DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS
              (aka Dracula's Daughter)

The Countess Marya Dracula maintains her secret life, nestled in the mountains of Transylvania.  The legends and stories released about her father never made much news in the countryside she lived in.  It was a remote and desolate land that was full of primitive people.  The only reason Transylvania was known at all was because people had to pass through it to get somewhere else.  In 1912, there just wasn't any other reason to venture into Transylvania.

Marya is beginning to enjoy the new worlds opening outside her doors.  Europe is transforming itself and she begins to accept the trappings of society and culture.  Electricity has brought new life to night and now she can join the human race in the frenzied quest for enjoyment and satisfaction.

Then the war came...the big one.   It seized hold of the European continent and plunged all of it into the abyss of madness and death.  Marya thought she would escape the depths of the war but her remote homeland is pulled in. 

But there is one joy to Marya from the war.  She meets a young man, Manfred von Richthofen, who would later become the infamous WW I flying ace, the Red Baron.  They begin a torrid love affair and Marya desperately wants to bring him to her side...to becoming like her.  But can she risk revealing her true nature to do so...or will she lose him forever.

When the Red Baron, after years of frustrating the allies, is finally shot down, Marya goes mad with her revenge.   Summoning all of her great power, she unleashes a fury against the allies with her plagues of bats and wolves.  And she herself, changes dramatically...first as a horrible half-human/half-bat creature, and then into something entirely different....a human, carrying a child.  The love has transformed her.

Brief Description: The story of Dracula's daughter and her torrid love affair with the ace pilot, the Red Baron.

Key Elements: A love story set in the horrific world of vampires.  The dilemma of the two worlds being brought together against the back drop of the first World War which pulls them together.

Association: Would have much of the same appeal as The Mummy as Marya brings forth some of her powers when she exacts her revenge.  Not a typical "Dracula" movie and it also covers the insanity of war as well as profiles the Red Baron.

Format: A complete film script is written and a graphic novel is to be released in late 2005.