New Dracula series from Sherlock’s creators promises lots of weird fingernail stuff
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Good news for fans of Sherlock, vampires, and nuns armed with wooden stakes: The first teaser for the BBC’s forthcoming Dracula series has arrived.
Created by Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss (both also of Nu-Who fame), this three-part series doesn’t yet have a release date, but it does have the above creepy-ass teaser, a distributor outside the U.K. (Netflix), and a terrific cast. That last is toplined by Claes Bang (The Square) in the titular role, and also includes Joanna Scanlan (The Thick Of It), John Heffernan (Jonanthan Strange & Mr. Norrell), Dolly Wells (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), and Gatiss himself.
The teaser, brief and choppy though it may be, is still pretty exciting. We’re into the fighting nuns, we’re into the terrifying box person, we’re into that score, and we’re into Bang’s casting for sure. We could, however, do without the fingernail stuff.
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Looks like a spiritual successor to Penny Dreadful. Count me in!
“New Dracula series…”You’ve got my attention.“…from Sherlock’s creators”Ight. Imma head out.
Moffat can be a really fascinating writer on an episode by episode basis, but his series always seems to be drawn out too long and end poorly. Here’s hoping the length helps this (although the abrupt ending to Jekyll does not give me hope).
Side note: I liked Jekyll (even if it probably made no sense).
I really like it too, until the last episode. It’s still really compelling and well-acted but has sort of a non-ending.
It may have fizzled a little. But, it had fun twists and turns.
I’ve heard it said he’s a good episode writer who needs to be reined in by a strong showrunner.
You had me at “nuns armed with wooden stakes”. SO into this.
Hey! There’s that dude from Misfits. That was a good show until it wasn’t.
Claes Bang looks very Christopher Lee here
Oh, ew.Dunno if this will be good. But I’m down for another Dracula adaptation. Why not? Get weird with it,
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Hey, I missed this the first time around. Still true?
Nope, I got the leaving office presidential pardon of Kate! Thanks though, Shoe!BTW, miss you two as regulars over there. Hope all is well in the freelance gig!
fingernails and eyes, people love when you go for those
‘Sherlock’ devolved into straight-up garbage (if it wasn’t high-production-value garbage all along). I recall feeling sorry for PBS for scheduling its pledge drives around that awful awful series. Moffat’s shows tend to be bad in the same way. That trailer looks atrocious in the usual Moffat way of being atrocious.
“and Gatiss himself.”Mark, you’re not a strong enough actor, stop this.
So, I may be behind… is there ANY reason to hold out hope for more Sherlock? Ever? What’s the dish on that?
Cumberbatch is too busy. Freeman is kind of a dick about it. Everyone involved in making it seems sick of it. Fans generally despised the final episode. So…probably done forever now.