Mel Brooks clings to eternal life not only as an already legend of the cinematographic industry, but also as the father of the most feared and sadistic character in both history and fictional world: Dracula. He voices a not so dreaded father figure, after all, as he will be heard in the sequel of Hotel Transylvania, a Sony Pictures Animation production. The film, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, will arrive in theatres on 25 September 2015 and promises to keep up with the tasteful comedy of its predecessor.
The actor Mel Brooks connected instantly with his character and entirely identified with the grumpy old vampire, stating that Vlad is ‘’like my real, honest-to-goodness personality. I’m pretty grumpy’’, words of a true master of comedy. Variety also quotes a reaction of the actor towards his character: “He’s been around for eons and he’s a pretty crabby guy. Basically, he reminds me of me” and Brooks proves once more to be gifted with wit, black humor and self-irony, characteristics which absolutely define his Vlad in Hotel Transylvania 2. In the 2015 animation, the ‘’grumpy’’ actor will join the already famous as Dracula Adam Sandler (who voiced him in the first Hotel Transylvania) in a family get-together, which guarantees to be a mixture of old and modern comedy. The ‘’young Dracula’’ confesses to have learned a trick or two from his old-old-old vampire father, Mel Brooks: ‘’He’s very helpful in indicating there’s more than meets the eye here. There are some complicated feelings that should be expressed, and he helped me with that’’.
What is more, Mel Brooks’ filmography proves that he is the perfect cast for the part, his vampire experience going way back (and I am not implying that he is of old age more that he himself already did). In 1995, Mel Brooks was a Jack-of-all-trades for the parody Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Then, he acted as director, screenplay writer and Professor Van Helsing and was accompanied by Leslie Nielsen, who became Dracula.
Hotel Transylvania 2