‘Dracula Untold’ hits local cinema today

Friday, 24 October 2014 00:49 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

The much awaited 2014 American dark fantasy ‘Dracula Untold’ hits local cinemas today. Imported by Liberty Cinemas, the movie will be screened at Majestic Superior, Colombo and Liberty Lite. The untold dark fantasy action film explores the origin of Dracula, weaving vampire mythology with the true history of Prince Vlad the Impaler, depicting Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war. Directed by Gary Shore and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, rather than focussing on Irish novelist Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, the ‘Dracula Untold’ creates an origin story for its title character, Count Dracula, by portraying the story of Vlad the Impaler, of whom Stoker was unaware until he was well into writing that novel. Luke Evans portrays the title character, with Sarah Gadon and Dominic Cooper in supporting roles. While Universal Pictures released the film on 10 October in theatres and IMAX, it is intended the film to be a reboot of the Universal Monsters franchises.