Romanian screenwriter Radu Jude is world premiering his much-anticipated new feature, Dracula, at the Locarno Film Festival this weekend and is already writing a movie about a popular character from the iconic horror novel Frankenstein which Romanian-born actor Sebastian Stan will star in.

“I’m writing a film now,” Jude, 48, told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s a Frankenstein film in Romania. Frankenstein in Romania, it’s going to be called.”

Jude also wrote Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World.

Universe star Stan who starred in The Apprentice, A Different Man, Pam & Tommy, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) is set to star in the movie.

Stan, 42 ,was born in Romania before moving to the U.S. with his mother when he was a child. He won the award for Best Actor at the 2025 Golden Globes in January for his performance in “A Different Man,” a moving story about a neurotic actor grappling with the disfigurements caused by neurofibromatosis, marking the top achievement of his career.  

He liked Jude’s idea for the Frankenstein film, Jude said, adding he envisions Stan playing  both  Victor Frankenstein and his monster.

The story is understood to combine the real-life existence of a secret CIA prison in Romania in the past with the legend of the Frankenstein monster.

Earlier this year, Jude world premiered Kontinental 25, an absurdist comedy-drama about Romania’s housing crisis and the country’s conflicted middle class, at the Berlin Film Festival which won the Silver Bear for best screenplay.

He will premier Dracula, which delves into the Dracula myth and is full of the black comedy he has a reputation for, in the main competition program of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.

“This film features scenes that could shock the sensitivity of some viewers,” the fest website notes.

He then plans to shoot another film about Romanians who emigrated abroad in search of work. It’s a story about a woman who works for a French family in Bordeaux while her young daughter remains home.

“I’m interested in exploring this connection between the Western world and Romania and Eastern Europe through the story of a character.”

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