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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1533558" data-attributes="member: 3649">From IMDB...&nbsp;So that the production company can hold certain rights to the character, the original character from the Dracula series Abraham Van Helsing was changed to the new 'kid brother' Gabriel Van Helsing instead.&nbsp;Director Stephen Sommers claimed in an interview he changed the main character's name from &quot;Abraham Van Helsing&quot; to &quot;Gabriel Van Helsing&quot;, as he did not think he could have a lead character named &quot;Abraham&quot;. The Irishman who wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker, named the character after himself - Bram being a shortening of &quot;Abraham&quot;.&nbsp;Which are obviously two different explanations. Which is correct, I have no idea. I'd probably go with the one about rights; usually if there is an otherwise inexplicable change to a literary character, that's the reason to go with. The other one being 'I just felt like it' on the part of the director <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 1533558, member: 3649"] From IMDB... So that the production company can hold certain rights to the character, the original character from the Dracula series Abraham Van Helsing was changed to the new 'kid brother' Gabriel Van Helsing instead. Director Stephen Sommers claimed in an interview he changed the main character's name from "Abraham Van Helsing" to "Gabriel Van Helsing", as he did not think he could have a lead character named "Abraham". The Irishman who wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker, named the character after himself - Bram being a shortening of "Abraham". Which are obviously two different explanations. Which is correct, I have no idea. I'd probably go with the one about rights; usually if there is an otherwise inexplicable change to a literary character, that's the reason to go with. The other one being 'I just felt like it' on the part of the director :) [/QUOTE]

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