Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
Move over, Robert Pattinson…
Malcolm McDowell, the guy who wreaked havoc in the streets of London in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), has been cast as Vlad the Impaler in Amy Heckerling's horror comedy Vamps, the writer-director's first project since the 2007 Michelle Pfeiffer-Paul Rudd vehicle I Could Never Be Your Woman.
For those ignorant of vampire history, the bloodthirsty Wallachian prince Vlad was presumably the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula. And for those ignorant of Robert Pattinson history, according to Ancestry.com Vlad was Pattinson's distant cousin.
Written and directed by Heckerling, among whose credits are Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Look Who's Talking (1989), and Clueless (1995), Vamps follows two hip New York City vampires, Goody and Stacy, who fall in love — with humans, from what I understand. That upsetting turn of events will lead to a crucial decision about their immortality. Clueless star Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter play the lovestruck vampires.
The highly eclectic supporting cast includes Sigourney Weaver, Justin Kirk, Richard Lewis, Kristen Johnston, Marilu Henner, Zak Orth, Wallace Shawn, Dan Stevens, Scott Thomson, and Todd Barry.
Via Dread Central.