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[starstrider-productions]

Starstrider Productions' next project is...

From the talented Bram Stoker, the award-nominated writer of epic science-fiction drama The Pilgrimage Saga, and the producer of The PrickwillowPapers, Starstrider Productions presents…

DRACULA: 2004

The year is 2004. Flip-phones are in vogue, MySpace has just been launched, and Britney Spears’ Toxic is top of the charts. And Castle Dracula is about to receive a young guest for dinner…

Armed with only his dictaphone, newly-minted solicitor Jonathan Harker has taken the Eurostar out of Britain and travelled to the depths of Romania, where phone service and peace of mind have become a thing of the past. But Jonathan isn’t the only one in the toils: he’s just unwittingly given a bloodsucking monster unfettered access to London’s teeming millions, and he, his friends and Mina, the love of his life, are in grave danger.

A found-footage extravaganza, Dracula: 2004 dares to ask what happens when you combine vampires and dial-up internet. Join Jonathan as he survives the work trip from hell; gossip with Mina and Lucy over Lucy’s three suitors; and meet the eccentric Van Helsing and her vampire-hunting armoury. This is a new millennium, a new age of technology, and a version of Dracula that you have never experienced before.

Care to take a bite?

Written and directed by Francesca Mylod-Ford

Produced by Maddy Searle

Music composed by Joash Kari

Cast to be revealed...

[starstrider-productions]

You are so very correct and you are going to LOVE this show!

I want to argue that Dracula is the first work of Nokiawave.

-It's heavily concerned with new technology which drives the plot: Telegrams between everyone being collated into the text, Dr Seward's audiolog on the phonograph which Mina types up, mass transit in the form of both trains and Tube, steamships (and specifically the contrast between steam and sail) and loads of minor examples.

-It's concerned with new social technologies and social change: Mina is a typist, a respectable modern job for a young middle-class woman. Jon is a clerk and is working in an exciting emerging market. Dr Seward uses all the modern methods and keeps up with theory and scientific developments. Lucy is pleased to have plenty of male friends, not just to be seeking to marry. And it contrasts this with both the "good" Old Ways - The helpful, hopeless, peasants who give Jon his anti-vampire icon, the "broad minded" but also clearly steeped in superstition Van Helsing - and the "bad" Old Ways - Obviously, Dracula and also the enslaved Roma (Who, oh god, I I have to write about them in the context of Romanian chattel slavery of Roma, which was technically abolished in stages throughout the 2nd half of the 19th century, but where emancipation came with enforced sedentarism and obligation to a landowner - And where many remained enslaved in all practical terms into the C20th, and specifically in Transylvania the effects of Maria Theresia's Four Decrees that were still in effect that meant they would both be indentured to a landowner as "new farmers" and their children would be kidnapped by the state and given to white families for "reeducation" - but most people analysing the text seem to treat them as willingly Evil Minions).

-It's full of the anxieties about what Eastern and Southern Europe will do as they "modernise and open" (ie become financially and culturally available to the West) and specifically the fear of the Rich Slavic* Oligarch (to a certain kind of British mind, anyone east of Berlin and north of Athens is Slavic, sigh) spreading their malign influence in the Capital Cities of the West. Even the touch that Dracula was once a warlord but is now a slick investor and man-about-town.

-It has lots of continent hopping, focusing on the ~local colour~ in Transylvania and the contrast between both the "superstitious" locals and the traveller who finds it all very quaint and interesting but not very serious, and between the poverty of the normal people and the wealth and seclusion of Dracula, and then likewise giving us whistle-stop tours of the interesting bits of Whitby and London, making the city as much of a character as the humans. The Westerner abroad is seen as just a natural phenomenon, but the foreigners* in Britain are notable and exotic.

- It has a mysterious superweapon/monster which is hidden around a big western capital city, where most people (and even the police and regular military) have no idea what it is and are powerless to stop it, and a lot of tension lies on the crux of "What happens if this gets out here, surrounded by all these civilians?" - In a way that treats the mythological East* as a natural place for atrocities to occur, but them happening in London is a shock.

-It has spying: Jon sneaking around the locked-up Carfax with his miniature camera, trying to take pictures to find out what Dracula is doing in there, could have absolutely been in a 1990s thriller. Likewise, meeting in Harrods to avoid suspicion because it's a plausible place for a fashionable young lady to be, surrounded by anonymising crowds.

-It has information warfare: Dracula reading up on British politics, studying maps of London, paying clerks and using shell companies to disguise his property acquisitions, and likewise the heroes using the telegram and port records and the sheer mass of paperwork generated by his activities to track Dracula, which feels like close kin to the Nokiawave staples of finding someone on cctv or by their credit card, or their car registration being flagged at a checkpoint. Jonathan lamenting the lack of an Ordnance Survey in Europe and the unmapped bits of Transylvania specifically really fits with the idea of the "Control Grid" posited by Gregory Flaxman who writes a lot about surveillance and information control in cinema.

