Amanda Jiang, Joey Phillips (“Outlander”), Richard Brake (“Game of Thrones,” “The Mandalorian,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” “Barbarian”) and Shayne Ward (“The Good Ship Murder,” “Coronation Street”) will lead the cast of gothic romance and supernatural thriller “Dracula: The Crimson Code,” which has started filming.
The contemporary female-led Dracula reimagining is directed by Andrea M. Catinella and written by Enrico Tessarin. The film is set in contemporary London and the English countryside.
Jiang stars as Countess Isolde Dragomir, a centuries-old vampire aristocrat at the center of London’s most exclusive social circles. Her glamorous Crimson Code soirées conceal an ancient conflict between two vampire bloodlines — the Dragomirs and the Howes — and a centuries-old desire for revenge against the man who murdered the great love of her life.
When Isolde kills the son of her old enemy, she draws him back into her world. But her plans are disrupted by the arrival of Theo Mercer, a man she recognizes as the reincarnation of the lover she lost centuries earlier.
Theo, however, is not simply Adrian returned. He is his own man — forcing Isolde to confront whether she can finally let go of the past.
The film is produced by Tessarin, Jiang, Catinella and Carla Fuschillo for Starmist Films, whose first feature “City of Masks” has its world premiere in London on Oct. 29.
Jiang said in a statement, “I have always been drawn to gothic atmosphere, the theatricality of it and the way those worlds can create a sense of mystery, danger and desire. That was very much part of what inspired ‘City of Masks,’ and it is something I wanted to explore even further with ‘The Crimson Code.’
“With ‘Dracula,’ we have the opportunity to take that love of gothic storytelling into a much larger world. Isolde is powerful, dangerous and deeply vulnerable, and at the heart of the film is a story about love, revenge and the possibility of choosing a different future.”