Fan CastingWhat If...? – Universal / Renaissance (Sam Raimi's Dracula)

Around the same time Francis Ford Coppola was working on his Dracula film for Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures was developing their own feature film adaptation of Bram Stoker's seminal Gothic horror novel. The studio commissioned a screenplay to be written by Kevin Jarre, who would later score a screen story credit on their successful 1999 reimagining of The Mummy. Sam Raimi was hired to direct this iteration, having previously helmed the critically and commercially successful Darkman for Universal. Ultimately though, the studio canceled the project. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" read more