Luke Evans starred in Dracula Untold, a Dracula origin story.
Dracula Untold is a 2014 American dark fantasy action horror film directed by Gary Shore in his feature film debut and written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless . Rather than using the storyline Irish novelist Bram Stoker 's 1897 novel Dracula , the film creates an origin story for its title character , Count Dracula ; in this version , Dracula is Vlad the Impaler . Luke Evans (actor) . Evans also portrayed the vampire Dracula in the character 's film origin story , Dracula Untold .