Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Last Voyage of Demeter

3/3/10 - Stefan Ruzowitzky is in negotiations to make a period horror, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The Last Voyage of the Demeter is named after the ship that carried Dracula from Transylvania to London in Bram Stoker's classic tale. In that novel, it washes up on the shores of England with one raving mad survivor.  Written a decade ago by Bragi Schut, Demeter places the voyage in a tale in which a crew is slaughtered one-by-one by a mysterious passenger.

5/1/09 - Director Marcus Nispel is in talks to board the vampire-themed The Last Voyage of Demeter for Phoenix Pictures with Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer and Brad Fischer producing, Variety reported.  The story, written by Bragi Schut Jr., is based on a chapter in Bram Stoker's Dracula describing the arrival of the vampire count in England on a cargo ship that has crashed into the rocks at Whitby with no crew and the dead captain lashed to the steering wheel.  Stoker tells the story via the captain's log of the voyage, which begins in Bulgaria and becomes increasingly disjointed as members of the crew disappear.

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