Luke Evans’ Dracula Untold 2 Could Rise From The Grave

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Could we see the vampire prince return to his realm? Rumours of a Luke Evans’ Dracula Untold 2 movie (a sequel to the 2014 film) have been stirring.

It might not have been the story everyone was expecting to see, but that may be the reason why 2014’s Dracula Untold has garnered so many fans despite its disastrous box-office performance. The movie quickly became an unlikely cult classic in modern horror, and it served as a great starting point for what was supposed to be the biggest horror cinematic universe the world has ever seen, Universal’s Dark Universe (featuring classic monsters like Frankenstein’s Monster and the Invisible Man). Isn’t it time for a sequel, Dracula Untold 2?

Despite its failure at the box office, the movie got an unexpected boost in its popularity when it arrived on Netflix. Streaming has a way of reinvigorating franchises like no other form of media distribution can, and fans of the misunderstood action/horror film are already demanding the streaming giant to give the rumoured Dracula Untold sequel a chance. Will we be seeing gothic horror’s favourite monster on screen again?

Part of the charm of the first movie was its approach to Dracula as a much more tragic character. This seems to be a common trend in what remains of the Dark Universe, as the same thing happened to Tom Cruise’s The Mummy. Many people know about the Romanian warlord that inspired the origin story of the title monster, Vlad the Impaler, but this was the first time that the story was told in a way that garnered some sympathy for why a man might have made the decisions that he did. What would drive him to take the blood of his own wife, Sarah Gadon’s Mirena, and complete the transformation into one of horror’s classic monsters?

The story stayed pretty close to the tale of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with even the famed Renfield making an appearance as a helper and confidant to Luke Evans’ Dracula with a changed name to Shkelgim. Although Dracula never really told the story of how the