{"id":1789,"date":"2014-07-01T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T14:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/entertainment\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2014-07-01T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T14:38:19","slug":"first-dracula-untold-trailer-adds-action-to-vampire-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"First \u2018Dracula Untold\u2019 Trailer Adds Action to Vampire Mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article531_thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article531_slide.jpg\" \/>While there has been plenty of portrayals of Dracula in the media, Universal\u2019s upcoming \u201cDracula Untold\u201d aims to shed some new light on the tale \u2014 with the help of a lot of action.<\/p>\n<p>The first trailer for the movie hit the web this weekend. Luke Evans stars as Vlad Tepes. While he is very powerful in human form, he becomes a vampire to protect his family after a stronger threat is posed by a greedy Turkish sultan, played by Dominic Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient vampire who helps Tepes undergo his transformation is played by Charles Dance, who portrays Tywin Lannister on \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d Even \u201cThrones\u201d fans may not notice the actor at first, as he\u2019s almost unrecognizable in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>Lorde provides the eerie soundtrack with her cover of Tears for Fears\u2019 \u201cEverybody Wants to Rule the World,\u201d a song recorded for \u201cThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The horror-action film marks director Gary Shore\u2019s feature debut. \u201cDracula Untold\u201d is set to bow Oct. 17.\n<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>[youtube_sc url=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2aWqecTTuE]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there has been plenty of portrayals of Dracula in the media, Universal\u2019s upcoming \u201cDracula Untold\u201d aims to shed some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}