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In the latest issue of Fangoria Magazine, The Last Voyage of the Demeter director André Øvredal explains that he wanted his version of Dracula to be “the most horrific, frightening depiction of Dracula that has ever been seen on screen.” He continues, “To do that, we needed a performer who could be agile and do these things that are superhuman.”
This desire led to Øvredal casting Javier Botet ([REC], Mama, IT) as Demeter’s Dracula, and the monstrous take on the horror icon is fully revealed in an official image gallery today.
Meet Javier Botet’s feral, bloodthirsty incarnation of Dracula in the gallery below!
The Last Voyage of the Demeter bites into theaters on August 11, 2023.
Writer Bragi Schut’s script The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been floating around for many years now, with several different directors attached at various points. The director who eventually ended up board the ship is André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), announced back in 2021 as the director for the Amblin Partners film.
Corey Hawkins (Kong: Skull Island, “The Walking Dead”) stars in The Last Voyage of the Demeter. The latest version of the script was written by Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Train).
The film is “based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula. The chapter tells the story of the Russian schooner, Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – twenty four unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London. The film will detail the strange events that befell the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a terrifying presence onboard the ship. When it finally arrived near Whitby Harbour, it was a derelict. There was no trace of the crew.”
The cast also includes Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, and Nikolai Nikolaeff, with Javier Botet as Dracula.
(from left) Larsen (Martin Furulund), Petrofsky (Nikolai Nikolaeff), Toby (Woody Norman), Abrams (Chris Walley) and Joseph (Jon Jon Briones) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Abrams (Chris Walley), Olgaren (Stefan Kapicic) and Clemens (Corey Hawkins) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Wojchek (David Dastmalchian), Abrams (Chris Walley) and Clemens (Corey Hawkins) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
Javier Botet as Nosferatu in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Anna (Aisling Franciosi) and Clemens (Corey Hawkins) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
Javier Botet as Nosferatu in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
Javier Botet as Nosferatu in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Nosferatu (Javier Botet) and Clemens (Corey Hawkins) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
Nikolai Nikolaeff as Petrofsky in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Larsen (Martin Furulund) and Nosferatu (Javier Botet) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Director André Øvredal and Liam Cunningham on the set of The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
(from left) Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham), Abrams (Chris Walley) and Clemens (Corey Hawkins) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Director André Øvredal and Javier Botet as Nosferatu on the set of The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
(from left) Corey Hawkins and director André Øvredal on the set of The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
(from left) Clemens (Corey Hawkins) and Anna (Aisling Franciosi) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Clemens (Corey Hawkins) and Anna (Aisling Franciosi) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.
(from left) Clemens (Corey Hawkins) and Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham) in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by André Øvredal.