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Dracula: BBC One and Netflix drop new trailer for Gatiss/Moffat series

By Bethany Lewis

TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 11: Claes Bang attends the "The Burnt Orange Heresy" premiere during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 11, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images)
TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 11: Claes Bang attends the "The Burnt Orange Heresy" premiere during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival at Roy Thomson Hall on September 11, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images) /
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BBC One and Netflix have just dropped new trailers Dracula, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s highly anticipated adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic.

While the world waits hopelessly for a new season of Moffat and Gatiss’s acclaimed Sherlock series, the duo has at least brought us another unique take on a classic Victorian character: Dracula. The three-part drama is set to release on BBC One on New Year’s Day and on Netflix in the U.S. three days later. Based on the trailers, the series is every bit the gothic horror it should be – deliciously lavish, wickedly funny, compellingly grotesque, and horrifically frightening.

Much of this is due to Moffat and Gatiss’s superb writing along with Jonny Campbell (Westworld), Damon Thomas (Killing Eve) and Paul McGuigan’s (Sherlock) directing, but a debt is obviously owed to the wonderfully macabre Claes Bang (The Affair) who plays the Count himself. The Danish actor lends the role a mix of courtliness and exoticism with seduction and menace.

Based just on the glimpses provided by the trailer, he seems like everything a perfect Dracula should be, and hopefully more. Joanna Scanlon (Mother Superior), Morfydd Clark (Mina), Lujza Richter (Elena), John Heffernan (Jonathan Harker), and Dolly Wells (Sister Agatha) join Bang in the main cast, along with Mark Gatiss as a guy named Frank.

And to think that the series started out as idle brainstorming between Moffat and Gatiss. In a statement to Deadline, Moffat said:

"“We’d done Sherlock Holmes and the second most filmed character as we make our way down the list of plagiarism, was Dracula. As we talked about it, we started having ideas that we thought were quite good. It got to the point where we thought we should take this seriously.”"

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It is actually a natural progression, considering that the characters and their writers are contemporaries. It is often not a far stretch in tone and setting to combine the two, which would explain the multitude of takes on Sherlock Holmes versus Dracula. Not that I think there’s any possibility of this happening, but wouldn’t it be surprising to see Sherlock and Watson turn up in a cameo along the way?

Are you excited for the new series? Be sure to tell us in the comment section below!

Source: Deadline 

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