-It has a team of both specialists and laypeople who were dragged into the action by circumstance, and much relies on their relationships. The laypeople's "unimportant" skills (Jonathan's knowledge of property and finance especially, and Mina's skills with logistics as well as her innovation and bravery in using herself as a conduit to Dracula) turn out to save the day. The team is multi-national and basically represents The Free World (TM), as well as allowing for jokes about national stereotypes.

-Mina being notably not a damsel in distress, but instead using her personal connection to the villain to absolutely ruin him in ways that nobody else could, is very much like the role of many women in Nokiawave films: She may be traumatised and in danger, more than anyone else because of the villain's obsession with her, but she's smart and deadly and willing to take risks to complete the mission.

-It ends with a massive cross-continental vehicle chase with tonnes of explosions.

[destinyc1020]

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The way that we in the fandom called "The Winner" months in advance! 😅😂🤣

I swear, we really should work for the Federal Government lol 😆

Looks like Tom is gonna be booked and busy!! 😁💅🏽

[bestofsophieturner]

EXCLUSIVE: Zygi Kamasa, the veteran film executive who launched True Brit Entertainment 15 months ago, is on a scary mission to bring back Britain’s horror film heritage. Today, he reveals that his company will release period shocker The Dreadful starring Game of Thrones duo Sophie Turner and Kit Harington and Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock, Mystic River, The Morning Show) in the UK.

[ayosource]

The poster for Omni Loop (2024). In theaters September 20th 🌀

[connorsnothereeither]

Fighting the editing demons. Absolutely throwing left click-hooks.

So here’s the notes app to do list teasers for things lmao-

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

full art:

[silvyysthings]

Armie upcoming projects , I love all this

[sparklewolfglitch]

I had to make some chapter 2 today before ep 4 is coming in Friday. So Gangle had a new mask but I finally designed her mask look. Here’s a preview of your favorite couples.

I’m still making chapter 2 but not too long.

Stay tuned, folks! 💖⭐️🌀🎀

[honeytonedhottie]

randomyl found your vlog and omg the magazine is such a good idea!! and i agree you HAVE TO come on to substack!!!

i just made an account 💻🎀

[shiorimakibawrites]

Upcoming Two-Parter

This post is rated 18+

Like so many others, I have been infected with feral brainrot after seeing the leaked trailer for Daredevil: Born Again.

In particular, my Slutty Matt muse grabbed that shower scene and combined it with this gif👇

So there is an incoming smutty piece called Relax featuring soaking wet black suit Matt and shower sex.

Then because the Murdock Tuna Team are shameless enablers, a follow-up Part II featuring tied up Matt, edging, and riding him until he's a blissful puddle.

[starstrider-productions]

Dracula: 2004 early schedule

Excited about our new project? You should be! Here's what to expect for the next few months:

March: Promotion - teasers, graphics, cast reveals and more!

April: Crowd-funding - your opportunity to secure perks, donate and help us raise some excitement around this show!

May: Recording begins...

For a bit of context, Dracula: 2004 is 38 episodes (divided into 3 parts) of glorious and unrestrained vampire horror, each episode with a runtime of about 20 minutes. We plan to release them on a weekly schedule, and we will be recording them all in one go, which is why we need time to record and edit. But trust me: this show is absolutely going to be worth the wait.

Care to take a bite?

[doomed2repeat]

Luke Newton’s animated movie Viana: The Legend of the Golden Hearts will be coming out Christmas 2025. It’s an animated musical love story, which really suits him because he has a beautiful voice. Disney really stopped doing animated love stories in favor of family stories, so this really has the potential to fill a niche if they promote it well!!

I hope it has a wide release!!!

[dungeoncrawlingwithoutprotection]

Current Plot bunnies (minus Weight Limit & Little Plaything)

Some of them are repeats between the sticky note (irl) and color note (screen shot)

Sticky Says:

Brood Mother- Ant Colony

Built from Scratch- Bee Hive

Lost- Orc raising Human

Accident Queen- Build a Harem

Weight Limit- Office Shenanigans

Others

Peace Treaty offering for Orc Village (chap 1&2 for expo, chap 3 take sharp turn to smut)

Dragon abducts human and gets increasingly frustrated when no one seems to want them back. Gets a rude awakening before realizing they valued the human as a romantic partner/mate themselves (and assumed others would too)

Elvan/Sylvan Delight: Elf nobleman enters neutral big city to meet human noblewomen, falls for innkeeper's daughter instead.

Minotaur is offered a wife to leave the village alone, is given the "problem woman" who refuses to do anything but speak her mind.

[bestofsophieturner]

Sophie Turner talking about 'The dreadful' and 'Trust' for Harper's Bazaar