The Winter Soldier who fled communism will be Frankenstein

The ever-provocative filmmaker Radu Jadu ( Kontinental '25 , Don't Expect Too Much from the End of the World or An Unfortunate Lay or Crazy Porn ) premiered his eagerly awaited new feature film, Dracula , yesterday at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. This is yet another cinematic retelling of the myth in a bloody, savage and, of course, given its author, iconoclastic way. Shot in Transylvania, the birthplace of the literary Dracula, Jadu aims to dissect the work of Bran Stoker.

The director delves into the most famous vampire and the different dimensions of his image, as well as AI. After all , the film shows a young filmmaker working with an AI system to create various cinematic versions of Dracula.

Beyond this festival premiere, Radu Jadu (Bucharest, 1977) has left some gems at the presentation of the film to his country's media , Cultura la Dub , which was picked up by the American publication The Hollywood Reporter . The most interesting was the announcement of an adaptation of another horror novel, in this case Frankenstein, with a protagonist known to everyone. None other than the Winter Soldier, actor Sebastian Stan. Famous around the world for playing this character in the (crazy-multi) Marvel universe, in addition to having played Tommy Lee or Donald Trump himself in The Apprentice , he is Jadu's great asset to recreate the gothic world of Mary Shelley. He even has a title.

"I'm writing a movie," Jude said. "It'll be called Frankenstein in Romania ."

Sebastian Stan and Radu Jadu had previously discussed the possibility of collaborating, but Jude didn't have a clear idea to offer the Hollywood star. It wasn't until now that the possibility of taking Frankenstein to the land of Dracula was expedited. Sten, like Jadu, is Romanian, although as a child he moved to the United States with his mother to escape the Ceausescu dictatorship . "My parents were part of the youth who were fighting against communism," Stan told Vanity Fair. "My father helped people escape the country illegally, to the point where he was a wanted man. And he himself had to flee."

According to Jude, Stan could play "both" key roles in the novel: that of the scientist Victor Frankenstein and that of his creature. It's understood that the script would combine the real existence of a secret CIA prison in Romania with the legend of Frankenstein's monster. In short, it's all very crazy and rebellious, like Jadu's films.

A very popular character who has just experienced his own resurrection with Guillermo del Toro's version. A Netflix production starring Oscar Isaac. We're in for a duel between a Romanian Frankenstein and a Mexican one. Interesting.