Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the Sherlock creators who have now turned their hand to a reimagining of Dracula, have revealed that their gruesomely gothic creation all started with a joke at the e…
globally. It’s a gothic reimagining of Bram Stoker’s 1897 story about a Transylvanian vampire who moves to England to find new blood. Gatiss said that after thephenomenon it “felt right” going back to the gothic roots of vampire stories with “big castles and moonlight and caves.”
One of the key differences in Moffat and Gatiss’ version, however, is they wanted to make Dracula less of a shadowy figure and more a central part of the story. “The big challenge we set ourselves was to make Dracula the central character in his own story for the first time. What’s it like as the anti-hero? What you have to give him is a personality which spans four centuries… You don’t want him to be just a shadowy presence,” Gatiss told an audience at the BFI screening..
He explained: “We needed somebody tall, dark, handsome, 40s, not wildly known for any particular role [and] not English, which is a very tall order. She sent through the list with name Claes Bang circled, partly just to say, ‘What a funny name.’ Kate sent a little link to, which is brilliant. I clicked and immediately I was like, ‘That’s Dracula, we’re done.'” Gatiss added: “We were looking for an otherness and Claes has it spades. He’s incredibly tall, dark, handsome and other.
Bang was not so sure about the idea at first. His initial response was, “Does the world really need one more Dracula?” but was eventually won over by Moffat and Gatiss’ script. “I read the script and then I was like, ‘Ok, sure.’ It is such a brilliant and new take onThe end result is an uproariously gothic creation that does not pull any punches in the horror stakes. Bang is magnetic in the central role, dancing between menace and flickering humor.
“We have a joint feeling that if the scene isn’t anything else, it should be funny. You can bury important plot information in a joke. You’re really setting them up for a sucker-punch if you make them laugh fondly and then chop someone’s head off,” he joked.
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