NEWS – Possible Director for Dracula Movie The Last Voyage Of The Demeter

Published on: 3rd March, 2010

NEWS - Possible Director for Dracula Movie The Last Voyage Of The Demeter

Stefan Ruzowitzky at the ROMY TV awards 2008  | read this item

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There are moments in both movies and literature where the author decides that a certain sequence is somewhat irrelevant to the overall action and so merely references it before continuing onto more important plot points. What was in Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase in Pulp Fiction? Had Quentin Tarantino showed us, would we have been as interested? Sometimes these missing moments have no major significance, but what if, as the viewer or reader, we are denied an important piece of the puzzle?

Screenwriter Bragi F. Schut, whose breakthrough movie Season of the Witch will be released later this month, seems to have been considering this for some time, as his latest project will be the promising vampire flick The Last Voyage Of The Demeter. The premise of his script is the boat journey that Count Dracula took in Bram Stoker’s classic tale from Transylvania to Whitby in England. All that is known from the text is that one of the crew was found dead, whilst the other bodies had mysteriously disappeared.

There’s been a buzz generating around the project due to its unique premise and now there is a possibility that a director may now be attached. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that ‘Stefan Ruzowitzky, the Austrian director behind Oscar-winning foreign film “The Counterfeiters,” is in negotiations to helm period horror “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” for Phoenix Pictures.’

Austrian-born Ruzowitzky first gained acclaim a decade ago for his unnerving horror Anatomie/Anatomy, which starred The Bourne Identity’s Franka Potente. Schut’s story has been languishing for the last ten years and had previously attracted the attention of Platinum Dunes regular Marcus Nispel (director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th).

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