Historian Martin Mares, who served as production consultant on this film, had previously worked in the same capacity on another Dracula adaptation, Le Dernier Voyage du Demeter (2023), making him a rare expert to contribute to multiple interpretations of the iconic vampire legend.
Sateen Besson (the Mermaid) and Thalia Besson (Isabelle de Touraine) are daughters of writer / director Luc Besson.
In his interviews Besson claimed that the original Stoker's novel was a real love story between Dracula and Mina, as well as of Dracula searching for reincarnation of his wife through centuries and that upon rereading the novel he wanted to explore it. However, Bram Stoker's novel isn't a love story between Mina and Dracula, there's no reincarnation subplot, in the novel Dracula is portrayed as a vicious monstrous predator who attacked Mina only out of revenge.
The reincarnation subplot with Mina, Dracula's dead wife being named Elisabeta, Dracula renouncing God and becoming vampire, Dracula's style and visage when he's old, as well as many visuals and cinematic shots were copied from Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula (1992), with multiple reviewers accusing Besson of clear plagiarism.
The film begins in 1480. Dracula in the film refers to himself as Vlad II Dracul. Vlad II Dracul was historically father of Vlad III the Impaler (who is often considered to be inspiration of vampire Dracula). However, Vlad II officially died in 1447, 33 years before the date in the beginning of the film.
This marks the 4th live action adapatation sequentially in the 2020s based upon Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, after: The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023), Renfield (2023), & Nosferatu (2024) (although the latter is a remake based on the unauthorized adaptation of the same name).