The two-time Oscar winner, was offered the starring role in Fangland, an adaptation of the book by John Marks, which will be co-produced by Das Films and Blumhouse Prods.
Hilary Swank will play a television producer who goes to Romania to interview a weapons dealer, who claims to be a modern day Dracula.
Mark Wheaton (The Messengers) did the first version of the screenplay, just before the strike by the Writer’s Guild of America.
Das Films is also adapting the novel by Paul Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die, while Blumhouse is now in the postproduction phase of the movie The Accidental Husband starring Uma Thurman and Isabella Rossellini.