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Charlie Hunnam is way more than his scrappy biker character of Jax Teller on FX’s “Sons of Anarchy.” He’s written a screenplay on Vlad the Impaler, a 15th century badass whose penchant for brutality and night-fighting struck fear in the heart of the Ottoman Empire and gave his outnumbered forces an advantage on their home battlefield. He was also the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
Hunnam’s screenplay for “Vlad” will be produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the “Twilight” series. But Hunnam says there will be no vampires in this project.
The actor became fascinated with Vlad a national hero of Romania, when he spent five months traveling the country during downtime filming 2003’s “Cold Mountain.” Anthony Mandler is in line to helm the film.
When Entertainment Weekly asked Hunnam if he was going for a “300” vibe with the script, he replied, “My hope when writing it was for the end result to be more ‘Braveheart’ than ‘300,’ and I think that as it’s evolved, we’ve got a pretty good mixture of both. I labor a little bit more over the history than ‘300’ did. I was really interested in the reality of how this man turned into the myth, and because of some of his behaviors, it’s actually very easy to weave that mythology in, in a true way. As a writer, you have your idea of what it’s going to be, and now I have to release it. It’s Mandler’s film. But I have a lot of faith in him, and I like him tremendously as a human being, so I feel in safe hands turning my baby over to him.”
Read the full interview here.
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