Summit Entertainment Bring Us More Bloody Vampires

Published on December 7, 2009 by Craig Sharp · View Comments

Brad the Impaler Not content with the monster success of The Twilight Saga: New Moon and the inevitable success of next year’s sequel, Twilight Eclipse, Summit Entertainment have picked up British Actor, Charlie Hunnam’s script for VLAD – an action take on the classic Dracula story.

With Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt producing, Vlad centers on the story of a young Vlad the Impaler, the historical figure who influenced the creation of Stoker’s classic vamp. This from THR:

Summit picked up “Vlad” awhile ago, developing it quietly, but when execs saw Mandler’s reel, the project got a shot in the arm.

Mandler is a music-video director who has worked with Rhianna (helming 10 of her videos), the Killers and Eminem. Execs were wowed by the reel he prepared, which drew comparisons to Zack Snyder and his work on “300″; Summit tried to land the latter project before it ultimately was made at Warner Bros.

With “Vlad,” Summit hopes to make a visually edgy and radical period movie that also will break a new talent.

So it seems that the Vampire craze is still far from over, expect more on this over coming months.