Luc Besson and Caleb Landry-Jones team up for Dracula film

Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula is getting another retelling as writer-director Luc Besson, best known for films like The Professional (1994) and The Fifth Element (1997), signs up for the project. The Dracula retelling marks the reunion of Luc Besson with Caleb Landry-Jones, the star of his previous film Dogman. Best known for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Get Out, Landry-Jones will play the count turned vampire in the big-budget movie. With this, Luc Besson becomes one of the many directors to helm a project based on the popular character of Bram Stoker's novel. The most popular figure to take up such a project is Francis Ford Coppola, for his 1992 Keanu Reeves-starrer.

The original story takes place on Stoker's doomed ship, eventually travelling to England and involving multiple main characters. However, Besson's film will follow Dracula from the start of his life in Transylvania and his marital relationship.

Christoph Waltz is also in line to pair with Landry-Jones in the film as negotiations take place between the actor and the producer, Besson’s EuropaCorp.