DRACULA: First Trailer For Luc Besson's Adaptation Starring Caleb Landry Jones As The Count Released

DRACULA: First Trailer For Luc Besson's Adaptation Starring Caleb Landry Jones As The Count Released

The first trailer for The Fifth Element director Luc Besson's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula has been released, and this looks like a much more action-heavy take on the classic tale...

By MarkCassidy - Jun 06, 2025 12:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Movies

We first heard about Luc Besson's (Leon, The Fifth Element) new take on Dracula starring Caleb Landry Jones as the legendary Transylvanian Count last summer, but updates have been pretty much non-existent since. Now, a first trailer and poster have been released online.

The movie was originally titled Dracula: A Love Tale, and is described as a “a big-budget reimagining” of the vampire's origin story.

“It’s a totally romantic approach,” Besson says of his adaptation in a 2024 interview. “There’s a romantic side in Bram Stoker’s book that hasn’t been explored that much. It’s a love story about a man who waits for 400 years for the reincarnation of his wife. That’s the true heart of the story, waiting an eternity for the return of love.”

It's a common misconception that Stoker's novel contains any romantic elements whatsoever as it relates to Dracula and Mina.  Even if it did, a romantic angle has been explored several times in previous film and TV adaptations, most notably in Francis Ford Coppola's stylish Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Zoë Bleu will play Elisabeta and her 19th century alter ego, Mina, with Matilda De Angelis as Mina’s best friend, and Christoph Waltz as "a vampire-hunting priest who is on Dracula’s tail" (this movie's take on Van Helsing, no doubt).

This wouldn't be the first time we've seen Dracula's pre-vampire life depicted on screen. There's a flashback to the Count's early days in Coppola's film, and the more recent Dracula Untold focuses on the former Knight's fall into darkness after a fateful encounter with an ancient blood-sucker.

Jones played Banshee in X-Men: First Class, but the character was killed off prior to the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Memorable supporting roles in the likes of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Get Out, Finch and American Made.followed.

As for Besson, DogMan was viewed as something of a comeback for the controversial filmmaker, who made his name helming movies such as Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, Leon, and The Fifth Element. More recently, his career was impacted by sexual misconduct allegations, which included accusations from an actress who worked with the director on Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Besson steadfastly denied these claims, however, and was cleared of all charges last year by France’s equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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1stDalek
1stDalek - 6/6/2025, 11:44 PM
Legit looks like a french take on Coppola's Dracula. It's as if Besson watched it for the first time a couple years ago and thought he'd love to do one like it, but with his aesthetic sensibilities over Coppola's.

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