![]() The new agenda takes a filmmaker-driven approach to the characters as opposed to a star-driven strategy, something Universal tried when it released the 2017 Tom Cruise vehicle The Mummy. The Dracula development comes on the heels of another legacy monster project being set up, an untitled horror thriller to be produced by James Wan. Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay, who have collaborated with Kusama on a number of films including Destroyer and The Invitation, are writing the script. Wells novel, a new Dracula would take place in modern times, sources tell THR. Like The Invisible Man, which offered a contemporary spin on the classic H.G. The project isn’t housed at Universal yet, and technically, it could be made at another studio because Dracula is in the public domain, but that is highly unlikely given that Blumhouse has a first-look deal with the studio and Universal isn’t about to let one of its iconic monsters escape the fold. Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions, which helped kick-start the new monster movie line by making The Invisible Man for only $7 million, is in the midst of setting up the vampire thriller and is producing. The latest is a new Dracula feature that Karyn Kusama ( Destroyer) will direct, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. ![]()
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