Dracula Untold (2014)
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
- During the filming of Dracula Untold, Luke Evans improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The original script for Dracula Untold was written over a decade before production finally began in 2014.
Dracula Untold is a 2014 American dark fantasy action horror directed by Gary Shore. Luke Evans stars as Vlad Dracula, the historical prince of Wallachia who, facing an impossible demand from the Ottoman Empire to surrender 1,000 boys including his own son as child soldiers, makes a desperate bargain with an ancient vampire dwelling in a mountain cave to gain supernatural powers for three days โ enough to defeat the Turkish army. If Vlad can resist drinking human blood for those three days, the powers will fade; if he succumbs, he becomes a vampire permanently.
The film attempted to humanize Dracula as a tragic hero whose monstrous transformation was motivated by fatherly love and patriotic duty. Luke Evans brought genuine anguish and physicality to Vlad's transformation. Dracula Untold earned $217 million worldwide on a $70 million budget and was originally intended to launch Universal's Dark Universe shared monster franchise, though those plans were later restructured.
