Comic Legend Mel Brooks To Voice
Dracula’s Father In HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2
Sony Pictures Releasing International Also
Casting
Beloved Local Celebrities For The Voice Of
Vlad
Culver City, CA,
November 26, 2014 – Sony Pictures Animation today
announced the casting of Oscar®-, Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning writer,
director, performer, composer and producer Mel Brooks in the sequel to the 2012
worldwide hit, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2. Brooks has been cast in the role of Vlad, the
ancient, undead and incredibly grumpy father to Dracula (Adam Sandler).
Dracula, Mavis, Jonathan and all of their monster friends are back in the brand
new comedy adventure: when the
old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family
get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a comic collision of supernatural
old-school and modern day cool.
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 is slated for a
September 25, 2015 release, and is being directed by Genndy Tartakovsky,
produced by Michelle Murdocca, executive-produced by Sandler, Allen Covert,and
Ben Waisbren, and written by Robert Smigel.
Brooks – who takes
on the role 40 years after helming the horror-comedy classic Young Frankenstein – said, “I’m having a
wonderful time with the character Vlad.
He’s been around for eons and he’s a pretty crabby guy. Basically, he reminds me of me.”
Brooks isn’t the
only icon who will be voicing Vlad, as Sony Pictures Releasing International is
securing the talents of additional high-profile stars around the world to voice
the ancient one for the non-English versions of the film. So far, these regional Vlads include:
France’s Michel Galabru, the esteemed 92-year-old actor who has appeared in
more than 200 films; Japan’s Junji Inagawa, whose voice is instantly
recognizable as the “go to” narrator of horror films, radio programs and DVDs;
Holland’s Bram Van Der Vlugt, who, for decades, was the most requested Dutch
TV/film “Sinterklaas” (Saint Nicholas); and Belgium’s Jacques Vermeire, the
well-known Flemish performer with decades of memorable comic television and
feature film performances.
ABOUT SONY PICTURES ANIMATION
Sony Pictures Animation produces a variety of
animated and family entertainment for audiences around the
world. The studio is following its worldwide comedy hits—the 2012
monster hit comedy Hotel Transylvania, the hybrid live
action/animated blockbusters The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, and the mouth-watering Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
movies—with the family comedies Hotel Transylvania 2
scheduled in September 2015 and Untitled Smurfs Movie in August 2016. Sony Pictures Animation also released a critically acclaimed,
brand new mini-movie on DVD and television last Fall, The Smurfs: The Legend
of Smurfy Hollow. The studio, in conjunction with Aardman Animations,
has produced two critically acclaimed feature films: the CG-animated
family comedy Arthur Christmas; and the Academy Award® nominated
stop-frame animated high-seas adventure, The Pirates! Band of Misfits.
In 2007, Surf's Up also received an Academy Award®
nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The division, whose first
feature film Open Season led to a very successful movie
franchise, turned 10 in 2012. Sony Pictures Animation is an
operating unit of Sony Pictures Digital Productions
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