Following on from the posters that arrived earlier this month, it’s time for the first trailer from Dracula Untold. To see Luke Evans make a pact with darkness to save his people and the ones he loves, throw your eyes over to Apple's site.
Evans here is Vlad Tepes, a troubled ruler who struggles to protect those around him and who loves his family, including his wife and son. But when a local sultan decides to round up an army of younglings to wage his latest battle, and demands that Tepes gives up his own boy to boot, it’s one step too far for our ill-fated hero.
He seeks out a strange creature living like a hermit (who has shades of Benedict Cumberbatch's Smaug voice), and offers to do anything to score the power to destroy his enemies. Of course, what he gains comes with a price: while he does earn some new abilities, he’s also cursed to be the one we know as Dracula. Cue troubles with sunlight, fanged terror and a serious craving for human claret.
Short film director Gary Shore switched to features for this one, which has overtones of 300 and even Batman Begins (and not just in the clouds of bats). With Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Charlie Cox, Samantha Barks, Zach McGowan and Art Parkinson in the cast, Dracula Untold flaps onto these shores on October 3.