This is what it’s come to, people: the son of a shark-like studio executive directing a comic book adaptation mashing together two classic characters of literature and history who would never really cross paths. Probably in 3D. It’s Breck Eisner, and it’s “Blood of the Innocent.”
“Blood of the Innocent” is a 1985 graphic novel (i.e. serious person comics without superheroes) where Dracula faces off against Jack the Ripper. We spent fifteen seconds Googling for a better synopsis before we said “fuck it” and set our stack of original screenplays afire. Bill Marsilii is the current screenwriter for the project, and his previous experience comes from the Denzel Washington-starrer “Deja Vu” and the recent re-launch of “Wind In The Willows” as well as the planned “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.” He’s adapting the work of Mark Wheatley, who created “Blood of the Innocent” as well as something called “Frankenstein Mobster” that just… gah, just reading that kills the soul.
Eisner has a busy plate of projects we couldn’t give a shit about. He plans on remaking, and completely ruining “Escape From New York” for an entire generation before hitting “Innocent” next, followed by a new version of “Flash Gordon” that no one asked for, but will require a $100 million budget anyway. He’s also loosely attached to mangle David Cronenberg’s “The Brood”, meaning he will have defiled works from Cronenberg, George A. Romero and John Carpenter. There should be prisons for this sort of thing.