Love the Christina Ricci idea. Like mother, like daughter . . ..

And she could absolutely to Morticia’s voice in an animated version.

So does this mean that Disney also now owns PLANET OF THE APES and THE X-FILES?

And THE BLACK CAT with Karloff and Lugosi,where he’s actually quite charming and likable as the naive, Everyman hero. (Probably his best performance.)

But when the most memorable screen Harker is “handsome but kind of bland,” you know it’s a thankless role. :)

In the Strucker parents’ defense, they actually DID succeed in tweaking Agent Turner’s conscience regarding the Hound program, albeit by getting through to his wife. Turner looked none too happy to find out that Dreamer had died in the mad doctor’s custody and was genuinely attempting to stop the doctor from treating…

On other hand, I’m a huge Dracula buff and even I couldn’t tell you who played Harker in most of the movie versions without looking them up. There’s David Manners in the original 1931 version, but I only remember him because he was in a fair number of old Universal monster pictures back in the day. But let’s be…

Wise actually started out directing horror movies back in the 1940s.. See CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE and THE BODY SNATCHER (with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi; not to be confused with INVASION OF).

Both very good movies, actually.

Because Kubrick did a fair number of genre films: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, DR. STRANGELOVE, THE SHINING . . ...

Starring William Campbell, STAR TREK’s “Squire of Gothos” . . . and the Klingon commander in “The Trouble with Tribbles.”

Although Herzog did do his version of Dracula: NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE.

In Reeves’ slight defense, Jonathan Harker is kinda a thankless part; you’re doomed to be upstaged by Dracula and Van Helsing. When you think about all the classic adaptations of the past, you remember Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier, etc. Nobody…

Another example: Stanley Donen, acclaimed director of such classic musicals as Singin’ in the Rain, On the Town, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, etc, deciding to produce and direct . . . SATURN 3?

Ditto. Just called our local multiplex and even their manager was “I dunno. Check our schedule a few weeks from now.”

Someone was saying it’s going wider on the 22nd?

Still waiting for this to open somewhere near me.

Well, she’s already fond of wearing capes on RIVERDALE.

From your lips to the CW’s ears . . . .

Sold!

Thank goodness President Lynda Carter is still in charge of the United States of the CW . . . even if she is an alien.

See also the dialogue about how they can’t stop thinking about doing it again . . .

Constable: You wildly overestimate my video mash-up skills, but surely I would want to use the classic 1960s versions of THE TIME MACHINE and JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH instead? George Pal for the win! 

(Yes, I’m old.)