Dracula 2000
Dracula 2000, also known internationally as Dracula 2001, is a 2000 American action horror film written and directed by Patrick Lussier. The film stars Luke Evans,Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Omar Epps, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Jeri Ryan, and Jennifer Esposito.
Matthew Van Helsing Christopher Plummer, the alleged descendant of the famed 19th century Dutch medical doctor, Abraham Van Helsing, owns an antique shop in London in 2000. One night with Van Helsing upstairs, his secretary, Solina Jennifer Esposito, allows a group of thieves Danny Masterson, Lochlyn Munro, Sean Patrick Thomas, led by her boyfriend, Marcus Omar Epps, into the shop. The thieves infiltrate the shops underground highsecurity vault and find a sealed silver coffin protected by a deadly defense system. Based on the level of security surrounding the coffin, Solina and Marcus decide that the coffins contents must be valuable, so they escape with it and flee to New Orleans, Louisiana. When Van Helsing discovers that the coffin has been stolen, he boards a plane to America, telling his apprentice, Simon Sheppard Jonny Lee Miller, to remain in London. Simon does not follow his mentors orders and travels to Louisiana as well.Aboard the plane, one of the thieves manages to open the coffin, revealing the dormant body of Count Dracula Gerard Butler. Dracula awakens and attacks the thieves, causing the plane to crash in the Louisiana swamps. Dracula survives the crash and travels to New Orleans where college students Mary Heller Justine Waddell and Lucy Westerman Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick are living. Mary is estranged from her family and has recently been plagued by dreams of a strange, terrifying man. ........
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