James Hart

‘Dracula Sucks’ A Polite Version Of What Francis Ford Coppola Said To Screenwriter Jim Hart

‘Dracula Sucks’  A Polite Version Of What Francis Ford Coppola Said To Screenwriter Jim Hart

The year was 1992. I get a phone call at midnight in NYC. It is Francis Ford Coppola from San Francisco. He either couldn’t calculate the time difference or didn’t care. He has been in post-production on Dracula for several months and it is not going well. Another disastrous preview has the studio on edge. […]

 Scott Essman

Dracula Revivified

Dracula Revivified

Cole Haddon: A Screenwriter Reinvents Dracula.

By Scott Essman and Osahon Irabor. For the entire history of both film and television, there have been numerous visual adaptations of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. From 1922’s Nosferatu, the F.W. Murnau silent, to 1931’s Dracula, the Universal classic, the early history of film was ridden with Dracula interpretations. Over the succeeding decades, Hammer […]