Even though director John Carpenter hasn’t made anything that was much good in the the last 15 years, there are still plenty of people hoping that one day he’s gonna come back with something that’s on a par with The Thing, The Fog or Halloween.
He hasn’t directed a feature film at all since 2001’s Ghost’s Of Mars (although The Ward is due out later this year), but now it’s been annnounced (via Variety) that he’s getting back behind the camera for Fangland, which, as the name suggests, is a vampire movie, based on the novel by John Marks.
The bloodsucker is a subgenre he tried to conquer before and failed with 1998’s Vampire, but he’s going to have another go around with a modern take on Dracula, and unlike many of his more recent films, he’s even got a proper movies star (well, sort of) to star in it.
CinemaBlend says Hillary Swank will take the role of Evangeline Harker. She’s the producer of a magazine-type news show, who travels to Romania to do a story on a notorious arms dealer. However she soon discovers a monstrous secret and gets abducted, before waking up months later in a monastery, with no memory of what happened. Then, when she returns home, strange things start to happen that nobody can explain.