Sam Worthington, the Next Dracula?

Sam Worthington is looking to headline yet another big budget franchise. Variety is reporting that the actor is in talks to star in Universal Pictures big budget Dracula Year Zero. It's the actor's first deal since starring in the highest grossing film of all-time, Avatar. The English born Worthington is already headlining pretty much every other franchise out there. Last year he starred in Terminator Salvation and Avatar, and will next be seen in a remake of Clash of the Titans.

Dracula Year Zero will be a retelling of the vampire's origin, mixing mythology with the true story of Vlad the Impaler.  According to sources, it the story will be "depicting Dracula as a flawed hero in a tragic love story set in a dark age of magic and war."

Budgeting is set at an estimated $100M, with a release date already tentatively set for 2011. 

I don't know what it is people are seeing in Worthington that I'm missing, but he's apparently going to be in every movie made in 2010 and beyond. He's the white Samuel L. Jackson.