I really don't care about ownership, orthodoxy or faithfulness to classics. Dracula is essentially an archetype and any creative person is free do use that archetype, diverge from typical telling or in fact invert everything about it.
But that can't be the only thrust of an adaption: "Hey look we did a different take on Dracula!... isn't that refreshing and cutting edge of us?" when in fact no real talent went into do it. in fact BBC "2020 Dracula" is the opposite of cutting edge it is just applying newer tropes. On top of that the scripting and dialogue is childish, indeed moronic. Skip it
But that can't be the only thrust of an adaption: "Hey look we did a different take on Dracula!... isn't that refreshing and cutting edge of us?" when in fact no real talent went into do it. in fact BBC "2020 Dracula" is the opposite of cutting edge it is just applying newer tropes. On top of that the scripting and dialogue is childish, indeed moronic. Skip it