Zach Braff’s Scrubs character JD wrote a screenplay called Dr Acula and now the actor claims it is being made (Pictures: Disney/Zach Braff)

Zach Braff has announced that a hospital-set horror movie his character JD wrote in Scrubs is ‘in production’.

It’s been over ten years since the screenplay was first mentioned in the sitcom, with JD getting particularly excited about the titular character’s name – created by separating out the world ‘Dracula’.

It is not known whether comic-turned-director Zach is joking or not, but the photo he used with his Facebook announcement earlier this week is pretty darn gothic.

The post in question (Picture: Zach Braff/Facebook)

Fans commenting on the post reminded Zach that the screenplay manuscript was ‘accidentally set ablaze in a tragic magnifying glass incident’ – ie, never really existed. JD was, after all, a major fantasist.




Others warned they’d be massively disappointed if the news wasn’t true, with one writing: ‘Please don’t tease a horde of Scrubs fans, there will be riots if this is not true’. Another threatened to give Zach ‘pink belly’ for lying, whatever that means.

But a Dr Acula movie or show is not out of the realms of possibility.

After all, the actor met with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence to discuss a new TV show together for Netflix back in 2014, with Zach noting it may take a while for the project to materialise.

He said at the time: ‘I’ve been talking about a new idea with Bill Lawrence. I don’t know if it will be this year or next.’

Zach, 41, is also good at getting unusual projects he’s passionate about, like his own movie Wish I Was Here, into production by any means necessary – and it certainly seems like Scrubs die-hards would be behind the project.

However, a bit of digging reveals Zach tweeted the same black and white snap as part of Throwback Thursday this week, with a caption revealing it was part of a Vogue shoot by Norman Jean Roy.

It might have been part of the same shoot that produced this beauty.

Zach Braff posted this snap on his Twitter a while ago (Picture: Zach Braff/Norman Jean Roy)

Looks like Dr Acula is getting back into his CAT scanner coffin for now.

Metro.co.uk reached out to Zach for comment.

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