{"id":163305,"date":"2025-06-06T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163305\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:47:10","slug":"luc-bessons-dracula-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/163305\/","title":{"rendered":"Luc Besson’s Dracula trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A year has passed since we heard<\/a> that director Luc Besson was making a \u201cbig-budget reimagining\u201d of the Dracula concept that will feature \u201csome epic and potentially spectacular set pieces,\u201d and now that film is ready to start making its way out into the world. Besson\u2019s Dracula has yet to secure distribution in the United States, but SND will be giving it a theatrical release in France on July 30<\/strong>th \u2013 and with that date right around the corner, a trailer for the film has dropped online. You can check it out in the embed above.<\/p>\n

Also known as Dracula: A Love Tale, the film\u00a0is, as that title gives away, a love story, following\u00a0Dracula as he connects with a woman in Belle Epoque Paris, who resembles his beloved wife Elisabeta, who died in mid-15th century Transylvania. Per legend, it was Elisabeta\u2019s suicide that led Romanian ruler Prince Vlad III (the real-life inspiration for Dracula) to forsake God and embrace life as a vampire. The action moves between time and the settings of Dracula\u2019s castle in Romania\u2019s Transylvanian Mountains and Belle Epoque Paris, which substitutes Stoker\u2019s original UK settings of Whitby and London. The Paris-set scenes in the second part of the film unfold in the lead up to July 14, 1989, as the city gears up to celebrate the centenary of the French Revolution. <\/p>\n

The title character is played by Caleb Landry Jones, who just worked with Besson on his most recent film,\u00a0Dogman<\/a>. The idea that Jones would make a great Dracula occurred to Besson while they were on the set of\u00a0Dogman. Wanting to work with the actor again as quickly as possible, the filmmaker then started assembling his take on Dracula. He told Deadline he\u2019s fascinated with Jones because \u201cHe\u2019s crazily talented. It\u2019s something I haven\u2019t seen since Gary Oldman. On a human level, he\u2019s a gem, kind, lovely\u2026 there\u2019s no entourage, no agents and assistants in tow.\u201d This is the most inspired he has been by an actor since Jean Reno, who he made six movies with.<\/p>\n

Jones is joined in the cast by Zo\u00eb Bleu (Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?) as Elisabeta and her 1989 look-alike Mina, Matilda De Angelis (Citadel: Diana<\/a>) as Mina\u2019s best friend, and Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) as a vampire-hunting priest who is on Dracula\u2019s tail.<\/p>\n

What did you think of the trailer for Luc Besson\u2019s Dracula? Are you looking forward to this movie? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year has passed since we heard that director Luc Besson was making a \u201cbig-budget reimagining\u201d of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[4567,4569,68590,45329,77,68591,67837,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-163305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aith","9":"tag-arrow-in-the-head","10":"tag-caleb-jones","11":"tag-dracula","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-film-trailer","14":"tag-luc-besson","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}