Previously called Dracula Year Zero, the new Dracula origin film, now officially titled "Dracula Untold," will begin showing in cinemas on October 17, 2014. Directed by Gary Shore from a screenplay written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, the movie is headlined by Luke Evans who plays Vlad III Tepes, the man who would later be better known as Dracula.
In the newest film adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, the young Prince Vlad has to sacrifice everything in order to save his family and his people from the approaching armies of the Ottoman Empire. Led by Sultan Mehmed, the numerically more superior invaders want to take possession and control of his lands and kingdom. Vlad left with no choice makes a pact with an ancient evil force that lives on top of a mountain. The ancient one gives Vlad a cup of his own blood to drink. Once he did, Vlad turned into a vampire with great supernatural powers, including the ability to fly, to become invisible, to teleport, and to transform himself into a horde of bats.
With his frightening new powers, he fights off the invaders from the Ottoman Empire. As said by the boy shown at a scene from the teaser trailer, "Sometimes the world doesn't need another hero. Sometimes what it needs is a monster."
Aside from Evans, the cast of Dracula Untold include Sarah Gadon (as Vlad's wife Mirena), Dominic Cooper (as Sultan Mehmed), Samantha Barks (as the witch Baba Yaga), Art Parkinson (as Vlad's son Ingeras), and Charles Dance (as the ancient evil force) along with Charlie Cox, Will Houston, Ferdinand Kingsley, Noah Huntley, Dilan Gwyn, Zach McGowan, Ronan Vibert, Diarmaid Murtagh, Thor Kristjansson, and Joseph Long.
