r/Dracula

For me, i gotta say that everytime i think of Dracula i just think of Swan Lake. So that's the theme for me. If i gotta do a top 5 Dracula themes it would be like this:

1. Swan Lake

2. Wojciech Kilar's Dracula theme (the one that plays at "The Beginning"

3. James Bernard's Dracula theme from Dracula (1958) and Dracula: Prince of Darkness

4. Dracula's theme from Van Helsing (2004)

5. The theme from The Last Voyage of The Demeter

This is an update to this post. A lot of the talking points there are repeated here.

Hey, I'm Jay Desmond, an amateur screenwriter.

This has been my pet project for 7 months, and now I've made it to the end. I've written a 1-season, 12-episode adaptation of Dracula, titled "Fresh Hot Dracula" (I explain the title later down below).

This is a version of the story that aims to prioritize novel-accurate character building, while also proving that it's possible to include major differences to the story without compromising the elements that made Bram Stoker's original vision so strong. 

Like I said last post, I've been doing this partially just for the sake of makin' art, but I do also have some crazy unrealistic dreams of makin' it big as a screenwriter and potentially having stuff like this, and many other things, turned into an official project one day. But even if it does happen, those days are far ahead of me and I would like to get some critiques from Dracula fans themselves to see what exactly is wanted in an adaptation of this story. Every episode is a first draft so far. 

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Now, just like last post, you might have read the title and are wondering why exactly I'm calling this Dracula "Fresh" & "Hot".

Well, this goes back to those other screenplays that I've been making. My main project, one that I'm keeping private, are part of a raunchy, vampire-slasher film series directed towards young adult gay men (like myself), that I've titled "Fresh Hot Blood". 

And the idea is that if Fresh Hot Blood becomes real first and takes off, then this Dracula series could become a spin-off that takes place in the same world. And these 12 episodes could be the first season of an anthology titled "Fresh Hot Vampires", where each season covers a different classic Vampire (so if season 2 was about Carmilla, that season would be called "Fresh Hot Carmilla").

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So with all that out of the way, I hope to hear from the community.  If you're truly interested, comment below a request for me to DM you the google drive links to the first drafts for all 12 episodes. As with all first drafts, they're far from perfect, but that's why I want feedback. Thanks. 

(Content warnings; gore, sex, male nudity, SA, everybody is bisexual & polyamorous, the like)