There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.
Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
I think Judas was a very devout religious Jewish person. He realizes that Jews had been persecuted and enslaved for thousands of years, and he wants to keep his people from going through that anymore.
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
All writers are vampires.
I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.
I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.