The earliest significant vampire film was director arthur robison s 1916 german silent film, nachte des grauens a. Well the latest vampire movie rumor is that the immensely popular book, the historian by elizabeth kostova, is being made into a movie. A troubled, young history professor tries to escape his past by taking a job at a new university, where he struggles with an entrenched and equallytroubled department chair, rampant student apathy, and new relationships that complicate and challenge his worldview. With steve barton, dan berindei, brianna caradja, paul daian. The historian is the 2005 debut novel of american author elizabeth kostova. With william sadler, colin cunningham, glynnis oconnor, john cullum. The vampire historian is dax stokes, an academic reference librarian in texas. Which is why you are getting a longer video than i usually make.
So far there isnat any solid info on the film, only that its planned. The historian by elizabeth kostova kostova received two million dollars for this debut novel, an almost unheard of sum for an unknown writer, but im sure it went a long way in reimbursing her expenses for the research that would have been required to write the historian. See also the popular vampire actress theda bara in a fool there was. It is often cited as the oldest vamp movie in existence since earlier pictures like the 1910 short film with the same name starring margarita fischer and produced by william nicholas selig is considered lost. Gary oldman, winona ryder, anthony hopkins, keanu reeves.
Peter dinklage, jason momoa in talks for vampire movie. So according to the books website, itll be having a movie, but when. If your pulse flutters at the thought of castle ruins and descents into crypts by moonlight, you will savor every creepy page of elizabeth kostovas long but beautifully structured thriller the historian. The portrayal of count dracula in kostovas the historian, dacre. As they travel, alexandra and bobby begin to piece together the story of lazarovs life, a time. Sony has bought the film rights and, as of 2007, was planning an adaptation. Everything you need to know about the historian movie. The centuries old vampire count dracula comes to england to seduce his barrister jonathan harkers fiancee mina murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land. The reason i liked this book is probably the same reason the film project has been delayed or canceledthis is a traditional vampire story, and not a glampire. Blogs movie history vampire films, from nosferatu to. Lovers of bram stokers original will find much to enjoy in elizabeth kostovas toothsome reworking of the dracula myth, the historian, says. Whats the story a young woman searches europe for her missing father, who took on the challenge of locating the grave of vlad the impaler, the bloodthirsty feudal lord who inspired bram stokers dracula.
It covers bits of history from vlad the impaler the original inspiration for dracula, the history of vampire lore, and some history of the ussr. To celebrate reaching over 100k subscribers, i wanted to do a very special episode. Any time i see a movie that has more than three extreme closeups of a. Welcome to facebook page for the vampire historian blog and podcast. Dracula lures historians and scholars from around the world to his. Kostovas father told her stories about dracula when she was a child, and later in life she was inspired to turn the experience into a novel. Make no mistake, this is a lush and beautiful book, each passage is.