Those reports earlier this summer regarding “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” star Noomi Rapace meeting with everyone in Hollywood were no joke.
The Swedish actress is racking up roles like they’re going out of style. She’s already landed a plum female lead role in “Sherlock Holmes 2,” is one of the potential female leads for Ridley Scott’s “Alien” prequel, she may appear opposite Jeremy Renner in a new “Hansel & Gretel” film, and she almost landed a part in Brad Bird’s “Mission Impossible 4.” Suffice to say she’s hot and Hollywood’s It-girl of the moment. She has looks, more importantly can act and unlike some of the waifier females in Hollywood, she can certainly play tough.
Now, according to the LATimes, she’s set to co-star with Ben Kingsley in “The Last Voyage of Demeter,” about the ill-fated journey of Dracula’s coffin from Transylvania to England. The best part? It’s being directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, the Oscar-winning Austrian filmmaker behind “The Counterfeiters” — the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936 (a great picture, Netflix it).
Evidently, the film is still looking for a lead male, but Rapace will play a boat stowaway and Kingsley will also be onboard in some capacity. The story centers on a voyage across the seas with Dracula’s body that arrived at port with no survivors. We’re not big fans of vampire films these days, they’re incredibly hackneyed and rote as of late, but perhaps this one will be a gothy-dark drama that will use great actors like Kingsley and Rapace to the fullest of their abilities. One must presume these talented actors signed on board for good reason and this won’t be another unnecessary schlocky entry in the overdone vampire genre. While Rapace has all these aforementioned films lined-up, apparently ‘Demeter’ will be her first English-language role to hit the screen.
