The film follows Vlad as he tries to leave his bloody past as a warlord behind and lead Transylvania into a more peaceful future. Meanwhile Luke Evans would also come on to star as Vlad the Impaler, aka “Dracula” (Son of the Dragon). That iteration was then scrapped and reworked, with the project eventually getting a new title and a new helmer via Gary Shore, who sat in the director’s chair for the first time. Originally, Dracula Untold was at first titled Dracula: Year Zero and had Sam Worthington ( Avatar) set to star with Alex Proyas ( Dark City, The Crow) attached to direct.
But with the movie recently being added to Netflix and immediately shooting to number 4 on streaming service’s top 10 movies list, now is a good time to revisit not just the film but how its characters-particularly Charles Dance’s Master Vampire-were meant to be the original launching pad for the perpetually stalled Universal Monsters shared cinematic universe (later renamed “the Dark Universe”). Sadly, the Vlad the Impaler origin story was met with mixed reviews and sort of came and went upon its theatrical release. When 2014’s Dracula Untold was announced, it was kind of a big deal considering it would be the first major Dracula movie to hit the big screen since Dracula 2000.
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