The new Dracula was launched by the creators of 'Sherlock & # 39;

Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss choose a stranger for their last BBC1 Victorian reboot

A relatively unknown Danish actor must play the lead role in a new adaptation of BBC One Dracula, made by the team that created Sherlock for Benedict Cumberbatch.

Claes Bang will play the vampire in the miniseries, which will begin shooting next year and was created by Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the duo whose restart Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes the novels were an instant success.

Bang is best known for playing at the Christian Museum Curator The place, the art thriller and co-featured essay Mad Men The actress Elisabeth Moss, who won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. He also participates in the current film adaptation of Steig Larsson's novel. The girl in the spider's web, who co-stars Claire Foy.

Speaking about the role in the series, which will be airing on Netflix outside of the UK, Bang said, "I'm so excited that I'll be able to deepen this iconic and super-interesting character." Yes, he's mean but he has many more, he is charismatic, intelligent, witty and bady.

"I realize there is a lot to do with all the amazing people who have played it over the years, but I feel really privileged to play this incredible character."

Moffat and Gatiss kept most other details secret about their next publication. Dracula series. However, they revealed that although Sherlock moves Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to modern London, Dracula will take place in 1890. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was published in 1897.

Gary Oldman, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi are among the actors who previously played in Dracula.

Piers Wenger, the controller of BBC Drama, said about the new series: "Hell has a new boss. Claes is a remarkable man.

Since the most recent Sherlock series was screened in 2017, Moffat also entrusted the production of Doctor Who at Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall for the current series starring Jodie Whittaker, while Gatiss co-wrote and starred in a three-part cover of The men's league.