Dracula

Over the weekend, NBC revealed that Dracula was returning to the small screen via a new series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.  After the jump, you can watch the trailer.  Also, here is the official series crunch direct from the network:

It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night - useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: he hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier. Everything seems to be going according to plan... until he becomes infatuated with a woman who appears to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.

While we wait and see what NBC does to Hannibal (the show has not been picked up for a second season yet), the network has revealed the first images from another genre-themed series: Dracula.

It's exactly what I thought it woud look like.

A period drama starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (6 Souls), the show, per Entertainment Weekly, finds Dracula posing "as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society but secretly hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier."

Thomas Kretschmann will plan Van Helsing.  Dracula debuts this fall taking the 10pm-11pm Friday night time slot.  More pics await inside.

Thomas Kretschmann.  Yes, the man who plays Dracula in Dario Argento's Dracula 3D is going to be Abraham Van Helsing in NBC's forthcoming Dracula series.  The show is set in the late-1800s and, according to THR, Van Helsing "is not the classic hero featured in so many retellings. Here, he's a brilliant professor with a cool exterior who is obsessed with revenge and makes him more of a threat to the public than to Dracula."

NBC is at work on a 10-part Dracula series with Jonathan Rhys Meyers playing the eponymous bloodsucker.  Deadline reports today that The Grey's Nonso Anozie and Katie McGrath (Merlin) have joined the cast.

NBC's forthcoming Dracula series has found its female lead in Jessica De Gouw.  The actress was recently seen on The CW's Arrow as The Huntress.  She'll play opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) who is taking on the role of Dracula.

You haven't forgotten that NBC is working on a television series surrounding Dracula, have you?  That's right, NBC is horror hungry right now working on Dracula, Hannibal and Mockingbird Lane (the network has yet to officially pass on The Munsters, in spite of what rumors are saying).  The latest on ol' Drac is that Dan Knauf has come aboard the series as showrunner.  Knauf was producer on Wolf Lake, Carnivale and Spartacus: Vengeance.