Having handled Jason in Friday the 13^th, director Marcus Nispel is in talks to helm The Last Voyage of Demeter for Phoenix Pictures.

It will be based on a chapter in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, describing the arrival of the vampire count in England on a cargo ship that has crashed into the rocks at Whitby with no crew and the dead captain lashed to the steering wheel. The story is told through the captain’s log of the voyage, which gets increasingly disjointed as the crew starts disappearing.

The story has been adapted by Robert Schwentke. Production on the film is set to begin later this year.