Dracula trailer: BBC and Netflix release first look at horror adaptation from Sherlock team
Scary new series isn't for the squeamish
The BBC has released the first trailer for its new adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, which comes from the makers of Sherlock.
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have written the three-part series – a co-production between the British channel and Netflix – that'll star Claes Bang (The Square) in the lead role.
Other actors who'll appear in the horror series include John Heffernan, Dolly Wells and Joanna Scanlan.
The previously announced cast of the latest reinvention of the classic tale includes Sacha Dhawan (Line of Duty), Jonathan Aris (Sherlock), Morfydd Clark (Patrick Melrose) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits).
Episodes will be directed by Jonny Campbell, Damon Thomas and Paul McGuigan, whose impressive list of credits include Westworld, Killing Eve and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, respectively.
The 27 best opening lines in books
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The 27 best opening lines in books
1/27 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
2/27 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
3/27 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
4/27 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
5/27 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
6/27 The Go-Between by LP Hartley
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
7/27 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
8/27 Peter Pan by JM Barrie
"All children, except one, grow up."
9/27 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
“All this happened, more or less.”
10/27 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
11/27 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
12/27 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
13/27 Beloved by Toni Morrison
"124 was spiteful."
14/27 The Stranger by Albert Camus
"Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."
15/27 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
16/27 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
17/27 High-Rise by JG Ballard
“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.”
18/27 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
“It was love at first sight."
19/27 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.”
20/27 Pride and Prejudice
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
21/27 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."
22/27 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”
23/27 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation."
24/27 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."
25/27 Murphy by Samuel Beckett
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
26/27 The Crow Road by Iain Banks
"It was the day my grandmother exploded."
27/27 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
1/27 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
2/27 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
3/27 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
4/27 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
5/27 The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
6/27 The Go-Between by LP Hartley
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."
7/27 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
8/27 Peter Pan by JM Barrie
"All children, except one, grow up."
9/27 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
“All this happened, more or less.”
10/27 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
11/27 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
12/27 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
13/27 Beloved by Toni Morrison
"124 was spiteful."
14/27 The Stranger by Albert Camus
"Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."
15/27 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
16/27 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”
17/27 High-Rise by JG Ballard
“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.”
18/27 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
“It was love at first sight."
19/27 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.”
20/27 Pride and Prejudice
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
21/27 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."
22/27 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”
23/27 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation."
24/27 Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."
25/27 Murphy by Samuel Beckett
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
26/27 The Crow Road by Iain Banks
"It was the day my grandmother exploded."
27/27 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
Moffat and Gatiss’s new series starts off in Transylvania in 1897, where the Count is plotting to travel to Victorian London to hunt down new blood.
Dracula is expected to premiere on the BBC this winter.
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