[SKRIVA] Draculas blodanförvanter skriver nytt
- From: "ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:14:33 +0200 (CEST)
Vi läser i The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/06/dracula.dacre.stoker.undead
"Van Helsing and his intrepid band of vampire hunters might have disposed of
Bram Stoker's creation Dracula more than a century ago, but a sequel to the
novel by Stoker's great grand-nephew will see them under attack from the undead
once again.
Dacre Stoker delved into his ancestor's handwritten notes on the original
Dracula novel to pen his sequel, Dracula: The Un-Dead - the original name for
Dracula before an editor changed the title. The novel, out next October, draws
on excised characters, existing character back-stories and plot threads that
were cut from Stoker's original novel, first published 111 years ago.
The new book is set in London in 1912, a quarter of a century after the
Count apparently "crumbled into dust". Vampire-hunter Van Helsing's protégé Dr
Seward is now a disgraced morphine addict, and Quincey, the son of Stoker's
hero Jonathan, has become involved in a troubled theatre production of Dracula,
directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself. The play plunges Quincey into the
world of his parents' terrible secrets, but before he can confront them his
father is found murdered, impaled in Piccadilly Circus. ...
The book has caused a storm in the publishing world, selling for more $1m to
Dutton US, HarperCollins UK and Penguin Canada. A film version is also in the
works, with shooting expected to begin next June. Dacre Stoker, who formerly
coached the Canadian Olympic Pentathlon team and now lives in the US, is
writing the novel with Dracula historian Ian Holt, a screenwriter and member of
The Transylvanian Society of Dracula. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to
be fully authorised by the Stoker family since the 1931 film starring Bela
Lugosi."
--Ahrvid
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