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Dracula Starring Lon Chaney - An Alternate History for Classic Film Monsters (Paperback)
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Dracula Starring Lon Chaney - An Alternate History for Classic Film Monsters (Paperback)
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Late 1929. The Stock market crash. At MGM Studios Irving Thalberg
was involved in a power struggle. Lon Chaney's contract was coming
up for renewal. Tod Browning, MGM's famed director of the macbre
genre for the studio, had left and signed a contract back at his
home studio, Universal. Carl Laemmle Jr was made production head of
Universal for his father and he wanted to do a film version of
Dracula. Carl Sr. agreed, as long as they had Lon Chaney as the
star. Early in August of 1930, Carl Junior, still attempting to
sign Chaney for the role, ordered a treatment to be authored by
Louis Bromfield. By Mid August he was teamed with screenwriter
Dudley Murphy and they began work on the script. Then in the middle
of the negotiations, Lon Chaney unexpected by everyone in the film
industry, died on August 26th. This volume of the Atlernate History
of Classic Monster Films we present the full first Bromfield
treatment, the incomplete first draft screenplay by Bromfield and
Murphy. In addition, when Dracula was finally produced, more in the
fashion of the popular 1927 play than the Bram Stoker novel, as was
intended by Laemmle for Chaney - A silent version of the Lugosi
Dracula was prepared for theaters who had not yet converted to
sound. We have also included a complete Title list from this
version. Also included in this volume is a translated version of
F.W. Murnau's shooting script for the first screen version of
Dracula - filmed in Germany in 1922 and called NOSFERATU, a
symphony of horror. Murnau's hand annotations are included in bold
print throughout the script.
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