Dec,
15

Charlie Hunnam is way more than his scrappy biker character of Jax Teller on FX’s “Sons of Anarchy.” He’s written a screenplay on Vlad the Impaler, a 15th century badass whose penchant for brutality and night-fighting struck fear in the heart of the Ottoman Empire and gave his outnumbered forces an advantage on their home battlefield. He was also the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”

charlie hunnam INFphoto 710404 thumb ‘Sons of Anarchy’ star Charlie Hunnam pens ‘Vlad’Hunnam’s screenplay for “Vlad” will be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the “Twilight” series. But Hunnam says there will be no vampires in this project.

The actor became fascinated with Vlad a national hero of Romania, when he spent five months traveling the country during downtime filming 2003’s “Cold Mountain.” Anthony Mandler is in line to helm the film.

When Entertainment Weekly asked Hunnam if he was going for a “300” vibe with the script, he replied, “My hope when writing it was for the end result to be more ‘Braveheart’ than ‘300,’ and I think that as it’s evolved, we’ve got a pretty good mixture of both. I labor a little bit more over the history than ‘300’ did. I was really interested in the reality of how this man turned into the myth, and because of some of his behaviors, it’s actually very easy to weave that mythology in, in a true way. As a writer, you have your idea of what it’s going to be, and now I have to release it. It’s Mandler’s film. But I have a lot of faith in him, and I like him tremendously as a human being, so I feel in safe hands turning my baby over to him.”

Read the full interview here.


Dec,
7

brad pitt vlad dracula movie charlie hunnam Brad Pitt To Produce Dracula Movie Vlad

Fresh on the heels of the hugely successful Twilight franchise, Summit Entertainment is working on a movie about the most famous vampire of all time, Dracula, aka Vlad the Impaler.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is called Vlad, written by 29-year-old British actor Charlie Hunnam (pictured).

Brad Pitt will produce alongside Dede Gardner via the duo’s Plan B Entertainment production company. Brad has a bit of experience with vampires himself, having starred in 1994’s Interview With the Vampire.

Set to direct the film is music video master Anthony Mandler, who has worked with Rihanna on a dozen of her videos including her latest “Russian Roulette.”