He played one of the most legendary monsters in movie history! Now Leonardo DiCaprio is bringing his story to the big screen

He played one of the most legendary monsters in movie history! Now Leonardo DiCaprio is bringing his story to the big screen

He played one of the greatest monsters in the history of cinema four times. In the collective imagination, Bela Lugosi is the face of Dracula, a role that established his popularity both on the Broadway stage and in film, beginning in 1931 under the direction of Tod Browning.

according to termThe Hungarian actor will soon be the subject of a big-screen biopic from Appian Way Productions, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davison’s company.

The screenplay of this film will be written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karashevsky. The two authors were already in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood origin, which had already returned, in part, to Bela Lugosi. On screen, the actor was played by Martin Landau, who won an Oscar for his performance.

war veteran

Unlike Ed Wood’s film, which featured an aging Bela Lugosi, this biographical project will focus on the actor’s beginnings. Before devoting himself to cinema, the actor fought in the First World War.

The injuries put him into a serious addiction to morphine. An attitude that will follow him for the rest of his life. In 1956, Bela Lugosi died of a myocardial infarction at the age of 73. He is buried in a Dracula costume.

Bela Lugosi, soon in the movies

Source: Allocine

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