First Look: Dracula, starring Claes Bang

Yeah, I haven't really talked much about Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's upcoming BBC1/Netflix Dracula adaptation, so here's a little blog on that.

First of all the BBC have released two images of Claes Bang in the title role and while we have a list of the main cast, we still don't know who is playing whom, though there's a rumour that Joanna Scanlan will be playing a female version of Van Helsing.

Cast listing so far though is ....

Claes Bang as Count Dracula
John Heffernan
Dolly Wells
Joanna Scanlan
Morfydd Clark
Lujza Richter
Mark Gatiss
Jonathan Aris
Sacha Dhawan
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Catherine Schell
Youssef Kerkour
Clive Russell
Lyndsey Marshal
Chanel Cresswell
Matthew Beard
Sarah Niles
Lydia West
Sofia Oxenham

A lot of familiar faces, some of whom have already previously appeared in both Doctor Who and Sherlock over the last few years.

Directors for the three episode series are Jonny Campbell (Informer, Westworld), Damon Thomas (Killing Eve, Penny Dreadful) and Paul McGuigan (Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool, Sherlock) with Moffat, Gatiss and Sue Vertue producing the series.

Now it'll be interesting to see if both Moffat and Gatiss can strike the same lightning with Dracula that they managed to do for Sherlock's four series run and if we're even lucky, maybe avoid some of the pitfalls and overzealous fanbase as well. I'll be watching and reviewing the series as well when it finally airs.

Press Release: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/dracula-first-look

Dracula will air on BBC1 and Netflix in the upcoming months. A date has yet to be confirmed.