In an age of competing projects, we should expect to see this sort of thing happen a lot more often. Earlier today we talked about the fact that Warner Bros. might be looking to Russell Crowe to star in
Harker, Jaume Collet-Serra's revamped take on
Dracula.
So what does Universal do? The studio, which really has a certain claim to
Dracula given the 1931 version (or the two '31 versions if you take the Spanish-language one ...