Hollywood’s original Dracula, Bela Lugosi, is getting ready to rise from the grave. Figuratively speaking, that is. According to Deadline , Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company is behind a new biopic of the iconic Hungarian actor, who starred as Dracula in Universal’s 1931 film. The team of Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski is writing the script. The pair actually wrote Ed Wood , the 1994 film that won Martin Landau the Oscar for portraying an older Lugosi toward the end of his life. The duo is behind many of Hollywood’s most successful biopics, like The People vs. Larry Flynt and the series The People vs. O.J. Simpson .

Lugosi, who emigrated from Hungary in the early 20th century, originated the role of Dracula on the Broadway stage in the 1920s. However, he was not Unive

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