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Thank you, I just want this to be a thing now
Modern Day Dracula Fan Cast
Whether your particular poison is Sherlock, Elementary, or Watson and Holmes (which is a comic that’s worth looking at if you like Sherlock Holmes) you can’t deny that the idea of modern day Sherlock Holmes really works. I think the reason for that, beyond just having strong, archetypal characters, is that the original Sherlock Holmes stories were very modern at the time. It was a scientist applying the latest methods to crime solving in a world where the police ran like that John Mulaney bit about getting away with murder in olden times.
Somewhere along the way we got stuck in the Victorian conception of it, but it’s got the soul of modernity to it. Another novel that has the soul of modernity to it but has been locked to the period, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (not to be confused with the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which I do not care for the most part, though I bear no ill will to those who do). The world has sort of latched onto it as a Romantic era story about a brooding vampire and swooning maidens, but it really is more of an enlightenment story. I’d compare it to Pacific Rim or Ghostbusters which are films about regular folk (primarily young folk in the case of the former) who apply science and friendship to defeat old world evil (admittedly among other uncomfortable Victorianisms).
That’s the adaptation I want to see, where a band of young people join together with science and friendship to defeat the avatar of an outmoded, parasitic medieval worldview.
So here’s the cast….
Mina Murray(-Harker): Saoirse Ronan
Stoker was Irish, Murray is an Irish name, and so I think that it’s fitting for the co-star of this movie to be Irish as well. I don’t think anybody can doubt Ronan’s acting chops at this point so I’ll just say that I think she’s got the ability to be kindly and strong, and be the one to take charge of the Crew of Light (which is the badass name the heroes call themselves in the novel).
John Harker: John Boyega
I don’t think I’m the first person to say Boyega would be a great Johnathan. Based on Star Wars alone Boyega can pull off Harker’s mix of “what the F—k is happening” and “touch my friends and I’ll put a Kukri through your neck.” This character has been done wrong throughout decades of film and stage shows and I think Boyega would be perfect to make the character the active, brave, down to earth, kind and loving husband of the novel.
Lucy Westenra: Lily James
Lucy, another character that has been, in my opinion at least, misinterpreted by most adapters. I picture Lucy as Mina’s upper class best friend. A little more deliberately glamorous but a total sweetheart who we believe the Crew of Light would band together to avenge. The idea of an actual Disney Princess in the role of Lucy is a pretty solid way of looking at the character.
Doctor Jackie Seward: Hannah John-Kamen
Yes, I think Seward should be a woman. The cast needs to an overhaul so it’s not all dudes and one Mina once Lucy dies. Kamen has the capability to play a sort of brooding badassery that works for Seward. Seward is a character who is dealing with rejection, being overworked, and probably dealing with some kind of clinical depression but rises to occasion and teams up with the man her ex-girlfriend was going to marry to make sure nobody has to go through it again.
Arthur Holmwood: Tom Felton
As much as I don’t want this to be a total angst-fest, I think Arthur doesn’t really have much of an arc in the novel. Felton can obviously play upper class Englishman and sort of dorky friendly guy (watch his later episodes of the Flash). I think he could also play an Arthur that slowly breaks down at all the loss until he lets the rest of the Crew of Light support him and ends the movie a little more world weary, but ultimately standing upright.
Quincey Morris: Lucas Till
Guy’s actually Texan, which is fun. I’m mostly basing this on his role as Havoc, but I do think he’s got it in him to play Arthur’s supportive, adventurer best friend, who bonds with everyone and sacrifices himself for John and Mina. Just a fun, friendly action hero in the middle of a survival horror thriller.
Abraham Van Helsing: Mark Hamill
I’m sure he can do the accent, and he’s definitely got the look. I imagine him doing a variation on old Luke Skywalker in TLJ. Someone who knows more than the young people around him, who’s hurting from loss and past mistakes (remember book Van Helsing lost a son and has a wife struggling with mental illness) and ultimately gives his charges the tools they need to save the world on their own.
RM Renfield: Bill Skarsgard
I know Renfield should be older, but I have two points. Firstly, I think it’s fun if Dracula ends up enthralling more of an impressionable young person. Second, just look at that picture. That’s Renfield.
Count Dracula: Hugo Weaving
Credit for this one to my friend Ed. Picture him doing Agent Smith crossed with Elrond in Red Skull’s voice. No sexy Dracula (nothing against Mister Weaving), just a dark, menacing, towering figure with a powerful voice looking down on everyone around him.
I have to watch the first 30 minutes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for a film class and JIMINY CHRISTMAS THIS IS SO PAINFUL ALREADY
ITS NOT EVEN PRETENDING, IS IT? WHAT IS THIS? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? I haven’t even seen the title what is this
why is Lucy a slut
WHY IS LUCY A SLUT
Why is Lucy a slut
Why is Lucy a slut
Why is Lucy a slut
I have to watch the first 30 minutes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula for a film class and JIMINY CHRISTMAS THIS IS SO PAINFUL ALREADY
ITS NOT EVEN PRETENDING, IS IT? WHAT IS THIS? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? I haven’t even seen the title what is this
Hey wtf??
Has anyone read the Manga Classics Dracula?!?! Because it’s the best fucking adaptation of the book I’ve seen and NO ONE is talking about it???????
I have a feeling that the euphoria of getting new emails from our friend Johnathan Harker is gonna be the only thing that get’s me through final’s week ngl.
good lord, i need that pathetic old man
look im loving dracula daily as much as the next person but i am absolutely LOOSING MY SHIT over how the castle is described in the book, especially the may 5th update.
If you didn’t know, Dracula’s castle is/based on the real place Bran’s Castle in Romania.
Guys this castle is on a fucking cliff.
Johnathan described his arrival at castle drac as having a courtyard “of considerable size”, and right as he exited the carriage, being right next to the entrance.
You want to know what the ACTUAL entrance of Bran’s castle looks like???
FUCKING. THIS.
ITS A STEAP ASS STAIRCASE
NO COURTYARD IN SITE
Honestly there’s probably an issue regarding his super fancy octagonal room next to a dining hall but I don’t care enough to analyze blueprints and photos of the castle’s interior to find out.
Man just read the May 16th update and BOOKED IT to tumblr gotta talk to my girlies about our bestie johnathan harker and the fat crush Dracula has on him
Ah yes. This is my good friend johnathan and his wife Mina and her wife Lucy and her three husbands
My good friend Johnathan Harker is once again having paprika induced nightmares
My good friend Johnathan Harker is going on a business trip tomorrow hopefully nothing horrible will happen and he'll enjoy the lovely views of Transylvania in peace.
calling all dumb bitches take this quiz to find out which absolute moron from classic literature are you?
Damn who would have possibly guessed
Guys I don't think Jonathan is okay
inktober 23: Jonathan Harker and the Brides of Dracula :3
(i want to colour this one…..someday :3 )
Everyone's first day on the job is rough, right?
"I am in fear - in awful fear - and there is no escape for me"
People in Hollywood are cowards because you could totally do a book accurate Dracula movie and it really wouldn’t be that hard.
Johnathan is just vloging his trip to Draculas castle but the castle doesn’t have any service or wifi so he can’t post anything or send it.
Lucy and Mina’s letters are now text messages or voice memos that are super long.
Dr. Steward voice dairy is wouldn’t have to be changed or it could be changed to him filming himself talking. Or even recorded sessions of him and Renfield
The newspaper clippings could become morning news stories.
All the diary entries are now them just filming themselves talking about what happened in like a video diary format.
It would be so easy! Can you see the vision?
POV: you are Jonathan Harker
these are my three wives. and yes they drink blood