THR reports that Luke Evans will star in Universal's Dracula origin horror film Dracula: Year Zero. Evans has an interesting resume of projects which includes Bard The Bowman in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Three Musketeers, Fast And Furious 6 and Immortals. The film will be directed by Gary Shore which will be his feature debut.
"A young prince who, when the lives of his wife and child are put in danger by a bloodthirsty sultan, risks his soul to save them, and in the process becomes the first vampire."
