The Invisible Man is a remake of this or not?
Looks like same stuff.
shareAre you sure you aren't thinking of Hollow Man? That's the invisible man rape film...
shareHollow Man is a good film. Better than that Whannell crap a few years ago.
shareThat's a movie I've been meaning to check out for ages now. I really should sit down and watch it.
Leigh Whannell is a guy I was rooting for.
Insidious: Chapter 3 was a solid directorial debut, not as good as the previous two but it showed some promise. Upgrade was very good. The Invisible Man was overrated but I can see why some people like it. The Wolf Man... his worst yet.
He got praise from people for his grounded adaptation of the invisible man. He decided to ground the wolf man to disastrous effect and I recall his ideas for a grounded dracula movie...
I think the best thing you can do for, say, Dracula, is just strip it down. Strip away all the iconography, a lot of which was added later. Think about it. The cape and everything, a lot of that stuff is not part of Bram Stoker’s novel. It comes from the play that originally happened, and the Bela Lugosi version.
No Dracula novel was written. How would I present that character today if I was Bram Stoker in 2020 and I just thought of it? How would it be presented? You know it wouldn’t be presented the same way. I don’t know that I would do a castle in Transylvania.
I think I would try to get at the essence of what makes Dracula scary, which is, to me, what makes Dracula scary is his lack of mercy. The fact that he might pretend. Like, he’s not a romantic. He needs to drink blood. What parallels in life can you think of that equate to someone without mercy. It’s a psychopath, right? A psychopath.
So to have this conversation with you, I’m spitballing here, I would take the character right back to that and be like, I’m going to make the psychopath version of this. The person who just doesn’t give a fuck. Maybe he drinks blood but beyond that, there’s no capes, there’s no lightning, there’s no fog, no wolves. It’s just a psychopath who drinks blood
https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3606776/leigh-whannell-describes-hed-reboot-dracula-exclusive/
I think he might be an idiot. share
That... sounds like a Dracula movie I would have no interest in seeing. No capes, okay, and Franco did that. No castle, lightening, fog, or wolves??
'I think he might be an idiot.'
I think you might be right!
"What if Dracula took place in 2020 and he was just a psychopath who drank blood?"
What's the fucking point of that? I'm not sure what his obsession is with stripping away all the cool stuff about monsters. Does he think he's slick for 'reinventing' classic monsters by making them boring, mundane and 'modern'?
Wolf Man flopped in large part due to his foolish idea to make a werewolf movie with some minimalist wrong turn hillbilly looking werewolf. Pure stupidity.
If he's got that much faith in that concept he should just make it as its own thing. Calling it 'Dracula' would be a disgrace, aimed solely at marketing.
shareWell, based on the Wolf Man, not someone I would trust to do Dracula... But... What he says is not without merit. The original Dracula -
1890s Modern Englishmen with medical science, telegraphy and using what amounts to good detective work... Supplemented by the metaphysical knowledge of Van Helsing and the stalwart Mina Harker's blood tie to the monster - Fight a creepy and crafty old world foreign predator with certain supernatural powers. Bearing in mind that Dracula's stated intent is to set himself up in England for the "new blood".
It is straight out of the novel that Dracula is not a romantic character (The concept grew with the stage play and movies and was first turned into the character seeking his reincarnated lost love by Richard Matheson for the Dan Curtis film). He's not as obviously vile as Nosferatu, but he is a nasty foreign predator. Writing a version of this in modern times (Sorry, Dark Shadows) requires: No cape, no lightning, fog still seems useful, and no wolves... But - If he's supernatural and not just another boring serial killer then his capabilities and liabilities from the novel really need to be used - some, if not all.
I seriously doubt that the idea of a vile immigrant threat would be salable today, so the character's outsider nature might just be that he is a virtually immortal predator/parasite feeding on the human race while trying to blend in well enough not to be identified.