![]() ![]() In casting Winona Ryder as both Elisabeta and Mina Murray, the overarching story becomes Dracula’s quest to recapture his great love. Hart sets epic parameters for his script, with a prologue that introduces Dracula’s historical origins as Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Romanian king who fought off the Turkish invaders of Middle Europe.Īs dramatically sketched here, the ruler’s inamorata, Elisabeta, killed herself upon receiving false news of his death in battle, whereupon the monarch furiously renounced God and began his centuries-long devotion to evil and blood. The considerably different 1927 Hamilton Deane-John L.Balderston stage play is the basis for the best known Dracula films, notably the 1931 Bela Lugosi version. Hart is the first screenwriter to have had the bright idea to fundamentally follow the quite wonderful 1897 novel. Achieving title card billing like Jackie Collins and Danielle Steel, Bram Stoker finally warrants it since James V. ![]()
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