{"id":25726,"date":"2012-07-12T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=25726"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:18:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T09:18:05","slug":"russell-crowe-is-dracula-in-eli-roths-harker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/russell-crowe-is-dracula-in-eli-roths-harker\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe is Dracula in Eli Roth&#8217;s Harker"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25727\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dracula-Harker-Eli-Roth.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25727\" title=\"Dracula Harker Eli Roth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dracula-Harker-Eli-Roth.jpg\" alt=\"Dracula Harker Eli Roth\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dracula-Harker-Eli-Roth.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dracula-Harker-Eli-Roth-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director Eli Roth at work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/07\/eli-roth-in-talks-to-direct-russell-crowe-as-dracula-in-warner-bros-thriller-harker\/\">According to <em>Deadline<\/em><\/a>, Russell Crowe has signed up to Warner Bros&#8217;\u00a0<em>Harker<\/em>, not to play the title character but to play Count Dracula, who in this take on the tale is being tracked by Scotland Yard detective Jonathan Harker &#8211; not quite the peevish solicitor of the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/sean-astin-stars-in-cabin-fever-reboot\/\"><em>Cabin Fever<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/hostel-3-images-contain-potential-spoilers\/\"><em>Hostel<\/em><\/a> director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/interview-eli-roth\/\">Eli Roth<\/a> is also in talks to direct, making him the second gore\/slasher director to take on Bram Stoker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/looking-back-on-universals-dracula\/\"><em>Dracula<\/em><\/a> mythos in recent months &#8211; the first being of course <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/viggo-mortensen-and-neil-marshall-team-up-for-new-dracula-movie\/\"><em>The Descent<\/em>&#8216;s Neill Marshall on the Viggo Mortensen starring <em>Last Voyage Of The Demeter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostel and Cabin Fever director Eli Roth signs up for Harker, in which Russell Crowe will play Dracula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":25727,"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":[2102,342,2636,2637],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Dracula-Harker-Eli-Roth.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726"}],"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=25726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}