Dracula returns to the big screen – feels like we’ve been saying that a lot lately – this summer in The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a brand new horror movie from Universal that adapts a single chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel. To get you even more excited about Dracula’s latest blood-sucking adventure, the film’s composer has been revealed this week.

Over on Twitter, Emmy-winner Bear McCreary (“The Walking Dead,” Happy Death Day) has revealed that he scored The Last Voyage of the Demeter for Universal!

The celebrated composer, who always elevates every project, tweets: “I’m thrilled to announce I scored #TheLastVoyageOfTheDemeter, collaborating with visionary director André Øvredal.
Thanks #Amblin and #UniversalPictures for giving me the chance to write a cinematic theme for #Dracula. (A dream come true for any composer!).”

The Last Voyage of the Demeter bites into theaters on August 11, 2023.

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Writer Bragi Schut’s script The Last Voyage of the Demeter has been floating around for many years now, with several different directors attached at various points. The director who eventually ended up board the ship is André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), announced back in 2021 as the director for the Amblin Partners film.

Corey Hawkins (Kong: Skull Island, “The Walking Dead”) stars in The Last Voyage of the Demeter. The latest version of the script was written by Zak Olkewicz (Bullet Train).

The film is “based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula. The chapter tells the story of the Russian schooner, Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – twenty four unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London. The film will detail the strange events that befell the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a terrifying presence onboard the ship. When it finally arrived near Whitby Harbour, it was a derelict. There was no trace of the crew.”

The cast also includes Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, and Nikolai Nikolaeff, with Javier Botet as Dracula.

I’m thrilled to announce I scored #TheLastVoyageOfTheDemeter, collaborating with visionary director André Øvredal.

Thanks @amblin and @UniversalPics for giving me the chance to write a cinematic theme for #Dracula. (A dream come true for any composer!)

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— Bear McCreary 🐻🎶 (@bearmccreary) June 22, 2023