THE MACHINIST Writer To Work On VLAD Screenplay

Last December, the project is called VLAD written by actor Charlie Hunnam was bought and Brad Pitt is producing with Dede Gardner via Plan B Entertainment. Hunnam the emphasized that this movie is not about vampires, it’s about VLAD The Impaler, his rise to power and brutality and it’s going to be more like Braveheart than 300 or a combo of both. It’s about Historic Vlad III The Impaler, his name, Romanian: Vlad Ţepeş or Dracula inspired the name of the vampire in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Hollywood Reporter said Summit Entertainment has hired another writer to work on the screenplay…

Scribe Scott Kosar who wrote The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (2003), Amytiville Horror remake (2005), The Machinist, and the upcoming The Crazies remake has been hired by the studio to work on the VLAD screenplay based on the original script by Hunnam. Music video director and photographer Anthony Mandler who’s set to helm the project will help guide Kosar’s work
Hunnam’s in depth research into the character will make the movie focuses mostly on VLAD as a young man assuming his rule as a prince. The challenge is to humanize or sympathize with a man known for killing thousands of people by driving a long stake through their bodies. Hunnam argued that “a lot of his brutality just came out of military necessity — shock tactics and fear tactics to give him the upper hand, because he just couldn’t meet them man-to-man.”