You know him for writing and directing The Fifth Element (starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich), and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (starring Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan), as the writer and director of the 1990 film Le Femme Nikita with Anne Parillaud (and its English remake, Point of No Return with Bridget Fonda), and the 1994 movie The Professional (Natalie Portman, Jean Reno). He’s also written the screenplays for The Transporter starring Jason Statham (2002), Taken starring Liam Neeson (2008), and Colombiana starring Zoe Saldana (2011). Then he tied together his science fiction sense with his trademark badass woman leading role in 2014 with Lucy, starring Scarlet Johansson, before returning to the assassin genre with Sasha Luss in Anna.
This year director Luc Besson is joining in lock-step with Guillermo del Toro, who just announced his film adaptation of Frankenstein. Besson is adapting Bram Stoker’s Dracula for the big screen, putting his own signature on the classic horror novel, and the first trailer has arrived. It stars Caleb Landry Jones, known to Marvel fans as Banshee in the X-Men franchise. He’s also appeared in acclaimed movies The Social Network, No Country for Old Men, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, American Made, Get Out, and Twin Peaks. The movie co-stars Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz and Matilda de Angelis (Citadel: Diana).
Here’s the first trailer for Luc Besson’s Dracula:
Luc Besson’s Dracula arrives in theaters in the U.S. on July 30, 2025.
C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg
