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WORDS ABIGAIL CHANDLERDracula is one of those stories that no-one
can leave alone. This time Steven Moffat and
Mark Gatiss will be telling the Count’s story in
three feature-length episodes on the BBC.
Unlike with their Sherlock adaptation,
they’re leaving Dracula in 1897, the year in
which Bram Stoker’s book was written, and the
Victorian horror will be led by Danish actor
Claes Bang (The Girl In The Spider’s Web) as
Count Dracula. The first image from the show
reveals him splattered in blood, with bloodshot
eyes and nails that could use a good manicure.
The rest of the cast has been filled in, but no
announcements have been made on who will be
playing the book’s other iconic characters.
The cast currently includes John Heffernan
(Collateral); Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice
And Zombies); Lujza Richter (Phantom Thread);
Clive Russell (Game Of Thrones); Sacha Dhawan
(Iron Fist); Joanna Scanlan (The Woman In
White); Dolly Wells (Can You Ever Forgive Me?);
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Utopia); and, of course,
Mark Gatiss, who will be taking a role as well
as co-writing. Gatiss has previously said that
Renfield would be his number one choice of role,
but it’s not yet confirmed whether that is who
he will be playing. With this being Moffat and
Gatiss, there’s also a chance that some of the
roles will have been gender-swapped.
Moffat and Gatiss have promised that the
series will see Dracula as ‘the hero of his own
story’, rather than just the terrifying monster he
is in the novel, in which he is only ever viewed
through the eyes of others. The show is currently
filming, and, while a release date hasn’t been
confirmed yet, it is thought it could arrive on
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As the BBC releases the first image of their
brand-new Dracula, we take a look at what
to expect from the series