VICTIM OF HIS IMAGINATION
Anyone know much about Hammer's proposed project about Bram Stoker that would have blended fact and fantasy as it looked at events in the author's life that influenced his fiction? In January of 1972,...
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It was pretty diffuse. Michael Carreras sent it to me when I started writing my own take on it, and, trust me, it didn't influence me at all. Within a 90 minute playing time, about six or seven Stoker...
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Gilbert & Sullivan meet Dracula. I'd be all over that like white on rice! "I am the very visage of a virile Victorian vampire..."
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Thanks for jumping in here, Ted. Sounds like keeping it concise with just the Dracula angle would have made for a stronger story. After my initial post, I dug out some old issues of FilmFax, which...
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Really cool riff, Ted - would like to have seen it. -Craig "Eddie Booth fan" W.
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It would be impossible to tell Stoker's story and NOT have it peppered with the elite jet-set of the era. If I actually have it in a file, I could put it up somewhere. It was designed for Christopher...
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Ted Newsom wrote: I fused the Stoker biography and the people around him into a sequential tale of Dracula, essentially double-casting the players with their novel equivalents. Stoker=Van Helsing;...
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Yes, a reference to him in a conversation between Stoker and Oscar Wilde... and Stoker is aghast at Oscar's implictions. And Oscar (who would have married Florence Stoker, except Bram was a better...
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Ted Newsom wrote: And Oscar ... just loves tweaking the uptight Irishman... Isn't that what got him in trouble?
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Ted- Not sure I'm straight on this (there's your Wilde joke) - was Lee to have been Stoker, or Irving? Seems like, in many ways, he'd have been a real fit with Sir Henry. -Craig W.
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Tumak wrote: Ted Newsom wrote: And Oscar ... just loves tweaking the uptight Irishman... Isn't that what got him in trouble? Not only that, but Wilde was Irish too. Kind of a Wilde Irish rose.
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was Lee to have been Stoker, or Irving? Craig, if you can take studio ballyhoo at face value, there were suggestions he would have been Irving/Dracula. An alternate title for this is said to have been...
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Irving=Dracula=Lee The part I wrote for Cushing was Arminius Vamberry-- sedentary, with two (and a half) scenes, one in the British Museum explaining the history of Vlad the Impaler to Stoker, and the...
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Ted, jog my memory; didn't you also write something else intended for Cushing to have played Vamberry? (Either for stage or screen?)
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Nope-- same thing. ©2002 Ted Newsom Cushing, Stoker & Me by Ted Newsom The last time I saw Peter Cushing, he was sitting in the passenger seat of Joyce Broughton's car after we'd recorded the...
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Ted, thanks for taking the time & trouble to post all that! I recall you'd mentioned, somewhere along the line, giving Cushing that script after completing his narration for FLESH & BLOOD but,...
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This Newsom kid ain't bad... Kidding aside, Ted, this looks like it could really have been a terrific project. Too bad it was not to be... at least not then. But having Cushing's "blessing" must give...
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This Newsom kid ain't bad... He's really nailed Cushing's delivery down. You can just see and hear the mannerisms and voice come to life as you read those lines.
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BijouBob8mm wrote: He's really nailed Cushing's delivery down. You can just see and hear the mannerisms and voice come to life as you read those lines. That's true, dear boy. I think Ted himself...
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Need to do a screen test first, to see how he looks in Marcel curls....
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