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EXCLUSIVE: Dan Knauf, creator of the cult HBO series Carnivale, has joined NBC’s upcoming 10-episode series Dracula as showrunner/head writer, working with series creator Cole Haddon. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is set to play the iconic vampire in Dracula, which is being produced for both NBC and UK’s Sky Living by Tony Krantz’s Flame Ventures; Colin Callender’s Playground Entertainment; Universal TV; and NBCU International Prods’ Carnival Films & Television, the company behind phenom Downton Abbey. Based on an idea by Krantz, Dracula is set in the 1890s and is described as “Dangerous Liaisons meets The Tudors.”
In it, Dracula (Meyers) arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier but falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife. Krantz and Callender are executive producing the series with Knauf, Gareth Neame and Anne Mensah. Haddon and Flame’s Reece Pearson co-executive produce.
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I loved Carnivale! This makes me a lot more interested in this project.
This is oddly brilliant.
If anyone can make this tired material interesting, it’s Knauf.
Can’t think of anyone better to pair with Haddon’s wickedly smart script. All the soapy vampire shows on TV are about to get slayed!
Excellent! This is an inspired choice on what is shaping up to be an inspired series. Add great EP auspices and Carnival and you have a potential winner. This one could pop. Big time.
Knaupf without a thought for Carnivale’s Fans thought he could force HBO to renew the show by ending the season with a cliffhanger. Despite Carnivale being a great show, knaupf doesn’t respect his fans and just for that, i’d rather have someone with a little more respect to run the show.
After all these years the cancellation of carnivale still stings quite a bit…that was a brilliant show, hopefully Dracula can conjure the same magic
Knauf is a genius who has been underappreciated–this is his time to shine.
This is such a brilliant choice. Broadcast TV just got more interesting. This move could actually be one that brings divergent audiences together in a way that very few broadcast shows can.