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Winona Ryder: Growing Up with `Dracula'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19921120
Author:Marshall Fine

It may be Francis Coppola's version of "Bram Stoker's Dracula" - but it would have wound up as a made-for-TV movie if it weren't for Winona Ryder.

Ryder had signed with a new agent and asked them to send her all the unproduced scripts they had lying around. Among them was James Hart's new version of "Dracula."

As it happened, she liked it: "It was this incredibly emotional love story," she says. "I had read the Bram Stoker book when I was in high school, but the only thing I remembered was that it was written in journal form. When I read the script, I thought the love story was just so ...

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