Dracula is crawling his shadow onto the pinnacle TV scene by and by. The new miniseries originates from previous Doctor Who plan, Steven Moffat, and his co-maker on Sherlock, Mark Gatiss, for another TV variant of Bram Stoker's notable tome, Dracula, are going to work out as intended.

The Girl in the Spider's Web's Claes Bang bears teeth as Dracula himself in the miniseries, a co-creation from BBC One and Netflix, set as three hour and a half episodes to air in the UK on the previous and stream in the U.S. (also, all around, sans China, where it doesn't work) on the last mentioned.

The arrangement by co-makers Moffat and Gatiss will, as indicated by the official depiction, "re-acquaint the world with Dracula, the vampire who made malice hot." It further states, "In Transylvania in 1897, the blood-drinking Count is drawing his arrangements against Victorian London. Furthermore, be cautioned: the dead travel quick." Dracula premieres all three episodes in the U.S. on Netflix on Saturday, January 4.



Dracula actor Claes Bang is known from The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Square, and Danish series The Bridge and Borgen. As Bang expressed in a press release that announced his casting:

“I am thrilled to be taking on the role of Dracula, especially when the script is in the hands of the incredible talents of Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and the team responsible for Sherlock. I’m so excited that I get to dig in to this iconic and super-interesting character. Yes he’s evil, but there’s also so much more to him, he’s charismatic, intelligent, witty and sexy. I realise that there’s a lot to live up to with all the amazing people that have played him over the years, but I feel so privileged, to be taking on this incredible character.”

The trailer just below bears a declaration for which Claes Bang's Dracula is destined to be remembered: "I'm undead, I'm not unreasonable."



John Heffernan will join the series as a main player, though his character was not revealed. Heffernan, an Essex-born actor, was just seen in an array of small screen offerings like HBO’s Brexit TV movie, Netflix/BBC’s Collateral, Netflix’s The Crown, ITV’s The Loch (Loch Ness in the U.S.), along with the BBC offerings Dickensian, Luther, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Ripper Street. Here's Netflix's own ominous teaser for Dracula.



Dolly Wells is also joining as a main player, with her character also remaining withheld. The London-born actress is known from her co-starring role – opposite Emily Mortimer – in the HBO comedy series Doll & Em and from Starz’s Patrick Stewart-headlined comedy series, Blunt Talk. She was recently seen in episodes of HBO’s Room 104 and IFC’s Portlandia, along with films such as Furlough, Boundaries and Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town.

They will be joined by Joanna Scanlan (No Offence, Notes on a Scandal), Morfydd Clark (Patrick Melrose, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and Luzja Richter (Phantom Thread). Co-creator Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Game of Thrones) will also appear. Lastly, you can also check out the first trailer for Moffat and Gatiss' take on Dracula just below.



Rounding out the cast are Jonathan Aris (Sherlock, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), Sacha Dhawan (Iron Fist, The Boy with the Top Knot), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Utopia, Misfits), Catherine Schell (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Space: 1999), Youssef Kerkour (Jack Ryan, Nighflyers), and Clive Russell (Game of Thrones, Ripper Street).