A few years back, “Riverdale” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was working on a series centered on the Brides of Dracula for NBC, and we had learned earlier this year that a new iteration of that project was being shopped to the premium/streaming marketplace. Today, THR lets us know that ABC has ordered up a pilot.
This version of “The Brides” is said to “lean stronger into horror and sexuality.”
“The Brides is a sexy, contemporary reimagining of the Dracula saga as a family drama with a trio of powerful, diverse female leads.”
“With strong horror elements, The Brides is a vampire soap about empowered, immortal women and the things they do to maintain wealth, prestige, legacy—and their non-traditional family.”
Maggie Kiley (“American Horror Story”) is on board to direct the pilot, being written by Aguirre-Sacasa. “The Brides” is being produced with Berlanti Productions.
The three Brides of Dracula are characters featured in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, seductive vampires who live with Dracula. Back in 1960, Hammer made a Brides of Dracula feature film.
