra (Unknown, Orphan) will direct. Crowe has not officially signed yet. At the moment he's shooting Les Miserables and may be up for the role of Noah in Darren Aranofsky's new film. As interesting as Harker sounds (and believe me I love my vampire tales--hell I'm writing one myself) if I was Crowe I'd chose the Noah project without hesitation. Aranofsky is one of the best directors working today and if I'm an actor I don't pass up an opportunity like that.
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