Sherlock co-creators sinking their teeth into Dracula

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Submitted by Mike 'Ace' Maillaro on Tue, 06/20/2017 - 09:55

From Radio Times:

The Sherlock team are reuniting on a new version of the classic horror story Dracula, RadioTimes.com can confirm.

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are due to begin work on a series of BBC specials based on the classic 1897 novel by Bram Stoker in which the bloodthirsty count moves from Transylvania to England.

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“It’s not yet been decided if it will be historical or modern day or if there will be a US co-producer but the BBC are keen on this and it will happen. What needs to be decided is how many episodes – whether there are three or five or six or whatever but they will definitely be 90-minute films.

"Production is at least a year away so it will probably be on screen in 2019 at the earliest.”

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As for the next series of Sherlock, a production source said: “Sherlock will return when Sherlock returns.”

Source: Radio Times

Commentary: As a huge fan of Moffat and Gatiss's SHERLOCK, this is awesome news. I imagine some people might be concerned that this could mean a delay to more SHERLOCK, but the problem with SHERLOCK has always been Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have pretty full dance cards, so I don't think this will have any real impact.

While I hate for people to get stuck in ruts, I think it could be really cool to see this done as a modernized version of DRACULA, with Moffat and Gatiss taking the familiar elements and completely reworking them for a modern audience. It worked so well for SHERLOCK. And Moffat and Gatiss have done some pretty scary episodes of DOCTOR WHO over the years, so DRACULA just seems like a perfect fit. It looks like we have a while until this debuts, but I definitely want to hear more.