Thursday shadow casting!

[muckefuck]

Last night at Big Chicks, Tuppers was rolling his eyes at all the dreary BBC adaptations of Jane Austen et al. he'd been forced to sit through in his youth and in his career as a teacher of "lit'rachure". After my buildup, he's now quite looking forward to seeing Clueless for its unencumbered take. We also talked about the travesty that was Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and he tried to get me to agree that he'd be a natural for the starring role in a more faithful remake. I wasn't willing to go that far, but I told him I liked the idea of a Dracula with an "elegant northern accent", something that would make him slightly "foreign" without being generically Eastern European. He countered with the idea of an American Dracula, and I immediately began recasting the Count's most famous lines in my best parody of SoCal diction. ("Dʉde, I, like, never smøke...t'bacco.")

So have at it, kids: Amy Heckerling's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Reese is long in the tooth for Mina; who's our current ingenue? And would Keanu as the Nosferatu be just too injokey?

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

It's the brilliant comeback vehicle for Lindsay Lohan. Add Joaquin Phoenix as Dracula and let everyone try to figure out if they're acting or just stumbling through the script between coke binges.

[wwidsith.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for FFC's Dracula. Yes, it has some terrible elements (Keanu Reeves for one), but I quite like Gary Oldman's OTT delivery – and Tom Waits as Renfield is a stroke of genius.

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

Are we playing it straight, or is this more of a hipster doofus production? If the latter: Michael Cera as Harker, Keanu as the Count, Ellen Page as Mina, Christopher Walken as van Helsing.

Not quite sure how Judd Apatow's Bram Stoker's Dracula shakes out. Ask me Saturday.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

All I know is that Judd's wife will play Lucy.