Universal Pictures said this week that the movie Dracula: Year Zero would be shot in Australia and sources have said that the project will be using local crews, locations and cast.

On top of this, Collider.com have done their own bit of digging and have confirmed the rumours that Sam Worthington is indeed attached to star as Prince Vlad himself (though we still have to wait for official confirmation of all these details).

Here is an excerpt from their interview with the producer of the movie, Mike De Luca:

“De Luca: No, these writers came up with the ingenious-what I think is ingenious-approach combining historical Dracula with Bram Stoker’s Dracula. So it chronicles the efforts of a young prince, Vlad of Transylvania trying to keep the Ottoman empire and the Turk’s of the time from using his small country as a stepping stone to invade Europe. So there’s a historical basis for all of that history that’s in the script, but when his back is up against the wall and he can’t figure out how to keep the Turkish army out of his country and keep their hands off his country’s children, which they want to kidnap and press into their army as something they used to call the Jannisserie core, I guess the Roman’s did a version of it also, but this taking of male children from host countries and pressing them into military service for the invading army is another thing he’s trying to prevent. Because his own son is being threatened with that kidnapping. And in the script that we have, he was actually a victim of it himself. He earned the reputation of being the impaler while he was serving the Turks.

One Turk in particular, which is the antagonist in the movie, so in a moment of desperation he looks at this mountain top in Transylvania that all the gypsies in his country say is haunted and full of bad black magic. And he’s never believed in any of that supernatural kind of what he thinks is hogwash. But in a moment of desperation he ascends that mountain to see if there’s any truth to any kind of power that he could use to keep the invading army out. And he finds something that gets him to where we have come to know him as Dracula and uses that power source to kind of fight the Turks after he’s changed.”

This movie sounds like it’s going to be an absolute feast for lovers of Vampire mythology and the legend of Prince Vlad.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting excited and cannot wait for more news to surface!

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