The Fifth Element and Lucy filmmaker Luc Besson has set the cast for his next film. Dracula – A Love Tale, which, according to Deadline, is one of the final European Film Market pre-sale projects. The film set to be a new twist on the classic Bram Stoker vampire tale. 

Besson’s script is set to be an origin story of sorts for the iconic character, showing how Prince Vladimir fell in love and lost his wife, leading him to become Dracula. Caleb Landry Jones, known for his roles in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and X-Men: First Class, is set to wear the fangs of the iconic vampire. Besson has also recruited Spectre and Inglorious Basterds’ Christoph Waltz for an unknown role in the film. 

Dracula – A Love Tale is one of the most high profile projects being auctioned at the European Film Market this year. The EFM is at the heart of European film production and sales. Dracula is expected to be a large budget project, for European film standards, but not as much as Besson’s previous large budget science fiction film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. It is the largest project being sold at this years’ market. 

Dracula – A Love Tale is set to be Besson’s next film. He is currently wrapping up post production on June and John, an intimate, experimental film that he shot during the COVID-19 pandemic.