Cast a Dracula Movie: The Challenge

[chainsaw midget]

Look, if you're on a badmovie site, you've no doubt seen at least a half a dozen versions of Dracula by this point. 

So, my challenge here is take ONE actor and only one from different Dracula movies to create the ultimate cast. 

So you need a ...

Dracula
Renfield
Van Helsing
Brides of Dracula (we'll count the brides as a set)
Lucy
Mina
Jonathan Harker
Dr. Seward
Arthur Holmwood
Quincy Morris


Now, it's your job to pick actors that have played the roles in the past and combine them into the best casting you can get, BUT you can only choose one actor per movie.  So, if you wanted, let's say the Anthony Hopkins Van Helsing from Bram Stoker's Dracula, you couldn't also have the Gary Oldman as Dracula because they're from the same movie.  Get it? 


(I know the the movies tend to change characters around, rename them, swap their roles, or merge them, so just use your best judgement.)

[LilCerberus]

Hmm... I've had an idea for a prequel for a couple years....
It would've involved why Dracula was in a hurry to leave his castle & move to England....

[Rev. Powell]

There are too many minor characters in here for me, I'm cutting out the three underneath Jonathan Harker at least.

Dracula - Nicolas Cage (because I'm making that kind of movie)
Renfield - Dwight Frye
Van Helsing - Peter Cushing
Brides of Dracula - Marita Hunt, Andree Melly, Marie Devereux (from Brides of Dracula)
Lucy - Sadie Frost
Mina (called Lucy) - Isabelle Adjani
Jonathan Harker - Gustav von Wangenheim

[chainsaw midget]

Dracula: Bela Lugosi (1931)
Mina: Winona Ryder (1992)
Van Helsing: Peter Cushing (1958)
Renfield: Peter MacNicol (1995)
Brides of Dracula: (Van Helsing, 2004)
Quincy Morris: Jack Taylor (Count Dracula, 1970)
Dr. Seward: Donald Pleasence (Count Dracula, 1977 BBC)
Lucy: Asia Argento (Dracula 3D, 2012)
Arthur Holmwood: Trevor Eve (Dracula, 1979)

[M.10rda]

Dracula - Nicolas Cage (because I'm making that kind of movie)
Mina (called Lucy) - Isabelle Adjani

It's a shame they've never shared a frame. I feel they'd really enjoy each other's company onscreen. It could still happen - Adjani was in some stupid HBO miniseries w/ Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber earlier this year and she looks younger than either of them. (Maybe Klaus Kinski actually vampirized her.......)

[M.10rda]

With apologies to Chainsaw, I don't have strong feelings about most of those so I will take a cue from the Reverend and just go where the juice is. This seems like the most interesting/combustible collection of actors to me:

Dracula: Klaus Kinski (NOSFERATU IN VENICE)

Lucy: Isabelle Adjani (NOSFERATU) (Ah hah, loophole!  )

Renfield: Tom Waits

"Von Franz" (let's face it, Van Helsing): Willem Dafoe

Seward: Donald Pleasance (I think I prefer Richard E. Grant though Pleasance is great and works better here.)

Director Tod Browning (notorious for being a bit of an edgelord) convenes this cast for his new production, already controversial for featuring live birds and rodents in Renfield's scenes and authentic victims of human trafficking to play the Brides. Pleasance is nervous about working with Kinski again (after the criminal fiasco that was ...IN VENICE) but is unaccustomed to turning down work. He advises caution to Adjani, but she knows what Kinski is like and anyway after POSSESSION nothing fazes her. Kinski is constantly abusive to everyone as usual but Waits is just taciturnly amused for the most part, and Dafoe is indifferent because he digs working with Adjani so much, devising new scenes to add to the script where they can riff off each other.

Kinski finally loses all control when Dafoe and Adjani improvise a scene where Van Helsing inspects Lucy's entirely nude body for signs of vampirism, and Van Helsing is also naked for no clear reason. Kinski flies into a rage and begins strangling Waits, who remains more or less cool with it.

Pleasance goes to Universal HR and thus Browning is forced to recast the role of Count Dracula. Udo Kier arrives in costume, but Kinski won't leave. Waits finally puts his hat on and strolls away from the set. Kinski declares he will now play both Dracula and Renfield. Browning starts shooting the climactic scene where Kier tries to put the final chomp on Adjani and Dafoe rushes in to save her. Kinski also busts in front of the camera and repeats all of Kier's lines, just much louder than Kier says them.

Everyone begins to improvise. Pleasance weeps for his craft. Browning keeps the cameras rolling. It's a real mess in post so Universal hires Kinski's COUNT DRACULA director Jess Franco to do reshoots. 500% more Brides!

[bob]

Dracula - Nicholas Cage (Reinfeld)
Renfield - Dwight Frye (Dracula 1931)
Van Helsing - Hugh Jackman (Van Helsing)
Brides of Dracula (we'll count the brides as a set) - Marita Hunt, Andree Melly, Marie Devereux (Brides of Dracula)
Lucy - Carol Marsh (Dracula 1958)
Mina - Amy Yasbeck (Dracula: Dead and Loving It)
Jonathan Harker - Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula 3D 2012)
Dr. Seward - Donald Pleasence (Dracula 1979)
Arthur Holmwood - Cary Elwes (Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992)
Quincy Morris - Jack Taylor (Count Dracula 1970)

this is all over the damn place     

[Alex]

Aah, if only Tim Curry had ever played Dracula.