Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Vlad

2/16/10 - Scott Kosar has been hired to work on the screenplay for Summit Entertainment's Vlad, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Actor Charlie Hunnam wrote the original script, which takes an action-oriented look at Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler, as a young prince. Music-video director and photographer Anthony Mandler recently came aboard to direct the project and will shepherd Kosar's work on the screenplay.  Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner are producing through their Plan B shingle.

12/8/09 - Summit Entertainment is developing an action-oriented take on Dracula, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Brad Pitt will produce, but not act. Summit has picked up Vlad, a script by actor Charlie Hunnam, and is in negotiations with music video director and photographer Anthony Mandler to direct the project. Vlad centers on Dracula as a young prince; he is known to history as Vlad the Impaler, the man behind the Dracula myth. Summit hopes to make a visually edgy and radical period movie. Pitt is producing with Dede Gardner via the duo's Plan B Entertainment production shingle.

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