{"id":24410,"date":"2012-06-26T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=24410"},"modified":"2012-07-05T17:19:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T16:19:04","slug":"viggo-mortensen-and-neil-marshall-team-up-for-new-dracula-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/viggo-mortensen-and-neil-marshall-team-up-for-new-dracula-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Viggo Mortensen and Neil Marshall team up for new Dracula movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Viggo<\/a>
Count Orlock stalks the Demeter's analogue in 1922's impressionist masterpiece Nosferatu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Bloody Disgusting<\/em><\/a>, The Descent<\/a><\/em>, Dog Soldiers<\/em> and Game Of Thrones<\/a><\/em> director Neil Marshall<\/a> has approached Lord Of The Rings<\/a><\/em> star Viggo Mortensen<\/a> to play a character called Henry Clemens in\u00a0The Last Voyage Of The Demeter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Inspired by the untold story of the Russian ship in Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic horror classic Dracula<\/a><\/em>, found abandoned after transporting the titular Count to England,\u00a030 Days Of Night<\/a><\/em> director David Slade was originally attached, along with Prometheus<\/a><\/em>‘ Noomi Rappace and Sir Ben Kingsley, but lingered too long in development hell, has left everything very much in the air.<\/p>\n

Compared to Alien<\/em> in that its about the crew of a ship being picked off one by one by an unknown foe (spoiler alert: Count Dracula), perhaps Viggo will be the ship’s captain, who in the original story tied himself to the ship’s wheel and documented the strange happenings on board…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lord Of The Rings’ Viggo Mortensen and Dog Soldiers’ Neil Marshall expand on Bram Stoker’s Dracula in The Last Voyage Of The Demeter, but are they the right choice for the job?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":24411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2102,2269],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Viggo-Mortensen-Neil-Marshall-Dracula.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}