Overview

• Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is developing the film with producers Jennifer Davisson and Michael Hampton, alongside Alex Cutler and Darryl Marshak.
• Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the writers behind Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, are scripting the biopic.
• The narrative is intended to trace Lugosi’s immigration from Hungary, his Broadway and 1931 Dracula breakthrough, and the downturn that followed his decision to pass on Frankenstein.
• The pitch reached Universal about two years ago and has been quietly gestating, with insiders stressing there is no production timeline yet.
• Universal declined to comment on the project, which outlets report is still in its earliest phase of development.