Dracula (BBC)

Dracula
File:Dracula-still-2006.jpg Promotional still
Directed by	Bill Eagles
Written by	Stewart Harcourt
Produced by	Michele Buck Granada Television Rebecca Eaton WGBH Boston Trevor Hopkins Julie Gardner
Starring	Marc Warren Rafe Spall Stephanie Leonidas Sophia Myles Tom Burke David Suchet
Edited by	Adam Recht
Music by	Dominik Scherrer
Distributed by	BBC Granada Television WGBH Boston
Running time	90 min
Country	UK
Language	English
Budget	unknown

Dracula is a television adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula produced by Granada Television and WGBH Boston for BBC Wales in 2006. It was written by Stewart Harcourt and directed by Bill Eagles.

This adaptation explores the ideas of corruption, lies and sexuality in repressed Victorian England. It aired on December 28, 2006 in the United Kingdom, and will be shown on WGBH's Masterpiece Theatre in February 2007.

Cast

• Marc Warren as Count Dracula
• David Suchet as Abraham Van Helsing
• Sophia Myles as Lady Holmwood/Lucy Westenra
• Stephanie Leonidas as Mina Murray
• Dan Stevens as Lord Holmwood
• Rafe Spall as Jonathan Harker
• Tom Burke as Dr. John Seward

Trivia

• Sophia Myles previously played a vampire in the motion picture Underworld.
• A major plot point seems to be derived from the (probably mistaken) belief that Bram Stoker suffered from syphilis.
• In keeping with the book, but against many previous adaptations, in this version Count Dracula can walk about in sunlight.
• The BBC had produced a previous version of this story with Louis Jourdan in the title role.
• There was also a British television version for Mystery and Imagination, starring Denholm Elliott.

External links

• Official BBC microsite
• Official BBC Press Release
• Information from a Sophia Myles fansite
• Article on the Adaptation
• Listing for the DVD
• BBC Promotion
• Second BBC Promotion