Samantha Barks & Others Join Universal's DRACULA Movie

If you've seen the recent Les Miserables adaptation then you won't have missed the lovely Samantha Barks making her big screen debut as Eponine.

By MarkCassidy - Jul 29, 2013 07:07 AM EST

Filed Under: Dracula

Source: THR

THR report that joining Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper and Sarah Gadon in Universal's take on the legendary vampire are Samantha Barks, Art Parkinson and Thor Kristjansson. Apparently Barks will be playing a 'baba yaga', an Eastern European witch of folklore who was said to have devoured any children who wandered into her forest. Kristjansson will play 'Bright Eyes', a "vicious assassin in the Ottoman Army", and young Parkinson will appear as Dracula's son 'Ingeras'. Director Gary Shore is eyeing an August start in Belfast, and the movie has an August 8, 2014 release date.

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9 Comments

CherryBomb - 7/29/2013, 7:35 AM

Barks is a terrific actress, she blew me away in Les Miserables, definitely one to watch!

CherryBomb - 7/29/2013, 7:36 AM

Hmmm they're including Baba Yaga in this? strange.
I guess she could be the one who turned him into a vampire with witchcraft or something.

thewonderer - 7/29/2013, 8:15 AM

Rickon might actually do something

SimyJo - 7/29/2013, 8:25 AM

If I were a Vampire I'd definately go for the thigh or bum vein with Samantha....

Om nom nom nom.

*,..,*

TheAmazingSpiderMan310 - 7/29/2013, 8:31 AM

lol @Django

RexDartEskimoSpy - 7/29/2013, 12:04 PM

Baba Yaga better have her chicken-leg house.

RexDartEskimoSpy - 7/29/2013, 12:14 PM

I'd like to bark up her tree. Good gravy.

mgeoff88 - 7/29/2013, 4:03 PM

Lol! I need to get more sleep. I thought this was news of additional casting for NBC's "Dracula."

If she is running around with vampires, her bark must be is as bad as her bite. :P

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