在这部The Historian片中,Sony bought the film rights to the novel for 1.5 million. Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher are producing the film and Brad Caleb Kane is writing the screenplay.[6][61][62] Asked about the adaptation, Kostova has said: "I have tried very hard not to imagine who would play my characters. They're my old friends and I want to keep imagining them as they were. ... And I also haven't stated any preferences in public because I want my readers to have the same bond with them. But I have received so many stellar suggestions that I actually collected them all and wrote them down and gave them to the studio. ... Something I feel certain about is that Dracula should not be played by a familiar face because it's just not that scary; there's not the true strangeness you'll need in a figure like that with a famous actor
