At this point if they actually wanted to make a unique retelling of Dracula, they should have Quincey as the main character, market it as a tragic Western/British romance, and then halfway through drop us into the plot of Dracula
Make a movie about Vlad the Impaler.
Poster has
Vlad
DRACULA
The story follows his life, is at worst he's a necessary evil, and he did bring out many great reforms, and protected Christendom.
The bloodthirstyness apparently comes from a cherry sauce he really liked, that actually looked a lot like blood. Not joking.
There WAS a lot of impaling, but most of them were boyars that were acting like robber barons, running the country like a mafia state.
Have Vlad kill a vampire at the end and smash cut to title screen for some actually decent irony and I'm sold. We can the leader of the enemy hordes as one.
Or have it be why he starts impaling.
Hell seeing that the hordes were Muslim, making the hordes vampires that need to be impaled to stay dead works for modern sensibilities

















