Luke Evans has signed on to headline Universal Pictures’ Dracula (Formerly Dracula Year Zero), says a story in The Hollywood Reporter. He will play the leading role.
Said to explore the origin of the character, Dracula weaves vampire mythology with the true history of Prince Vlad the Impaler. It seeks to depict Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war.
Evans can be seen later this year in Justin Lin’s Fast & Furious 6 and in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
