London
(ANI):
American
horror
filmmaker
John
Carpenter
has
decided
to
revive
Bram
Stoker"s
super
villain
vampire
Count
Dracula.
The
62-year-old
filmmaker
has
signed
actress
Hilary
Swank
in
a
modern-day
adaptation
of
Stoker's
classic
vampire
tale.
The
director
has
agreed
to
take
charge
of
Fangland,
which
is
based
on
the
2007
novel
by
John
Marks,
reports
The
Daily
Express.
According
to
Variety.com,
the
plot
sees
Stoker's
story
re-imagined
in
the
tale
of
a
female
New
York-based
TV
journalist
who
travels
to
Romania
to
interview
a
notorious
European
arms
dealer,
who
is
a
modern-day
Dracula.
Swank
will
play
the
role
of
an
ill-fated
reporter
Evangeline
Harker.