Vertical will release this film nationwide on February 6th, 2026
The first trailer for Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale (yes, that’s the full title) is here, and it looks gloriously historic. I didn’t pay much attention to the early reports, but learning that Christoph Waltz plays Van Helsing has me giddy as a school child. I love every role he takes on, and the idea of him going toe-to-toe with Vlad is catnip.
The tale is familiar, sure, but this version looks like it’s being filtered through the eyes of a dreamer rather than an angry stalker. In the short, Dracula the loss of the love of his life, and he believes he can find Elisabeta again. He knows her soul reincarnated and is searching for her. This take may well cover more ground about his beloved before the events of Bram Stoker‘s novel. But by the time we reach the Victorian age, instead of an accidental encounter where he realizes Mina contains Liz’s soul, the trailer makes the vampire’s journey a long crawl toward reaching love eternal than immortal.
