David Lean and DRACULA
We don't normally associate Sir David Lean with genre efforts, but one of his early assignments was as film editor on 1934's SECRET OF THE LOCH, and he later directed the 1945 supernatural comedy...
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Quote:I presume that if Lean ever did consider doing DRACULA, it would have been prior to THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, which pretty much changed the direction of his career. I've yet to pinpoint...
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I would've loved a Merchant/Ivory Dracula! With Jeremy Irons as the Count, and, probably, Hopkins as Van Helsing. It would've been somethng to see.
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Or how about Alan Rickman?? Great actor...and kinda looks like Lugosi. I wish someone would film Mank's KARLOFF & LUGOSI starring Jeremy Irons and Rickman. Now that would would be really...
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Omar Sharif...egods, but I think he would have made superb Dracula. Certainly handsome enough to win the ladies, and could look quite mean and threatening with the right makeup. Wow. Lean,...
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<< GREAT EXPECTATIONS, in fact, has one of the greatest "buses" in the history of movies, when Magwich appears from behind a tombstone. I always thought a "bus" (personified in CAT PEOPLE) was...
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I always thought Gabriel Bryne would make a pretty good Dracula. Better than the pathetic goth-lite of VAN HELSING anyway.
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Byrne's an incredible actor. The first thing I ever saw him in was EXCALIBUR, and he was such a convincing bastard in it. Later, I saw him in a more sympathetic role, and it took a few minutes before...
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I wonder when, in Leans career, he thought of doing Dracula? I love his early black and whites, but not so much his later colors. If he was planning a DRACULA in b/w, that would be AMAZING!
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Quote:Or how about Alan Rickman?? Great actor...and kinda looks like Lugosi. What strikes me even more is how much Alan Rickman looks like Bram Stoker's old Lyceum boss, Sir Henry Irving! If a biopic...
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I think a great actor for Dracula, who is even the right age for the part now, is Timothy Dalton. He is a dashing Shakespearian stage actor, with the right dark look, and even a vague resemblance to...
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Orson Welles also wanted to film DRACULA, according to Peter Bogdanovich. In THIS IS ORSON WELLES, Mr. B's collection of transcriptions of informal taped interviews he did with Welles over the many...
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At another time, Welles announced his interest in filming CARMILLA. Too bad he never made a horror film, as he would certainly have been suited to it; I suppose the closest he got was MACBETH.
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Quote:At another time, Welles announced his interest in filming CARMILLA. Too bad he never made a horror film, as he would certainly have been suited to it; I suppose the closest he got was MACBETH....
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Quote:Too bad he never made a horror film, as he would certainly have been suited to it; I suppose the closest he got was MACBETH Curt Siodmak's DONOVAN'S BRAIN is another missed opportunity for a...
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Orson Welles also appeared in the Belgian "Malpertuis", directed by Harry Kümel from the novel by Jean Ray (aka John Flanders) and it was a horror film !
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Some of CITIZEN KANE has a shadowy, Gothic look and feel to it.
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