Watch: ‘Dracula Untold’ 1st Trailer Wants To Rule The World

Bram Stoker’s Dracula creation has been a popular staple of all fiction mediums since the journal-style novel was first released over a hundred years ago in 1897. The iconic role has been portrayed by a vast range of actors in that time including Gary Oldman, Gerard Butler, Leslie Neilson, Bela Lugosi and, of course, Christopher Lee.

With the exception of Oldman’s portrayal of the Count, most incarnations have had the character as a heartless and remorseless monster; new film DRACULA UNTOLD hopes to give a new spin. Luke Evans, star of THE HOBBIT, plays Vlad Tepes a mighty warrior who makes a pact with darkness so that he can save his family. The film is released in October, just in time for Halloween, and has released it’s first trailer, see below:

Set to a cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde, the trailer hints at the scope of the movie; looks like we’re in for a lot of battle sequences. The voice over explains the set up for the film, ‘sometimes you don’t need a hero, sometimes you need a monster’, which rationalises why one of fiction’s greatest villain is actually the hero of this piece. It also rather controversially reveals that Dracula wasn’t the first of his kind.

DRACULA UNTOLD is released in the UK on 3rd October, and in the US on the 17th October.
Source: You Tube