DRACULA: A LOVE TALE – First look at X-MEN: FIRST CLASS actor Caleb Landry Jones as the legendary vampire

The cameras are now rolling for director Luc Besson’s (Leon, The Fifth Element) new interpretation of Dracula, with his DogMan Star Caleb Landry Jones is on board to play the legendary Transylvanian count.

The film is titled Dracula: A Love Storyand is described as “a big-budget reimagining of the vampire origin story.”

Deadline has released a first look at the film, giving us a behind-the-scenes look at Jones in his armor, presumably as Prince Vlad “the Impaler” Tepes before his time as a vampire.

“This is a totally romantic approach,” Says Besson about his adaptation. “Bram Stoker’s book has a romantic side that has not been explored in depth. It is a love story about a man who waits 400 years for his wife to be reincarnated. That is the true essence of the story: waiting an eternity for love to return.”

To be fair, the romantic elements of the story have has been explored several times in previous film and television adaptations, most notably in Francis Ford Coppola’s stylish Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Zoë Bleu plays Elisabeta and her 19th-century alter ego Mina, with Matilda De Angelis as Mina’s best friend and Christoph Waltz as “a vampire-hunting priest on the trail of Dracula” (undoubtedly this film’s interpretation of Van Helsing).

This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen Dracula’s life before his time as a vampire on screen. Coppola’s film features a flashback to the Count’s early days, and the more recent Dracula Untold focuses on the former knight’s fall into darkness after a fateful encounter with an ancient bloodsucker.

Jones played Banshee in X-Men: First Classbut the character was killed before the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. Memorable supporting roles in films such as Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Get Out, Finch And Made in America.followed.

As for Besson, DogMan was seen as a comeback of sorts for the controversial filmmaker, who made a name for himself with films such as Big Blue, Nikita’s Wife, LeonAnd The fifth ElementMore recently, his career has been marred by allegations of sexual misconduct, including allegations by an actress who worked with the director on Valerian – City of a Thousand Planets.

However, Besson steadfastly denied these allegations and was acquitted of all charges last year by the French equivalent of the US Supreme Court.