If you're excitedly booking tickets to Andy Muschietti's creepy clown flick IT after reading its decent reviews, you'll be pleased to hear that he's also now attached to direct a Dracula prequel.
Paramount Studios has launched development of Dracula, which was written by Dacre Stoker (Bram's great-grandnephew) and JD Barker in the Bram Stoker Estate's first officially authorised prequel.
According to Variety, producers on the movie are Roy Lee and Barbara Muschietti, who also worked on the IT remake.
The Dracula prequel is set in 1868, and follows a 21-year-old Bram Stoker – who first published Dracula in 1897 at the age of 50 – as he meets with an evil that he traps in an ancient tower.
Stoker's classic novel sees Jonathan Harker visiting Count Dracula in the Carpathian Mountains, before Dracula attempts to move from Transylvania to England – and is opposed by a group led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
